House at Big Hill
building in Victoria, Australia
The House at Big Hill, was completed in 2011, designed by Kerstin Thompson Architects. This project is located at Big Hill, on the Great Ocean Road, near Lorne. It addresses the site and also considered a limited material selection as part of its main design concept.
Site and location
The building is a direct design response towards the surrounding site and situated on a sloping landscape.
The two storey house is formed by a right-angled triangle plan aligning with the existing condition of the sloping ground, which acts as a retaining wall as it is semi-recessed into the slanted site. It is orientated in a way that provides an overlook to the Bass Strait and towards the townships of Lorne and Aireys Inlet through eucalyptus with a 180 degree view.
Form and program
House at Big hill is based on a singular form. The design includes "an interest in the use of the platonic form amongst the Victorian moderns." It depicts a single storey unit housing, but in fact the second storey is located below. The program is unrestricted by the triangular geometry. Inside the house, the rooms slide into each other and it creates an unrestricted space within the house.
“House at Big Hill” enters the record as building in Victoria, Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what House, Hill and building can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“House at Big Hill” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, House, Hill and building provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12060564. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “House at Big Hill”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow House at Big Hill primary sources, House at Big Hill archive and House research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “House at Big Hill”?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
- Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “House at Big Hill” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.