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We can build sheds and verandahs and repair farm homes and old homesteads in Marcus Hill, between Ocean Grove and Lake Victoria. We have done 18 jobs in Ocean Grove and 12 in Point Lonsdale nearby.
Marcus Hill is farming country along the Bellarine Highway and the rail trail, rolling down to Lake Victoria and Yarram Creek.
The median property is about 12 hectares, and more than half of homes have four or more bedrooms. Sheds, verandahs, decks and weatherboard repairs are the regular work. Under the Farming Zone, an extension of up to 200 square metres, or an outbuilding of up to 250 square metres that goes with the house, needs no permit if it’s 20 metres from roads, 5 metres from boundaries, 100 metres from a neighbour’s house and 100 metres from a waterway, wetland or flood plain.
A landscape overlay covers more than half of Marcus Hill around Lake Victoria and Yarram Creek. An extension needs no permit under it if it’s no more than 7.5 metres high, has a footprint of no more than 100 square metres, and is finished in muted, non-reflective tones. We plan colours and rooflines with that in mind.
All of Marcus Hill is bushfire prone, and the Bushfire Management Overlay covers 19 addresses. Under it, a building under 100 square metres that goes with the house and isn’t used for accommodation needs no bushfire permit. Carlyle, the Suma Park homestead, the former school and the former post office residence are heritage-listed, so we check before touching them.
Looking after the holiday park, the hall or a farm business around Marcus Hill? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
What Marcus Hill’s farm homes and homesteads need most.
Verandahs in colours that suit the landscape rules.
For the heritage-listed homesteads and old buildings.
Boards on older farmhouses.
Decks with views across the lake country.
Extensions within the farm and landscape limits.
House-yard and paddock fences.
Doors and windows on exposed farmhouses.
Tell us the road and what you have in mind.
Height, footprint, colours and bushfire, first.
Itemised, with any permit step explained.
Matched materials and a tidy site.
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.
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.
Marcus Hill’s post office opened on 7 May 1883 and closed in 1978. The school took the Marcus Hill name in 1905 and closed at the end of 1993; the old school building on the highway is now heritage-listed.
The 2021 census counted 164 residents with a median age of 48, every home a separate house. Farm blocks, lake views and heritage homesteads are why the work here is careful and well planned.
Ocean Grove • Point Lonsdale • Wallington • Mannerim • Bellarine
Marcus Hill borders Mannerim, Ocean Grove, Point Lonsdale and Wallington.
Tell us the road and the job, and we will come back with what the rules allow and a free estimate.