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Quinn's Cottage, Walnaring

Location

Merriang Road,, WALLAN VIC 3756 - Property No B2232

File Number

B2232

Level

Local

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Statement of Significance

A cottage and associated structures of interest as illustrating the lifestyle of the Irish smallholders and the back-ground of the Kelly Gang, whose grandfather, James Quin(n) probably built the house in about 1855-56: the cottage retains some original features, including roof palings, fragments of wallpaper, and a chimney crane. The other buildings are an adjoining weatherboard structure of later date, a brick homestead and bluestone dairy which are also later, and a horizontal slab barn of indeterminate age.
Classified: 14/11/1968

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