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Jenkin's Cottage
334 Mount Dandenong Road CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY

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Jenkins Cottage
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Statement of Significance

An early timber symmetrical cottage built in c1872 for pioneering dairy farmers Peter and Robert Jenkins, who had settled as early as 1861. It is probably the oldest house in Croydon, and still located in an evocative setting. It has historic significance to the Melbourne region as a pioneering building surviving from rural settlement, now engulfed by suburban development. It is an extraordinary embodiment of the way of life in the earliest settlement of Croydon. It is architecturally significant as an early symmetrical cottage, rare in this context.

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    • Physical Description 1

      Jenkin's Cottage - Physical Description 1

      A double-fronted symmetrical timber early cottage, with a gabled-roof across, extending at break-pitch as a skillion addition at rear, and two detached brick chimneys. It is still on a large block, set well back, with seven Cypresses on the boundary and one other on the site of no. 338, with a Cyclone chain-link fence.

      Integrity

      Jenkin's Cottage - Integrity

      The front verandah has been infilled, and the rear chimney extended. The later chain-link fence is not intrusive.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Identification Study

      Author: Richard Peterson with Peter Barrett
      Year: 1998
      Grading:

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