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Gulf Station

Location 1029 Melba Highway or Yea Road, Yarra Glen VIC 3775 - Property No 39636 File Number 287 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

One of the most historically important building groups in Australia. An excellent example of a squatter's station of the 1850's 0 1860's; virtually intact, containing some of the best remaining examples of buildings of early wooden slab construction.
Farm buildings of the early 1850's, with minimal alteration, of which ten are of timber slab, vertical or horizontal, with many structural members of peeled logs, roofs of split shingles, (now under galvanised iron), and most floors of brick or log cross-cuts laid on earth. Later shearing shed of weatherboard and timber frame completes a functional group of homestead, butcher's shop, stables (east), kennels, piggery, stables/hayshed/milking shed, slaughter-house, shearing shed, school and stables (west). (National Trust Citation as quoted in Tansley, 1978)
The Station has historical associations with the early settlement of the area. Surviving examples of vernacular buildings are uncommon and this intact complex of such buildings is unique. It is equally important as an exposition of early pastoral life. (RNE, 005689)