Ruins and Outbuildings

The ruins in Heathcote-Redesdale Road, Mia Mia, are of local historic and architectural significance for the City of Greater Bendigo.

The ruins in Heathcote-Redesdale Road, Mia Mia are of historical significance for their association with the O'Sullivan family, who owned the property for over one hundred years, from 1877 until at least the late 1980s. The ruins on the property were probably constructed during the early period of the O'Sullivan family's ownership.

The primitive log structure ruins are architecturally significant. They are of additional importance, as two structures on the one site is known to be very rare. The smaller structure has logs as loadbearing walls, contains no windows or door and was probably used as an animal shelter or storehouse. The logs are shaped at the ends and interlocking to form the ridge beam for the roof.

The larger structure is built of similar log construction but has been draught proofed with mud between the logs, suggesting it may have been used as a hut. Evidence of this use is also provided by small square windows in each wall. The roof structure, covered in part by corrugated iron, is made from poles as rafters, squared purlins, sheets of bark over which another set of rafters and purlins has been laid. The gable ends have been infilled with sawn weatherboards.

The remains of stone chimney close by may have been attached to an adjacent hut. The ruins on the site also comprise two pressed red brick chimneys probably belonging to a house built in the early twentieth century. The red brick chimneys are of less importance.

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