Canberra's farms disappearing with urban development

By John Thistleton
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:57pm, first published December 4 2014 - 9:43am

Dennis Rose sees beyond the daunting job of rescuing Well Station, a collection of 1850s homestead buildings in Canberra's north. A ragged historic oasis in a new and neat brick-and-tile landscape, Well Station still stands because the tenants for the past 29 years, Rose and his wife Maree grew attached to the slab home, weatherboards, corrugated iron and wooden shearing yards stained with wool grease. They secured heritage grants and invited schoolchildren to shearing demonstrations. In 2011 Well Station was put on the open market and a conservation management plan prepared, which identified the 1850s homestead's exceptional heritage value, including early timber slab construction.

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