Liveringa Homestead Group

Statement of Significance

Liveringa is historically important as it dates from the beginnings of settlement in the Kimberley district in 1881 and has associations with a number of pioneer families of the area.
Its buildings illustrate the way of life of the well-to-do pastoralists and have a number of interesting features including the stonework of the main house, the iron verandah posts and the terraced approach. The setting is attractive, with the homestead overlooking a billabong on a creek which runs into the Fitzroy river. It is the only station in the area where so many of the early buildings have survived.

Physical Description

After Alexander Forrest’s exploration of the Kimberley in 1979 the district was opened for settlement the following year and the lease for Liveringa was granted in 1881 to a syndicate consisting of Messrs W Marmion, the Pearse brothers, M.C. Davies and Sholl who developed it as a sheep station. Personnel of the sundicate changed from time to time but until recent uyears prominent amongst them were members of the Forrest and McLary families whose interest continued until the property was sold to Camballin Farms in the 1960’s when agricultural development, mainly rice growing, began and the station was used for cattle, not sheep. From this period the homestead has mainly been occupied by caretakes and its condition has deteriorated from neglect.
Homestead: walls, stone with cement mortar. Roof: corrugated iron. Verandah: steel columns with unlined timber purlins and corrugated iron roof. Floor: concrete. “new” kitchen, bathroom, bedroom section has timber-framed, asbestos clad walls and iron roof.
Workers kitchen/dining room: Footings and interior walls are stone and mud mortar. Footings have been whitewashed. Verandahs appear to have been enclose later and walls are of asbestos. Roof is corrugated iron.
Meathouse: bottom storey is reinforced concrete, upper section timber framed with flywire walls.
Shearers Quarters: Steel frame building with large timber shutters along full length of the walls. Iron roof and concrete floor with stone footings.
Workshop: steel frame, corrugated iron roof and walls.

History

Assessment: 1984

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