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MONTROSE COTTAGE

Location

111 EUREKA STREET BALLARAT EAST, BALLARAT CITY

File Number

601794

Level

Registered

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Montrose Cottage 2020
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Montrose Cottage diagram
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MONTROSE COTTAGE SOHE 2008
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MONTROSE COTTAGE SOHE 2008

Statement of Significance

WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT?

Montrose Cottage (exterior and interior). The bluestone wall, steps and cast-iron fence between the cottage and Eureka Street are also significant.

HOW IS IT SIGNIFICANT?

Montrose Cottage is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria. It satisfies the following criterion for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register:

Criterion A

Importance to the course, or pattern, of Victoria?s cultural history.

Criterion D

Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural places and objects.

WHY IS IT SIGNIFICANT?

Montrose Cottage is historically significant for its associations with the early development of Ballarat as a goldmining centre. It was constructed around 1856 by stonemason John Alexander in close proximity to the Eureka gold lead. It is a small but substantial home built largely from bluestone sourced from nearby deep lead mines. It is the only known bluestone and brick patterned building in Ballarat and one of the small number of buildings remaining from the 1850s. (Criterion A).

Montrose Cottage is architecturally significant as a notable example of a masonry miner?s cottage. It is finely constructed with the street-facing side featuring substantial stone steps, early bluestone wall and a striking pattern of bluestone and brickwork. It is substantially intact with much surviving early fabric. (Criterion D).

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