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BELLEVUE HOMESTEAD

Location Balmoral - Harrow Road BALMORAL, Southern Grampians Shire File Number 470 Level Stage 2 study complete

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Bellevue Homestead complex, Balmoral-Harrow Road, Balmoral, consists of three stages of development, the earliest of which is a vertical board and batten dwelling which dates from the mid-Victorian era after the initial squatting period and possibly before the Land Selection Acts. A second homestead was built in timber some years later, while a substantial brick residence was erected sometime in the late 1860s or 1870s. The woolshed is constructed of vertical and horizontal dropped slabs and corrugated iron, with hand adzed timber uprights supporting the corrugated iron roof. Bellevue was the home of John Bolan, his family and descendants at least from the time the land was selected between 1872 and 1875 until 1953. Bolan was described as a cobbler and may also have been a saddler.

How is it significant?
Bellevue Homestead is of historic and architectural significance to the community of Balmoral and the Southern Grampians Shire.

Why is it significant?
Bellevue Homestead is of historical significance as an example of an early homestead complex which dates from the selector period of settlement, and of architectural significance as a group of buildings which demonstrate a variety of vernacular construction techniques. The complex of buildings is architecturally significant for the sequence of development it demonstrates, ranging from the early vertical slab construction of the woolshed, the vertical board and batten of the first and second houses, then to the brick masonry of the third, substantial homestead.