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Payne's Home

Location 10 Paynes Road, Seville VIC 3139 - Property No 13159 File Number 606 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The home of Thomas Payne, plasterer, selector and pioneer fruit grower, has high local and possibly regional significance as a c1874 or earlier farmhouse associated with the first years of the Seville fruit growing industry. The house remains substantially intact and provides evidence of construction techniques, building designs and layouts of the period. Payne was a prominent local resident who was one of the first local Councillors, a trustee of the local church and Rechabite hall and, in 1893, a director of an early but unsuccessful attempt to establish a local jam factory.