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"Riverton" Lot 2 TP328565 Lerderderg Street

Other Name

Lardedark (Hobler's Cottage) & Riverton.

Location

South of Masons Lane, North of Lerderderg Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

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Riverton
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Menegazzo Orchards
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original Hobbler Cottage
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Later Hobbler Cottage
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second part Hobbler Cottage
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Hobbler Cottage

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Residence and its setting at Lot 2 TP328565 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh.

How is it significant?

The Residence and its setting at Lot 2 TP328565 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical and architectural significance to the Shire of Moorabool.

Why is it significant?

The Residence and its setting at Lot 2 TP328565 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical significance for its demonstration of the early development of the Bacchus Marsh Township. The dwelling is a rare surviving example of a cottage from the 1870s period. Survival of intact buildings from this era is rare across Victoria.

The Residence and its setting at Lot 2 TP328565 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of aesthetic significance as a rare surviving example of a mid-Victorian style cottage. The residence demonstrates key features of an early brick cottage including its simple form, small scale, main gable roof wing and skillion-roofed wing to the rear, brick chimneys and timber framed double hung windows with six pane sashes.

1995

A brick pre-gold rush early cottage, built between 1846 and 1848 on Captain W.H. Bacchus's Lardedark run and later occupied by George Hobler, grazier. Hobler's daughter married Bacchus's son, Henry, here in 1850. A second brick early cottage, Riverton, was built in 1873.

The 1846-8 cottage has state historical significance as an extraordinary embodiment of the way of life and its social values in the earliest years of settlement in Victoria, before the gold-rush. It is also significant for its association with the agricultural developments in the community at this time.

The cottage also demonstrates an association with important and influential people and as a pioneering building in the Colony and in Bacchus Marsh. It has state architectural significance as a rare intact surviving pre-gold rush building. The 1873 cottage affords local contributory significance.

Finally the 1846-48 cottage demonstrates that in 1853 the effect of government action in 1847 affirming the pastoralist's pre-emptive right to purchase land

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