Eucalyptus Marri - Red Flowering Form

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Statement of Significance

This group of Red Gum trees is a very rare variation of this species for the colour of its flowers which are red instead of the usual white.

Physical Description

This is a group of about 9 Eucalyptus Marri (Red Gum) trees, which have a mass of red flowers. Red Gum trees usually have a white flower and even trees grown from seeds of the red flowering type usually revert to white flowers.

History

Mrs McNab planted seeds in about 1986 and they have continued to produce red flowers.

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St Thomas' Anglican Church

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St. Thomas' Church is a particularly picturesque church designed by Eustace Cohen. Its location in an isolated bushland setting with the native forest surrounds adds to its aesthetic appeal. The church was privately funded and constructed on land donated by the Thomson family who resided on the same block. The church is highly valued as a venue for christenings and marriages and other religious services and the building and grounds are cared for by community members.

Physical Description

The building is set in natural bush and is a small red face brick rectangular building with a painted corrugated iron roof in the Federation Romanesque style. Contrast is provided by painted cement arches and trims. The rectangular nave has a gable roof with a parapet at its west end. The front entrance on the west facade has a lower hipped roof with a tall painted timber weatherboard and louvred lantern with a small pyramid roof. Each of the long walls has two pairs of round arched windows. The west entrance porch has a triptych window, with round arched heads. An entrance porch in the corner between the entrance hall and the nave is an asymmetrical element. The Church has a capacity of about 60-70 people. The Church also contains plaques commemorating some of the early settlers.

History

St. Thomas' Anglican Church was designed by well known architect Eustace Cohen for the Thomson family. The small brick church with a corrugated iron roof was built on their property, at a cost of £475 ($950), in 1908, for use by residents of Thomson's Brook and Charley's Creek, who had previously held services in their private homes. The bricks were manufactured on the site, and the ceiling, floor and most of the furniture, which Cohen designed, were made of local jarrah timber. On Wednesday, 17 March 1909, the Bishop of Bunbury formally granted the licence for St Thomas’ Anglican Church and officiated at its opening, which was attended by a congregation of 60 people. It is one of a small number of churches in Western Australia that were privately constructed, and it has been used almost continuously by the Anglican community. Since the late twentieth century it has been used also by other members of the wider community for weddings and other special occasions.

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High

Condition

Good

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Woodperry

Condition

fair with cracking

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Statement of Significance

Woodperry is a rare example of a mud brick house in the district and is also associated with the Thompson family.

Physical Description

Woodperry is a single story house with a hipped corrugated iron roof in the Victorian Georgian Style. The initial house was constructed of mud brick (adobe) and has a verandah on all sides. An additional smaller mud brick room was constructed adjacent. A large timber weatherboard addition has been constructed adjacent, doubling the size of the house. The adobe has cracked and the building is no longer lived in and is in very poor condition.

History

In 1858-9, James Guy Thomson (b. Oxfordshire, 1833; arr. 1855, d. 1890) took up freehold land and extensive pastoral leases, and named his property ‘Brookhampton’ after a family home in England. He was the first permanent settler in the district that took its name from this farm and pastoral station, where he and his family resided from 1861. In the early 1890s, following the death of James Guy Thomson (snr.), his three eldest sons, John ‘Jack’ Thomson (b. 1866, d. 1944) James Guy Thomson (jnr.) (b. 1860, d. 1895) and Mervyn ‘Bon’ Thomson (b. 1876, d. 1966), continued to work ‘Brookhampton’. In c. 1895-6, when the government resumed their late father’s leasehold land for sale to settlers, the Thomson brothers had first choice. Jack chose 2,000 acres to the east of the ‘Brookhampton’ homestead, an area known locally at that period as ‘the Ringbark’. He named his property ‘Woodperry’ after the family home at Oxford, England, and progressively expanded it to 6,000 acres. In September 1896, Jack Thomson married May Edith Yelverton, and their first child was born in 1897. Secondary sources state the homestead house at ‘Woodperry’ was built in c. 1900-01; however, the original part of the house is constructed of sun-dried mud brick adobe and may date from about the period that Jack and May Thomson married. At various periods additions were made to enlarge the house to accommodate their growing family of 10 children. By the late 1990s, the adobe part of the house at ‘Woodperry’ was badly cracked because it had been built without footings. Nonetheless, it is rare as one of the few surviving buildings of sun-dried mud brick adobe construction in the district.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

Very poor, there is substantial cracking in the mud brick walls which have collapsed in places. The place is no longer inhabited

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