AMERICAN COTTAGE

21 STATION STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 27622

Moreland Railway Station

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  • American Cottage - National Trust
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  • Physical Description 1

    AMERICAN COTTAGE - Physical Description 1

    American Cottage is a single storey timber framed attic house. It is a symmetrical composition in the carpenter Gothic idiom of the late 19th century and is derivative in expression of American weatherboard house traditions. The house has walls of weatherboard and a very steeply pitched red-painted corrugated iron roof, cross-gabled in plan. The transverse gable is punctuated with bichrome brick chimneys. Cast iron verandah posts with Corinthian capitals support a small projecting balcony with decorative timber balustrading which forms the front entrance porch. The timber windows are topped with heavy timber pelmets, and the roof gables have ornate bargeboards of a highly unusual design and small finials.
    
    American Cottage was originally painted in a light stone colour with contrasting trim. Its original ornate iron fence has been replaced with timber pickets.(3) Some original interior decoration survives. The house is well maintained, and with the exception of the redecoration, remains intact.
    
    Plantings include a New Zealand Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis) near the front door.
    (3) Register of the National Estate, File No. C/05/06.
    
    Key Architectural Elements: unusual carpenter Gothic style
    timber detailsbargeboards, balcony balustrade, window pelmets
    bichrome brick chimneys
    sympathetic plantingCordyline australis

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review

    Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
    Year: 1999
    Grading: State

    Moreland - City of Coburg Heritage Conservation & Streetscape Study

    Author: Timothy Hubbard Pty Ltd
    Year: 1991
    Grading:

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