Local Government
Jerramungup
Region
Great Southern
Wellstead Rd, Point Henry Peninsula Bremer Bay
Mount Joy
Wellstead's Station; Peppermint Grove
Jerramungup
Great Southern
Constructed from 1857, Constructed from 1884
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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State Register | Registered | 17 Oct 2008 | HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument, HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument |
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Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 17 Jul 1997 | Category 2 |
11696 Wellsteads' Homestead Group
The dwelling is significant for the following reasons: The original house built for settlement and farming at Bremer Bay by the Wellstead family.
A substantial complex of mostly granite construction buildings including two homesteads, separate buildings known as the Boys' Room and the Girls' Room (converted from sheep pens), workshops, wool barn and shearing shed with associated engine room, and stables, built in the 19th century, with a rebuilt granite cottage on the site of the first building (1850), and more recent farm and Museum buildings, together with a large collection of artefacts, dating from the mid-19th century, continuing in the family of the original owner, John Wellstead.
Extent of Original Fabric: 5%
Poor
Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
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11720 | The Wellstead legacy | Video | |
9585 | Wellsteads' homstead: conservation works to barn, final report, July 2010. | Conservation works report | 2010 |
Individual Building or Group
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Present Use | FARMING\PASTORAL | Other |
Original Use | FARMING\PASTORAL | Homestead |
Style |
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Victorian Georgian |
Type | General | Specific |
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Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
Wall | STONE | Other Stone |
General | Specific |
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DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Settlements |
PEOPLE | Local heroes & battlers |
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Racial contact & interaction |
TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS | Technology & technological change |
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Workers {incl. Aboriginal, convict} |
OUTSIDE INFLUENCES | Tourism |
OCCUPATIONS | Grazing, pastoralism & dairying |
PEOPLE | Early settlers |
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Land allocation & subdivision |
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