House & Evan Mackley Fine Art Gallery
5-7 Maroondah Highway RINGWOOD, MAROONDAH CITY

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Statement of Significance
A fine complex double-fronted English Cottage style brick house with many contextual elements of the period built c1948. It is architecturally significant locally as a fine example of this domestic style and historically in embodying comfortable family life in Ringwood after World War II.
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House & Evan Mackley Fine Art Gallery - Physical Description 1
Obscured. A complex double-fronted English cottage style, gabled roof brick house, with the left bay set forward. There is an attic dormer over, in the angle and a substantial chimney at right. The left gable has a canted, hipped-roof bay, its roof clad with flat terra-cotta glazed shingles. Walls are clinker bricks. There is a rustic porch in the angle.
The drive is paved with bricks, with a fine herring-bone centre panel. There is a large mature garden of the period with several substantial trees. The brick fence is significant individually with unusual piers of terra-cotta shingles, coursed. Various sculptures are displayed in the grounds.
House & Evan Mackley Fine Art Gallery - Intactness
Excellent.
House & Evan Mackley Fine Art Gallery - Physical Conditions
Very good.
Heritage Study and Grading
Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Study
Author: Richard Peterson Architect & Conservation Consultant
Year: 2010
Grading:
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FORMER COACH AND HORSES HOTELVictorian Heritage Inventory
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SCHWERKOLT COTTAGE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Schwerkolt's CottageNational Trust
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