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MCLEAN'S HOUSE

Location Hamilton-Port Fairy Road BYADUK NORTH, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE File Number 532 Level Stage 2 study complete

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
McLean's House is a vernacular single storey timber house with corrugated iron roof, located on the Hamilton-Port Fairy Road at Byaduk North. The house is one of the few to have survived the devestating bushfires of 1944 which destroyed many other homes in Byaduk and Byaduk North. TThe house was built by Lachlan McLean, a local farmer in the early 1890s or late 1880s. The house and land remained in the McLean family for 100 years, until they were sold in the 1990s. The house is in poor condition, and retains a fair degree of integrity.

How is it significant?
The timber house on the Hamilton-Port Fairy Road at Byaduk North is of architectural and historical significance to the township of Byaduk North.

Why is it significant?
The house known as McLean's House is of historical significance as a reminder of the once well-populated North Byaduk, which had almost all of its residences burnt down in the 1944 bushfires. The house was one of only a very few which survived the bushfires. The house is of further historical significance for its associations with the local McLean family, who built the house in the late 1880s or early 1890s, and whose descendants remained as owners and occupiers for over 100 years. The house is of architectural significance for the expression of tradition vernacular building style, technique and use of materials.