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• 25377 Compressor Station, Barrow Island

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Red Hill Homestead

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Red Hill Station has aesthetic, historic and representative cultural heritage signficance. The station has a long history in the development of pastoral properties in the Ashburton region. It has strong associations with people who were influential in grazing and in local government dcisions such as the siting of the new Onslow township in the early 1920's. As one of the largest properties in the early 20th century, Red Hill is a good representative of other pastoral station in the North West.

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Stone section of the homestead was built in the 1880's, weatherboard section built in 1909. Red Hill is a substantial hoemstead built from timber and stone. The half gabled hipped roof is corrugated iron. The house is encompassed by wide shady verandah under a broken backed roof (part of the verandah has been enclosed). The verandah floors are concrete and the substantial verandah posts are timber. The walls of the old kitchen ar coarse stone blocks with rough cement tuck pointing however , the majority of ht econstruction has been completed in timber. The numerous large windows are also timber. Lawns and a number of shady trees surround the house.

History

According to information from the notes by the Shire of Ashburton, Red Hill Station was first leased by the Dalgetys in the 1870's. In the 1880's the lease passed to Messrs Monger and Forrest. Red Hill Station was part of the De Grey-Mullewa stock route, which was gazetted in 1893. This enable the stockmen a better route with good water supplies, to drive the stock safely overland. The firm of Messrs Barret-Lennard Brothers purchased Red Hill in 1902. The stone section of the Red Hill Hoemstead was built in the 1880's, while the weatherboard section was built in c1909 when the station was under the management of the Barret-Lennards. The station was sold to Tom McGuire and Stephen Tonkin just afert World War I. In the 1918-19 Ashburton Roads Board ratebook, Red Hill Station noted as one of the ten largest properties in the district, with an area of 429,131 acres. McGuire was very involved in local affairs in Onslow. He was also involved in an official party of people looking for a new town site in 1920. In 1934 while in Perth, he was part of a deputation of North West pastoralists who sought help from the government after the devastaitn cyclone of the same year. This cyclone destroyed much of Onslow including a large part of hte jetty and telephone lines that were an important part of communication for the isolated stations like Red Hill. In 1949 Red Hill Station was taken over by Ted Crawford. In the 1980's Ted Crawford was living in Onslow. He contributed to part of Chapter 17 "Rememberance of Times past' in "Edge of Empire" by M & A Webb. In 1981 the Corker family who still manage the property in 1999 purchased Red Hill Station. in 1999 the station ran only cattle, the last sheep being handled in c1983. The station is 188,000 hectares and is situated 140 kilometres from Onslow and 60 kilometres from Pannawonica.

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Though changes have been made over time the house appears to be fairly high integrity.

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Nyang Homestead

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Nyang Station (formerly Wogoola0 has aesthetic, historic and representative cultural heriatge signifcance. The station, though changed over time, is still s good representative of the early development of pastoralism in the Ashburton region. The homestead reflects Australian Colonial design and the changes made by necessity, such as new families arriving or because of damage from severe cyclonic conditions. Historically the station is of great interest having strong associations with some of the well-known families, who were quite influential in the development of the district.

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Nyang Homestead is situated on the east bank of the Yannarie River. Emu Creek is approximately 200 metres to the north. The homestead is a series of buildings that has grown over time with successive owners. The low pitched, hipped roof is corrugated iron with some battens for cyclone protection. The house is surrounded on most sides by a wide verandah with a concrete floor and simple unadorned verandah posts. Part of the verandah has been enclosed to extend the living area of the house. Another old building on the station is the shearing shed, a timber framed corrugated iron clad structure.

