Cottage atTarwin Parkq
Arbuthnot Road,, TARWIN LOWER VIC 3956 - Property No B7221
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Statement of Significance
The cottage at Tarwin Park is made up of four of the cottages brought from Tarwin Meadows, which were bolted together under the one roof. It is of weatherboard with a gabled iron roof. The floors are believed to have been made from timber from the 1900 wreck of the Magnat in Venus Bay. A skillion and verandah have been added, and the chimneys and the windows (apart from those on the south side) are not original. The iron gates into the cottage garden are believed to have come from Tarwin Meadows.
How is it significant? The Tarwin Park cottage at Tarwin Lower is significant for historical reasons at a Regional level to South Gippsland Shire.
Why is it significant? The cottage at Tarwin Park is historically significant as the only remaining building from the Tarwin Meadows run of George Black, an important pioneer of South Gippsland. It is a reminder of, and the only extant survivor of, the Tarwin Meadows property, the largest and most important run in the area, and of the Tarwin Park property of his son Archibald Black. It is also historically significant as an illustration of the accommodation that was once provided for workers on country properties, as well as a reminder of the transport of early timber buildings.
Classified: 08/09/2004
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Cottage atTarwin Parkq - Physical Description 1
The present cottage at Tarwin Park is made up of four of the nineteenth century weatherboard cottages transported from Tarwin Meadows, which are joined together by bolts.
Cottage atTarwin Parkq - Intactness
The cottage is still used as a residence, and is in very good condition. It is substantially intact, though an extension with a lounge, bedroom and bathroom has been added along the north side, and a verandah been added on the other. The original doorways have been blocked up and relocated, and some of the windows were replaced with some taken from the homestead in c1941. The original cottage had small windows of cedar and hardwood. Evidence of the original form of the cottages remains in the boarded up doors, the weatherboard stop in the south wall, and the internal weatherboard lining of the present entry hall. Only the windows on the south side appear to be original and the present brick chimneys are not original. The roof was replaced in 1995-6.
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JOHN SIMPSON GRAVEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Tarwin Lower Butter Factory (former)South Gippsland Shire
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JOHN SIMPSON MEMORIALSouth Gippsland Shire
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