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Farmhouse
Location280 HARDY'S ROAD CLYDE NORTH, CASEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The farmhouse at 280S Hardys Road, Clyde North (former 272 Hardys Road, Clyde North) is significant.
Elements that contribute to its significance include:
- The form and composition of the c.1945 farmhouse including its low-pitched hip and gable roof, the asymmetrical arrangement with a projecting front hip, two face brick chimneys, broad massive brick and render front porch with face brick detailing and the double pavilion form to the rear.
- The external fabric of the c.1945 dwelling, including the timber double hung sash windows with broad external projecting architrave – arranged singly, in pairs, threes and fours. The fibro cement cladding and strapping of the walls, the brick and rendered materials of the porch and its timber deck, the original high waisted timber front door.
- The Tortured Willow Tree in the rear garden, the Lilly Pilly Tree in the front garden and the two Oriental Plane Trees located between the house and driveway.
- The location and position of the driveway from Hardys Road to the rear of the farmhouse.
Views from Hardys Road to the farmhouse provided by the relatively open lawn of the front garden. The following features do not contribute to the significance of this place:
- All farm outbuildings to the rear of the farmhouse garden (including the modified c.1944 milking shed), tanks and fencing;
- The c.1960-70 fibro cement sheet bungalow to the rear of the farmhouse, the above ground swimming pool, and the modern clothesline in the rear yard;
- Alterations and additions to the farmhouse post c1945 are not significant.
How is it significant?
The farmhouse at 280S Hardys Road, Clyde North is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.
Why is it significant?
The farmhouse at 280S Hardys Road Clyde North is historically significant as an example of a soldier settler farm. Operating numerous small scale intensive agricultural practices since 1918, the farm has continued as a small intensive farming enterprise through various changes of ownership. While small soldier settler farms were established throughout the area after World War One, very few were successful or continued to operate past the mid to late 1920s. While the farmhouse and plantings around it do not date from the earliest part of soldier settlement – it was constructed by the Wadletons who took up the soldier settler lease in 1940 and were considered to be model farmers by the Soldier Settlement Committee. The farmhouse and plantings, including Lilly Pilly, Oriental Plane and Tortured Willow planted in the immediate garden date from c.1945, and are of further historical significance as evidence of the devastation caused by the fires to homes and farms in Clyde North that year, where whole farming operations (such as that at this location) were destroyed. The farmhouse and trees at 272 Hardys Road are one of the few examples of a farm which was well insured, and able to be rebuilt after the fires. (Criterion A)
The farmhouse itself is of aesthetic significance as a late example of the craftsman bungalow with some elements of the Post War aesthetic also present. It is considered a late example as this style, expressed in prominent window architraves associated with the single, paired or grouped double hung timber sash windows, the fibro cement walls, dominant front verandah supported on masonry columns all contained under an expansive tile roof which is more complex than the typical bungalow. The verandah detailing using substantial masonry balustrade and square piers grouped in twos and threes, with a simple face brick cross motif is also more stylistically tied to the Interwar architecture. (Criterion E)
Group
Farming and Grazing
Category
Homestead Complex