History

Wogoola Station now called Nyang, was started in 1891 with a partnership between Alexander Cameron and James Clark. Cameron had been in the North West for many years and had formerly been part owner of Towera Station, which was sold in 1891. Clark was an engineer on the steamship Rob Roy that traded along the WA coast between Albany, Geraldton and Cossack. Wogoola was the Aboriginal name for the permanent waterhole located a few hundred metres downstream from the homestead pool of Milla-withy. Wogoola is reported to have been an excellent station managed by Alexander Cameron, with substantial shearing sheds, good water from windmills, trough and tanks as well as many kilometres of fences. In it's early years the stock on the station built up to include 20,000 sheep, 80 to 100 horses and a small herd of cattle. Cameron went on to become a Justice of the Peace and a prominent member of the burgeoning community in the Ashburton district. The first buildings on Wogoola were built of anthills, which were sawn into blocks and put together with mud. The first buildings had two rooms, one each for Cameron and Clark. The date of construction of the bigger homstead is not known but it was probably quite soon after the lease was taken up. The original homestead was four rooms surrounded by a wide verandah. The walls were pressed tin and the roof corrugated iron with cyclone battens. The Hooley brothers built the 12 stand shearing shed in 1912. It was very well constructed using quality timber for the stumps, rafters and main posts. Wool from Wogoola Station was transported to the coast by donkey teams run by a charcter named Maori Bill. James Clarke became the sole owner of Wogoola in 1917 or 1918 when he bought Cameron's share of the business for 12,000 pounds. Cameron retired to Perth with his wife to run a dairy at the property that became the White House Reception Centre in Cannington. When old Onslow closed own, Clarke organised part of the buildings of the Rob Roy Hotel to be relocated to Wogoola. There were placed on the western end of the Wogoola Homestead and can still be seen today. Wogoola Station and it's occupants were fairly self-sufficient. Meat and vegetables and some fruit were home grown while supplies of sugar, flour, dried fruit, potatoes and onions were brought in to store in large quantities. Wogoola was on the main track btwen Canarvon and Onslow so received a number of visitors who also acted at times as an informal mail delivery service as well. The late 1920's and the early 1930's proved hard times for the Clark family. Depression, drought and the tgedy of the loss of oneof the childre to meningitis drove Onnie Clark's family back to Onslow. After this the station was run by a series of managers, some relatives of the Clarks and other appointed, such as Bert Herbert who was manager during most of World War II. The station was sold in 1950. Subsequent owners had a number of setbacks. Lightening, fires and cyclones caused havoc. The Greenways, who bought Wogoola in 1951, lived there for seven years. In this time some changes were made o the homestead. Hot water was piped onto the house for the first time and French doors were put into the loungeroom. In 1962 the station was purchased by the D'Arcy family who renamed the station Nyang an Aboriginal name meaning 'the meeting of two waters'. The family spent a lot of time fixing the homestead, which had serious damage from white ants and cyclones. The wooden floors were lowered from their stumps and replaced with concrete and the building was reroofed. New bathrooms and two new bedrooms were also added. More improvements were carried out in the 1970's as Nyang became a tourist attraction offering station life experience to visitors. Other committments included recording the weather as Nyang is an outpost of the Bureau of Meteorology. Nyang Station was sold by the D'Arcys in 1980. Since then there has been a number of different owners. Information from the owner of Nyang in 1995 G Smith indicated that a lot of damage to the station in February 1995 during Cyclone Bobby. Many original buildings were destroyed including the blacksmith shop, stables, some living quarters and an old aircraft hangar. The above historical account was taken from a history of Wogoola Station- Now Nyang, written by Margaret Clark in 1991 for the centenary of the establishment of Wogoola Station.

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Yanrey Homestead

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Yanrey Homestead has aestheic, historic and representative cultural heritage value. The homestead has a practicl and aesthetic design for the North west. It is associated with the development of pastoralism in Ashburton is strong and the station is a fine example if the early pioneer days. The station has had a long association with one family, the Alstons, who are descendants of and early settler and founder of hte homestead, Thomas de Pledge.

Physical Description

The substantial home was built over two time period. The first part was erected in 1901 and the second part (the east wing) was added in 1915. The house is constructed of corrugated iron walls on a timber frame. Internal features include patterned iron decoration and timber floors. The rectangular building which reflects it two stage construction, has twin hipped roofs with a surrounding verandah under a separate roof. Shrubbery circling the house shades the walls. Large expanses of manicure lawns used for tennis and croquet surround the house.

