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STONY HILL

Other Name STONEY HILL, DOYLE RESIDENCE, KERMOND RESIDENCE Location 107 BLOWHOLES ROAD, CAPE BRIDGEWATER, GLENELG SHIRE Level Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
Stony Hill is located on an unmade road which is the southerly extension of Blowholes Road, approximately 1.5km south of Cape Bridgewater township. The house is a collection of several single-storey wings which form a paved courtyard open to the north. The front wing is a simple building symmetrical about the panelled front door with two double hung sash windows. The walls have been rendered. It has a timber verandah. There are four rooms and a cross passage which leads to the kitchen wing on the south side and a further west wing at the rear of this. All the walls appear to be course random rubble construction. The roofs are corrugated iron. The house has been extensively modernized and renovated, especially internally. The whole complex is in good condition. It is believed that the house dates from the 1860s and was built by Jonathan (John) Thomson Kennedy who took up the whole of the Cape Bridgewater headland, excluding that area taken up by George Crouch (between Stony Hill and the Cape Bridgewater Pre-emptive right).

How is it Significant?
Stony Hill is of architectural and historical significance to the Glenelg Shrire.

Why is it Significant?
Stony Hill is of architectural significance as an intact representative example of a vernacular 1860s complex, built of local stone rubble, which was added to as the Kennedy family expanded and later with the arrival of the Doyle family. Of historical interest is the arrangement of the main house, and its many subsequent additions and the stone outbuildings, which provide insight into a previous way of life. The complex illustrates the close relationship between the industry of the dairy farm, animal husbandry and family life, but the house in particular.