Clyde Cottage (Former)

Clyde Cottage, constructed c.1885, at 11 Clyde Road, Berwick, is significant, including the [enclosed] façade, roof form and original chimneys, and the [enclosed] western face including original windows. Later additions and extensions including the enclosed verandah located to the front of the property, the southern lean-to extension, and surrounding hardscaping is not significant.

Clyde Cottage is of historic and representative significance to the City of Casey.

Clyde Cottage is one of a few fine residences from the nineteenth century within the Berwick township area. Houses other than homesteads associated with farms were comparatively rare in the Berwick district until the urbanisation of recent times. Throughout the district most early township residences were located at Berwick, which developed as an important district service centre. Early township residences often housed local doctors, schoolteachers, bank managers, drapers, local parliamentarians, and workers in the building trades. (Criterion A)
Clyde Cottage is of significance as a representative example of a Victorian residence in Berwick, which remains mostly intact. The house incorporates key features of Victorian dwelling in a regional centre including a hipped roof form, corbelled brick chimneys with moulded copings (now painted), and a symmetrical timber ashlar façade which has a large Federation style central door with sidelights and transom, flanked by large, detailed timber sash window on either side. A convex corrugated iron verandah with simple square timber posts extends from the façade. (Criterion D)