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Moolooloo Homestead, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Moolooloo homestead, pronounced “Ma-lo-la” is Aboriginal for calm water and a notable and stately example of a building style that defines Warrnambool’s 19th century architecture. It is one of Warrnambool’s most gracious and finely crafted and detailed gentlemen’s residence built for J W Sheville, a local councillor and former Mayor who was a prominent Warrnambool citizen of the 1870s. The refined single storey residence was built in 1877 from locally quarried sandstone for J W Sheville, a Warrnambool wheelwright and investor. Moolooloo sits at a prestigious elevated address beside St John’s Presbyterian Church on Spence Street. In 1891 and 1895 prominent pastoralist J G Ware subdivided the extensive grounds to its present land holding today. The stucco-rendered residence was extended in 1882 and 1903 and displays an “axial conservative Classicism” design by architect George Jobbins. More recently, in 2004 the homestead was extended and a large sitting room added to the rear of the property adjoining Manifold Street.

Moolooloo is an expansive residence which has wide bluestone steps leading to the main entrance portico with eleven principal rooms. Guests should be warned to take a deep breath as they step through the heavy timber and leadlight entrance door that signals one of Warrnambool’s grand old homesteads. Externally, the residence combines classical and Gothic features with an asymmetrically placed portico with decorative urns and Gothic barge boards creating a picturesque composition. The mid Victorian sandstone residence is rendered in a terracotta shade and has wide concave cast-iron return verandahs and lacework that extend on three sides. The homestead enjoys elevated views across the city from the verandahs, drawing room and ballroom. Heavily corbeled cornices and ornate ceiling plasterwork with columned archways provide typical, mid-Victorian interiors. Moolooloo has high 4.3m decorative ceilings that ensure all principal rooms enjoy grand proportions. A concealed trapdoor in the central hall opens to a subterranean wine cellar. Moolooloo is a rare and historic gem with gracious stately proportions set in elevated spacious grounds and admired as one of Warrnambool’s most elegant properties.