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YANAKIE SOLDIER SETTLEMENT HOUSE
3680 Promontory Road YANAKIE, South Gippsland Shire

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Yanakie Soldier Settlement house
Yanakie Soldier Settlement house
Yanakie Soldier Settlement house
Yanakie Soldier Settlement house
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Post-war weatherboard house, at 3670 Meeniyan-Promontory Road, Yanakie, constructed c.1958, is significant. The wide, single storey domestic residence h as a low pitched, hip roof with a major transverse element with a lower, projecting him at the rear. Other key features include: 
  • Slightly off-centre front entry, recessed into a single central door with sidelights 
  • Square posts on each side of the entry making a three-part opening 
  • Front elevation has triple, double hung windows 
  • Double sashed windows on the narrow side. 
  • External fireplace and chimney. 
Non-original alterations and additions, other than those specified above, are not of heritage significance.
How is it significant?
The Postwar weatherboard house, at 3670 Meeniyan-Promontory Road, Yanakie is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the South Gippsland Shire.
Why is it significant?
Historically, this house is one of a number of Soldier Settlement houses and farms in the Yanakie area, built on Millar, Promontory and Foley Roads. These houses were provided to returned soldiers and their families following World War II. This building demonstrates the growth and development of Soldier Settlement Scheme in Yanakie during the Postwar era. (Criterion A) 
Aesthetically, this is considered the most intact house that is part of the Yanakie Soldier Settlement Scheme. This house demonstrates the simple form and design that was repeated across Yanakie. While most of these houses have since had alterations and extensions, the few external changes within the property at 3670 Meeniyan-Promontory Road are largely reversible. This house is in close proximity to the Yanakie General Store, demonstrating the community element of the Soldier Settlement Scheme in Yanakie and close relationship between the residential farms and the commercial elements. (Criterion E)
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    • Physical Description 1

      YANAKIE SOLDIER SETTLEMENT HOUSE - Physical Description 1

      The dwelling at 3680 Promontory Road, Yanakie is a wide single storey weatherboard clad residence with low pitched corrugated iron hip roofs. The form of the building is of a major transverse hipped element with a smaller, lower projecting hip at the rear side. The front entry, slightly off centre, is recessed with a single central door with sidelights and has a square post set a short distance from each side forming a three part opening. The wider section of the front elevation has triple double hung windows to the living room, which has an external fireplace and chimney at the side of the house. The narrower bedroom side has double sashes.

      The design is extremely simple and is repeated exactly in numerous houses in the area, which are mostly concentrated in Millar Road, but are also found in Promontory and Foley Roads. Most of these houses have had many alterations and extensions over time, but this dwelling is the most externally intact of the group, having only minor (and reversible) additions of faux shutters and sunblinds.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study

      Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
      Year: 2004
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