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Old Mount Riddock Homestead
Permanent Declaration
Object
The Old Homestead has vertical split drop slabs that are seated in mortised timber uprights. There are two rooms divided by a drop slab partition wall. The floor consists of flagstone and areas of concrete. It has a bush timber roof frame covered with ripple iron and corrugated galvanised iron sheeting
The Former Mt Riddock Homestead was constructed by Benjamin Mark Webb between 1928 and 1930. It is a good example, and one of very few remaining, of a type of vernacular building technique common in Central Australia until the 1940s. This was the use of horizontal drop slab panels with mortised uprights of bush timber. The Homestead represents an important phase in the development of the pastoral industry in Central Australia. Mt Riddock Station was one of the first leases stocked in the area to the north-east of Alice Springs. Benjamin Webb and Louis Schaber jointly owned the original/eases which were added to over the next half century to form the current Station. The Homestead was dismantled in 2012, and later reconstructed at the nearby Gemtree Roadhouse, with the approval of the Heritage Advisory Council and with the support and assistance of the owners of Mt Riddock Station.
06/03/2015
06/03/2015
07/10/2015
05/06/2015
No further action
19/02/2016
08/04/2016
08/04/2016
AHE2015/0004
Historic
Mount Riddock HS was dismantled in 2012 and moved to Gemtree Roadhouse in July 2013. Reconstruction of the homestead was completed in July 2014.
Photo
   
NameDescriptionDate Added
Viewphoto 5.JPGOld Mount Riddock Homestead located at Gemtree Roadhouse (2014).15/OCT/15
ViewMtRiddockHmstd05_LR.jpgHomestead (2016)10/JUN/16
ViewMtRiddockHmstd07_LR.jpgInternal10/JUN/16
ViewMtRiddockHmstd08_LR.jpgInternal 210/JUN/16
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NameDescriptionDate Added
ViewSigned Instrument.pdf - 01/SEP/16
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Further Information
   
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Approximate Location
   
LAIS KeyStreet NumberStreet NameSuburbLocation CodeLot NumberLTO PlanPartTenure
000 03693 6990PLENTYANMATJERE0003693 - - Freehold
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