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Newlands Homestead

Location Wimmera Highway, APSLEY VIC 3319 - Property No B1585 File Number B1585 Level Local

[1/2] B1585 Newlands Homestead [2/2] B1585 Original Newlands

Statement of Significance

The first Newlands Homestead, a horizontal timber slab cottage, was erected soon after Robert Ballantyne settled on the property in 1845. James Gordon, a later owner, erected the present picturesque Victorian eclectic style villa in 1865, using local granite and sandstone in an axial composition enhanced by canted bay windows, decorated timber gables and prominent grouped chimney pots.
The original Newlands Homestead building is a notable and rare surviving illustration of the earliest vernacular traditions of timber slab construction in Victoria. The present residence is an equally notable and distinctive architectural design, clearly derived from Victorian era pattern books with finely executed masonry details and timber barges. The homestead station complex demonstrates the range and development of pastoral homeastead architecture from earliest settlement to the 1860s.
Newlands Homestead is maintained in good condition. The verandah appears to have been reconstructed. The original slab house is in ruins as are some of the first era buildings on the property. The cemetery at Newlands is of note.
Classified:05/12/1973