Wongawilli - Historic buildings


House - 'Coral Vale' - Smith's Lane, Wongawilli

This is a weatherboard cottage with a corrugated metal roof and has verandahs on all sides. It is a simple late Victorian vernacular rural cottage, which forms a farming group with a hayshed and kitchen block. It has and interesting curtilage and the attached kitchen has been relocated across the road. (City of Wollongong Heritage Study, 1991)

Former Kitchen of 'Coral Vale' - Smith's Lane, Wongawilli

This is the relocated kitchen from 'Coral Vale'; it is a weatherboard cottage with a corrugated metal roof, skillion west elevation and a verandah east. (City of Wollongong Heritage Study, 1991)

Hay Shed, 'Coral Vale' - Smith's Lane, Wongawilli

Barn with a corrugated metal roof and walls, timber post vaulted roof. Interesting construction of bent agricultural pipes bolted together and supported by telegraph poles. (City of Wollongong Heritage Study, 1991)

The Dapto & District Heritage Trail - Northern Section lists the following buildings and sites in Wongawilli as being of interest:

A community hall
The former school (1927 - 74)
The Anglican Church Hall
Lot 11 which housed the local store and Post Office
Lot 12 was the cottage of the ostler, who looked after the pit ponies, it was relocated from beside the mine in the 1930's.
Lots 16 and 17 were miner's houses built in the early 1930's.
Lot 20 is thought to be the oldest house in the village built pre 1927.
The western end of the road is the site of 'the Hill' where first residents built squatter's huts below the colliery.

(Dapto and District Heritage Trail - Northern Section)

 


Last Modified: 5/07/2008
 

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