MINER'S COTTAGE
498B High Street, GOLDEN SQUARE VIC 3555 - Property No 237471
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Statement of Significance
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MINER'S COTTAGE - Integrity
The place has a high degree of integrity, although there are some later changes and
alterations.
MINER'S COTTAGE - Physical Conditions
Fair in need of maintenance and upgrade
MINER'S COTTAGE - Physical Description 1
The cottage is a small single room-width, double fronted early miners cottage, dating from at least
1873, as evidenced by the four pane double hung timber windows, and general proportioning of the
front facade. The building has a simple front corrugated ridge roof with rear skillion section and one
external brick chimney. The two front timber windows are located either side of the door. The
structure is built off the ground with timber stumps and timber flooring. The height of the basic timber
frame is higher than many other miners cottages, suggesting the structure may have been purchased
and constructed by skilled tradesmen. There are a number of out buildings at the rear of the lot.
The timber frame timber weatherboard cottage is located within an original Miners Residency Area
that has since been converted to Torrens Title. The parcel of land backs onto Bendigo Creek and to
the south a small creek- channel, the former Adelaide Gully. To the north is another very early miners
cottage, which is smaller than the subject building, but unlike the property at 498-500 High Street, the
original allotment has been subdivided with a small 1940-1950s bungalow house sited slightly to the
rear side of the cottage.
These two historic cottages together with later Victorian cottage (c.1880s) at approximately 494 High
Street are the first historic buildings to be seen at the entrance to Bendigo from the south and
Kangaroo Flat, and inclusive of that latter area. The majority of residences in this section of the main
road approaches to Bendigo are post war houses with some interwar bungalows.
The subject building therefore is one of a few representative examples of structures that date to the
19th century gold rush in Golden Square, which can be seen along Bendigo Creek where the first
alluvial gold rush was located and where thousands of miners congregated in the early days of
Bendigo. It is one of a group of three timber cottages, which are very modest in size and typical of
miners cottages located in a former alluvial mining relic landscape, which can be seen in the public
land alongside Bendigo Creek.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Advisor report
Author: City of Greater Bendigo
Year: 2016
Grading: Local
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