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Coowerp

Other Name

House

Location

178-180 Victoria Road, COLDSTREAM VIC 3770 - Property No 6984 / 6985

File Number

164

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1]
Coowerp Homestead,

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Coowerp and site in Victoria Road, Coldstream.

How is it significant?
Coowerp, Victoria Road, Coldstrream, is of local historical and aesthetic significance.

Why is it significant?
Of historical significance for its retention of its c.1925 curtilage being one half of one of three 640 acre allotments purchased by Gilbert Macintyre in the land sales of 1852, and for its role in the development of the local cattle industry.Also through its associations with the prominent Macintyre family and Cora Lynn, the early homestead on the adjacent property constructed for Thomas Macintyre.
RNE criteria A.4, D.2, H.1

It is of aesthetic significance as a rare example of a remnant early farm retaining to a large degree an early two-storey homestead residence.
RNE criterion E.1

Group

Residential buildings (private)