BRUCE’S CREEK BLUESTONE HOUSE

Built structures – including the standing ruins of a two storey bluestone house and retaining wall(s) – landscape modifications, and any additional archaeological features and deposits preserved at the site that are associated primarily with the historic ownership and occupation of the land during the period 1855 to c.1890; and any the subsequent occupation of the land post c.1890, but prior to c.1955 when the building fell into ruin. 

The site is of local historical significance and of high archaeological significance. 

The site is of local historical significance as it demonstrates a key historic phase of Bannockburn's history - the development of the Bannockburn township and small freehold farms in the area throughout the nineteenth century and for its association with the Sutherland family, Scottish immigrants and carpenters who settled in the area in 1855 and where a key family in the townships development. 

The site has the potential to contain archaeological deposits of high integrity relating to the use and occupation of the site has a residence from c.1855 until the late nineteenth century.