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Wellington Park

Location 17 Highfield Avenue WARRANWOOD, MAROONDAH CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Wellington Park (formerly Woorara) is late Victorian brick farmhouse built in 1889, but reconstructed after destruction in the 1939 bushfire. it is historically significant as marking the first freehold land in Croydon, being a Pre-emptive right Crown grant of two allocations of 320 acres (260 hectares total) in 1854. The building is significant as an early surviving farmhouse. It is also historically significant in demonstrating locally the effect of the bushfire, one of the greatest natural disasters in Australia's history. It also has some architectural significance locally as a surviving remnant of a late Victorian farmhouse.