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Warder's cottage (former)

Location 22 O'Hea Street, Coburg VIC 3058 - Property No 31374 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 22 O'Hea St. Coburg

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former warder's cottage at 22 O'Hea Street, Coburg.

How is it significant?
The former warder's cottage at 22 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. 22 O'Hea Street was purpose-built for a prison warder in 1874 in a location chosen because of its proximity to the prison. (AHC Criterion B.2)