OBJECT TITLE / NAME

Railway House, Barkly Street, Mornington, 1999

DATE1999

MEDIAImage

PHOTOGRAPHERMaureen Tregonning

COLLECTIONMornington and District Historical Society

REG NO.1206.86

HISTORY

This is the Railway House where the railway keeper lived. It was demolished the late 1990s. The house was the residence of builder J.D. Grover and probably built in 1881. The property became a “railway house” by the necessity of the need to acquire it when the railway came to Mornington.

DESCRIPTION

Victorian brick house painted white. Red painted corrugated iron roof, bow window at right, 2 chimneys, wire and wood fence in run down condition

SUBJECTS

Historic Buildings, Houses, Railway House, Railway buildings

KEYWORDS

Barkly Street, Grover, Joseph Dale, Historic Buildings, Houses, Mornington, Mornington Railway Land, Station Street, Railway House, Railway buildings