Gold Creek Homestead, Colonial homestead in Ngunnawal, Australia
Gold Creek Homestead is a farm complex in Ngunnawal featuring four buildings: a main house, stone cottage, buggy shed, and function center. The site sits on about 41 hectares of land with established gardens.
Anthony Rolfe, an English farm labourer from Oxborough, Norfolk, established the Tea Gardens property on 130 hectares in 1857. In 1872 he transferred a 320-acre parcel that included the future Gold Creek Homestead site to his son Edmund. The Rolfes expanded Gold Creek to 3,940 acres by 1907, the largest property in the Ginninderra district.
The property's name comes from the Gold Creek run, and the Rolfes hosted balls and dances here to raise funds for St Benedict's, a Catholic girls' school in Queanbeyan. Edmund Rolfe also raised money for Ginninderra's St Francis Church and its successor, Hall's St Xavier's Church. The homestead later passed to the Bruce family, who introduced agricultural-science methods in the 1960s.
The homestead stands off Gungahlin Drive in Ngunnawal, beside the Grove Ngunnawal retirement village. The complex comprises four buildings on a 41-hectare site: the 697 m² homestead, a stone and timber cottage, a buggy shed and a former machinery shed now used as an entertainment and function centre. The site was declined heritage listing and later put up for sale.
The roundabout at Gungahlin Drive and Wanganeen Avenue marks a subterranean bore installed under John Bruce's 1960s drought-proofing scheme, one of ten earthen dams and water works that kept Gold Creek stocked. The bore's position is now buried beneath suburban roadworks.
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