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130 MOUNT ROAD ANAKIE, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0282Narada Homestead at Anakie was built in 1862 for pastoralist John Browne, a notable early settler in the Anakie district. It was designed by the Geelong architect John Young. Joseph Watts…
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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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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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2132 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY BARNAWARTHA, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0279The Hermitage, Barnawatha, was built by David Reid (1820-1906), one of the first settlers in the Ovens district. He married Mary Barber, a niece of Hamilton Hume, who with William Hovell…
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10 GLENARA DRIVE BULLA, HUME CITY
VHR H0625Glenara, Bulla was settled by pastoralist Walter Clark in 1857. Originally purchasing 485 acres to the north-west of Melbourne, Clark built his estate up to 4079 acres before his death in…
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69 CAMP STREET CARISBROOK, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
VHR H0342A complex of homestead buildings constructed in bluestone c1873 for Henry Chalk, pastoralist. The complex includes house, kitchen, men's quarters, stables, barn and smithy. The ruins of…
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6495 HENTY HIGHWAY GLENISLA, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0444Glenisla squatting run was established in 1843 by a Scotsman named Simpson who named the run after a kirkdom near Balmoral. In 1860 Charles Carter and Sons acquired the run. From the 1870s…
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460 MERRAWARP ROAD BARRABOOL, SURF COAST SHIRE
VHR H0773The former Suisse vineyard property, renamed Neuchatel by the present owners, has significance for its early associations with the Breguet family, pioneer Swiss vignerons who settled in the…
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101 HOPKINS HILL ROAD CHATSWORTH, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0325Chatsworth House, a substantial single storey bluestone mansion with attendant outbuildings, on the Hopkins River near Chatsworth, was erected in1858-59 for pioneer pastoralist John Moffat.…
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405 MONOMEITH ROAD MONOMEITH, CARDINIA SHIRE
VHR H0452A vast area of land on the northern side of Westernport Bay was, during the early nineteenth century, dominated by the partnership of Mickle, Bakewell and Lyall, operating under the name of…
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ADELAIDE VALE HOMESTEAD AND OUTBUILDINGS
1060 AXEDALE ROAD FOSTERVILLE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0304Adelaide Vale Homestead was begun in 1853 by John Harvey and was later occupied by Edward and Andrew O'Keefe. The building comprises a series of single storey stone buildings arranged behind…
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413 MYRTLEBANK-FULHAM ROAD FULHAM, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H0331The pastoral run Fulham on Thomson river west of Sale was first taken up in 1841 by Peter Imlay of Twofold Bay (Eden) NSW. In October 1853 retired sea captain John William Jones acquired the…
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425-465 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0696The 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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1830 WOOLSTHORPE-HEXHAM ROAD HEXHAM, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0322The encouraging reports of Major Mitchell of rich grazing land south of the Murray River and the push of Launceston pastoralists into inland areas beyond the coastal whaling and sealing…
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1 MT TALBOT ROAD TOOLONDO, HORSHAM RURAL CITY
VHR H0468The "Mount Talbot" pastoral run at Toolondo was acquired by Dr Robert Officer in 1847. In 1859 his sons Charles and Suetonious took over the property and apparently in c.1862, Charles Officer…
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605 BACCHUS MARSH ROAD LOVELY BANKS, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0283Elcho Homestead was built in about 1867 for John Galletly, on a four thousand acre property adjoining the Bacchus Marsh Road. The architect of the house is unknown. A wing was added on the…
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141 LISMORE-SKIPTON ROAD LISMORE, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H0299Titanga, near Lismore, was originally part of the 1838 Mt Elephant No 2 pastoral lease in the Western District of Victoria. This lease was originally acquired by John Brown, the first…
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EYNESBURY ROAD AND SPRINGHILL ROAD AND SPRINGHILL ROAD EYNESBURY, MELTON CITY, WYNDHAM CITY
VHR H0362The Eynesbury homestead complex was established on land acquired by prominent pioneer pastoralist, Simon Staughton. Staughton built the first substantial homestead in 1845 at Exford…
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6 MERRIANG HOMESTEAD ROAD MERRIANG, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H0566The Merriang Run was first established prior to 1846 by David Johnson who sold the pastoral licence to John Johnston, an Irish immigrant, in that year. In 1853 Johnston secured freehold title…
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205 WAHRING-MURCHISON EAST ROAD WAHRING, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
VHR H0297A two-storey brick Classical homestead with rendered facade built c.1870 for the Winter family, one of the largest landholders in the district. Features include an asymmetrical towered…
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7 CLEELAND ROAD CAPE WOOLAMAI, BASS COAST SHIRE
VHR H0666"Wollomai House" near Newhaven is a pastoral homestead which has important links with the early history of Phillip Island and the racing industry. It is of weatherboard construction with a…
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5188 PENSHURST-WARRNAMBOOL ROAD PENSHURST, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0541The property which was to become Kolor was first settled in 1838 and was run as an aboriginal settlement for some time. John Joseph Twomey purchased it and adjoining properties about 1851.…
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POINT COOK HOMESTEAD AND STABLES
POINT COOK HOMESTEAD ROAD POINT COOK, WYNDHAM CITY
VHR H1509Brothers Thomas and Andrew Chirnside took up a sheep run at Point Cooke (later Point Cook) in 1852 and it became the home-station for their increasing pastoral runs in the west of the…
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4912 CALDER HIGHWAY RAVENSWOOD, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0315The Ravenswood homestead was built by Frederick Fenton on Bullock Creek on his property near Bendigo probably c1866. Originally known as the Mount Alexander North run and occupied from c1840,…
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200 REEDY CREEK ROAD BROADFORD, MITCHELL SHIRE
VHR H0273Alexander McKenzie took up the Reedy Creek run in 1841 and his family owned the property until the 1920s. The present single storey timber homestead comprises three wings erected around a…
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