Woolmers Estate

{{Short description|Heritage place in Longford, Tasmania}}

{{Use Australian English|date=November 2014}}

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{{Infobox building

| name = Woolmers Estate

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| image = WoolmersEstateLongford.jpg

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| caption = The front entrance of the Woolmers main house.

| building_type =

| architectural_style = Italianate

| material =

| owner = Woolmers Foundation Inc.

| location =

| address = Woolmers Lane, Longford TAS 7301

| location_town = Longford, Tasmania

| location_country = Australia

| start_date = 1819

| completion_date = 1843

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| architect = William Archer

| website = {{url|woolmers.com.au}}

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| designation1 = WHS

| designation1_type = Cultural

| designation1_criteria = iv, vi

| designation1_date = 2010 (34th session)

| designation1_partof = Australian Convict Sites

| designation1_number = [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1306 1306]

| designation1_free1name = Region

| designation1_free1value = Asia-Pacific

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Woolmers Estate is a farming estate located in Longford, Tasmania, founded in 1817{{cite news|title=Closure spectre hangs over Woolmers Estate|url=http://www.examiner.com.au/story/156837/closure-spectre-hangs-over-woolmers-estate/|access-date=27 September 2014|publisher=The Examiner|date=21 June 2012}} by prominent grazier and member of parliament Thomas Archer. It consists of an 82ha property, including a two-part manor house, coach house, the National Rose Garden, extensive outbuildings and convict cottages and formal gardens. The main house consists of a brick nog weatherboard homestead, built in 1819, with an attached extensive addition in Italiate style, designed by William Archer and built in 1842-1843.{{cite web|title=Tasmanian Heritage Register Entry - Woolmers Estate|url=http://www.heritage.tas.gov.au/media/pdf/convict_sites/Woolmers.pdf|website=heritage.tas.gov.au|publisher=Tasmanian Heritage Council|access-date=27 September 2014}} From the 1819 completion of the main house to 1994, it was one of the main ancestral homes of the Archer family.{{cite web |title=Woolmers Estate - Australian Convict Site - UNESCO - Heritage - History |url=https://www.woolmers.com.au/history/ |website=Woolmers Estate |access-date=11 September 2021}}

It is listed on the Tasmanian Heritage Register. Along with Brickendon Estate, Woolmers was inscribed onto the Australian National Heritage List in November 2007 as being of outstanding national significance because of their close association with the convict consignment system{{cite news|title=National recognition for two Tas colonial homesteads|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-11-24/national-recognition-for-two-tas-colonial/735146|access-date=27 September 2014|publisher=The Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=24 November 2007}}{{Citation | last = Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts | title = Woolmers Estate | url = http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/woolmers-estate/index.html | accessdate = 2010-06-06 }} and in July 2010 included on the World Heritage list as Australian Convict Sites and amongst the world's[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1306 UNESCO's World Heritage "Australian Convict Sites" webpages] Accessed 2 August 2010

" .. best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers through the presence and labour of convicts"