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MT VIEW (WEEKENDER)
14 Viewhill Road COCKATOO, Cardinia Shire

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Cardinia Shire

Mt View (Weekender)

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

Built as a weekender just after World War One, Mt. View is significant to the Cardinia Shire for its links with one of the district's more modest resorts and adds a specific type of house to the variety of near original housing and gardens in the district. The house is also significant for its comparative age among other Cockatoo houses, rarity as a type (i.e. a weekender in Cockatoo, now a commuter suburb). It is also a reflection of past now discontinued activities in this part of the shire.

Regional Significance

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- Physical Description 1
  
  MT VIEW (WEEKENDER) - Physical Description 1
  
  This gabled weatherboard house has a skillion-form hipped front verandah which is ornamented with a slatted frieze and fretted brackets and returns down one side. A gable at the centre of the verandah provides more detail and a simple finial. The roof is clad with corrugated iron.
  
  There are tree-ferns along the front of the house but otherwise there is a large lawn expanse between it and the frontage. A later out-building stands to one side of the house.
  
  A plan of a 1920 weekender built by Hill & Frost shows a large living room, backed by a kitchen and flanked by bedrooms. A verandah was one three sides with a part enclosure at one end (bathroom?)
  
  (see D Griffin collection)
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  MT VIEW (WEEKENDER) - Physical Conditions
  
  The verandah balustrade has been replaced with rails (once slatted?) and the side verandah possibly built in.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  MT VIEW (WEEKENDER) - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Historical Themes
  
  7.2 Popular holiday resorts. Guest house era and later
  
  10.9 Holiday houses, gardens
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  MT VIEW (WEEKENDER) - Physical Description 2
  
  Associations - Moore, Clarence
  
  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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- FORMER COCKATOO KINDERGARTEN
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H2303
- CASH & CO. & FORMER COCKATOO POST OFFICE
  
  Cardinia Shire
- PROVIDENCE HOUSE, FORMER SUNDAY SCHOOL
  
  Cardinia Shire
- 'GUNYAH', FIRST CANTERBURY TROOP SCOUT HALL & CAMBERWELL NORTH GUIDE HALL
  
  Boroondara City
- 1) ELTHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE, 2) PEPPERCORN TREE, 3) MATURE EXOTIC PLANTING AND 4) WHEEL RIM (TYRING) TOOL IN THE GROUNDS
  
  Nillumbik Shire
- 10 Down Street
  
  Yarra City