20080128_0763 Bluestone Ration House, Werribee Park
An early bluestone farm building in the grounds of the Werribee Park Mansion. The wall near the open door and right window has been restored.
Werribee Park Mansion.
Werribee.
Victoria.
Meat House and Cool Store, or Rations Store.
Built in c.1852, this store is the earliest substantially intact building surviving at Werribee Park.
Its high-pitched shingle roof is still visable under the later tin, and its cobbled floor is similar to many 19th centuary british farm buildings.
There is no fireplace, so it was unlikely to have been used as a residence.
By the 1920's it was used as a meat house and cool store.
It was possibly from here that the weekly rations of food were made to the men on the property."
- Werribee Park, published by Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Parks.
20080128_0763 Bluestone Ration House, Werribee Park
An early bluestone farm building in the grounds of the Werribee Park Mansion. The wall near the open door and right window has been restored.
Werribee Park Mansion.
Werribee.
Victoria.
Meat House and Cool Store, or Rations Store.
Built in c.1852, this store is the earliest substantially intact building surviving at Werribee Park.
Its high-pitched shingle roof is still visable under the later tin, and its cobbled floor is similar to many 19th centuary british farm buildings.
There is no fireplace, so it was unlikely to have been used as a residence.
By the 1920's it was used as a meat house and cool store.
It was possibly from here that the weekly rations of food were made to the men on the property."
- Werribee Park, published by Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Parks.