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Glenburnie

Other Name Rawling's Cottage Location 30-32 Worthing Road, DEVON MEADOWS VIC 3977 - Property No B2801 File Number B2801 Level State

[1/1] B2801 Glenburnie

Statement of Significance

Cottage, Creamery and shed 6 Statement of Significance: This group of owner-built pole and pug structures of twentieth century date, comprising a farmhouse and outbuildings of 1922 and later is significant at a State level as an example of primitive structures. They relate to a tradition of pole and pug building which was especially prevalent on French Island from the 1890s, and of earlier wattle and daub structures on both French Island and the Mornington Peninsula. The house itself, the creamery and one shed to the north-east, are substantially of this construction and though severly decayed, illustrate the method very well. Two other sheds which contain fragments of pole and pug, another of weatherboard and another clad in sheet iron are considered to be of slight if any importance and are not included in this classification.