FORMER PEEL STREET RESIDENCE SITE

The area was initially sold in the 1860s as shown on the 1866 Peel Street, Willis Street Plan. The plan depicts two structures with outbuildings across the site. The site is significant as potential commercial and residential premises off Main Street, Ballarat and has the potential to provide archaeological information about the occupation during the initial gold rush until the late nineteenth century. The Ballarat DEM shows 3m-4m across the site.  

The site is of historical and archaeological significance. 

The site is of historical significance as the location of a residential premises during the years of the Victorian gold rush – one of the most significant rushes in world history. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations in the gold rush, and later 19th-century activities.