History

The original leaseholders of Yarnrey were John and David Stewart. After John Stewart died, the station was sold in 1898 to Thomas de Pledge, an englishman who had worked for Stewart as a jackeroo. Under de Pledge's management the station expanded. Yanrey grew to be the third largest station in the Ashburton Road Boards District, with an acreage of 876,892. T de Pedge was an influential pastoralist who was actively involved in local development of both Onslow and the Ashburton district in general. He donated 100 pounds for the building of St Nicholas Church in new Onslow. An interesting situation occurred in Ashburton when cars and trucks were introduced. As teams of camels, horses and donkeys were still being used to haul the wool clips from the stations, motor vehicles had great difficulties using the same tracks owing to bogs and deep ruts. Between 1927 and 1930 a number of roads were built and gazetted only for motor vehicle use. Yanrey was one station that was given one of these special purpose roads. Yanrey remained isolated from Onslow but with the aid of telephones, communication improved. When this line of communication was interrupted by storms the people of Yanrey again felt their isolation. In 1934 the telephone lines went down in a widespread area owing to the severe cyclone, it took quite a while for the service to be reinstalled. However, damage that occurred to the roads leading to Yanrey and other stations in the same cyclone, took even longer to be repaired as the Roads Board concentrated on the town and jetty rstoration. 1920 was an important year for the North west when Major Norman Brearly flew into Ashburton in a bid to start a commercial airline. On his first visit he landed at Yarney and picked up Mrs de Pledge and another passenger Harry Parsley. They became the first airborne passengers to land at Onslow. Another flight experience involving Yanrey was the stationing of an air force unit at the property durng World War II. According to the reminisceneces of former Ashburton Roads Board President Ashley Paterson, the last overland droving of a significant number of sheep occurred in 1953 out of Yanrey. The manager at the time took sheep from Kooline to Bullara. On the death of de Pledge, Yanrey Station passed to his daughters, Maud Alston and Patricia de Pledge. In 1999 the station was run by Tom Alston, the great grandon of Thomas de Pledge. The station stocks both sheep and cattle on a property of approximately 1,000,000 acres which includes Kordarrie lease. The homestead has changed very little over the years, other than maintenance repairs. These were particularly needed after floods in the 1980's.

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Tambrey Station Homestead Ruins

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Tambrey homestead is significant for its mud (ant hill0 construction and the workmanship displayed in the arches over windows and doors. Also of note is the nearby grave. It is historically important as one of the early Tableland stations and its association with early pastoral pioneers such as the Meares and Cusack families. However the buildings are in ruinous state and there seems little hope of maintenance from the owners

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The Tambrey homestead (in ruins) consists of three rooms in the centre core underneath the main hipped corrugated iron roof with framed verandah enclosures each end clad in corrugated iron. The central core is of 340mm thick wallss probably gathered from the numerous ant hills about the countryside. The window frames have been removed. Over the windows and doors, arches have been formed of key shaped mud blocks. The verandahs are of timber posts and verandah beams but have no rafters, the corrugated iron sheeting spanning unaided between the verandah beams and wall plates. The verandah roof is largely collapsed. The floors are of concrete. The outbuildings are of timber frame with the remnants of corrugated iron cladding on the roofs which are all missing. The fenced grave of T.D. Cusack its tombstone paid for by the road gang working at Tambrey at the time of his death is at the rear of the house. Tambrey is regularly visited by bus tours and there has been pressure for some years from tourist authorities and from individual tourists for the Trust to assess the property and try to encourage its restoration.

History

Assessment July 1982. Constructed 1890's: Pise (of ant bed), iron roof, rafters of sawn tree trunks Earlier part of another lease (Viveash's Inthernura station, no longer in existence) Tambrey dates from the middle 1880's when it was owned by Henry Meares but its closest association has been with the Cusacks. W.H. Cusack who went there about 1892 became a partner in 1902 and his son T.D. Cusack managed the property from c. 1922 until his death in a shooting accident in 1936. It is now run as part of the nearby Coolawanyah station.

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Statement of Significance

The Tambrey Station homestead ruins have historic and scientific cultural heritage significance. The ruins have associations with the development of the pastoral industry in the Pilbara region since 1893 and with many early pastoralists particularly H Meares, S Viveash, W and R Cusack and R and L Parsons. All these pioneers played an important role in the development of pastoralism and a few were significant to local government development. The mud brick construction and building techniques displayed in the arches over the windows and doors are distinctive for their workmanship and design in an isolated region in the 1890's The complex structures contrubutes to an understanding of a way of life associated with pastoralism. The homestead was a good example of North West Vernacular architecture.

