Selected projects
A spread of work across Central Victoria — heritage homes, their windows and doors, and the fine timber details that make them.
Airlie
Airlie is one of Castlemaine’s most striking Federation-era homes. It is National Trust listed, and remarkable for its unusually elaborate timber bargeboards and decorative gables. Heirloom Carpentry remade and reinstated the gables, and carried out a full restoration of the verandah, its posts hand-carved with stopped chamfer detailing. The rear verandah was enclosed as new work.
Verandah
Gable one
Gable two
Gable three
Rear entrance
Buda House
Buda is one of Castlemaine’s best-known historic places, an 1861 house much enlarged and refaced under Ernest Leviny around 1890. It remained home to the Leviny family for well over a century, and is now a house museum on the Victorian Heritage Register. Heirloom carried out Stage 1 of the window and shutter conservation: sashes and frames repaired in place, decayed sills and box-frame members spliced and let in, and two pairs of louvred shutters taken down to the last component, stripped, repaired, re-glued and reassembled with their operable louvres working again. An in-depth investigation into the earliest surviving paint showed the original colour was far brighter than the green the house wears today, and it was reproduced working closely with paint manufacturers.
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Windows
Louvre shutters
The Lawson Family Home
A substantial Castlemaine home with a rich history, locally associated with Sir Harry Lawson, Premier of Victoria from 1918 to 1924, and one of the town’s residences built by the noted Castlemaine builder McBean. A long run of work here, carried out over many years. It has included a substantial pergola in large-section Douglas fir, verandah restorations and new external timber stairs, conservation work to the bay windows, and extensive work to the outbuildings that give the place its character. Inside, traditional-style built-in robes for the bedrooms, timber shelving, and a new entrance door.
Pergola
Verandah
Outbuildings & awning
Built-in robes
Forest Hall
This Burnett Road property was built in 1867 for William Froomes, who made his money as a draper on the goldfields, and whose name is remembered in nearby Froomes Road. The house is a late example of Regency architecture, face brick with cement dressings under an elegant encircling verandah. Heirloom restored the verandah in full: the slender framework and its intricate timber friezes repaired or remade where rot had taken them, and the structure made sound again. A later rear entrance portico, not original and past saving, was replaced with a new awning designed and made for the house.
Verandah
Awning
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