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NEWMARKET SHEEP & CATTLE YARD PLATFORMS
Other NameFlemington Racecourse railway LocationASCOT VALE ROAD, FLEMINGTON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The remains of the Newmarket Sheep and Cattle Yards, comprising
the bluestone platform walls on the south side of the railway reserve
extending for a couple of hundred metres east from Ascot Vale Road,
and returning for about 50 metres south along Ascot Vale Road, is
significant. The platform walls are constructed of worked/tooled
bluestone with bluestone coping and there is a length of rails set in
concrete along the edge of the platform in the section close to Ascot
Vale Road. The condition of the wall is fair and there is some damage,
where stones are missing or have fallen away. It appears as though the
section of wall along Ascot Vale Road has been reconstructed.
The remains of the Newmarket Sheep and Cattle Yards are of local
historic and archaeological significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
It is historically significant as the only remaining evidence of
the cattle yards, which were the main point of entry and exit for
animals being transported to and from Newmarket Saleyards and the
significance of the platforms walls is enhanced as the only surviving
fabric associated with the yards. The length of the remnant platforms
gives some impression of the size of the yards where hundreds of
thousands of sheep and cattle were loaded and unloaded each year, and
the site has potential to yield further information about how the
place was used. (Criteria A & C)
Group
Transport - Rail
Category
Railway Platform/ Station