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Mount Yule

Location 15 River Street, Healesville VIC 3777 - Property No 41296 File Number 542 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Mt. Yule, and particularly its garden plantings, has high local, and possibly regional significance as an example of the garden designs of William R. Guilfoyle, Director of Melbourne's Botanical Gardens 1873-1909. Guilfoyle, a master of horticultural landscaping, was associated with the design of many notable Victorian public and private gardens, including the garden of Dame Nellie Melba's Coombe Cottage at Coldstream, the Sargoods' Ripponlea and the Chirnsides' Werribee Park. The former railway turntable bridge has local significance as a most unusual structure, put in place by Guilfoyle.