Heritage restoration a dream project for Perth couple

By NICOLE CAIRNSJan. 22, 2014, 9:42 p.m.

RAY Dymock has renovated many properties with his wife Joanne in Perth, but it was their dream to restore a heritage property.

RAY Dymock has renovated many properties with his wife Joanne in Perth, but it was their dream to restore a heritage property.

We had friends in Ballarat who told us about this property, so we decided to come over and have a look, but I thought that we couldnt afford that, Mr Dymock said.

We flew down on the Friday and ended up making an offer before we left on the Tuesday.

When we got off the plane arriving home in Perth, I had a message to say it had been accepted.

The couple packed their ute with tools, clothes and a coffee machine and travelled to Ballarat.

Mr Dymock said he and Joanne had spent countless hours trying to recover the history of the grand building on the corner of Eyre and Dawson streets, but with little luck.

We think it was built in the mid-1880s, but we cant find much about it, so thats going from the architecture, he said. Originally it was known as Wandella Mansion.

The building had been a boarding house, as well as a home to large families.

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