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Wimmera Park, 327 Wimmera Park Road, CAMPBELLS BRIDGE
Location327 Wimmera Park Road CAMPBELLS BRIDGE, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
Wimmera Park at Campbells Bridge has significance as a moderately intact example of a 19th century farm complex. The property features a single storey homestead with the original portion possibly built as early as 1875, together with an adjacent outbuilding, underground tank and timber woolshed. The homestead surrounds, including the mature exotic and native trees, contribute to the significance of the place. The homestead at Wimmera Park is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered and extended, it still demonstrates design qualities of a Victorian style, and the additions also contribute to the sequence of development of the place. These qualities include the complex hipped and gabled roof forms forming an L layout, timber framed double hung windows, narrow eaves, brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops, timber framed doorways, and the panelled timber doors. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the skillion verandahs, turned timber verandah posts, decorative fascias and the decorative timber bargeboards and turned timber finials. The adjacent outbuilding to the homestead at Wimmera Park is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although extended, it still demonstrates early design qualities, including the gable roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron and the horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, timber framed double hung windows and the window hoods. The woolshed at Wimmera Park is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates early design qualities that include the long gable roof form with skillion wings, together with the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding and horizontal timber weatherboard and vertical timber paling wall cladding. Wimmera Park at Campbells Bridge is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with farming developments at Campbells Bridge in the 19th century. In particular, this property was established in 1875 and the sequence of building developments contribute to an understanding of farm life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The underground tank at Wimmera Park is scientifically significant at a LOCAL level. It illustrates 19th century brick tank construction. Overall, Wimmera Park at Campbells Bridge is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Farming and Grazing
Category
Homestead Complex