"Spray Farm", homestead and stables including interior

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

'Spray Farm', formerly 'Ellenvale', was built in 1851 to the designs of John Young, a Geelong architect. The homestead, a single storey brick villa, was erected for James Conway Langdon and was acquired in 1862 by Geelong Woolbroker Charles Ibbotson.

'Spray Farm' at Drysdale is one of the oldest pastoral properties on the Bellarine peninsula and certainly of great architectural importance as a distinctive homestead by John Young. Both JC Langdon and Charles Ibbotson were influential Geelong settlers. This early brick villa with slate roof and encircling verandah enclosed with mechanical louvre screens, has innovative stable additions of 1875 by noted Geelong architects Davidson and Henderson.

References

National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 2922. Included details of title ownership, biographic data on architect John Young and history of property prepared by P L Brown.

Geelong Advertiser, 7th June, 1851 - tenders for villa, 24th February 1875 - tenders for stables/offices

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Homestead building