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We can build the decks, verandahs, carports and built-ins that Inverleigh’s new acre-block homes go without at handover, and repair the 19th-century weatherboard and joinery along High Street. Inverleigh is a quiet river town that is now growing fast.
Inverleigh sits where the Leigh meets the Barwon. The old town is on the flats, and the new homes are on the higher ground to the north.
Council figures show new lots in Inverleigh jumping from 22 in 2021 to 96 in 2023, with building permits rising each year and demand heading towards about 30 new houses a year. So a growing share of Inverleigh homes are only a few years old. They hand over with a slab and not much else outside: no deck off the living room, no verandah on the west side, no built-in storage. That is work we do.
The 2019 structure plan removed the old 1 and 2 hectare minimums, and new estates such as Barrabool Views, Barrabool Views North and Berthon Park are selling blocks of about 4,000 to 5,800 square metres. The low density design overlay needs a permit for any building within 10 metres of a road, 5 metres of a side boundary or 15 metres of a neighbour’s house. A shed, carport or extension that sits inside those lines needs a permit, so we site it before we price it. There is also no town sewer, and the septic area limits where an extension can go.
The High Street heritage precinct holds ten 19th-century houses and shops in bluestone and timber weatherboard, with double-hung sash windows and low timber verandahs. Flooding and the limits of the land are part of why the old core survived intact. Repairs there are matched to what is original, and external changes need a heritage permit first.
Running a business on High Street? The commercial side of our work is on the commercial carpentry page for Inverleigh.
The jobs Inverleigh’s new acre-block homes and old town houses need.
The deck off the living room that the house came without.
West-side verandahs, and repairs to low heritage verandahs.
Shade for a new home on an open block.
Boundary and paddock fences on big blocks.
Driveway and side gates.
Matching joinery in the High Street precinct.
Double-hung sash windows kept working.
A call or a message, and the lot or street address.
On an acre block we check the setback lines and the septic area before anything else.
Itemised and free, with any permit step set out.
The same crew start to finish, including the long drive out with the materials.
Beyond our expectations, and it was great to work with people who could turn our ideas into something better than we imagined. Couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
The surveyor J.H. Wedge came through in 1835 and probably named the Leigh River after his Tasmanian farm, Leighlands. The post office opened on 11 October 1856. The town grew up where the Leigh and the Barwon meet, and floods have kept the low-lying centre much as it was.
Recent growth has gone north, onto higher ground. The 2021 census counted 1,746 residents, nearly all in separate houses and most of them still paying off a mortgage. An intact 19th-century core beside a run of brand new acre-block homes is why the work here splits between heritage repairs and finishing new houses.
Bannockburn • Winchelsea • Golden Plains
Inverleigh borders Winchelsea, Teesdale, Hesse, Shelford, Murgheboluc, Gnarwarre, Buckley and Ombersley, and touches Bannockburn at one corner.
New home or old, tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with a straight answer and a free estimate.