Sugargum, Nillumbik Farm

50 Challenger Street DIAMOND CREEK, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

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Sugargum Nillumbik farm

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Sugargum, Nillumbik Farm - Physical Description 1

    This is an altered hipped-roof and verandahed face brick (over-painted, slop moulded) farm house set in exotic pasture above the creek flats (or lagoon) well south of Challenger Street. New subdivisons have been made nearby. 'Aboriginal artifacts have been found in the vicinity and old track formations shown on early plans can still be seen in paddocks. Two big depressions (one with a gum growing out of it) just above one of these old tracks reputedly denote the clay pits used' for the bricks. The bricks are laid in English bond, well-burnt.

    The interior has some early joinery (fine panel moulds to passage doors) but much of it is late 19th century (architraves) or recent. The verandah has been filled-in on the west and rebuilt in a different roof profile but similar bracket forms, and the timber floor replaced in concrete; thresholds are basalt. The former detached kitchen site can be seen as a flat area in the rear lawn and only some (if any) planting may have derived from earlier times. At least one well is thought to have been near the house, now filled in.

    There is also a large gum to the north of the house, relating visually to the sugar gum planted at the gate.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Sugargum, Nillumbik Farm - Historical Australian Themes

    Exploring and claiming land- early free holds

    Farming

    3.11 Altering the environment

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Nillumbik - Nillumbik Shire Heritage Study

    Author: Graeme Butler & Assoc
    Year: 1997
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