Twin Peaks Station Homestead

Physical Description

The Twin Peaks Station comprises a Homestead, store, meat house, carriage house, machinery shed, shearing shed and other outbuildings. Incorporating the original two-room mud-brick and stone homestead, the current Twin Peaks Homestead (1919) was constructed of stone quarried from nearby hills and from locally burnt lime. The main section of the house is of rendered stone construction with an ashlar finish and has a a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof with feature vented gablets. The roof extends broken back to cover surrounding verandahs which are part enclosed with a combination of lattice and shade cloth to keep the heat out. The large house has a number of decorative features including quoining to openings and corners and tall moulded chimneys. A decorative gable enhances the front door over the entry steps to the western facade, which was originally the main entrance to the house. Internally the floor plan of the house has a billiard room and a dinning room on one side of the central T-shaped passage, with a row of bedrooms on the eastern side. Several sets of french doors open out onto the verandah. A separate building immediately to the east, also constructed in 1919, contained the kitchen, men's dining room and cook's room and now houses an office and store. This building is of stone construction with a corrugated iron roof. The surrounding verandahs are partly enclosed with a combination of concrete block and brick. A meat house is located immediately to the south of the office, while a tennis court is located to the west of the house. The stone carriage house, with a central open section for carts, buggies etc had a store at one end and an office at the other. Located approximately 13 kms from the house, the current shearing shed c1913, the second built, is spacious and solid and had extensive sheep yards made from mulga stumps.

History

Alfred Charles Boddington founded the twin Peaks Station in 1900, bringing together sections of several adjoining stations to form one pastoral property. In earlier years Boddington had worked as a a stockman for Frank Wittenoom and , while under his employment, had scratched his name on a rock located on what eventually would become his property. Boddington and his family set about developing the property, building the homestead complex and a shearing shed, erecting miles of fences and putting up windmills. the original homestead, built close to the hills from which the station takes it's name, was a modest two room mud-brick and stone structure. The current homestead was built in 1919 by Geraldton builder John Crothers. Following Alfred's death in 1914, his wife Hannah managed the property until her sons, George, Albert, Ernest and Charles took over running the station. Hannah died in 1937 and both she and Alfred are buried at Twin Peaks. In 1956 Boddington Brothers, sold the property to Kenneth Malsen who, trading as TwinPeaks Station, remained until 1975 when he sold to A & E Reading. In 1981 RA Ilich took over the station. (Road to Murchison)

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Integrity: Medium

Condition

Good

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