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We can repair and add to Smythesdale’s gold-era homes and newer township homes, and build verandahs and sheds on its rural living blocks. Most of the locality is under the Bushfire Management Overlay, so we check what applies first.
Smythesdale is a gold-rush town on the Glenelg Highway, with a heritage main street, sewered township blocks and rural living land around it.
Brooke Street has gold-era brick buildings, including the 1860 court house, and a Federation-era weatherboard house. The township was sewered in 2012, and more than 60 new homes have gone up in the past decade on blocks of about 1,000 square metres. Older weatherboards need repairs, verandahs and doors kept right; newer homes need decks and outdoor rooms.
The Smythesdale Heritage Precinct has no paint or fence controls, but places like the Court House Hotel and the State School building on Becker Street do, and the 1860 court house is on the Victorian Heritage Register. A design overlay over the town centre asks for a landscape plan and design report with applications.
Rural living lots are typically 1.5 to 2 hectares, and a dwelling needs a permit on anything under 8 hectares. The Bushfire Management Overlay covers 94% of the locality and about 60% of addresses, though an extension adding no more than half the floor area, or an outbuilding under 100 square metres that goes with the house and isn’t used for accommodation, needs no bushfire permit.
Running a shop on Brooke Street or a business on Junipers Road, or looking after the school or a community building? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page for Smythesdale.
What Smythesdale’s older cottages, township homes and rural blocks need.
Gold-era buildings on and around Brooke Street.
Federation-era and later weatherboards matched.
Verandahs to the bushfire attack level, on most of the locality.
Decks for homes built since the town was sewered.
Additions within the half-the-floor-area bushfire exemption.
Sashes and doors in older brick and timber homes.
Fences for township and rural living blocks.
Tell us the street; Brooke Street and the town centre have their own rules.
We check the precinct, any individual listing and the bushfire overlay.
Free, with the travel and any permit step included.
Profiles, paint and fixings matched to the original.
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.
Gold was found at Smythesdale in 1853, and by 1861 the town had a court house and its own borough council. The brick court house of 1860 is on the Victorian Heritage Register.
The 2021 census counted 1,189 residents with a median age of 39. A gold-era main street, newer township homes and bush blocks are why the work here ranges from heritage repair to verandahs.
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Smythesdale borders Scarsdale, Ross Creek, Hillcrest, Haddon, Snake Valley, Nintingbool and Smythes Creek.
Tell us about the house and its street, and we will check the heritage and fire rules and send a free estimate.