Site Details

Name

Avon Downs

Status

Permanent Declaration

Type

Place

Description

The heritage places specified in the declaration include:
Stone kitchen building foundations
Overshot dam
Pre-1933 workshop
1950s Sidney Williams Hut store
1950s meat house
1950s jackeroo quarters
1968 head stockman quarters
1968 elevated store
1968 mens barrack quarters
Garden shed
Marshall steam engine
Graves of Herbert, Harold and Len Lloyd.

Statement Of
Heritage Value

Avon Downs pastoral station is highly significant to the Territory as it represents one of the earliest and most successful sheep stations and for its association with some of the pioneer explorers, pastoralists, and settlers of the Barkly Tableland. The various buildings at Avon Downs are excellent examples of progressive building techniques and styles dating from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s.

The well site and boiler located at Bulls Creek, the Overshot Dam on the James River, the old Marshal steam engine and the dam construction scoop provide tangible evidence of the physical and financial burdens experienced by the early pastoralists when developing their properties. The property's association with the James River and the Barkly Stock-route was highly significant for drovers overlanding cattle to southern markets. It was also the site of early contact between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal people and marks the final resting place of four people whom had lived and worked in the Barkly Region.

Nominated

15/06/2001

Nomination Refused

Nomination Accepted

15/06/2001

Provisional Declaration

Assessment Report
Considered

27/06/2003

Report Action

Comment sought

Report Comments

Recommended

Not Recommended

Refused By Minister

Referred Back

Signed By Minister

13/10/2005

Publish notice of
declaration

29/10/2005

Gazetted

26/10/2005

Revoked

Destroyed

File No

HAC2001/320

Value

Historic & Indigenous

Conservation Policy

LGA

Barkly Shire

Comments

Nominated as part of the review of the NTHR.

Photo

	Name	Description	Date Added
View	Avon Down 01042015_LR1.jpg	Graves	05/NOV/21
View	Avon Down 01042015_LR2.jpg	Foundation stones	05/NOV/21
View	Avon Down 01042015_LR3.jpg	Foundation stones	05/NOV/21
View	Avon Down 01042015_LR4.jpg	The 1950”s Butcher shop	05/NOV/21
View	Avon Down 01042015_LR5.jpg	Pre 1933 Workshop	05/NOV/21
View	Avon Down 01042015_LR6.jpg	Pre 1933 Workshop with verandah addition	05/NOV/21

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Scan

	Name	Description	Date Added
View	Instrument and Gazettal.pdf	-	05/MAR/14

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Further Information

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Approximate Location

LAIS Key	Street Number	Street Name	Suburb	Location Code	Lot Number	LTO Plan	Part	Tenure
000 00298	19120	BARKLY	RANKEN	000	298	-	-	PPL

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Status Explanations

Nomination Period - a nomination has been accepted by Heritage Branch, but has not yet been accepted by the Heritage Council; OR a nomination has been accepted by the Heritage Council but the place/object has not yet been subject to a heritage assessment.

Assessment Period - a nomination has been accepted by the Heritage Council and the place/object is in the process of being assessed.

Consultation Period - Heritage assessment has been completed and s24 of the Act has been instigated, ie comment has been sought on a proposal to declare the place/object.

Recommendation Period - the Heritage Council has made a recommendation to declare the place/object and the Minister's final decision is awaited.

Not Recommended - a decision has been made by the Heritage Council not to recommend to the Minister that a place/object be declared

Declared - the Minister has made a decision to declare the place/object

Refused - the Minister has refused to declare the place/object