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CROSSMAN'S LOG CABIN

Other Name

CROSSMANS LOG CABIN

Location

KEADYS LANE MOORILIM, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY

File Number

HER/2001/000018

Level

Heritage Inventory Site

Statement of Significance

In 1869 Daniel Keady, a farmer of Kilmore, successfully applied under provisions of 42nd Section of the Amending Land Act 1865 for a licence to occupy Crown Land. Under the provision of the Land Act 1869, Keady was later able to purchase his allotment because of the improvements he had made. Amongst Kealy?s improvements was this log structure. It is believed this cabin was operated as a dairy.

The structure is orientated north-south, is about 5m x 4m, and constructed of hardwood logs, notched at the ends. The roof structure, of braced rafters and battens, is covered with corrugated iron. The structure is in poor condition, slumping towards the west, and many of the lower logs are very rotten.

This structure is threatened by the Goulburn Valley Highway Project. The new road alignment will pass through this site. Heritage Victoria commissioned a Conservation Management plan for this place to establish its significance, identify comparative examples, and to give guidance for possibly relocating the cabin. The CMP identified eleven very similar structures in the Goulburn Valley region. These structures were all built by selectors in the 1870s and 1880s and are contemporary to Crossman?s log cabin.

The CMP has clearly established that Crossman?s log cabin is of regional significance to the Goulburn Valley and has demonstrated the survival of similar but better preserved structures, all associated with selectors and the selection Acts of the 1870s and 1880s.

Group

Residential buildings (private)