MILLEWA HALL

Millewa Hall at 214 High Street, Kangaroo Flat is a substantial single-storey, symmetrically fronted, stuccoed Italianate villa constructed in 1872. The building is set in a landscaped garden at the southern entrance to Kangaroo Flat, with generous setbacks to the main building frontage to High Street and also to Wesley Street. The significant components of the property include the 1870s building, the coach house/stables, and the landscaped garden including the mature Moreton Bay fig and the setbacks to High and Wesley streets.

Millewa Hall (built 1872) at 214 High Street, Kangaroo Flat is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance. 

Millewa Hall (built 1872) is historically significant (Criterion A) as a substantial mid-Victorian property at Kangaroo Flat. It is also significant for its association (Criterion H) with the original owner, James Moore, a successful businessman, local politician and prominent member of the local community; and for its association with the leading Bendigo architectural practice Vahland and Getzschmann, being a significant example of their residential work. The practice was responsible for many important public, civic and commercial buildings in the municipality. 

Millewa Hall is additionally of aesthetic/architectural significance (Criterion E) as a large and prominent 1870s Italianate villa, which retains a comparatively high degree of external intactness, and is set in a generous landscaped garden at the southern entrance to Kangaroo Flat. The east elevation in particular is boldly expressed, with the canted bays and, albeit altered entrance arrangement with central porch and flight of curved steps with undulating balustrade. Elements of note include the symmetrical presentation, and the canted bays to the east facade with large scale window sashes to each of the bays. The presentation of the property is enhanced by its spacious landscaped garden, dominated by the significant mature Moreton Bay fig tree in the setback to High Street. The survival of the former coach house/stables, with the parapeted gable ends, is also of note.