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

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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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COUPER'S ORCHARD - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
5.02 - Orchards & market gardens
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 Some original structural elements have been replaced by steel trusses.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.
COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
COUPER'S ORCHARD - Integrity
Integrity Minor modifications
COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 2
Threats Deterioration
COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 3
Key elements
Buildings
Outbuildings
Plantings
COUPER'S ORCHARD - Physical Description 4
Associations
Read family
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading: Local
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FOURTH HILL TUNNELVictorian Heritage Inventory
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HOUSE AT 138-140 Brysons RoadManningham City
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HOOPER COTTAGEManningham City
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