Beedamanup Homestead

Author

Shire of Gingin

Place Number

01087

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Location

Gingin Brook Rd Gingin

Location Details

Dewar Flats

Other Name(s)

Old Dewar Homestead

Local Government

Gingin

Region

Avon Arc

Construction Date

Constructed from 1855

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
Heritage List	Adopted	17 Oct 2017

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Classified by the National Trust	Classified	04 Jul 1977			Heritage Council
Register of the National Estate	Permanent	21 Oct 1980			Heritage Council
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	17 Oct 2017	Category B	Category B A place of considerable cultural heritage significance to Shire of Gingin that is worthy of recognition and protection through provisions of the Shire of Gingin's Town Planning Scheme. A Planning Application needs to be submitted to the Shire of Gingin for any proposed development. Recommend: Retain and conserve the place.

Statement of Significance

Beedamanup Homestead is significant for its association with John Dewar, his son, and grandson, and for the social significance of having been a wayside inn.

Physical Description

NO SITE INSPECTION IN 2016.
It has been as described as Colonial Georgian with walls of a form of Casuarina stone, which was mined nearby. There are three big chimneys of stone and the roof was originally shingled. There are six big rooms upstairs and six downstairs with a simply constructed staircase in the center. Out buildings included a cellar, dairy, stables, and blacksmith's shop, stockyards and cow bails. One room upstairs in the northeast corner had no windows so as to exclude thieves from stores kept there.

History

A substantial two-storey home was built for John Dewar on the Dewar Flats and is believed to have been used as an Inn, as well as a farmhouse, as it stood on the main track north from Gingin. After the death of John Dewar in 1911, the house and surrounding land was inherited by his son and later his grandson, Maitland Dewar.

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	H Udell: "History of Gingin".

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	RESIDENTIAL	Two storey residence
Present Use	FARMING\PASTORAL	Homestead
Original Use	COMMERCIAL	Hotel, Tavern or Inn
Original Use	FARMING\PASTORAL	Homestead
Present Use	RESIDENTIAL	Two storey residence

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Roof	METAL	Corrugated Iron
Wall	STONE	Local Stone

Historic Themes

General	Specific
OCCUPATIONS	Grazing, pastoralism & dairying
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Settlements

Creation Date

30 May 1989

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Last Update

10 Jun 2021

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