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CORIYULE HOMESTEAD

Location

1-69 MCDERMOTT ROAD CURLEWIS, GREATER GEELONG CITY

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Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number

H0272

Heritage Overlay Number

HO3

Level of Significance

Registered

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1 coriyule homestead drysdale
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coriyule homestead mcdermott
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Extent of Registration

NOTICE OF REGISTRATION As Executive Director for the purpose of the Heritage Act 1995, I give notice under section 46 that the Victorian Heritage Register ... more

Extent of Registration	NOTICE OF REGISTRATION As Executive Director for the purpose of the Heritage Act 1995, I give notice under section 46 that the Victorian Heritage Register ... more

Statement of Significance

Coriyule at Drysdale was built in 1849 for pioneer squatting partners, Anne Drysdale and Caroline Newcomb. Drysdale was an unmarried Scottish gentlewoman, who in 1839, aged 47, migrated to Port Phillip for health reasons. She was well educated and well connected, had owned a farm in Scotland, and intended to farm sheep in the colony. She first took up a squatting run at Boronggoop, on the Barwon River near Geelong, where she built a four room cottage. She formed a ... more

Year Construction Started 1849

Architectural Style Pre-separation Colonial Gothick 1836-50

Heritage Act Categories Registered place

Municipality GREATER GEELONG CITY

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