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Cloverdale Cottage

Other Name

Devon

Location

4/324 Hallam North Road (Cloverdale Lane),LYSTERFIELD, Casey City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
'Cloverdale Cottage' (former Devon), comprising the cottage constructed c.1870 and remnant mature trees including pines and flowering gums, at 4/324 Hallam North Road, Lysterfield South.

How is it significant?
'Cloverdale Cottage' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?
Historically, it is significant as a now rare early house that demonstrates the first stages of selection and primary production in this area. It also has a strong link with the Battersby family who were pioneers of the Lysterfield district. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)

Aesthetically, Cloverdale Cottage is significant for its representation of a simple rubble stone farming cottage with rare roofing iron as distinct from the relatively more numerous numerous timber cottages in the municipality of a similar age. The mature trees provide a related setting that also give some idea of the age of the property. (AHC criteria E1 and F1)

The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) provides the following citation for this property:

"A charming and picturesquely located farmhouse of rubble fieldstone from the site, with brick dressings, built in about 1870 by Charles Battersby. Though now in a state of dilapidation, it remains a good illustration of nineteenth century rural building as now being absorbed into the fringes of the suburban sprawl."

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