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5 SACKVILLE STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0254Motts Cottage, named after the owner and occupant, Sarah Jane Mott from 1918 until 1944, is located within the main street grid of Port Fairy. The Mott family worked as fishermen, boatmen…
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POINT NEPEAN DEFENCE AND QUARANTINE PRECINCT
3875 POINT NEPEAN ROAD AND 3880 POINT NEPEAN ROAD AND 1-7 FRANKLANDS DRIVE PORTSEA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H2030Point Nepean Defence and Quarantine Precinct at the western extremity of the Mornington Peninsula consists of approximately 526 hectares of land about 95 km from Melbourne. The site has an…
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CHANDLER HIGHWAY ALPHINGTON AND CHANDLER HIGHWAY KEW, YARRA CITY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H2354The Chandler Highway Bridge, a 137 metre wrought iron lattice-truss girder bridge with four spans supported on red brick piers with moulded bluestone cappings. The bridge has a cantilevered…
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FORMER ST JOHN'S THE LESS ANGLICAN CHURCH AND SCHOOLROOM
1 BEDDOE AVENUE BRIGHTON EAST, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H1970The former St John's the Less Anglican church and schoolroom, designed to seat about 120 people, was opened on 1 February 1850 to serve the pioneer agricultural settlement around the Elster…
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1 CAMPBELL STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0248Whalers and sealers had been visiting and working the coastal areas around Port Fairy and Portland areas throughout the 1830s. John Griffiths from Launceston set up a bay whaling station on…
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95 CLIFF STREET PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE
VHR H1844The Portland Customs House was built in 1849-50 and is the oldest of its type in Victoria, and the only remaining customs house which survives from Victoria's pre-Separation period. The…
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77-79 BURKE ROAD NORTH IVANHOE, BANYULE CITY
VHR H1140Charterisville was built c. 1840 by David Charteris McArthur, Melbourne's first bank manager. The house was built of sandstone quarried on the site and remains today as a partially complete…
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2700-3148 POINT NEPEAN ROAD SORRENTO, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H1050The British Government's decision to establish a settlement in southern Australia appears to have been prompted by favourable reports of Port Phillip Bay and concerns about the interest of…
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WELLINGTON PARADE AND LANSDOWNE STREET AND CLARENDON STREET AND ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1834The Fitzroy Gardens were set aside as a public reserve, then known as Fitzroy Square, in 1848. Partially cleared and fenced during the 1840s and 1850s, it was not until 1859 that the reserve…
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DALLAS BROOKS DRIVE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1076La Trobe's Cottage is a conjectural reconstruction of the house of Superintendent La Trobe as it existed in about 1839-40 on his property, Jolimont, which lay on the south side of Wellington…
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SALTWATER RIVER CROSSING SITE AND FOOTSCRAY WHARVES PRECINCT
MARIBYRNONG RIVER AND MORELAND STREET AND BUNBURY STREET AND WINGFIELD STREET AND NAPIER STREET AND HOPKINS STREET AND MARIBYRNONG STREET FOOTSCRAY, MARIBYRNONG CITY
VHR H1397The Saltwater River Crossing site and Footscray wharves are located on the west bank of the Maribyrnong River, running south from Hopkins Street, Footscray. The site contains significant…
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290 BANYULE ROAD VIEWBANK, BANYULE CITY
VHR H1396The Viewbank site was first settled in 1837 by Edward Willis (1816-1895).A homestead was constructed on the site in 1839, on part of a large 1830s pastoral holding at the confluence of the…
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YARRA BEND ROAD FAIRFIELD, YARRA CITY
VHR H2398The Yarra Bend Park including all the land, trees, plantings, open parkland, roads and paths, asylum gate pillar, golf club house and course, and all archaeological deposits associated with…
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39-41 PERCY STREET AND 55 JULIA STREET PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE
VHR H1862St Stephens Anglican Church and School consists of a bluestone church building of 1856, and a rendered brick church school of 1843 with a bluestone addition c1856. The church was built with…
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HODDLE SURVEY TREE, KEW GOLF CLUB
120B BELFORD ROAD KEW EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H2340A remnant River Red Gum tree used as a reference marker by the Government surveyor Robert Hoddle in April 1844 when surveying crown land for the first land sales in Kew in 1845. History…
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1402-1600 GREIGS ROAD AND 439-735 FERRIS ROAD STRATHTULLOH, MELTON CITY
VHR H0317The Strathtulloh property was established in 1840 by Charles James Garrard with the detached kitchen building built of local stone being the earliest remaining structure. The random coursed…
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37 MALINGS ROAD PORTLAND WEST, GLENELG SHIRE
VHR H1897James Blair was appointed Police Magistrate in Portland on 18 August 1840 and arrived in October 1840. Blair Mona (or Blair Gowen as it is also known) was believed to have been built in 1841…
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BESSIEBELLE SHEEPWASHES AND YARDS
PYES ROAD BESSIEBELLE, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H2033The Bessiebelle Sheepwashes and Yards complex is located on the former 14,000 acre Ardonachie Run, established in 1848 by pastoralist Samuel Gorrie, then carrying 6,000 sheep. In 1864 this…
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224 LONGWOOD-MANSFIELD ROAD CREIGHTONS CREEK, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
VHR H1908The pastoral run of Killeen, then known as Five Mile Creek, was acquired by the squatter Charles Ryan in 1849. In that year it comprised 40,000 leased acres stocked with 1200 cattle. Ryan…
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670-674 OLD CALDER HIGHWAY KEILOR, BRIMBANK CITY
VHR H1974Keilor Hotel is a Georgian-style single storey bluestone building with a slate roof and two projecting hipped bays on either side of a recessed verandah. The hotel, believed to have been…
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BIRDWOOD AVENUE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1459The Royal Botanic Gardens, commenced in 1846 on the south side of the Yarra River on a site selected by Superintendent Charles La Trobe, are located adjacent to Government House, Melbourne…
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WILSONS PROMONTORY, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1729Refuge Cove, located on the eastern side of Wilsons Promontory, south of Sealers Cove, was discovered by Captain Thomas Wishart in 1837 and originally named Lady Bay. Bay whaling operated at…
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4 PERCY STREET PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE
VHR H2071William Frost, described as a gentleman, purchased the site known as Allotment 17, Section 2, Township of Portland, for £200 in early October 1840 a the first Portland land sales held…
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CHURCHILL PARK DRIVE ENDEAVOUR HILLS, CASEY CITY
VHR H2348Nerre Nerre Warren is an area of sloping land along a ridge overlooking the Dandenong Creek and river flats which includes the surface and subsurface remains of the Native Police Corps…
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14 WILLIAM STREET PORT FAIRY , MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H2078The cottage at 14 William Street Port Fairy was probably built between 1847 and 1852. Andrew Kell arrived in Port Fairy in 1846 and became a manager for the dominant local businessman…
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