"Monmeath"

Monmeath is believed to have been built c1900 for the Fitzgerald family who settled in the area in the 1860s. It is a double fronted Edwardian weatherboard farmhouse with an early fence and garden.

Monmeath has aesthetic, historic and social value to the community in the Leopold district. 

Monmeath is one of few surviving examples of an intact c 1900 farmhouse and setting. It has important visual elements as a representative example of a typical early twentieth century farmhouse complete with established exotic and native trees, original fence and along setback from the road. Both the building and its important setting have a high degree of integrity. It is still owned and has been continuously operated as a mixed farm by the descendants of early pioneering family who built it.

It is of LOCAL cultural significance. 

1. Mrs. M. Filbay Mr. L. Curtis pers. comm. 

2. Jack Dowsett pers. comm. 

3. Sands and McDougall directories 1912, 1922, 1939, 1949. 

Monmeath is believed to have been built c1900 for the Fitzgerald family who settled in the area in the 1860s. It is a double fronted Edwardian weatherboard farmhouse with an early fence and garden.

Monmeath has aesthetic, historic and social value to the community in the Leopold district. 

Monmeath is one of few surviving examples of an intact c 1900 farmhouse and setting. It has important visual elements as a representative example of a typical early twentieth century farmhouse complete with established exotic and native trees, original fence and along setback from the road. Both the building and its important setting have a high degree of integrity. It is still owned and has been continuously operated as a mixed farm by the descendants of early pioneering family who built it.

It is of LOCAL cultural significance. 

1. Mrs. M. Filbay Mr. L. Curtis pers. comm. 

2. Jack Dowsett pers. comm. 

3. Sands and McDougall directories 1912, 1922, 1939, 1949. 

Monmeath is believed to have been built c1900 for the Fitzgerald family who settled in the area in the 1860s. It is a double fronted Edwardian weatherboard farmhouse with an early fence and garden.

Monmeath has aesthetic, historic and social value to the community in the Leopold district. 

Monmeath is one of few surviving examples of an intact c 1900 farmhouse and setting. It has important visual elements as a representative example of a typical early twentieth century farmhouse complete with established exotic and native trees, original fence and along setback from the road. Both the building and its important setting have a high degree of integrity. It is still owned and has been continuously operated as a mixed farm by the descendants of early pioneering family who built it.

It is of LOCAL cultural significance. 

1. Mrs. M. Filbay Mr. L. Curtis pers. comm. 

2. Jack Dowsett pers. comm. 

3. Sands and McDougall directories 1912, 1922, 1939, 1949.