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HILLSBRO HOUSE
511 NAPIER STREET, WHITE HILLS, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
White Hills and Hamlet Precinct

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Hillsbro House
Hillsbro House
Hillsbro House
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
Architecturally, the house is a good example of the highly decorated timber-built style used around Bendigo at the turn of the century. It has distinctive verandah details and an empathetic landscape setting which corresponds to the general house and shop group set within the old White Hills Township. 

Historically, its long association with the pioneering Schleiger family lends local importance. 

Landscape is locally important. 

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    • Physical Description 1

      HILLSBRO HOUSE - Physical Description 1

      Flanked by a mature Canary Island Date Palm, this timber house repeat the highly decorated type seen elsewhere in the area and so closely linked with Bendigo house styles of c1900. Against a high hipped roof, clad in corrugated iron, is the typical half- timbered ornamental gable, here placed over a room bay. Another smaller gable marks the return of the bullnose-profile verandah with it unusual fret-sawn brackets and wave-pattern vertical slotted frieze. The whole is in the manner of the tea-house bijou villa described by Robin Boyd as the Queen Anne style, but also reflecting aspects of the Federation Bungalow and its Asian inspirations. Scrolled trusswork has been used over the door and there are some notable leadlights.

      Integrity

      HILLSBRO HOUSE - Integrity

      External - Generally original. The front fence ha been replaced with a timber picket, typical of the era.

      Physical Description 2

      HILLSBRO HOUSE - Physical Description 2

      Landscape - Garden obscured behind recent timber picket fence but po sibly of recent origin. Planting of significance includes 'Phoenix canariensis' and 'Cedrus deodara'.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study

      Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
      Year: 1993
      Grading: B

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