WAHROONGA

The Wahroonga homestead, at 7855 Bass Highway, Leongatha South, constructed in c.1897, is significant. This large Asymmetrical Transitional weatherboard villa has a front and side projecting gable with four bi-chrome corbelled brick chimneys. The projecting gables include bracketed gable ends with gable frames, finials, and projecting box bay casement and hopper windows. The bullnose return verandah is decorated with a ladder frame frieze and fretted bracket, and is supported by turned timber posts. 
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

Wahroonga, is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, Wahroonga is one of the oldest homesteads in the Leongatha district, with evidence of construction prior to the devastating 1898 bushfires. This homestead is one of a small number of rural buildings and homesteads that demonstrate this earliest phase of settlement and development in the Leongatha area. Wahroonga, which is believed to be a former dairy, also has former associations to the locally important Henderson family. (Criterion A) 
Aesthetically, this homestead is a superior example within the Shire of an asymmetrical Victorian-Federation villa, especially the notable detailing including the original box windows, corbelled chimneys and gable ends. (Criterion E)