Oakover

Parent Place or Precinct

02495 Oakover

Child Places

• 23563 Oakover Winery - Stable
• 04513 Oakover Vineyards, Gardens & River Meadows
• 02495 Oakover
• 24507 Oakover Homestead
• 23575 Oakover Winery - Shed
• 23568 Oakover Winery - Barn

Statement of Significance

The place is highly significant as part of a group of farm buildings dating from the 19th century, part of a very significant complex of buildings on one of the earliest land grants in the Swan Valley, one of the original Swan Valley estates.

The place is associated with the family of Samuel Moore.

The Oakover precinct (homestead, gardens, vineyards, barns, stable, etc) is very significant to the history of the Swan River colony and Western Australia's early settlement and development.

Physical Description

Stable constructed of random rubble with timber roof structure and compacted iron cladding. The original timber stable partitions have been removed.

Mud brick walls, random rubble gables, original roof replaced by zincalume. Verandahs on bush poles have been added and provide protection for the walls.

Two-storey corrugated iron shed with timber frame door and steps on southern end. Steeply pitched roof with loft.

The homestead consists of two sections. The earlier section probably dates from the 1870s with additions c.1890s. The earlier part is constructed of hand made bricks in Flemish bond, with twelve pane windows. The later section is rendered.

History

Part of Oakover farm precinct. One of the original Swan Valley estates.

Part of the Oakover farm precinct - one of the original Swan Valley grants, the property has a history going back to the earliest years of the colony. The barn was constructed by the 1860s, although Michael Bourke suggests that it may have been in existence in the 1840s.

Part of Oakover farm precinct - one of the original Swan Valley estates.

Oakover was one of the original land grants in the Swan Valley. The original assigned was probably D McLeod, however the property was transferred to Ensign R Dale in 1830 and then to Samuel Moore in 1834. The estate was subdivided in the early 1900s.

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