Dwelling, Webster Brothers yard and the "Iron Church"

The Residence, outbuilding, church ruins and site at 14 Graham Street, Bacchus Marsh.

How is it significant?

The Residence, outbuilding, church ruins and site at 14 Graham Street, Bacchus Marsh are of local historical and architectural significance to the Shire of Moorabool.

Why is it significant?

The Residence, outbuilding, church ruins and site at 14 Graham Street, Bacchus Marsh are of local historical significance for their demonstration of the early development of the Bacchus Marsh Township. The brick and stone house was erected in 1872 for George Marshall after the land was offered for sale as a township allotment on February 22, 1870. The dwelling is a rare surviving example of a cottage with detached kitchen from the 1870s period. Survival of intact buildings from this era is rare across Victoria. The pre-fabricated church ruins are of historical significance for their potential to yield important information about Victoria's early history.

The Residence and detached kitchen at 14 Graham Street, Bacchus Marsh are of aesthetic significance as a rare surviving example of a Victorian Gothic style cottage. The residence demonstrates key features of the style, including the symmetrical composition, gable roof, decorative scalloped bargeboards, stone quoins at the corners, low, concave hip verandah with cast iron valance and brackets, stone window sills, chimney at each end of the ridge and weatherboard kitchen outbuilding with a gable roof and two substantial chimneys.

1995

A brick and stone relatively intact early cottage, built in 1870, with an outbuilding.

Behind it also are remnants of the former prefabricated "Iron Church " (1855), Bacchus Marsh's first Church of England building, used between 1855 and 1877, when it was deconsecrated and relocated here. It is the only known surviving prefabricated iron church in Victoria and the earliest surviving church in Bacchus Marsh.

The former "Iron Church" is of state historical significance as an extraordinary and pioneering embodiment of a way of life in its religious practice in the earliest years of the Colony and of the settlement at Bacchus Marsh. It is of state architectural significance as a rare survival of this building type and technology. It also offers evidence of changing attitudes to conservation practice.

The cottage is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of a way of life in early Bacchus Marsh.

It is of local architectural significance as an early example of a town cottage in Bacchus Marsh, retaining its outbuilding and site land.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct