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TOD PARK & PARKINSON PROPERTY

Other Name The Oaks Location 18-20 Hartley Rd and 114-116 Jumping Creek Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/6] 22750 House - 18-20 Hartley [2/6] 22750 House - 18-20 Hartley [3/6] 22750 House - 18-20 Hartley [4/6] 22750 Cottage - 114-116 [5/6] 22750 Office - 18-20 Hartley [6/6] 22750 Tea Rooms - 114-116

Statement of Significance

This complex, once known as The Oaks - comprising main house, tea rooms, cottage and office, and its oak trees - has regional significance demonstrating the role of recreational activities and tourism within the district during the earliy twentieth century. The small office may have been moved from Collins Street by the first lessee of the property in 1893, Meredith Hughes, a Melbourne monumental mason. The Hughes family were associated with the property over a long period. Mrs Florence Sharp (nee Hughes) ran the tearooms there in the first decades of this century. (Criterion A4, B2, H1)