Back to search results

PIRRAH
55 Pilleau Street, COLERAINE VIC 3315 - Property No 088

All information on this page is maintained by Southern Grampians Shire. Click below for their website and contact details.
Southern Grampians Shire
On this page:

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The brick cottage at 55 Pilleau Street, Coleraine is a simple single storey symmetrical building in the mid-Victorian vernacular style. It is located two blocks south of the main street of Coleraine. Built some time before 1872, and possibly as early as 1862, it was the long term home of labourer, Michael Mahoney and his family. Its humble form, its materials and simplicity of detailing are conventional for such a dwelling at this time. The cottage is in good condition and has a fair degree of integrity.

How is it significant?

The brick cottage at 55 Pilleau Street, Coleraine is of historical and architectural significance to the community of Coleraine.

Why is it significant?

The brick cottage at 55 Pilleau Street, Coleraine is of historical significance for demonstrating living conditions and lifestyle of the labouring or working class in Coleraine in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is of architectural significance as a typical example of a vernacular cottage.

Show more
Show less

    • Physical Conditions

      PIRRAH - Physical Conditions

      The cottage is in good condition and retains a fair degree of integrity.

      Physical Description 1

      PIRRAH - Physical Description 1

      The brick cottage at 55 Pilleau Street is a simple, symmetrical single storey brick cottage, set close to the street on the western boundary of the allotment (Troeth, 91). It has a shallow pitched corrugated iron hip roof. The simple timber front verandah verandah with a corrugated iron roof is probably original. It has been enclosed at both ends by weatherboard walls. The plan is conventional with a central hall and four main rooms in the front wing. A weatherboard skillion is attached at the rear. There are two chimneys, one on the east elevation and one on the west.

      Historical Australian Themes

      PIRRAH - Historical Australian Themes

      Theme 4: Building settlements, towns and cities

      4.5 Making settlements to serve rural Australia

      Usage/Former Usage

      PIRRAH - Usage/Former Usage

      residential

      Intactness

      PIRRAH - Intactness

      Good degree of intactness. (Not inspected internally)

      Physical Description 2

      PIRRAH - Physical Description 2

      Michael Mahoney, first owner.

      Mahoney family

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Southern Grampians - Southern Grampians Shire Heritage Study

      Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, Annabel Neylon
      Year: 2002
      Grading:

Public contributions

Note: Developments may span multiple time periods
Timeline browser

< to 1849
< - 1849
1850 to 1879
1850 - 1879
1880 to 1909
1880 - 1909
1910 to 1939
1910 - 1939
1940 to 1969
1940 - 1969
1970 to 1999
1970 - 1999
2000 to >
2000 - >