Local Government
Gingin
Region
Avon Arc
Mooliabeenie Rd Gingin
Opposite P 17715 Cleaveland
Gingin
Avon Arc
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 18 Oct 2005 |
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The house stood on the north side of Mooliabeenie Road, opposite the present day Cleveland homestead. The original house was built of mud bricks with three rooms in a row, plastered inside and out with lime mortar. On the western wall the fireplace stood, lined with burnt bricks. Later other rooms were added, built with yellow burnt bricks made from clay dug on the property It stood on an elevated terrace supported by an ironstone wall. There was also a well, lined with ironstone.
William Thomas King bought SL 444 of 75 acres in February of 1867. W.J. King married Selina Lazenby, a Gingin school teacher, in 1865. There were ten children born here. Ernest Hugh King bought Cleveland from his father in 1896 for 2,000 pounds. In 1905 it was sold to C.H. Teague from Subiaco for 1,138 pounds. Then in 1907, the property was sold to John Musk who built a
new home on the south side of Mooliabeenie Road. The original Cleveland house was badly damaged by a storm in 1944.
Site Only
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H Udell: "History of Gingin". |
Historic Site
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Original Use | RESIDENTIAL | Single storey residence |
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Wall | PLASTER | Other Plaster |
Wall | EARTH | Adobe {Mud Brick} |
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