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House and garden
Location767 Axe Creek Road, AXE CREEK VIC 3551 - Property No 190839 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house and garden, including mature trees, at 767 Axe Creek Road,
Axe Creek are significant. The house and garden are of local historic and aesthetic significance
to the City of Greater Bendigo. Historically, for its associations with long-term owner, John Gregory
Edwards, for whom the house was built c.1893. Edwards was the
proprietor of the Bendigo Independent newspaper for many years
and a prominent member of the Axe Creek community, where he served
such functions as President of the school committee for 17 years. The
house is also significant for assocaitions with John Boyd Watson, a
Bendigo mining identity. The house and garden are tangible evidence of
his important presence in the community from 1893 until his death in
1915. Criterion H
Aesthetically, the house is unusual in Axe Creek for its substantial
size, unusual detailing, such as the timber entrance arch, and for its
setting in a mature garden with established trees and shrubs.
Criterion E
Group
Parks, Gardens and Trees
Category
Garden House