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Kernot's House

Location 23 Mickle Street,TOORADIN, Casey City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Kernot's house, constructed c.1888 and attached shop at 23 Mickle Street, Tooradin.

How is it significant?
Kernot's house and the attached shop at 23 Mickle Street, Tooradin are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?
Historically, it is significant for the long associations with the foremost fishing family in the district, the Kernot family, and is part of a precinct of early fishermen's houses which can still be recognised along the foreshore, recalling the 'Hawkeye' description of 1889. Fishing is one of the pioneering industries of the former Cranbourne Shire and distinguishes Tooradin from any other settlement in the district; fishing also has links with the sporting character of the area, popularised by Lyall in the nineteenth century and continued in this century. The attached shop is evidence of the large numbers of campers who came to this reserve in times past as a continuation of the Tooradin sporting and camping tradition. (AHC criteria A4, D2 & H1)

Aesthetically, although altered it retains its characteristic simple cottage and shop form and contributes to the historic character of the Tooradin foreshore reserve precinct. (AHC criterion E1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House