page_title: Southampton homestead
section_title: Heritage
hierarchical_section_title: Southampton homestead / Heritage
caption_attribution_description: English: Painting by W&gt;B&gt; Benson of Southampton Homestead Mill built in 1864
context_page_description: Southampton homestead is a Victorian-Georgian historical homestead located on the banks of the Blackwood River in the south west of Western Australia.
  It was constructed in 1862 by Richard Jones and his two sons Richard and William with mud-bricks fired on the site and took two years to construct. The heritage property sits beside the Bibbulmun Track, and located some 12 km south of Balingup in the Shire of Donnybrook-Balingup.
  At the height of the settlement's prosperity, the Jones family managed some 27,500 acres of land. The family and workers produced wine, wheat, fruit and ran 600 head of cattle. Infrastructure included the Homestead proper, kitchen/bakery, flour mill, Dairy, workshops, brick kilns, jetty, boat shed and workers cottages.
  The homestead was destroyed by a bushfire in February 2013.
context_section_description: The property is highly valued by the local community and the government. It was recently awarded a triple-heritage listing with Local, State and Federal Australian government. The Conservation Plan outlines a three-phase program.  Phase 1 focused on the salvage and restoration of Southampton Homestead and adjacent Bakery Cottage.  This work was largely complete by 2002.  The homestead is typical of mid-19th century constructions and no early restoration work appears to have been attempted.  This would have damaged or altered the building's fabric, as was typical in this region in the latter half of the 20th century. The building's fabric is preserved as a result of this.
caption: Southampton Mill as painted by W.B. Benson in 1864
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