| House | $1,462,800  |
| Land | $913,600  |
周邊地區
| Cherokee | $945,000 |
| Macedon | $1,047,200 |
| New Gisborne | $933,700 |
| Riddells Creek | $1,025,700 |
| Woodend | $1,080,100  |
| House | $865 |
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| 地圖位置 | 街景 | 周邊成交價 |
| 改建申請曆史: |
| 被市政府指定為 Victorian heritage |
| What is significant? Duneira is bounded by Mount Macedon Road along its eastern boundary, Officer Lane along its southern boundary, and state forest to its west and north. The 38 acre (15.4 hectare) elongated crescent-shaped site lies along a north-south axis, with a long driveway flanked by approximately ninety Dutch Elms (Ulmus X hollandica) leading to the house through the gently sloping site in an area otherwise noted for its steep terrain and garden terracing. The land for Duneira was purchased in the early 1870s by the pastoralist Suetonius Henry Officer: four allotments in May 1872, and a fifth allotment to the north in 1877. The property boundaries remain unaltered, with the exception of some excision of land by the Country Roads Board in 1958. In the centre of the property are the stables built in 1874, the residence and servants' quarters constructed in 1875-76 and a service block to the rear built c1913, a milking shed complex and garden buildings. There is a c1885-87 gate lodge at the main entrance. A grass tennis court and ornamental gardens, including the Secret Garden, were developed in the early 1900s. The southern area of the site has a park-like landscape with an informal planting scheme, and includes many significant conifers, broad-leaved deciduous trees, rhododendrons and other cool climate plants. The northern half of the property contains orchards of fruit and chestnut trees and paddocks for stock. Duneira was initially laid out and planted by Officer in 1872, and reached its pinnacle of development under the ownership of James Smith Reid and family from 1890 to 1940, who subsequently enlarged and upgraded the house for use as a year-round residence in 1913. Careful and largely sympathetic management under its four subsequent owners: Betty Alcock (Wickens), Keith Allen, Christine and Laurie Matheson, and from 1992 to 2002 Stuart Stoneman, has resulted in the property retaining the majority of its landscape features intact. While the main house and gate lodge have both been enlarged and upgraded by the successive owners, this has been carried out largely in a respectful manner, externally reproducing the details of the original sections, while interior spaces more faithfully reflect their own era. How is it significant? Duneira is of historical, architectural, aesthetic, scientific (botanical) and horticultural significance to the State of Victoria Why is it significant? Duneira is of historical significance as an integral component of the surviving Mount Macedon precinct of hill station properties, developed by some of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Victoria in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and damaged by catastrophic bushfires in 1983. Its nineteenth century residence and outbuildings set in generous gardens and grounds evoke a past |
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