POPE HOUSE

The Victorian homestead constructed c.1910, at 1790 Grand Ridge Road, Trida, and associated remnant garden is significant. The symmetrical double fronted Victorian timber cottage has a M-shaped hip roof with a single brick corbelled chimney. There is a pair of two-by-two pane double hung sash windows on either side of the front door, which itself features a toplight. The remnant early garden is also significant, which may have once been enclosed by a Bhutan Cypress ( Cypressus tortulosa) hedge along the front and West of the building. Some of these Cypresses have been replaced with similar plants, especially along the Western boundary.
Any non-original additions, including the front verandah, rear skillion area and the Interwar and Post-war outbuildings, are not significant.

The house at 1790 Grand Ridge Road, Trida is of local historic and representative significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, this house demonstrates the selection of land and the development of working farms in Trida during the early part of the 20 th Century. The land was originally selected in March 1887 and survived the great bushfires of 1898. By 1899, the land was worth ¬£167, with 83 acres of English Grass and 75 chains of fence. The Pope family upgraded the residence in 1908, which it is believed resulted in the extant property. This property is one of the few surviving buildings from a working farm in this region in which the residents were also the owners (Criterion A). 
This property in Trida represents the simple farmhouses built by original selectors across this region. Although this homestead has been altered, the simple form and detailing is characteristic of these early houses which were once very common. This property is also rare and representative for being one of the few houses in the South Gippsland Shire that survived the 1898 bushfires (Criterion D).