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Location 81 Wonga Road RINGWOOD NORTH, MAROONDAH CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

A charming and unusual late Victorian timber house, initially comprising two (then new) cottages relocated here from Melbourne in 1896, with various compatible additions, set in a large mature garden, with large trees, many presumably a hundred years old. Remarkably, it is still occupied by the same family who settled here, 102 years ago. It is historically significant to the Melbourne region in demonstrating one response to the effect of the high cost of building in the aftermath of the financial crash of 1892. It appears to have been cheaper to buy newly constructed cottages in Melbourne and transport them to Ringwood, than build locally. It also is significant for its remaining always with the family which built it, never sold outside the family, over 100 years and for being pioneering to the Ringwood locality. It is architecturally significant as an unusual late Victorian house which retains much of its evocative context, with additions that were built by the family as required, including mature trees and rare late Victorian garden remnants.