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1) WINGROVE COTTAGE AND 2) TWO PENCIL PINE TREES, 672-674 MAIN ROAD, ELTHAM
672-674 MAIN ROAD ELTHAM, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

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Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Colour 3 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Colour 3 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Colour 3 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Colour 1 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Colour 2 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
192 - Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd - Old photograph (ELHPC no?) - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
192 - Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd 02 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
192 - Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd 03 - Katherine Rose Wingrove (died 1896) memorial in St. Margaret's Anglican Church in Pitt St - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
192 - Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd 04 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Black & White 1 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
Wingrove Cottage Pines 672 674 Main Rd Colour 4 - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992
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Statement of Significance

REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010

What is significant?
The c1859 Wingrove Cottage and two Pencil Pines (Italian Cypresses, cupressus sempervirens), mature exotic plantings, including hedge plants, the site and the road reserve to a radius of 10 meters from the pencil pines.

How is it significant?
The cottage is historically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

The Pencil Pine trees are historically and aesthetically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?
Wingrove Cottage is historically significant for its long association with Charles Wingrove, a prominent figure in Victorian local government, as secretary to the Eltham District Road Board and Shire Council from 1858 to 1904, and Shire Engineer and Secretary to the Heidelberg Road Board (Criterion H). Also because the cottage was used as the office of the Eltham District Road Board and Council for many years (Criterion A). Also as one of the Shire's oldest dwellings, and as one of the few surviving 19th century buildings associated with early Eltham and located in the original Eltham Village Reserve (Criterion B).

The symmetrical planting of the pair of Pencil Pines is historically and aesthetically significant as characteristic of the early period of planting in the district and because they are a distinctive landscape feature (Criteria A, H & E).

BUTLER STUDY, 2001
Wingrove's cottage, built 1858-59, and two Italian cypress are significant to the Shire:

. for their long associations with Charles S. Wingrove, a prominent figure in Victorian local government, as secretary to the Eltham District Road Board and Shire Council from 1858 to 1904, and Shire Engineer and Secretary to the Heidelberg Road Board.

. for the cottage's use as the office of the Eltham Road Board and Council for many years.

. as one of the Shire's oldest dwellings, one of the few surviving 19th century buildings associated with early Eltham and located within the original Eltham Village Reserve south of Dalton Street; and . .

. for the distinctive landscape quality, the symmetrical planting of a pair of cypress trees being characteristic of the period of planting in the district.

BASIS OF SIGNIFICANCE:

ILLUSTRATION OF THE THEMES

HISTORY

ARCHITECTURE

HORTICULTURE

DEGREE OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE

EXTENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

WINGROVE COTTAGE, TWO PENCIL PINE TREES, MATURE EXOTIC PLANTING INCLUDING HEDGE PLANTS AND ENTIRE SITE AND ROAD RESERVETO A RADIUS OF 10 METRES OF THE TWO PENCIL PINES.

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    • Historical Australian Themes

      1) WINGROVE COTTAGE AND 2) TWO PENCIL PINE TREES, 672-674 MAIN ROAD, ELTHAM - Historical Australian Themes

      PROMINENT RESIDENTS (CHARLES S. WINGROVE)

      EARLY SETTLEMENT

      THE ORIGINAL ELTHAM TOWNSHIP

      TOWNSHIP DEVELOPMENT

      8.12 Living in and around Australian homes

      8.14 Living in the country and rural settlements

      Physical Description 1

      1) WINGROVE COTTAGE AND 2) TWO PENCIL PINE TREES, 672-674 MAIN ROAD, ELTHAM - Physical Description 1

      Cottage

      Style Victorian.

      Design standard.

      Plan rectangular.

      Single storeyed.

      Walls solid face brick.

      Roof gabled with shallow eaves, slate clad. Features are the symmetrical facade of the building, timber verandahs, slate roof (which is very rare in the Shire), the construction in two stages visible in the brickwork and the mature exotic site planting which is the remnants of the garden and other site planting.

      Two Pencil Pines

      A pair of trees planted symmetrically, of upright form and in good condition. Planted at the property frontage they are in a prominent position and highly visible to passing traffic.Similar trees to these were planted in front of Shillinglaw's cottage and other early housesin the locality including Ellis Cottage at Diamond Creek.

      Usage/Former Usage

      1) WINGROVE COTTAGE AND 2) TWO PENCIL PINE TREES, 672-674 MAIN ROAD, ELTHAM - Usage/Former Usage

      Original Use:

      Home of Charles S. Wingrove and Office of the Eltham District Road Board and Shire Council

      Later Use: Medical Clinic

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Nillumbik - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study

      Author: David Bick
      Year: 1992
      Grading:

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