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Jenkin's Cottage

Location 334 Mount Dandenong Road CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

An early timber symmetrical cottage built in c1872 for pioneering dairy farmers Peter and Robert Jenkins, who had settled as early as 1861. It is probably the oldest house in Croydon, and still located in an evocative setting. It has historic significance to the Melbourne region as a pioneering building surviving from rural settlement, now engulfed by suburban development. It is an extraordinary embodiment of the way of life in the earliest settlement of Croydon. It is architecturally significant as an early symmetrical cottage, rare in this context.