CAMPBELL'S COTTAGE
105 OAKLANDS ROAD BULLA, HUME CITY
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
This record has minimal details. Please look to the right-hand-side bar for any further details about this record.
-
-
CAMPBELL'S COTTAGE - History
Weatherboard cottage built in 1673 by Duncan Campbell on the original Bulla Town Common, which was subdivided into about fifty small farms under the Land Act in the 18705 (Moloney and Johnson 1998). Inhabited into the twentieth century and still in use during the 19905; the main structure burned down in a fire in 1999.
CAMPBELL'S COTTAGE - Interpretation of Site
Built as a weatherboard house in 1873, probably little altered over the course of its use during the late-19th and 20th century; destroyed in a fire in 1999 (Sandy Kerry, pers. comm.); subequent installation of services neaT the location of the former house. The standing chimney stack displays minor repairs to the brickwork and the exterior had been rendered in plaster which is more recent than the original structure.
CAMPBELL'S COTTAGE - Archaeological Significance
The archaeological significance of the site is low. The site's long-term habitation may have resulted in cultural deposits relating to the 19th- and 20th-century history of the Bulla district. Demolition of the structure following a fire in 1999 is likely to have diminished the archaeological potential of the site, although it is likely that cultural deposits may remain in the area of the fomer house and particularly around the standing chimney stack and fireplace.
CAMPBELL'S COTTAGE - Historical Significance
The site's historical significance is as an example of a building related with the' Selection provision of the Land Act in the 18705 which subdivided the previously existing tenurial arrangement. dating from the 18505, of a 'Common' for the parish of Bulla Bulla.
Heritage Inventory Description
CAMPBELL'S COTTAGE - Heritage Inventory Description
Site of weatherboard building known as Campbell's Cottage, now only the brick chimney stack at the north remains.The standing chimney and fireplace are built of small hand-made bricks on granite footings with an iron lintel across the top of the fireplace. The chimney stands to its full height; cement render on the outside of the chimney stack is later than the original structure.
-
-
-
-
-
WOODLANDS HOMESTEAD, STABLES AND OUTBUILDINGSVictorian Heritage Register H1612
-
WOODLANDSVictorian Heritage Inventory
-
ST MARY'S CHURCH SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
-
-