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We can repair and add to Rokewood’s township homes and farmhouses. It’s an old gold town with a heritage main street, and the country around it now carries part of a large wind farm.
Rokewood is a small Golden Plains township on Ferrars Street, with farms and the Golden Plains Wind Farm around it.
Township blocks are typically about 2,000 square metres, and farm properties about 55 hectares. Ferrars Street has timber shops and houses, a bluestone church and mid-century buildings. Older timber homes need repairs, restumping and verandahs; farmhouses need sheds and decks.
The Rokewood Heritage Precinct has no paint or fence controls, but the Presbyterian church, St Patrick’s and the former police station have paint controls, and the old police station’s outbuildings and fences are controlled too. In the Farming Zone, a house needs a permit unless the lot is at least 100 hectares.
An inundation overlay covers low ground, including three addresses on Ferrars and Hardie Streets. The whole locality is bushfire prone, though no Bushfire Management Overlay applies. Council’s Growing Places Strategy marks Rokewood for minimal change, so we expect most work here to be on existing homes. About one home in five wasn’t lived in full-time at the 2021 census.
Looking after the school, the community hub, the hall or a building on Ferrars Street? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
What Rokewood’s township and farm homes need most.
Timber homes and shopfronts on Ferrars Street.
Listed churches and the former police station.
Verandahs rebuilt on older houses.
Decks for farmhouses.
Repairs for homes that aren’t lived in full-time.
House-yard and paddock fences.
Doors and windows in old timber shops and houses.
So we can check heritage and flood mapping.
Precinct, individual listing and the inundation overlay.
Including the trip out.
Materials loaded so the job doesn’t drag on.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
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.
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.
Rokewood began as a crossing place on the Kuruc-a-ruc Creek and was gazetted as a township in June 1853; a gold rush followed in 1858, and in 1864 it became one of the Leigh shire’s two administrative centres. The $3.96 million community hub and pavilion at the recreation reserve opened in June 2025.
The 2021 census counted 208 residents with a median age of 41. Old timber and stone buildings, big farms and a heritage main street are why the work here is careful repair.
Rokewood borders Werneth, Corindhap, Shelford, Barunah Park, Cressy, Rokewood Junction, Mount Mercer and Dereel.
Send us a few photos and the street, and we will come back with what’s involved and a free estimate.