Back to search results

WILSON FARM
off Wilson Road NAR NAR GOON NORTH, Cardinia Shire

All information on this page is maintained by Cardinia Shire. Click below for their website and contact details.
Cardinia Shire
Wilson Farm
Wilson Farm
Wilson Farm
On this page:

Statement of Significance

The Wilson farm complex, built up from the land selection era of the 1880s, is significant to Victoria because it provides an excellent almost untouched example from early selection farming endeavours in the area and in the State and lends to the variety of farm housing and outbuildings in the district.

This place is also significant for its association with the Wilson family from 1884. It also dates from one of the Shire's major development eras (selection era); has great potential to interpret the site historically (high physical integrity, oral and documentary evidence); and is an expression of the lives or lifestyles of locally important people (Wilsons). It is rare as a type (intact selector's house and farm complex) and, with no modern services (such as electricity) supplied to the complex, reflects a past now discontinued lifestyle.

State Significance

Show more
Show less

    • Physical Description 1

      WILSON FARM - Physical Description 1

      The complex consists of a hipped sawn paling-clad house (extended in rear and side skillions), detached gabled and paling kitchen, gabled paling-clad blacksmith's hut, and a barn with split paling cladding (part) all set in mature exotic trees and well off the road. The timber work is oil-stained and generally of sawn hardwood but with some split timber in the east wall of the barn. The house has a hipped verandah supported on simple posts, ogee-form spouting and attached brick chimneys to either end, with dog-toothed cornices.

      Nearby are remnants of what is thought to be one of the earliest orchards in the district, including pears, cherries4. An extensive machinery collection has been stored at the complex.

      Physical Conditions

      WILSON FARM - Physical Conditions

      Most buildings in the complex are from the 19th century and well-preserved, with the house interior reflecting aspects of early this century.

      Historical Australian Themes

      WILSON FARM - Historical Australian Themes

      Historical Themes

      3.2 Selectors and small-scale farming

      10.4 Selectors' houses, gardens

      10.7 Farmhouses/farm complexes & outbuildings, gardens

      11.0 Evidence of: Life style, housing and landscape choice of notable figures residing in the district

      Physical Description 2

      WILSON FARM - Physical Description 2

      Associations - Wilson, Thomas

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996

      Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
      Year: 1996
      Grading: State

Public contributions

Note: Developments may span multiple time periods
Timeline browser

< to 1849
< - 1849
1850 to 1879
1850 - 1879
1880 to 1909
1880 - 1909
1910 to 1939
1910 - 1939
1940 to 1969
1940 - 1969
1970 to 1999
1970 - 1999
2000 to >
2000 - >