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COTTAGE AT 14 - 20 Brackenbury Street
14-20 Brackenbury Street WARRANDYTE, Manningham City

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22631 Cottage - 14-20 Brackenbury Street, Warrandyte
22631 Cottage - 14-20 Brackenbury Street, Warrandyte
22631 Cottage - 14-20 Brackenbury Street, Warrandyte
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Statement of Significance

20 Brackenbury Street, Warrandyte is a small timber and fibro Bungalow, built in the 1920s. It is of some architectural interest as characteristic and relatively intact of this building type, which may have once been more common in Warrandyte. It is of historic interest in having survived destruction in bushfires particularly that of 1939, as evidence of unpretentious family life in rural Warrandyte before the Great Depression and, it is said locally, as the home of the last mounted policeman in Warrandyte.

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    • Physical Description 1

      COTTAGE AT 14 - 20 Brackenbury Street - Physical Description 1

      This is a small, well-elevated, double-fronted, strapped asbestos-cement clad, timber-framed Bungalow with a gabled roof, facing the street. The right bay is set forward as a minor gable, with a flat-roofed verandah in the angle, its exposed rafters tapered. The ogee profile roof gutters survive and upper gables have rectangular louvred vents, and the raised basement is clad with ripple-iron. Tthere are generally small triple-sash casement windows on the facade, single windows on the sides, with the upper section unusually divided by glazing bars into double lights, a characteristic three-panelled entry door and a red brick external chimney, with a pair of small fixed windows set into it.

      There is a tubular-framed half Union Jack profile vehicular gate; a Cyclone-type, chain-linked tubular framed pedestrian gate, with a curlicue metal ribbon upper panel, hung from a split timber post, which are not original. There is also a mass concrete tank stand and an early Hills-type hoist; and various mature trees particularly Eucalypts and cultivars.

      The roof plumbing is not connected to downpipes; rabbits and a sheep occupy the subfloor, whose cladding is deteriorated.

      The balustrade has been unsympathetically replaced and the verandah posts are now unpainted oak; the plumbing has also been replaced and a bargeboard is missing.

      Physical Conditions

      COTTAGE AT 14 - 20 Brackenbury Street - Physical Conditions

      Condition Fair

      Integrity

      COTTAGE AT 14 - 20 Brackenbury Street - Integrity

      Integrity Minor Modifications

      Physical Description 2

      COTTAGE AT 14 - 20 Brackenbury Street - Physical Description 2

      Key elements

      Building

      Fence/gate

      Tree(s)

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 2006
      Grading:

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