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Tambrey Homestead Ruins consists of a group of building remains in close proximity on the northern side of the creek. There are also some remains of a group of shearing related buildings on the southern side of the creek. The homestead ruins are visible from the Roeburne-Wittenoom Road. The ruins include the mud-brick homestead, the adjacent kitchens, meat house and cook's room, store room saddle and tool rooms, garages and manager's quarters. The shearing shed, shearer's kitchen, quarters and yards are south of the creek. The homestead is sutuated on a level plateau above the creek. The surrounding land is undulating with a range of hills in the west. A small rise east of the homestead is where Cusack's grave is located. The homestead was built in c1893. It was constructed with antbed mud bricks containing chopped up spinifex and dags from the woolshed which were used as binding materials. The walls were only 2.45 metres high as construction of the dwelling had to be expedited owing to the expected birth of Mrs Cusack's baby. The walls were halted at the exisitng height and consequently the verandah perimeter has a low roof. The roof timbers were cut from neary trees. There were no door or window frames and the openings are arched with 700mm wide window sills. The craftsmanship of the arched opening is unusual in the use of mud brick and in such an isolated situation. The verandah was supported by bush timber poles some remain in place but the roof of the verandah has collapsed around the dwelling. The homestead and associated buildings have been vacant since 1950. The deterioration and weathering since then have resulted in the ruinous condition the place now presents.

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Tambrey Homestead and Ruins is the remains of a single storey mud brick and iron dwelling and associated out buildings, located on the main road to Wittenoom Gorge, 190 kms south east of Roeburne by road. It was incorporated into Collawanyah Station in 1950, by which time the place had been vacated. Eleven stations consisting of 446,856 hectares were leased by the pioneering Withnell family in the late 1880's. Emma and John Withnell who had been in the Pilbara since c.1865, had a daughter Emily who married John Goldsmith Meares in 1886. Subsequently, their daughter Ellen married Ron Parsons who leased Coolawanyah Station which now incorporates Tambry Station. In 1997 the Parson family still owned and managed the station. Tambrey Station was fomerly part if another lease of Ithernura Station which was held by Viveash. Tambrey dates from the mid 1880's when Henry Meares held the lease. In 1892 William Cusack went to Tambrey to manage the station for Meares. He had previously worked as a jackaroo and blacksmith on Andover and Ithernura Stations. In 1893, during the period when Cusack was manager of Tambrey, the homestead was built. In 1902 Cusack went into partenership with Henry Meares in the leasehold of Tambrey Station. Meares was identified with Tambrey for over thirty years. He was a prominent local identity who served on various Roads Boards and other community organisations involved in the progress of the North West. One of Meares and Cusack's employees Charles Ferguson gained such experience of the station that he bought an interest in the property and then took over the management in the early 1900's. Ferguson also contributed to local organisations and served a period as Chairman of the Tableland Roads Board. He was made commisioner of the Peace in 1910. In 1915 Tambrey comprised 161,874 hectares with a capacity of 20,000 sheep. During the years of World War I both Henry Meares and William Cusack died, leaving Tambrey Station to the complete management of Ferguson. In 1920 Jones, McMullan and Roy Parsons took up Collawanyah Station whih adjoined Tambrey Station. Coolawanyah is the only known example of a Soldier Settlement station in the district. Parsons later bought out both Jones and McMullan. In 1922 Thomas Cusack (son of William) took over management of Tambrey Station. At this time it appears alterations to the homestead took place. Tom and Olive Cusack were both active community memebers who held positions of Chairman and Secretary of the Roeburne Roads Board. Many Road Board meetings were held at Tambrey. The Cusacks had three children. At the back of the sleeping quarters there was a big bough shed which held all the children's beds. In front of the house was a small lawn with ponciana tree and a lone orange tree. Besides a bountiful vegetable graden, Olive Cusack had a tennis court built with the assistance of aboriginal labour. The surface of the tennis court was constructed of crushed anthills. Tennnis parties at Tambrey attractes many people. Competitions were held over weekends. The original six stand shearing shed was replaced by a new shed c.1930. In 1940 an even larger shed was built with a pen fo each shearer. the whole shed was under one large curved roof. In 1963 this shed was destroyed by fire and not replaced. Tom Cusack died in 1936 from a self inflicted shooting accident. He was buried on the station. Though not immediately, Olive Cusack eventually left the station and later became headmistress if Presbyterian Ladies College. When Olive Cusack died in 1985 her ashes were placed at the grave of her husband. This gravesite is fenced and maintained by the Cusack Family. In 1949 Lang Hancock bought Hooley and Tambrey Stations from Ferguson and the Cusack Family for 50,000 pounds. One year later when Parsons of Coolawanyah was seeking to expand his property, Hancock sold Tambrey and Hooley to him. From this time on the homestead remained unoccupied. Parsons ran Hooley, Coolawanyah and Tambrey seperately until 1970 when Tambrey was merged with Coolawanyah. During the latter half of the 1970's the Parsons family converted their station from sheep to cattle.

