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Isaac's Cottage

Location

240 Hazelwood Road, EAST WARBURTON VIC 3799 - Property No 68543

File Number

332

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Isaac's Cottage

Statement of Significance

Isaac's Cottage, built during the Depression by Percy Isaac, a wood chopping champion, with the help of his brother-in-law, Harry Pattison, has high local significance as an unusual and increasingly rare building type, a house built almost entirely of timber cut from the surrounding bush. Frame, verandah posts, outside boards and shingles (later replaced) were cut by Percy Isaac using a broad axe. Isaac became Victorian Woodchop Champion. The cottage is an outstanding example of the workmanship of a champion axeman of the Upper Yarra Valley region, an area renowned for its timber industry and fine axemen.

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