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Gloucester Cottage
1/66 Gloucester Avenue,BERWICK, Casey City

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?

'Gloucester Cottage', constructed c.1880, at 1/66 Gloucester Avenue, Berwick.


How is it significant?

'Gloucester Cottage' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.


Why is it significant?

Historically, 'Gloucester Cottage' is significant as the home of John Joseph Williams Warne, well-known district painter and decorator, and his family. The Warnes established one of Berwick's earliest businesses in Gloucester Avenue and have been district painters and decorators to the present day. (AHC criteria A4 and H1)

Aesthetically, 'Gloucester Cottage' is significant as a representative example of a Victorian Italianate house which remains largely intact. (AHC criterion E1)
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    • Physical Description 1

      Gloucester Cottage - Physical Description 1

      'Gloucester Cottage' was described in 1967 as an old weatherboard with an iron roof ' about 85 years old but well maintained'. Today, units have been built at the rear, but the symmetrical Victorian house remains largely intact. The timber ashlar facade is complemented with lozenge blocks and pendant brackets in the shallow eaves. Elaborate front windows with moulded frames and sidelights, central door with fanlight, rendered chimneys and ornate convex verandah (possibly new) are features of this Italianate villa.

      Its interior retains various Victorian features such as ten to eleven foot ceilings, cornices and ceiling roses and lathe and plaster walls in the older section.(1) Situated opposite St Margaret's School, the exterior of the cottage is enhanced by street plantings of oaks, elms and plane trees.

      SOURCES

      1. City of Berwick Valuer's records.

      Physical Conditions

      Gloucester Cottage - Physical Conditions

      Good

      Intactness

      Gloucester Cottage - Intactness

      Moderate to High

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Casey - Casey Heritage Study

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 2004
      Grading: Local

      Casey - Heritage of the City of Berwick

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 1993
      Grading:

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