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Roads End

Location 198-238 Beaumont Road,BERWICK, Casey City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
'Roads End', comprising the house designed by Blackett and Forster and constructed between 1921-28, the associated complex of buildings and structures including the original stables and stable master's quarters, a small builder's cottage, and an old well and sundial, the formal entrance drive trees and entrance gates, and the mature garden setting, at 198-238 Beaumont Road, Berwick

How is it significant?
'Roads End' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey. It is also of potential historic and aeshetic significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?
Aesthetically, 'Roads End' is significant for its associations with the noted surgeon Sir Sidney Sewell for whom the house was built, and who ran an important dairy complex there. As a partner in a joint dairying company formed with Edwin Flack of nearby Burnbank, Sewell helped establish one of Victoria's pioneer Friesian herds which held various Australian and world records for milk production.

Aesthetically, Roads End is of potential architectural significance to the State of Victoria as an outstanding and intact example of the work of the notable architectural firm, Blackett and Forster, and as an important representative of a hybrid architectural style of the 1920s era which incorporated the Arts and Crafts, Bungalow, Shingle Style and Sydney Balcony Style idioms. The property is also significant for its spectacular garden setting, former entry drive specimen trees, its original stables and stable master's quarters, a small builder's cottage, and an old well and sundial, which are located near the site of a nineteenth century farmhouse where cheese was made and stored in the 1920s.

Group

Farming and Grazing

Category

Homestead Complex