Piggoreet West Homestead Complex

909 Linton - Piggoreet West Road LINTON, Golden Plains Shire

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Piggoreet West Homestead viewed from the south east

Statement of Significance

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  • Intactness

    Piggoreet West Homestead Complex - Intactness

    The Piggoreet West Homestead complex retains a good degree of integrity overall but has suffered some serious losses and other changes. The most serious loss is the post-WW2 change to the facade when the front door and double hung sash windows were removed, extensive glazed doors and windows were introduced and a new timber and cast iron verandah was introduced. But these changes can also be seen as having some increasing significance in their own right. Similarly the alterations to the rear elevations, enclosing former verandahs, and the addition of the on the south-east corner of the house, which are more reversible, are also increasingly significant. Less serious is the painting of the face brickwork and rendered quoins. Other structures within the complex, such as the stables, barn, dog kennels and double WC to the rear of the house, retain a very high degree of integrity. The garden has suffered much loss over the last hundred years, based on the Tibbits watercolours, but these losses are more easily reversible.

    Physical Description 1

    Piggoreet West Homestead Complex - Physical Description 1

    The Piggoreet West Homestead complex comprises three main structures and the circular garden and rear yard. The symmetrical single-storey main house has three wings, the front wing being built of tuck-pointed face brick with rendered quoins (all now painted), and the side wings, which create a rear courtyard around a well, being built of rock-faced basalt. The hipped roof of the front wing and front verandah were originally continuous and clad with Morewood and Rogers iron roof tiles but are now separate and clad with corrugated iron. The hipped roofs of the side wings are slate. The windows and doors which survive in the side wings are distinctively and strongly detailed. The interiors of the main house are much altered by the post WW2 renovations. Brick and stone chimneys survive externally. The front garden is circular in plan with a central east-west axis, the principal view being towards the east, across a substantial valley and terminating on an abandoned gold mine. The garden was originally laid out with an elaborate system of symmetrical paths and drives including a main terrace. It was enclosed by a simple timber picket fence. The approach to the house is now altered and much of the perimeter planting has been lost. Several Cupressus sempervirens (Italian Cypress) survive from the original design and remain key elements in its appearance. The outbuildings are some distance towards the rear of the main house. The stables and barn are built of coursed random rubble and adopt similar vernacular forms. The roofs of the stables and barn are the original Morewood and Rogers iron roof tiles. The double WC is built of brick and its roof is also Morewood and Rogers iron roof tiles.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Piggoreet West Homestead Complex - Historical Australian Themes

    The Australian Heritage Commission devised the Australian Historic Themes in 2001. The following themes have influenced the historical development of the Piggoreet West Homestead complex.

    3 Developing Local, Regional And National Economies

    3.5 Developing primary production

    3.5.1 Grazing stock

    3.5.2 Breeding animals

    5 Working

    5.8 Working on the land

    8 Developing Australia's Cultural Life

    8.14 Living in the county and rural settlements

    Physical Description 2

    Piggoreet West Homestead Complex - Physical Description 2

    All of the homestead complex to the extent of the exteriors of the main homestead and outbuildings and all of the circular garden with a buffer zone of 50 metres beyond the circular garden and along the driveto the Linton-Piggoreet Road.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Golden Plains - Golden Plains Shire Heritage Study Phase 2

    Author: Heritage Matters P/L
    Year: 2009
    Grading: Local

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