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HOBSON'S (SOLDIER SETTLER) HOUSE
194 Soldiers Road RYTHDALE, Cardinia Shire

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Cardinia Shire

Hobsons Soldier Settler House

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

Built in the 1920s, Hobson's farm house is significant to the Cardinia Shire as a well-preserved example of a substantial soldier settler house. It provides good evidence of the closer or soldier settlement in the district and the draining of swamp lands for farming as well as some of the building techniques aimed at producing cheaper housing (concrete blocks).

Hobson's house is closely linked with a well-known family in the area (Hobson) and is rare in the Shire as a concrete block soldier settler house.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  HOBSON'S (SOLDIER SETTLER) HOUSE - Physical Description 1
  
  This hipped roof concrete block house has early trim colours (green), a verandah set on concrete block piers and is possibly to a War Service Home design pattern. The blocks have a rusticated finish and may have been made on the property with one of the patented block making machines of the era. The front fence is chain wire and possibly later. A Monterey cypress hedge surrounds the house allotment and related outbuildings are nearby.
  Early concrete block houses were made in New South Wales, one for a Dr Mackellar, MLC in 1907-8. The block making machine was hand-operated and the materials, such as sand and gravel were obtained from the site. However it was after the halt in construction, during the First War, that mass production techniques were sought to achieve cheap and quickly-built housing that this method became more popular.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  HOBSON'S (SOLDIER SETTLER) HOUSE - Physical Conditions
  
  The house is in externally near original and good condition.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  HOBSON'S (SOLDIER SETTLER) HOUSE - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Themes
  
  3.6Closer settlement and soldier settlement
  
  10.7 Farmhouses/farm complexes & outbuildings, gardens
  
  10.10 Closer/soldier settlers' houses, gardens
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  HOBSON'S (SOLDIER SETTLER) HOUSE - Physical Description 2
  
  Associations - Hobson, G H
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
  
  Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
  Year: 1996
  Grading: Local
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