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HILL VIEW

Location off Steep Gully Road NAREEN, Southern Grampians Shire File Number 411 Level Stage 2 study complete

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Hillview is a timber cottage located 1.5km south of Steep Gully Road, and about 1.0km west of the Coleraine-Nareen Road.. It seems to have been built in the mid 1860s as a result of the subdivision of land under the Land Selection Acts. The cottage is of interest for its simple vernacular style and its traditional forms and details It remains in good condition with a high degree of integrity. The house is set within an appropriate cottage garden. Some distance to the south-west of the cottage there is a woolshed, a former timber school building converted for the purpose. It was altered and extended for the conversion but is in good condition.

How is it significant?
Hill View is of historical and architectural significance to the community of Nareen and to the Southern Grampians Shire.

Why is it significant?
Hill View is of historical significance because it reflects the major change in land ownership brought about by the land Selection Acts and it is of architectural interest because of its very high degree of integrity an as an excellent example of a 1860s vernacular timber cottage, and for its form and details.