MOUNT VIEW HOMESTEAD COMPLEX

The farm complex, Mount View, at 160 Murphy's Lane, Knowsley, comprising the house that appears c. 1912 or earlier, and the large outbuilding (barn), wash house and garage are significant. The coprosma and cypress hedges, palm trees, peppercorn trees and large pines are also significant. 

Mount View is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo.

The Mount View homestead complex is rare and outstanding in the study area, representing successful farming in the late 19th to early 20th century. Mount View contains buildings from both the O'Brien and Murphy ownership, with the barn and washhouse relating to the nineteenth century ownership and the house and garage from the early part of the twentieth century. Criterion B 

Mount View is historically significant for its long term association with the Murphy family for over 100 years. Beginning with Timothy Murphy, who was already established in the district when he purchased the property in 1906, the family has continued to own and run the place as a working farm up until the present day. Criterion A

Mount View is an excellent example of a highly intact homestead with an established garden layout. It is unusual in the study area and is highly intact externally and has a garden with established palm trees, hedge and garden beds. The barn is of aesthetic value for its form and materials, being built in several stages from the 19th century and containing examples of different types of timber cladding including vertical palings. Criterion D