The Workers’ cottage
The Golden Valley Worker’s Accommodation is located on Lot 11, 164 Old Padbury Road,Balingup. The building is situated within theGolden Valley Tree Park. The site features a sloping topography, from west to east surrounded by ‘interwar tree plantings and subsequent arboretum plantings’ and a shallow man made lake located towards the north east.
It was constructed as the original accommodation on the site sometime between 1880 and 1895
The Worker’s Accommodation is located to the south of the Golden Valley Homestead. The homestead is a single storey rendered mud brick house with a corrugated Colorbond steel roof and pit sawn jarrah timber throughout.
The Worker’s Accommodation features two internal rooms separated by a central wall. The interior walls are lined with decorative pressed metal sheeting to dado line (approximately 1350mm high). Above the dado rail the walls are lined with compressed fibrous plaster sheets. The central wall has a timber framed door way with no attached door at the time of inspection. The southern most room (identified as Room 2) features a rendered brick chimney projecting into the room. The fireplace does not project into the north room (Room 1); however, the location of the fire place is distinguishable due to cracking of the plaster around the fireplace. The building has no internal ceiling with the timber roof structure and corrugated roof sheets visible internally.