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Jones orchard complex and trees

Location

205 KANGAROO GROUND-WATTLE GLEN ROAD WATTLE GLEN, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance


ELTHAM STUDY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

Though altered, this building is one of the small number of surviving 19th century/1900s farm houses in the Shire that retains its originally detached kitchen and stable/barn and thus exemplifies, the home of the' small settler during the period in which it was built. The sizable weatherboard stable/barn with its brick lower section is a rare survivor and the two buildings illustrate the operation of a small farm/orchard. The surviving mature fruit trees indicate that there was at least a domestic orchard on the property, if not a commercial one and may also indicate an earlier dwelling site.

REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (with AHC criteria):

Jones orchard complex 'and trees are significant to the Nillumbik Shire:

- for the" house as one of the small number of surviving 19th century farm houses in the Shire, retaining its originally detached kitchen and farm outbuildings as a good example of the home of the small settler (Criterion 02, B2, A4);

- for the sizable weatherboard packing and cart sheds, one with its brick lower section, are rare survivors - illustrating the operation of a small farm/orchard (Criterion 02);

- for the surviving mature fruit trees (apple, pear) express the orchard function (Criterion A4); and
- for the close and long association with the pioneering Jones family in particular Albert Jones a prolific recorder of local life (Criterion H1).

Group

Farming and Grazing

Category

Orchard