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BUSHY CREEK HOMESTEAD COMPLEX

Location

Bushy Creek Lane GLENTHOMPSON, Southern Grampians Shire

File Number

690

Level

Stage 2 study complete

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Bushy Creek Homestead is a asymmetrical single storey house built of concrete blocks with a substantial timber verandah on three sides. The floor plan is irregular, partly because an earlier timber building has been incorporated into the structure. The main roof is half-hipped and half gabled and clad with corrugated iron. The main doors are conservative, being Victorian in style, although glazed with Art Nouveau designs. The house is sited in the remains of what was once an Edwardian garden. Bushy Creek has had a long association with the Beggs family, who retained the property within the family for over 130 years prior to its sale outside the family. There has been no architect or builder associated with the design. Bushy Creek is in fair condition, and retains a fair degree of integrity.

How is it significant?
Bushy Creek is of historical and architectural significance to the Southern Grampians Shire.

Why is it significant?
Bushy Creek is of historical significance as an early pastoral run, taken up as early as the 1840s by James Kidd. The run was associated with the influential and important pastoral family Beggs through over 130 years continual ownership. The homestead is of architectural significance for its unusual incorporation of a much earlier house into the new homestead, built after the turn of the century, and for its use of concrete block as a construction material.

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