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It is open Sunday afternoons or by appointment, tel: 03 or 03 There isn't much inside but the scale and the exterior are impressive and there is a picnic area. By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's terms and conditions and privacy policy.

As part of the Heritage Festival held in March or April , a jazz music performance is held annually at the mill. Smeaton House Another historic feature near town is Smeaton House. One of the state's earliest substantial homesteads, this two-storey stuccoed brick Regency mansion was built in for the settlement's founder, John Hepburn. He now lies in the small private family cemetery nearby which is fenced and surrounded by trees. Smeaton House is privately owned but can plainly be seen from the roadside without intruding upon the privacy of the proprietors.

To get there head north out of town on the main road to Castlemaine and take the first right into Estates Lane. Tuki Trout Fishing and Farming Complex Also to the north of town is the Tuki Trout Fishing and Farming Complex where you can catch your own fish amidst the parklike surroundings of the 'Stoney Rises' farm, established in the s. Smoked trout and pate are also available. There are woolshed tours, sheep shearing demos, working sheep dogs and stock horses in action, hands-on lamb feeding, a licensed gallery restaurant, a kiosk, picnic-barbecue areas, wool products, souvenirs and cottage accommodation.

It is open from To get there head north towards Campbelltown for 7 km and watch for the signposted turnoff to the right. Yandoit 22 km north-east of Smeaton is Yandoit which retains some old stone fences and two-storey houses with stone chimneys from the days when Swiss-Italian farmers settled in the area in the midth century, selling dairy produce and wines to the goldminers.

Their descendants still live in the area. Home Destinations. Alerts and advice. Information on travel documents, visa applications and the cost of a visa. Contact information of embassies in Australia. Different types of travel insurance.

Travel information. Australia is made up of cities in 9 regions. The region Victoria has cities. Smeaton is number in the region Victoria. The city is number in Australia. Where is Marnoo? Where is Meridan Island? The waterwheel and the water turbine provide outstanding opportunities to demonstrate how water power was used in the nineteenth century. The Andersons Mill Complex is of scientific technical significance for its capacity to demonstrate the technical aspects of the oat milling process.

It clearly demonstrates the manufacturing capabilities and levels of craftsmanship attained by the foundry no more than five years after it was established. The wooden patterns from which the wheel's components were cast have survived and illustrate the way in which the wheel was manufactured. This two-storey stuccoed brick Regency mansion was designed by noted colonial architect John Gill and built in for John Hepburn.

He now lies in the small private family cemetery nearby which is fenced and surrounded by trees. The home is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register which records that: "Smeaton House is a two storey symmetrical house in a colonial Georgian style, with a large cellar and two parallel single storey service wings at the rear, enclosing a service court.

The house is of brick, covered with lime plaster, on bluestone footings. It has a hipped roof, originally covered with shingles, but later replaced by slate, probably in about There are pairs of sash windows on the ground floor on each side of the central entrance, and five across the first floor, a fan-lit front door, and a single storey timber verandah across the front and two sides, and between the service wings at the rear. The front and side facades of the upper storey are decorated with recessed panels between the windows.

There is a particularly fine rectangular stable block at the rear of the house, which includes groom's quarters at one end, consisting of two small rooms one above the other. To get there head north out of town on the main road to Castlemaine and take the first right into Estates Lane. The farm, which before bred Tukidale sheep hence the name was established in the s.