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Holey Plain

Location Longford Road,, ROSEDALE VIC 3847 - Property No B0605 File Number B0605 Level Local

[1/2] B0605 Holey Plain Homestead [2/2] B0605 Holey Plain Homestead

Statement of Significance

The Holey Plain is significant as an unusually fine and large house designed in the Victorian Italianate style, more typical of Victoria's Western District homesteads than the Gippsland region.
The property has strong associations with the Crooke family who have lived there for more than one hundred and fifty years. Members of the family have been influential in State and Local politics.
The property is a key site which demonstrates the process of early pastoral settlement of Gippsland along a set pattern, being specifically chosen by the Crooke family for its proximity to Port Albert after they had developed other pastoral runs inland around Omeo.
Classified: 11/06/1959