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WARDER'S COTTAGE & DAIRY (FORMER)

Location 20 O'HEA STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 31373 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 20 O'Hea St. Coburg

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former warder's cottage, constructed c.1874, and the former dairy c.1920s, at 20 O'Hea Street, Coburg.

How is it significant?
The former warder's cottage and the former dairy at 20 O'Hea Street, Coburg is of local historic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance, as a reasonably intact example of the type of cottage that most of the Pentridge Prison warders and staff owned or rented in Coburg, within 800 yards of the prison, between 1863 and 1900. The dairy is significant a representative and now rare example of one of the 38 known dairies which were operating in Coburg between the 1920s and the 1950s. (AHC Criteria B.2 & D.2)