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565 GLENMORE ROAD ROWSLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0265Greystones including the interiors and exteriors of the homestead and other nineteenth-century buildings, homestead garden, parkland setting and other landscape elements. Staff houses…
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6 GISBORNE ROAD AND 6 CHURCH STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0503The Bacchus Marsh Express was founded by George Lane, a book binder, and the first issue was published on 7th July 1866. The second edition was published by the Bacchus Marsh Express…
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKS
8 GISBORNE ROAD AND 8 CHURCH STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0504The Bacchus Marsh Express was founded by George Lane, a book binder, and the first issue was published on 7th July 1866. The second edition was published by the Bacchus Marsh Express Printing…
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCE
10 GISBORNE ROAD AND 10 CHURCH STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0505The Former Christopher Crisp Residence includes a c.1860 single-storey cottage of rendered brick with a south-facing verandah; an 1868 adjoining single-storey dwelling with a slate roof and…
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37 GRANT STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0263William Grant purchased the land in Bacchus Marsh, upon which Millbank is located, in April 1850 from William Easey. Comprising 205 acres, the land ran from the Werribee River to north of…
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123 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1461The Bacchus Marsh Court House was built in 1858-59. It was designed by Samuel White of the Public Works Department. White was employed as a draftsman with the Public Works Department from…
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POLICE STATION AND OLD LOCK-UP
119 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1546This sandstone lock-up was built in 1857 by the P.W.D. A simple 2 cell rectangular building built of local sandstone. This masonry is unusual in being finished to a fair face and then picked…
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FORMER BLACKSMITH'S COTTAGE AND SHOP
100-102 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0462Located at the junction of the Government Road to Maddingley and the main Government Road from Melbourne to Ballarat, the site has been occupied by a blacksmith since 1852 and possibly as…
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28-32 MANOR STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0264The exploration of Hamilton Hume and William Hilton Hovell into inland New South Wales and Victoria on route to the Port Phillip District in 1824-25 and the favourable reports of the land…
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BACCHUS MARSH ROAD MERRIMU, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0907Leahy's former residence, constructed initially as a residence and then converted to a hotel to take advantage of the passing trade of the goldfields is able to provide valuable information,…
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12 ELLERSLIE COURT BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0592The property known as 'Ellerslie' is the remaining house block of a 14ha farm worked from the late 1850s by Robert Langmuir, a Scottish immigrant who resided in Bacchus Marsh from 1855 till…
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WESTERN HIGHWAY (DISUSED SECTION) MELTON WEST AND LONG FOREST, MELTON CITY, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1658An early surviving bridge distinctive for its single arched design and construction in sandstone. This structure is representative of a number of such single arched bridges constructed in…
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BLUE BRIDGE ROAD MOUNT DORAN, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1693The rail bridge and embankment at Elaine was built in 1859 on the Geelong-Ballarat Line for the Victorian Railways. It is a basalt structure and consists of a single, depressed arch, with…
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GORDON-EGERTON ROAD GORDON, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1564The Gordon Railway Station was constructed in 1879 by TW Cowley, on the Melbourne-Ballarat line, for the Victorian Railways. It comprises a distinctive, curved roof station building. The…
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2830 OLD MELBOURNE ROAD DUNNSTOWN, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1013During the 1860s Robert Dunn established the distillery beside a spring on the south slopes of Mount Warrenheip. It was soon taken over by a chemist, Henry Brind, and by 1893 Brind's…
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BACCHUS MARSH ROAD BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2238The Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour is a combination of 281 Dutch elms (Ulmus X hollandica) and Huntington elms (Ulmus X hollandica 'Vegeta') planted in pairs approximately 20 metres apart.…
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LAL LAL IRON MINE AND SMELTING WORKS
IRON MINE ROAD LAL LAL, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1759Victoria's only attempt at mining and smelting iron ore took place at Lal Lal in the latter stages of the nineteenth century. In the mid 1870s, the Lal Lal Iron Company installed mining…
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LERDERDERG ROAD BLACKWOOD, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2015Wheeler's tramway, Mount Wilson, is a comparatively intact example of a log tramway formation, located in the Wombat Forest. It was constructed by James H Wheeler around 1878 to provide logs…
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389 YENDON-LAL LAL ROAD LAL LAL, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H1697Rothbury was probably built in the early 1860s and first occupied by JP Howard. It is a single storey, rendered brick house with a corrugated iron roof and return verandah with simple and…
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PORTLAND FLAT ROAD GORDON, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2054The Portland Flat Road bridge is a hump backed road over rail bridge on the Portland Flat Road spans the Western Railway line running between Melbourne and Ballarat. The bridge is located…
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BACCHUS MARSH ROAD MERRIMU, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2059 H7722-0024The Hopetoun Catholic Cemetery is situated in a rural setting approximately 4km to the east of Bacchus Marsh, at the foot of a slope overlooking the junction of the Werribee and Lerderderg…
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305-307 LONG FOREST ROAD LONG FOREST, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2118The Baker House group comprises three buildings designed by prominent architects Robin Boyd and Roy Grounds. The Baker House (1966) and the dower house, also known as the Elizabeth Sticklen…
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LADY NORTHCOTE RECREATION CAMP
1273-1327 GLENMORE ROAD GLENMORE, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2167Lady Northcote Recreation Camp, formerly the Northcote Children's Farm, opened in 1937. A farm school based on the model conceived by Kingsley Fairbridge, it housed and educated…
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FORMER AUSTRALIAN BEAM WIRELESS TRANSMITTING STATION
4549 GEELONG BALLAN ROAD FISKVILLE, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2277The former Australian Beam Wireless Transmitting Station is situated on a large rural site at Fiskville, south of Ballan on the plains west of Melbourne, and includes the former powerhouse…
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30 TAVERNER STREET MADDINGLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2326The Chicory Kiln at Maddingley, south of the Werribee River at Bacchus Marsh, is a large brick structure that was built in 1885 for the process of drying chicory roots. History…
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