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Mt Rothwell Homestead
985 Little River Road, LITTLE RIVER VIC 3211 - Property No B1726
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Mt Rothwell Homestead, Little River, was constructed for Pastoralist Robert Chirnside after 1871 to the designs, it is understood, of Architect P Colquhuoun. Chirnside came to Victoria in 1857 to manage the Werribee run for his uncle Thomas Chirnside and bought the Mount Rothwell land in 1865.
The large, single storeyed bluestone homestead, possibly built in stages, is asymmetrically composed with a projecting wing and bay window. There is a finely detailed cast iron
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