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36 CEMETERY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0338The Champagne Cellars at the Great Western Vineyards, a network of underground barrel vaulted 'drives' cut out from decomposed granite, were commenced between 1868 and 1870 by Joseph Best,…
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THE WOOLSHED, TOTTINGTON HOMESTEAD AND STONE COTTAGE
5018 ARARAT-ST ARNAUD ROAD TOTTINGTON, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0305Tottington consists of a rare surviving single storey brick and weatherboard homestead constructed in the 1840s and 1850s around a courtyard, later additions including the ballroom…
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4 NAPIER STREET ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1530'The discovery of gold at St Arnaud in 1855 led to the survey of a township the following year. As the town developed through the 1860s, a number of public buildings were erected. The borough…
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QUEENS AVENUE ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1594St. Arnaud Railway Station was built by J Foot in 1879, on the Ballarat-St. Arnaud line for the Victorian Railways. It consists of a substantial, symmetrical, hip roofed brick station…
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125 LEDCOURT ROAD LEDCOURT, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0339Captain Robert Briggs took up the Ledcourt run in 1840 and it was bought by an absentee owner Benjamin Boyd in 1842. Thomas Young, a solicitor from Hobart, purchased Ledcourt from Boyd in…
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FORMER LITERARY & SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE
54 LONGFIELD STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0531The building at 54 Longfield Street, Stawell West, in fact has never been a Mechanics' Institute. It was known as the Lliterary and Scientific Iinstitute and stood on its own institute…
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HEATHERLIE (MT DIFFICULT) QUARRY
GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK, GRAMPIANS ROAD, BELLFIELD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1556In 1861 or 1862, Francis Walkins, stonemason of Stawell discovered an outcrop of freestone in the Mount Difficult range while on a shooting trip and realised that the stone was extremely…
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HILL PIPE ORGAN - ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
25 SCALLAN STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H2177This William Hill organ was made in London in 1858 by the prominent organbuilding firm of W Hill & Son for the residence of a Mr Davis in Melbourne. Between 1886 and 1892 it was…
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367 DUNOLLY ROAD CARAPOOEE, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H2176St Peter's Anglican Church at Carapooee, known locally as the Pebble Church, was built in 1869-70 to a design by the prominent Melbourne architect Leonard Terry, then the diocesan architect…
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10-18 MAIN STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H2284Central Park at Stawell is located near the centre of Stawell and comprises a sports oval, a timber grandstand and other buildings and a number of memorials, set amidst ornamental gardens…
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GARDEN GULLY ROAD AND HARD HILL ROAD ARMSTRONG AND GARDEN GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1044The first gold was found at Hard Hill in January 1856 and it continued to be the site of alluvial mining until the 1870s. The area includes an almost intact example of an earthen water race…
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FORMER POLICE SUPERINTENDENT'S RESIDENCE
17 LESLIE STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0986The former Police Superintendents Residence, a single storey brick villa with return verandah, hipped slate roof, was constructed in 1869 to accommodate the Police Superintendent of the…
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FORMER PLEASANT CREEK COURT HOUSE
46-48 LONGFIELD STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0998The former Pleasant Creek Court House, built in 1859, is identified by Court Houses in Victoria A Survey as the best and most intact example of four identically planned court houses in the…
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11 PATRICK STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1997The town of Stawell grew out of two mining settlements established in the 1850s. Gold was discovered at Pleasant Creek (later Stawell West) in 1853 and at Quartz Reefs (later known as…
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24 SEABY STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H2178Diamond House was built in c1866-8 by John Hearne, a miner who then lived in a small house next to it. The building was Hearne's residence, but he held a wine licence in 1880 and it is said…
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