Cooring Yering after the Huttons

Cooring Yering was purchased by Robert Black in 1900. The following article appeared in the Lilydale Express 7 December 1900 p2:

We are pleased to note that Mr. R Black of Coldstream has purchased through Messrs E Trenchard and Co., the Cooring Yering estate, together with Bald Hill and Rowe’s Mount owned by the Colonel Hutton and family. The Cooring Yering portion consists of splendid land, proportion being rich flats, divided into 14 paddocks with a large brick house, containing about 30 rooms, outhouses, stable, coach-house. Bald Hill comprises 304 acres of good grazing land and well-watered, and is divided into 10 paddocks. Rowe’s Mount consists of an area of 481 acres divided into 3 paddocks. The whole aggregate to about 1200 acres. This property together with Mr. Black’s Coldstream estate, will make one of the finest and most compact estates outside Melbourne and the purchaser is to congratulated on securing such a splendid property. The price paid was £12,600.

Mr F J Davey is believed to have purchased the property in the 1930s and in 1953 the 375 acre property, Cooring Yering, was purchased by Lindsay Nicholas.

Alterations were made to the house in the 1930s when the original verandah on three sides of the house was replaced and a ‘porte chocere’ was added. The original verandah posts were placed beside a garden path where they can still be seen. An extra window was added on the second storey at the front of the house. A number of the rooms were altered including nursery rooms at the back of the house that were converted into a billiard room and a breakfast room. The brickwork was concrete rendered.

In 2003 the house, surrounded by 114 acres, was still owned by the Nicholas family. The house consisted of 25 rooms including nine bedrooms, a music room, a library, a billiard room, dining and lounge rooms. The entrance to the property at 32 The Gateway was hidden by a new housing estate.

Cooring Yering 2005

Cooring Yering was again sold in 2005. View website contains images of the property at that time - a selection appear below.

Bibliography for the Cooring Yering blog posts

Aveling, Marian. Lilydale: the Billanook country 1837 – 1972. Carlton: Gary Hunt & Associates, 1972

Miller, Russell. The East Indiamen. Time-Life Books, 1980

Moorhouse, Geoffrey. India Britannia. London: Harvell Press, 1983

Tansley, Mark. The conservation of sites and structures of historical significance in the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong ranges Region. 1978. volume 2 pp 90-91

Yarra Ranges Heritage Study volume 2: Assessed Places. 2000

Patchwork in the garden at Cooring Yering – a pamphlet containing a brief history of Cooring Yering prepared for an exhibition of work by the region’s leading patchworkers and quilters held 24 November 2002

Back to Lilydale – Easter 1931 – souvenir program – collection of reminiscences

Research carried out by Peter Hutton in the 1950s and notes on family history written by George Hutton in the 1930s