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Integrity: Deterioration prevents measurment.

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Coastal Margin - Exmouth Gulf to Cape Preston

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Wittenoom Gorges

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• 16639 Wittenoom Asbestos Mine Settlement

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Wittenoom Asbestos Mine Settlement

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04407 Wittenoom Gorges

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Comprised an Office, Lang Hancock's House, and VIP guest house, all single-storey corrugated iron structures.

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This place acted as a base for Lang Hancock’s exploration of the Pilbara/ Northwest. The buildings are part of the former Wittenoom townsite and were constructed late 1940s/early 1950s.

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Top Camp Unconformity

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Coastal Islands - Mary Anne to Regnard

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Chichester Range National Park

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Millstream National Park

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• 15368 Millstream Homestead

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Shearer's Kitchen, Millstream Station

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15368 Millstream Homestead

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Millstream Homestead

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18695 Millstream National Park

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• 01742 Shearer's Kitchen, Millstream Station

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• 01742 Shearer's Kitchen, Millstream Station

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Millstream Homestead has aesthetic, historical, social, scientific and representative cultural heritage significance. The homestead is a good representative example of a pastoral station building constructed early in the 20th century, on a patoral lease typical of those first established in the 1800's. Despite some structural changes the homestead has significant heritage integrity. Long associations with one family reflect a strong relationship between man and the land. The introduction of exotic flora species is shows the need to carefully manage the property so that native trees survivie. Social value is found in the large number of people who visit the centre to appreciate both the built heritage of the homestead as wwell as the beauty of the natural landscape.

History

FT Gregory first discovered Millstream during an expedition in 1861. In his notes Gregory described the stream as having enough water to supply a large mill. In 1865 William Taylor took up a lease and proceeded to run sheep in the district. Soon after in 1866, McRae and McKenzie took over the leases, which they ran successfully until 1879. In that year the lease was sold for 16,000 pounds to the partnership of Padbury and Loton. Managed by Chas Elliot, the station continued to run sheep for over 30 years when the property was sold to the Cookson Brothers. From 1912 until 1950, the English brothers owned Millstream but the station was operated under the supervision of managers. Claude Irvine managed Millstream Station from 1912 to 1923 (except for a period when he joined the Lighthorse Infantry during World War I). Under his watchful eye the Millstream hmestead was constructed in 1919. In 1923 Irvine invited his randson Les Gordon to take over the position of Manager. Les and Nellie Gordon, with their three children, settled into a life at Millsteram and over the years developed a large vegetable garden. The garden expanded to include tobbacco and grapes. In 1950 the Gordons purchased Millstream from the Cookson Brothers. Unfortunately Les Gordon died soon after the transfer of ownership but hte station continued under the proprietorship of his sons Doug and Stewart. Doug and Stewart sold the staion t the Kennedy's in 1964 (and moved to Kellerberrin and Northhampton respectively). From 1964 the Kennedy's operated Millstream until the Public Works Department bought the lease. Between 1975 and 1986 the homestead was operated as a tavern. In this period the roof of the homes tead was completely restored. Timber trusses were replaced by steel and a modern suspended ceiling was installed. Under the management of the Tavern operator many people were attracted to the tavern. These included tourists as well as a large number of mine workers in the district. However, in the mid 1980's the clientele of the tavern went into decline as the local mining population changed. In 1986 the Department of CALM took over the lease on the Millstream Homestead. At first CALM advertised for new people to take over the homestead as tearooms, but nobody felt that this was a viable business. In 1989 CALM refurbished and renovated the facilities of the homestead. Original doors were put back in place and the homestead was opened as a visitor's centre. The Centre provides historical information from the region and provides numerous artefacts and information areas. Today approximately 20 to 25 thousand people visit the Centre per annum. There they can see some of the famous groves of palm trees. The introduced species of date palms, (The native species being hte livistonia palm) are being controlled as they are becoming a serious threat to the indigenous trees in the area.

