Vol 2 Heritage Policy Citation Review - City of Greater Bendigo

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City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010 Name Rosemundy House Reference in 1998 Marong Study Address 15 Rosemundy Road, Epsom Map reference VicRoads 604 D6 Building type Private residence Survey date June 2010 (external inspection only) Date of construction Built in multiple phases from 1858 Recommendation Include in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Significance Rosemundy House is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance. Left: John Goyne’s factory (demolished), undated (Source: Nola Aicken, present owner of the property). Right: South elevation of Rosemundy House, with the scullery, c. 1858 at centre, the ‘gold office’ at right and the west wing, c. 1890s, at left. Left: East elevation, the verandahed component at left dates to c. 1867, the facetted bay window to the 1890s and the north wing, at right, to 2007. Right: West elevation, 1890s. Left: Aerial view, 2010 (City of Greater Bendigo). Right: Proposed Heritage Overlay map. Note, the extent of the property boundary and the heritage overlay are indictive only. E1 1
City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010 Intactness Good Fair Poor History John Goyne (1826-1907) was a Cornishman, born at Rosemundy, St Agnes. He was working as a miner by at least the age of 15, and in 1847, he married Catherine Letcher of Truro. 1 In 1853, when Goyne departed for the Australian colonies, the couple had four children. It would be 14 years before the family was reunited, in Epsom, north of Sandhurst (Bendigo). 2 Goyne followed the diggings from Creswick to Ballarat and then to Bendigo. By 1858, he had raised sufficient funds to establish the business that later made his fortune. Goyne had noticed that the established process of passing goldbearing quartz through gauze wire gratings was inefficient, resulting in significant loss of gold. These gratings contained 36 small punctures per square inch. Goyne developed a system that could create 49 punctures per square inch; the process was ultimately refined to achieve 290 punctures per square inch. Manufacture of these quartz stamper components, in the factory on his Epsom property, grew into a business that thrived from the 1860s until the 1890s, when quartz reef mining began to slow. 3 During this period Goyne received orders for his components from all the gold-producing Australian colonies, as well as New Zealand, South Africa and Batavia (Indonesia). 4 The weatherboard factory (see page 1) was located to the south-east of the present house; it was a substantial structure comprising flanking bays projecting from a central double-height volume, with a tall circular brick chimney at the rear. The factory has been demolished. Goyne’s original house (built c. 1858) was a small brick construction at the south of the present house, now known as the scullery. As the business prospered, Goyne sent for his wife and children (arriving in 1866 and 1867 respectively), and the house expanded to the north, with a passage leading from the scullery, providing access to bedrooms and reception rooms. At this time, the principal presentation of the property was oriented to the east, facing the Bendigo Creek. At its height the property comprised eight hectares (20 acres), of which six acres were orchards. 5 As well as the main house, built structures at the estate included a laundry, stables (also demolished) and a ‘gold office’. The latter is still extant and is assumed to have had an administrative function associated with the factory operation, rather than a role involving the storage or holding of gold, or perhaps even a household/domestic role, although that would run contrary to its name. Public gold offices or subtreasuries were established by the Government across the Victorian goldfields, for the safe storage of gold in transit. The building on the subject property was unlikely to have served this purpose, unless gold processing (such as quartz crushing) or some form of gold handling occurred here. John Goyne was a prominent member of the local community. He was elected to the Huntly Shire Council in 1881, becoming shire president in 1883 and 1895. In total he served as a councillor for 15 years. During the later years of the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth century, Goyne’s son Davey took an increasingly active role in running the factory. 6 Davey’s house survives at number 131 Goynes Road. Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes Victoria’s themes and sub-themes: 4.5: Gold mining 5.2: Developing a manufacturing capacity 5.3: Marketing and retailing 6.5: Living in country towns Description & Integrity Rosemundy House, built from 1858 for John Goyne, is located on Rosemundy Road, to the east of Goyne’s Road. The large, asymmetrical allotment comprises a substantial and evolved single-storey Italianate red brick and stuccoed house to the west, a freestanding ‘gold office’ and outbuildings to the east. A depression between the house and outbuildings, which was the site of the former factory, is used as a barbeque/seating area. The earliest part of Rosemundy House, forming the south wing, is a small red brick construction, rectangular in plan with a gable roof clad with corrugated galvanised sheet steel, crude barge boards 2
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