Careydale

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Statement of Significance

This property was one of the first settled in the area. It is associated with John Scott, the first settler in Bunbury under the employ of Governor James Stirling, then H. J. Trigwell, owner of Anchor and Hope Inn and then George Layman (Wonnerup House). It is a good example of a Victorian Georgian house and has fine decorative Flemish bond brickwork in good condition. The interior is original with its timber ceilings and floor boards.

Physical Description

Careydale is a single storey brick house with a hipped roof in the Victorian Georgian style. It is one of a number in the Shire that has Flemish bond brickwork with a contrasting blue fired half brick. The front and rear facades are symmetrical, each with two front doors flanked by multi lighted double hung windows. Pressed metal tiles have been introduced to the roof and concrete introduced to the verandah flooring. The verandah is supported by brick piers in place of timber posts. The original jarrah ceilings and floorboards remain internally.

History

The property known as Careydale was one of the first settled in the area. It is associated with John Scott, the first settler in Bunbury under the employ of Governor James Stirling, then Henry J. Trigwell, owner of the Anchor and Hope Inn, and later with George Layman, of Wonnerup House. In 1888, the residence was built in the Victorian Georgian style with fine decorative Flemish bond brickwork. The interior retains its original timber ceilings and floor boards, but in 2012, the place is no longer occupied.

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Most of the original fabric is intact. Modifications include metal pressed roof tiles; brick pillars which have replaced the old timber posts and a new concrete verandah.

Condition

Fair. The verandah has been concreted in and there is a large crack in the side wall.

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Crendon

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Crendon is one of the earliest farmhouses in the district and has associations with the Fry family who have owned the place for 90 years. The farmhouse is set on rising ground in the Capel River Valley and is a substantial and well executed example of a Victorian Georgian farmhouse.

Physical Description

Crendon is a single storey brick house with a moderately pitched hipped roof in the Victorian Georgian style, surrounded by a deep bullnosed verandah. The homestead is situated five miles south of Donnybrook on a slight hill on Upper Capel Road. It overlooks the flats where the Upper Capel River winds round. The river and flats were normally dry. Now the flats are green as they are watered from a dam built in late 1950s.

History

Crendon was first taken up by David Eedle (b. Long Crendon, England, 1814, arr. 1842), who worked at Ravenswood to gain local farming knowledge, before acquiring land at Brunswick (‘Frogmore’) and at Donnybrook, naming the latter property after his birthplace. In the late 1880s, Henry N. Watts leased Crendon, occupying a dwelling of which little is known. In early 1889, J. Levi Bentley, of Gingin, purchased it for £1,300, and returned to Gingin. On 3 July, Bentley came back to Crendon (where Watts refused him a room), and on 9 July, began building ‘a hut etc.’ (Bentley’s diary, quoted in Frost, A. C., op. cit., p. 11) on which he worked for some weeks. On 30 August, he went to Gingin for cattle, and on 27 September, he arrived with them at the farm he renamed ‘Crendon Downs’. On 15 January 1890, he moved into his recently completed house, and after his marriage to Emily Scrivener in April, it became their family home. Bentley operated Crendon as a mixed farm, with cattle, sheep and pigs, and growing potatoes, grain and chaff. Active in the local community, he was inaugural chairman of Preston Roads Board (1896). In 1904, John Gurney Fry and Henry Philip Fry (arr. 1894, Henry Philip, d. Gallipoli, 1915) purchased Crendon Downs. It reverted to the original name of Crendon, and remains in the Fry family in the early 2000s. John married Mary Clifton, and they raised their family at Crendon. She ran the farm for some years as M. C. Fry & Sons, before Philip, George and Michael Fry, took over the expanded area. In the late twentieth century, it operated as three separate farms under John S. Fry, Graeme Fry, and Mike Fry (who lived in the old homestead, which reverted to the name ‘Crendon Downs’.

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High

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Donnybrook Sandstone Quarry Goldfield's

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