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Gaffney's Creek - Group Classification

Other Name

Five Cottages & Timber Bridge

Location

Woods Point Road, GAFFNEYS CREEK VIC 3723 - Property No B3836

File Number

B3836

Level

Local

[1/3]
B3836 Gaffney's Creek
[2/3]
B3836 General Store
[3/3]
B3836 House

Statement of Significance

Group Classification includes Bridge( Dismantled 1983), Cottages 2 & 3 and Cottage 4. General Store (Destroyed by fire 1982). Cottages 2 (Cavini's) & 3 (Raspberry Cottage/Vera's House- destroyed by fire 2006)

Statement of Significance: Three timber cottages and a general store clustered around a timber trestle bridge form a harmonious group within a steep-sided and timbered valley.

Cottage 4 (Mossy Banks)
Statement of Significance: Built c.1870 in similar but larger form than the earlier cottages.

First Classified 25/8/77
Revised: Classified Local 3/8/98

Group

Residential buildings (private)