Green Point Foreshore and Structures

Green Point Foreshore Land and Structures
Green Point Foreshore Land and Structures
	Heritage boundaries
Location	9 Pixie Avenue, Green Point, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°27′47″S151°21′23″E / 33.4631°S 151.3563°E Coordinates: 33°27′47″S151°21′23″E / 33.4631°S 151.3563°E
Owner	Department of Planning and Infrastructure
New South Wales Heritage Register
	Official name: Foreshore land and structures; Jetty; boatshed; well and foreshore land associated with Mulholland's Farm
Type	state heritage (built)
Designated	9 June 2000
Reference no.	1306
Type	Other - Residential Buildings (private)
Category	Residential buildings (private)
	Location of Green Point Foreshore Land and Structures in New South Wales

Last updated May 09, 2019

Green Point Foreshore and Structures is a heritage-listed conservation site at 9 Pixie Avenue, Green Point, Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia. It includes the jetty, boatshed, well, and all foreshore land associated with Mulholland's Farm. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 9 June 2000.^[1]

Green Point is a south-eastern suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia between Erina and Kincumber along Avoca Drive. It is part of the Central Coast Council local government area.

The Central Coast Council is a local government area serving the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, established on 12 May 2016 following the amalgamation of Gosford City and Wyong Shire councils.

New South Wales is a state on the east coast of Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Tasman Sea to the east. The Australian Capital Territory is an enclave within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. In September 2018, the population of New South Wales was over 8 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Just under two-thirds of the state's population, 5.1 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. Inhabitants of New South Wales are referred to as New South Welshmen.

History

In October 1881, Carl Ludwig Sahl and John Nobbs purchased a 640-acre land grant in the vicinity of modern-day Green Point, and subdivided it as the Green Point Estate. They retained some of the land, however, including a waterfront section (Lot 1) in the south-west corner of the original grant, and amounted to area of 3 acres 6 roods 1/2 perch. In October 1890, Sahl and Nobbs successfully lobbied the government for rescission of the usual 100' high-water mark reservation between some of their land and Brisbane Water, allowing them to purchase the foreshore land. It was sold to Charles Thomas Sandon in November 1891, to Eliza Sophia Winton in July 1892, and to local farmer Herbert Henry Thompson in 1907. Thompson already owned the adjacent property, and his combined holdings formed what was to become a successful farming operation. He then sold the combined land to George James Mulholland in May 1909.^[1]

John Nobbs was an Australian politician.

Brisbane Water is a wave-dominated barrier estuary located in the Central Coast region, north of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Brisbane Water has its origin at the confluence of the Narara and Coorumbine Creeks, to the south–east of Gosford and travels for approximately 18 kilometres (11 mi) in a southerly direction to its mouth at Broken Bay, about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the Tasman Sea, at Barrenjoey Head. A number of towns surround the shores of Brisbane Water, including Booker Bay, Davistown, Ettalong Beach, Gosford, Green Point, Kincumber, Phegans Bay, Saratoga, Wagstaffe, and Woy Woy. Contained within Brisbane Water is St Huberts Island, Rileys Island, and Pelican Island; and adjoining the estuary is Brisbane Water National Park to the west and Bouddi National Park to the east.

Mulholland subsequently constructed a boat shed, wharf, well, road and water pipeline along the foreshore land, supporting both his farming interests on land and a successful oyster farming venture offshore.^[1]

Mulholland's Farm was subdivided in 1961, and in 1975, the high-water reservation of 100' depth was resumed by Gosford City Council and dedicated, together with other areas on Brisbane Water, as a public reserve. This reduced the land area associated with the house to 3154m2, and divorced the wharf and boatshed from the same land title as the house. A sign on the wharf stating "oyster lease" remained on the wharf until the 1980s.^[1]

Description

The boatshed is a simple timber framed and weatherboard structure, with a skillion form roof. Located adjacent to the shed are the hardwood planks of the former wharf structure. The concrete piles of the wharf survive. Both of these items appear to be pre-World War II constructions as they appear in the aerial photograph of 1941.^[1]

A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. Sheds vary considerably in the complexity of their construction and their size, from small open-sided tin-roofed structures to large wood-framed sheds with shingled roofs, windows, and electrical outlets. Sheds used on farms or in industry can be large structures. The main types of shed construction are metal sheathing over a metal frame, plastic sheathing and frame, all-wood construction, and vinyl-sided sheds built over a wooden frame.

World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. A state of total war emerged, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. The major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.

The boat shed has doors to its land and watersides, indicating is use for boats. In it there is a filer pump which is part of an integral irrigation system comprising well (at the foreshore) pipe to the holding tank, and a distribution pump under the house (electric billabong) of pre-World War II vintage.^[2]^[1]

Heritage listing

The jetty, boatshed, well and foreshore land was owned and managed as an integral part of Mulholland's Farm between 1891 and 1975. The boatshed and remnants of the hardwood framed jetty are a tangible association between the house and the use of brisbane Water as a means of either transport, and/or an economic activity such as oyster farming. Furthermore, its significance as the most intact surviving farm on the Brisbane Water (from the farm subdivision era of the 1880s to 1945) derives from the fact that it retains the physical and visual evidence of Mulholland's Farm's association with the waterway.^[2]^[1]

Green Point Foreshore and Structures was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 9 June 2000.^[1]

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Foreshore land and structures". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Office of Environment and Heritage. H01306. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
1 2 Clive Lucas Stapleton, 1999

Bibliography

Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners Pty Ltd. Mullholland's Farm, 9 Pixie Avenue, Greenpoint, Gosford, NSW: conservation management plan.

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[nswshr-1306-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Foreshore land and structures". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Office of Environment and Heritage. H01306. Retrieved 2 June 2018.

[nswshr-1306-1880-2] 1 2 Clive Lucas Stapleton, 1999