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COUPER'S ORCHARD
139-141 Brysons Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City

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22730 Orchard - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park
22730 Orchard - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park
22730 Orchard - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park
22730 Orchard Shed - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park
22730 Orchard Shed - 139-141Brysons Road, Wonga Park (2)
22730 House - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park (1)
22730 House - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park (2)
22730 House - 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park (3)
22730 House 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park (4)
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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

Couper's Orchard complex at 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park, comprising a fibro-cement clad house and a corrugated iron-clad timber shed set in a re-planted orchard.

How is it Significant?

Couper's Orchard, 139-141 Brysons Road, Wonga Park is of local historic significance to Manningham City.

Why is it Significant?

Of historic significance as an orchard house and shed of the Second World War period, located within a replanted orchard, illustrating the district's long associations with the fruit growing industry. Associated with Les Read, a member of a district orcharding family. (RNE criteria A4, H1)

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    • Historical Australian Themes

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Historical Australian Themes

      Local Themes

      5.02 - Orchards & market gardens

      Physical Description 1

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 1

      The c.1945 house at 139-41 Bryson's Road is built on bush stumps, using Yellow Box timber. It is a small house, externally clad in asbestos cement sheet, with a CGI roof, large chimneys, and timber-framed windows. The cladding was originally unpainted, but the facade and one side have recently been painted dark green. Some of the cladding on the rear appears to have been replaced fairly recently.

      Nearby is a large shed, with a central gabled-roof, with two skillion sections each side. Externally clad in more recent corrugated iron, the interior reveals the heavy bush poles and sawn timber framing that were part of the original structure. Some original structural elements have been replaced by steel trusses. Part of the shed is lined with palings. The right-side skillion section has a smaller, newer steel roller shutter than the left-hand side. A further skillion-roof extension has been add to the left side.

      The orchard landscape creates a continuity of setting, but does not retain any of the older orchard trees.

      Physical Conditions

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Conditions

      Condition Good

      Integrity

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Integrity

      Integrity Minor modifications

      Physical Description 2

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 2

      Threats Deterioration

      Physical Description 3

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 3

      Key elements

      Buildings

      Outbuildings

      Plantings

      Physical Description 4

      COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 4

      Associations

      Read family

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 2006
      Grading: Local

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