Australian Westworld: Entire Victorian wild west village with its own saloon, jail, brothel for sale

A whole wild west village complete with a jail, church and brothel built at a house northwest of Melbourne is up for grabs.

Alesha Capone

2 min read

March 30, 2023 - 2:55PM

Inside Victoria’s Wild West village that is now up for sale.

A property near Daylesford with its own wild west-style village featuring a saloon and courthouse is saddling up for a sale.

Owner Chris Olver built the private village with his wife Shirley on their 5.06ha property named “Cheyenne” at 35 Mystic Drive, Yandoit.

As a big fan of westerns, Mr Olver dubbed the village “Cross Creek” in honour of a town from the 1956 movie The Fastest Gun Alive.

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Buyers interested in the couple’s three-bedroom house with a home cinema can also snap up the village’s jail, general store, church, blacksmith, picture theatre, stagecoach booking office, brothel and grain store for the $1.8m asking price.

Mr Olver built Cross Creek from recycled materials he collected while working as a truck driver.

“I thought, ‘I’ll build a little building, before I knew it I had another one and then another one,” Mr Olver said.

“It’s a bit of Australian colonial with the American wild west.”

An aerial shot of the house and the ‘Westworld-style’ village.

Welcome to Cross Creek, which Chris Olver has spent more than two decades building.

The front of the main house that Mr Olver and wife Shirley live in.

Inside the house there’s a kitchen with a Technika oven and generous pantry.

A builder friend and the Olvers’ son, a plumber, assisted with the construction.

The village is fitted out with old-fashioned objects collected from antique stores and garage sales, and US imports.

Horse carts, anvils, cactus plants all appear around the premises.

The church’s exterior.

The Australian flag greets visitors.

There’s a cemetery with false gravestones and a mining set-up, as a nod to Yandoit’s Gold Rush history.

Leafy views from the veranda.

There are two dams on the property too.

He runs a vintage 16mm projector in the picture theatre, showing old movies and television shows like Gunsmoke and Laurel and Hardy.

Book a horse and carriage at the ‘Cobb & Coy’ office.

The main house’s light-filled kitchen.

The main house also has a cinema.

McQueen Real Estate director Kim McQueen said Cheyenne described Cheyenne as amazing”.

“Pending council approval, it would be a great place to host weddings and events,” Ms McQueen said.

The property offers “spectacular views” of Mt Franklin, a cellar, two dams with a pump for garden irrigation, 50,000 litres of water storage, a double garage and carport.