Gloucester Cottage

'Gloucester Cottage', constructed c.1880, at 1/66 Gloucester Avenue, Berwick.

'Gloucester Cottage' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Historically, 'Gloucester Cottage' is significant as the home of John Joseph Williams Warne, well-known district painter and decorator, and his family. The Warnes established one of Berwick's earliest businesses in Gloucester Avenue and have been district painters and decorators to the present day. (AHC criteria A4 and H1)

Aesthetically, 'Gloucester Cottage' is significant as a representative example of a Victorian Italianate house which remains largely intact. (AHC criterion E1)