A Victorian Weatherboard Villa in White - Leongatha
With its classic bull nosed verandah, this medium-sized weatherboard villa sitting amid a pretty cottage garden behind a picket fence may be found in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha.
Neatly painted all in white, this villa is architecturally typical of the houses built in the country by the professional middle classes in the 1860s. It features a wonderful corrugated iron roof and bull nosed verandah with elegant cast iron lacework beautifully picked out in white with blue detailing on the wooden support posts. Like other houses in the area, the villa has been elevated. This feature keeps the house safe from the hard, damp ground during winter, and allows air to circulate beanth the house during hot Australian summers to cool it, making the villa a more pleasant place to be in extreme weather. As logging was a typical industry in the area, it is not unusual to find a house to be made of wooden weatherboards, even if the owners are of a higher social standing than others around them. Like everyone in the district, the owners would have wanted to help their town prosper and develop. What better way of doing it than supporting the local saw mill and carpenters?
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
A Victorian Weatherboard Villa in White - Leongatha
With its classic bull nosed verandah, this medium-sized weatherboard villa sitting amid a pretty cottage garden behind a picket fence may be found in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha.
Neatly painted all in white, this villa is architecturally typical of the houses built in the country by the professional middle classes in the 1860s. It features a wonderful corrugated iron roof and bull nosed verandah with elegant cast iron lacework beautifully picked out in white with blue detailing on the wooden support posts. Like other houses in the area, the villa has been elevated. This feature keeps the house safe from the hard, damp ground during winter, and allows air to circulate beanth the house during hot Australian summers to cool it, making the villa a more pleasant place to be in extreme weather. As logging was a typical industry in the area, it is not unusual to find a house to be made of wooden weatherboards, even if the owners are of a higher social standing than others around them. Like everyone in the district, the owners would have wanted to help their town prosper and develop. What better way of doing it than supporting the local saw mill and carpenters?
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.