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RESIDENCE
Other Names39 FARNSWORTH STREET CASTLEMAINE , CATLEMAINE POWDER MAGAZINE , CASTLE HOUSE Location37, 39A AND 45 FARNSWORTH STREET AND 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
File NumberPL-HE/03/1209LevelRegistered |
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Statement of Significance
A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan revival style house built in
two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town Surveyor till 1872 on
land he acquired in 1866. The first known occupant was George Farroll, a watchmaker who owned
the house between 1869 till his death in 1885. His wife remained there
till 1892. The house is constructed of red brick with a corrugated
iron roof and is unusual in two respects. Firstly its
"pattern-book" Elizabethan form using Flemish gables and
castellated bow windows and parapets and, secondly, for its organic
plan form largely a result of the later extension of the house by the
construction of a separate room in a mirror image of the first section
linked by an external enclosed passage. The building is largely intact although added to at the rear at
various stages and is in need of some repair. It is of significance
for its unusual vernacular use of picturesque Elizabethan detailing in
a cottage format, as an example of the domestic work of Downe, the
designer of the Castlemaine Market and for its contribution to the
historic city of Castlemaine, a gold town notable for its large
collection of small but elaborate and varied cottages.
[Source: Historic Buildings Council]
[NOTE: Registered land also includes Powder Magazine - see Hermes#2151]
Group
Mining and Mineral Processing
Category
Powder Magazine