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We can repair and add to Shelford’s village cottages, Manse estate homes and farmhouses on the Leigh River. Heritage, flood and river landscape rules all apply here, so we check them before we start.
Shelford is a small Golden Plains village on the Leigh River, with nineteenth-century stone and timber buildings, a new estate and large farms around it.
Village and Manse estate blocks are typically about 4,000 square metres, and farm properties about 30 hectares. Twenty Manse estate addresses on Archibald Drive were created in 2018. Older cottages need repairs that match; newer homes need decks, verandahs and sheds. We have done 13 jobs in Bannockburn and work in Meredith and Inverleigh nearby.
The Shelford Heritage Precinct has tree controls but no paint controls, and the normal outbuilding and fence exemptions apply; places like the former manse and Methodist chapel have paint controls. On the Manse estate, a design overlay needs a permit for fences other than post and wire, avoids double-storey homes, and needs one for outbuildings unless they are under 120 square metres, no more than 6 metres high and behind the front setback.
Along the river, a landscape overlay lets a building go ahead without a permit only if it is under 6 metres high, adds no more than 50 square metres, uses muted, natural, low-reflective colours, changes ground level by no more than 600 millimetres and is more than 50 metres from the top of the bank. Floodway and inundation overlays cover low ground; sheds open on all sides and decks raised on stumps or piers are exempt from the inundation overlay.
Looking after the school, the halls or a church in Shelford? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
What Shelford’s village, estate and farm homes need most.
Stone and timber buildings in the village.
Timber cottages with bluestone chimneys.
Verandahs for village and farm homes.
Raised decks on stumps near the river.
Single-storey additions that suit the estate rules.
Post and wire fences on the Manse estate.
Old doors and sashes kept working.
Village, Manse estate or farm, as each has its own rules.
We check all three before pricing.
Itemised, with the travel included.
New work matched to the old, and the site cleaned up.
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.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
A timber bridge replaced the ford across the Leigh at Shelford in 1840, and Captain Francis Ormond built the Settlers Arms Inn there in 1843. The iron box girder bridge that followed is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
The 2021 census counted 263 residents with a median age of 39. A heritage village, a new estate and river rules are why the work here is careful and well planned.
Teesdale • Inverleigh • Meredith • Lethbridge • Rokewood
Shelford borders Bamganie, Barunah Park, Rokewood, Teesdale, Inverleigh, Mount Mercer, Meredith, Hesse and Lethbridge.
Tell us whether you’re in the village, the estate or on a farm, and we will come back with a free estimate.