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Plaistow Homestead

Location Strathlea-Campbelltown Road, NEWSTEAD VIC 3462 - Property No B1618 File Number B1618 Level State

[1/1] B1618 Plaistow Homestead

Statement of Significance

AHC CITATION
Plaistow Homestead and Store, Joyces Creek, via Newstead, comprises the homestead and its various outbuildings and store, all built for pastoralists Alfred and George Joyce. The brick homested, built to replace a c.1844 slab hut, dates from c.1851 and is a single storey, hip-roofed structure with verandah. There are stables, coach-house, a brick granary, brick barracks and an underground stone dairy, all dating from the early 1850s.
Plaistow Homestead and Store, is an early surviving example of homestead buildings of particular importance in the early history of settlement of the area and architecturally as a typical Colonial style station complex. The property has historical associations and its history is recorded in the reminiscences and letters of Alfred Joyce. The store is a particularly early surviving structure and is an important example of its building type.
Plaistowe Homestead and Store are in fair to good condition and substantially intact. The homestead verandah has been altered. Of State significance.
See also Plaistow Store File Number 1607.