TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY
18-20 Hartley Rd and 114-116 Jumping Creek Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
This complex, once known as The Oaks - comprising main house, tea rooms, cottage and office, and its oak trees - has regional significance demonstrating the role of recreational activities and tourism within the district during the earliy twentieth century. The small office may have been moved from Collins Street by the first lessee of the property in 1893, Meredith Hughes, a Melbourne monumental mason. The Hughes family were associated with the property over a long period. Mrs Florence Sharp (nee Hughes) ran the tearooms there in the first decades of this century. (Criterion A4, B2, H1)
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TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
3.01 - Travel sites
TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY - Physical Description 1
Former tourist complex containing: house, tearooms, office, cottage and oak trees, now on two residential allotments (Tod Park, 18-20 Hartley Rd contains the office and main house, and the Parkinson's property (114-116 Jumping Creek Road) contains the tea rooms, a cottage and oak trees).
The timber house was once a four-roomed dwelling, the step between the two gabled sections suggesting it may have been built in two stages. Internally it retains much of its timber-linings and dado. One internal wall and both fireplaces and chimneys have been removed. It has been extended at both ends.
The office is a small timber building, about 3m by 2.4m, with a gable roof. The door is approx.
600mm wide and is made of vertical boards; it bears a "462" number plate and a letter slot.
The tea rooms is a two-roomed building with a gabled, corrugated iron roof (originally thatched)
and lined internally with timber panelling. One room appears to be a kitchen. A concrete block chimney and mantelpiece remains. Externally, the building is clad with ti-tree poles set as geometric panels, with the lower walls clad in brush. One side is clad with weatherboards.
Nearby is a timber and asbestos cement sheet cottage, one of two that housed the aunts of the Gambetta family.
TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY - Integrity
Integrity Intact
TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY - Physical Description 2
Threats None apparent
TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY - Physical Description 3
Associations
Meredith Hughes, Florence Sharp, Tom...
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:
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COOLIBAHManningham City
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BARAK'S BIRTHPLACEManningham City
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WONGA PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 3241 AND RESIDENCEManningham City
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