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Winter's Cellars

Location

197 Francis Street, GROVEDALE VIC 3216 - Property No 227007

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Winter's Cellar in Grovedale was erected in 1878 for Heinrich Wilhelm Winter, son of pioneer settler Jon Winter, who acquired the land upon which the stone cellar and weatherboard premises are erected on 1854.

The cellars have been in the ownership of the Winter family for six generations and the establishment is a celebrated Geelong region century vineyards of the district. Winter's Cellars remains as one of the few such establishments in Victoria.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

REFERENCES

Geelong Advertiser - 19th April, 1977, p 13

22nd July, 1958, P10 -'Historic Homes No. 17'.

The News, Geelong - 4th September, 1979, p42.

Investigator, Geelong Historical Society, 1971, Vol 6. p 71, Vol 12, pp 108, 113, 115-116.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House