Emu Bottom Homestead

Built c. 1836, Emu Bottom is the oldest existing farmhouse constructed by settlers in Victoria.

"[3] The main homestead and some of its outlying buildings were constructed from "local stone, dry coursed with creek mud.

"[4] Emu Bottom is also a rare example of early Australian colonial architecture, with its "twelve paned deeply recessed windows ... recalling the old world ... while the homestead (was) also intelligently adapted to the new environment" with its wide verandas and easterly aspect.

George Evans (1785–1876), who had arrived on the Schooner Enterprize from Van Diemen’s Land in 1835, settled near modern-day Sunbury.

In 1968 under the direction of architects John and Phyllis Murphy, expert and painstaking restoration was carried out; the additions of the previous hundred years …were unmade.