Harricks Cottage

Harricks Road,, KEILOR PARK VIC 3042 - Property No B6795

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B6795 Harricks Cottage

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    Harricks Cottage - Physical Description 1

    Harricks Cottage is a single storey building of timber and weatherboard construction with a galvanised corrugated iron sheet roof. It has six rooms plus a brick fireplace and two brick-lined wells. There are three adjoining buildings and a separate shed with galvanised corrugated iron walls. The building is in poor condition and needs maintenance work such as reblocking and new gutters and downpipes.
    
    Harricks Cottage was built in a number of stages. The post and scantling hut, which forms the first stage of the timber and weatherboard cottage complex, probably dates from the 1860s. The weatherboard clad hipped roof cottage and skillion addition was built in about 1886.
    
    There is little doubt that the hut at the heart of the complex is the original structure, as the connections with the adjoining portions clearly show them to be later. The basic structure is of round, partially adzed and fully adzed rectangular posts, all earthfast. Some of the wall top plates are also original, but without being able to dismantle the roof structure or to enter the roof space it has been impossible to come to any definitive conclusion. The presence of a Ewbank patent nail in the roof structure over the east door, and of a large Ewbank nail or spike in the main frame at the north-west corner, visible from inside, is consistent with the putative date of the early 1860s.
    
    The balance of the fabric is later, including intermediate studs (exposed in the west wall), rafters and purlins, weatherboard cladding, boarded wall lining, boarded ceiling lining, and the brick fireplace and chimney. This is evidenced by the machine-sawn timbers (undated but presumed later than the hand-worked), the wire nails (post-1870s), Hoffman bricks in the fireplace (post-1870, and in this instance appearing very much later still), and Braby "Sun" brand corrugated iron (not usually found in Australia before the 1880s). Thr butt-joined timber flooring is early in character, but it is more probable that the original surface was beaten earth, paddled clay, lime-ash or similar, and that the boarding was a later addition.

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