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Slab kitchen, Labertouche
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Originally a cottage in its own right, the slab kitchen is now a part of the Bushy Park display. Originally built at Ripplebrook in the 1880s by Ada Donaldson of Deniliquin, it was removed to Labertouche.
Medium local historic significance.
A small building of horizontal timber slabs. It has a verandah over the front entrance and the front porch. There is a stone chimney on the back wall and the roof is shingled
Loren (formerly James Hogg's house) is a two-storey gabled prefabricated house, constructed using broad-gauge corrugated iron and was originally erected in 60-62 Curzon Street, North Melbourne in 1854 for builder, James Hogg. By 1968 the building had deteriorated and it was dismantled and moved to the Old Gippstown where it was re-erected and restored. The building's external framing system consists of exposed metal columns with Gothic panel motifs at the corners. Internally the timber framed walls have been finished with new papers over new Hessian. The corrugated iron roof has an unusual concave form and the windows, floors and doors are of moulded softwood.
State historic significance as a rare type of iron prefab. house. Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and covered by a Heritage Overlay, Latrobe City Planning Scheme.
Tall square-shaped two-storey corrugated iron building with a curved corrugated iron roof with two outside brick chimneys.
prefabricated iron houses
Designed and constructed by Old Gippstown from materials to hand.
A small square-shaped timber stable building with a gabled corrugated iron roof.
Built as the Colonial Bank of Australasia in 1889 in Meeniyan, became National Bank in 1914. Moved to Old Gippstown in 1968.
High local historic significance on account of integrity.
A large rectangular-shaped timber bank building with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The front has a mock stone work design on the timber.
banks and banking
One-room cell-lockup, possibly transferred from Rosedale to Maffra in 1869, moved to Old Gippstown in 1973.
High local significance on account of age.
A small square shaped timber building with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The door is not original, and has been roughly made of pallet boards.
One-room police station built in 1869 in Maffra; moved c.1882 to new site in Maffra, by new police residence-office. Office enlarged in 1936, incorporating the old police station.
High local historic significance on account of age.
A small timber building, rectangular in shape with a gabled corrugated iron roof. There is a small hood over the rear entrance of the station.
police
This building was constructed at Old Gippstown from materials to hand. It was named for the garage operated in Maffra by W.O. (Bill) Fulton, blacksmith, garage proprietor and later state member of parliament.
A large rectangular-shaped corrugated iron shed, used as a Garage. It has a gabled roof made of corrugated iron. There is a billboard on the front of building's roof.
motor garage
Originally the JA & A Templeton Funeral Parlour workshop, situated by his house inTraralgon.
A small timber shop, rectangular in shape with a gabled corrugated iron roof. It has a verandah running along the front of the building, and there is a large billboard on the roof. There is a shed fixed to one side with a corrugated iron roof.
funeral directors
Built in 1906 in main street of Neerim South.
A small rectangular timber shop. The front has a gabled corrugated iron roof, while the workshop at the rear of the shop is not as high as the front and has a flat corrugated iron roof.
bootmakers
Used by general carriers in Warragul from the late 1880s
A large, two-storey stables of timber with a corrugated iron roof. Internally there are four horse stalls on the ground floor and a loft above. The loft is accessed via steep internal stairs and a trapdoor, with an outside door and hoist point.
Built in the 1920s on Tom Fowler's farm at Willow Grove. Used as a shed.
A large square-shaped shed with walls of split timber. It has a gabled roof of corrugated iron, while the floor is made up of wooden cobbles. The roofs of the side extensions are made of wood with the inside ceilings covered with hessian.
agriculture
This hut came from the Tangil goldfields, and was in use around 1900, the home of two miners on an old field. The township of Tangil came into being above what is now the Blue Rock Dam, about 1867.
A small, rectangular bark hut with a bark roof. The fireplace and chimney are made of corrugated iron with stone base. It has a timber framework.
Built at Old Gippstown from secondhand materials.
Rectangular-shaped timber shed, with a corrugated iron roof. It has a back and two side walls, while the front is open for access.
shed
13 August 1843 First application for the Bushy Park run appeared in the “Port Phillip Gazette”. It was taken up by Angus McMillan, who took up the Boisdale run across the Avon River at the same time, for his employer Lachlan Macalister. March 1844 Licence to Bushy Park granted to McMillan. It consisted of 16,000 acres. Late 1840s Bushy Park homestead built for McMillan by Andrew Martin and Matt McCraw.
High local historic significance as associated with major pioneer and a very old white settlement in Gippsland.
A square shaped timber house, with a corrugated iron roof over shingles. It has a verandah that covers both the front and sides of the house. The house is contructed of redgum timber, and internally has four rooms.
National Trust of Australia Plaque - Bushy Park Homestead - Class 'C'
mcmillan, angus
A small timber church, containing an entrance area, congregation area, vestry and a small store room. The main part of the church is rectangular, but the smaller rooms give the building a 'T' shape. The roof is 'A' framed and is corrugated iron. There are three crosses on the roof; one on the entrance and two on the main building; one on the front and one at the rear. There is a bell in the yard, which is fenced with a picket fence.
2903 SUNNY CREEK formerly YARRAGON EAST. Sunny Creek State School, first called Yarragon East, situated on Sunny Creek Road, between Yarragon and Trafalgar .... was opened in 1888. Sunny Creek Road is now known as School Road. .... It has generally been served by two teachers or a Head Teacher assisted by a Sewing Mistress. .... Edwin Mann taught there for 35 years, with his wife, Mrs Mann, as the Sewing Mistress for some years. [Extracted from Vision and Realisation: A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Vol. 3, 1973. This does not contain any details of the actual construction of the school, which is a typical Education Department building, and may date from later than 1888]
High local historic significance, with some social significance: reunions of old students still held. (Dr Linda Young, Deakin University, significance assessment July 2009).
Single-classroom State School. It is a rectangular-shaped timber building with weatherboard walls, timber frame and corrugated iron roof. An outside verandah is situated along the side of the building. Inside there is a small entry porch, a blackboard the length of the room (with fireplace) and a small store-room/cloak room.
school
Arrived at old Gippstown in April 1972, after having been in service at Grey Street Primary School in Traralgon.
High local historic significance (Dr Linda Young significance assessment July 2009)
Octagonal-shaped school shelter shed in the form of a rotunda with a cone-shaped, corrugated-iron roof, timber frame and weatherboard walls. Earth floor.
grey street primary school traralgon
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