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Glenalbyn Grange

Location

Gillespie Road,, KINGOWER VIC 3517 - Property No B5855

File Number

B5855

Level

State

Statement of Significance

A farm property which survives in essentially the form in which it was developed from the 1850s by the Reverend William Hall, on land acquired as the pre-emptive right block on the Glenalbyn squatting run in 1860-64, and which has remained in the hands of his descendants ever since. The property includes a homestead, of which the earliest portion of 1860 antedates the acquisition of freehold title, dams formed by Hall on the Kingower Creek, paddock boundaries with hawthorn hedges, a quantity of native trees dating from Hall's time, and traces of the puddling machines of alluvial gold miners with whom Hall had a supportive relationship. The striking contrast of the fertile ground to the surrounding scrub remains almost as distinct today as it was in the early years of Hall's occupancy.
Classified: 03/09/1987
Revised: 03/08/1998

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Homestead building