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Woongarra Gorge

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Duck Creek Gorge

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Nanutarra Station Complex

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The buildings of the Nanutarra Station Complex are in fair to poor condition, with a few parts in very poor condition. Areas of masonry and render have deteriorated due to rising damp and moisture ingress, and minor cracking has occurred in the original walls as a result of movement. All windows have deteriorated with use and exposure to the elements. The roofs are in poor condition. The interior fittings are relatively intact and in good condition, as are the internal surfaces and finishes.

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Statement of Significance

Nanutarra Homestead has aesthetic, historic and representative heritage value. The homestead is a fine example of pastoral station buildings. The homestead complex of buildings are in good condidtion and have a high integrity as few external changes have been made since construction in 1884. Still in use, the homestead is representative of the way of life of pastoralists in the Pilbara region for the last one hundred years.

Physical Description

Nanutarra Homestead is a complex of buildings constructed from a variety of materials. The main dwelling has mud brick walls, a corrugated ion roof and a verandah supported by unadorned posts surrounds the whole building. The house comprises two buildings of a simple rectangular design linked by a breezeway. Both buildings have a hipped roof and brick chimneys. The house is a good example of the Australian Colonial design of this era. Other buildings within the complex include outhouses with corrigated iron cladding and a spinifex coolhouse.

History

Nanutarra like many of the stations in the North West was used as grazing land for a number of years before any settlement and development took place. In 1882 a roll call of the pastoralists in the Ashburton region included H Higham who had been on Nanutarra for two years by this time. Higham had to cope with a number of hardships in his early days in developing Nanutarra. Flooding after a cyclone in 1883 caused stock losses and isolation and dwindling supplies often depressed the pastoralist. Nevertheless, he built a home in 1884 designed by Raglan Jarvis of Fremantle. The first phone service to be installed out of Onslow was at Minderoo in 1922. It was put in place at Nanutarra soon after. Transportation and communication was also improved with the purchase of a truck in 1923, one of the earliest in the district, though it was a number of years before the camel and horse teams were made obselete altogether. By 1918-19 Nanutarra Station had been expanded to 502,670 acres one of the top ten biggest stations in the Ashburton region. Nanutarra was still owned by H Higham in 1934 when the devastating cyclone came through and destroyed much of Onslow. Higham was part of a deputation of Ashburton residents who petitioned the government for help in the wake of the storm.

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High Degree

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Tramway and Jetty

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03444 Old Onslow Townsite

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Compressor Station, Barrow Island

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14365 Barrow Island Marine Area - part

Statement of Significance

The place is associated with the industrial operations associated with processing of gas and oil at Barrow Island, the largest onshore operating oilfield in Australia; The establishment of a commercial oilfield at Barrow Island was the start of Australia’s growing independence and self-sufficiency in oil and gas, and the important role of resource-rich Western Australia in this development; The changes that have occurred over time at Barrow Island, including the construction, operation and decommissioning of Compressor Station, Barrow Island reflect the transition from oil production to liquid gas extraction in response to changing market demands over time in Western Australia and across the world.

Physical Description

The place comprises the main industrial building, which houses two Ingersoll Rand 48 KVGR Compressors. As at April 2015, one compressor was partly dismantled. The other continued to operate until late 2014. The Control Room, Aerial Cooler, Cascade Cooler and Scrubbers are still in place. The main building and associated plant machinery are located on concrete slabs. The ground level of the two-storey steel framed building is open on three sides, with the remaining walls clad in corrugated iron. The remaining plant machinery is accessed via steel catwalks and steps, and the upper level flooring consists of steel floor plates.

History

In 1964 West Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd. was granted License to Prospect No.113H and the first oil well on Barrow Island was drilled. In July the same year, West Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd announced that oil had been struck in the Barrow Island No. 1 well and that a full-scale development programme would be launched to determine the commercial viability of the field. Compressor Station, Barrow Island was constructed circa 1972, and is likely to be associated with the drive to extract and process greater amounts of oil and gas from the Barrow Island resource.

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As at 2015, the plant has been partly decommissioned.

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House, First Street

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