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COLELLA ORCHARD

Location

14 Gatters Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

Colella Orchards at 14 and 14A Gatters Road, Wonga Park, comprising old pear trees, a replanted orchard and related c.1940s corrugated iron buildings.

How is it Significant?

Colella Orchards, 14 and 14A Gatters Road, Wonga Park is of historic significance to Manningham City.

Why is it Significant?

Of historic significance as an important district orcharding property from the First World War period, associated with the Elders (Doncaster East and Wonga Park orchardists) and from the 1940s with the Colella family, and demonstrating the pattern of change and replanting typical of such properties. A single group of old pear trees remain from the earlier orchard of the Elder family. (RNE criteria D2, H1)

Group

Farming and Grazing

Category

Orchard