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Outbuilding and trees

Other Name

3821 Derrinal McIvor Highway, Derrinal

Location

8 Derrinal-Crosbie Road, DERRINAL VIC 3551 - Property No 203733

Level

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The outbuilding built of earth and timber at 8 Derrinal Crosbie Road is significant. The associated house is not significant. The trees including the sugar gums, cypress pine and kurrajong are also significant.

How is it significant?

The outbuilding at 8 Derrinal Crosbie Road is of local technical significance to the City of Greater Bendigo.

Why is it significant?

The outbuilding at 8 Derrinal Crosbie Road is of technical significance for its construction method derived from cob building. Although straw is not visible in the mix between the earth layers, the earth has been laid without shuttering and is not in blocks. This is the only example of cob building found in the study area and one of only a few known examples in Victoria. It is however a late example of this type of construction.

Other examples include and these include Bear's Castle at Yan Yean (1847), a chicory kiln on French Island (1905), and a mud walled dairy at Ravenswood (1879) is said to derive from the Welsh tradition of cob building.

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