Buckland Homestead and Farm Buildings

Statement of Significance

This group of stone buildings is of exceptional historic and architectural significance. Like those at 'Bardeen' the buildings reflect the duality of hardship and hard won prosperity of the early decades of Avon Valley settlement. The Georgian survival/vernacular style of Buckland, built as it is of stone with painted stucco quoins, is relatively unusual to Western Australia and recalls some South Australian work.

Physical Description

This group of stone farm buildings roofed in corrugated iron dates from 1836 onwards. It includes two small cottages no joined to the large two story house, a grain store and mill, a large stable which is in a very poor condition and a set of three attached workmen's cottages. A modern steel frame, corrugated iron roof structure is not included in the assessment. The luxurious two storey home, built in 1860, has an imposing north balcone, and decoration in the form of stucco quoins. Although he owned and worked the property at first, Pratt leased it to James McLean Dempster, who later married Anne Pratt, and so the property passed into the Dempster family although it never belonged to JM Dempster himself.

History

Assessment 1980
Construction 1836 onwards

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