Glencairn

The house “Glencairn”, at 159 Greaves Road, Narre Warren South, its farm shed and the Cypress plantings of the site are of heritage significance to the City of Casey.
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“Glencairn” is of historic and architectural significance to the City of Casey. 

“Glencairn” is historically significant for its association with the locally prominent

Greaves family at its present site on the former “The Springs” estate in Narre Warren South and for its relocation in1922 from a site at Bass Landing in the Bass Coast shire.

 

In its ultimate Berwick manifestation, it is associated with Edwin Greaves, a noted working horse breeder, and his son Sydney Greaves, who moved it c.1922 to the section of Edwin Greaves’ “The Springs” estate on Greaves Road that was passed to him by his father in 1920. Sydney became an equally prominent local identity and Berwick Shire President in 1935. Edwin Greaves had an earlier connection with the prolific property owner, William “Big” Clarke, first as Clarke’s manager in Berwick and later as the purchaser from Clarke of “The Springs”.

 

“Glencairn” also has historic significance as an early building on the proto-settlement on the Bass River named “Cleelandville” and owned by John Cleeland, the prominent Phillip Island owner of “Woolamai” and owner of 1875 the Melbourne Cup winner of the same name. It was probably built in 1896 by Captain Lawrence Henderson, an early ship owner, coastal trader and sawmiller based at Bass Landing who transported significant amounts of construction timber from the Woolamai hills and other supplies, including chicory, salt from his local salt pans and coal, to Melbourne in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

 

“Glencairn” is architecturally significant as an example of a relocated house employing the rare domestic use of galvanised corrugated iron wall cladding and as a well resolved adaptation using original, new and recycled components.