CORK OAK & WOODLANDS, FORMER INEBRIATE

Walnut Grove BEACONSFIELD UPPER, Cardinia Shire

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Cork Oak

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  • Physical Description 1

    CORK OAK & WOODLANDS, FORMER INEBRIATE - Physical Description 1

    In Walnut Grove, off Telegraph Road, there is a former reputed Inebriate Home for Women with a nearby very mature and notable cork oak which is thought to be contemporary with the first phase of the building.
    The house appears at first to be an altered hipped roof Edwardian-era timber house, with an attached skillion kitchen (with multi-pane glazing) and a brick chimney with a corbelled top.
    
    However closer inspection reveals its thick inner walls, pole and beam frame and earth construction, indicating an earlier core to the outer Edwardian-era veneer of rough-cast render and four added weatherboarded rooms. The verandah may also be from this era. Inside there is stained and lacquered T&G boarding to the ceilings and walls.
    
    Garden Mature planting includes: Quercus suber (cork oak) which is recommended to the National Trust of Australia (Vic) significant tree register; lemon tree; Arbutus unedo (Irish strawberry); Photinia serrulata; Eriobotrya japonica (loquat); cordyline; Camellia japonica (camellia); Chaenomeles speciosus (Japanese flowering quince); pear (Beurre Bosc); and a row of 8 Syncarpia glomulifera (turpentine tree) on nearby land.
    
    

    Physical Conditions

    CORK OAK & WOODLANDS, FORMER INEBRIATE - Physical Conditions

    The skillion appears to be an addition or in an altered form and the house framing has been badly eaten by white ants.
    
    

    Historical Australian Themes

    CORK OAK & WOODLANDS, FORMER INEBRIATE - Historical Australian Themes

    Themes
    

    7.2 Popular holiday resorts. Guest house era and later
    7.7 Retreats (religious retreats, inebriate retreats, sanatoriums)

    Physical Description 2

    CORK OAK & WOODLANDS, FORMER INEBRIATE - Physical Description 2

    Associations - Blair, Dr. John and Mrs D; Hicks, William M

    Integrity

    CORK OAK & WOODLANDS, FORMER INEBRIATE - Integrity

    Inebriate's house no longer extant (Cardinia Shire Coucil site inspection 2015). New residence constructed in same location circe late 1990s/200s; potentially archaeological remains of the former retreat beneath the decking. C. Philippou.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996

    Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
    Year: 1996
    Grading: State

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