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General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Cottage |
Architectural style | Old Colonial |
| Location | 85 Sages Road, Baxter, Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Coordinates | 38°11′51″S 145°08′07″E / 38.197511°S 145.135397°E |
Completed | 1870 |
| Client | John Sage |
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| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Slab hut |
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| Grounds | 15 ha (38 acres) |
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Official name | Sages Cottage |
| Type | Registered place |
| Criteria | A, D |
| Designated | 9 October 1974 |
| Reference no. | H0302 |
| HO225 | |
Category | Residential buildings (private) |
Official name | Eurutta |
| Type | Defunct register |
| Designated | 21 March 1978 |
| Reference no. | 5827 |
Sages Cottage, also known as Sages Cottage Farm and Eurutta, is a cottage, small farm, and gardens, located at 85 Sages Road in Baxter, on the Mornington Peninsula, in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia.
Located on the traditional lands of the Bunurong people, an early Colonial cottage was erected on a working farm in the 1870s that remained in the one family until 1977. Since 2013, the farm and cottage cafe have been run as a social enterprise for people living with disabilities by a Melbourne-based non-profit organisation.
The cottage and grounds were added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 9 October 1974 in recognition of its historical and architectural significance;[1] and was also added to non-statutory lists by the Victorian branch of the National Trust on 30 August 1973[2] and the now defunct Register of the National Estate, listed as Eurutta, on 21 March 1978.[3]
History
[edit]One of the first European settlers in the district, Benjamin Baxter, settled in the Mornington Peninsula in c. 1842 on his 6,100-hectare (15,000-acre) pastoral run, Carrup Carrup.[1][4][5] Baxter's daughter married John Edward Sage in 1852, and the Sage acquired a 15-hectare (38-acre) portion of Baxter's land in 1856, and managed both this property, called Eurutta, and Baxter's property. Sage leased two adjoining properties to the north in 1871 and 1877, and built his homestead, now known as Sages Cottage, on Eurutta, from 1871. The Sage family worked the farm until 1977.[1]
From the 1970s to the 1990s, Sages Cottage operated as a restaurant and tourist facility.[4] Wallara Australia, a disability service provider based in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Keysborough,[6] acquired Sages Cottage in 2013 and commenced providing its clients with a broad range of experiences at Sages Farm including animal care and farm education, aquaponics, beekeeping, bushland and ecology, cooking, garden care, holistic health, horticulture, hospitality, landscaping and construction, lawn mowing, and more.[5][7]
Description
[edit]The heritage curtail of Sages Cottage includes the homestead building, stables, blacksmith's shop, outdoor toilet, the form of the original orchard, and remnant trees and hedges.[1]
The homestead was completed in the Old Colonial style and is a rare surviving example of vernacular construction techniques, in this case vertical slabs. The cottage is typical and exemplary of early homesteads in Victoria. Part of the cottage is constructed in sawn vertical slabs and part is weatherboard, with hipped roofs, clad in corrugated iron. A timber verandah is supported on plain bevelled posts. The facade is symmetrical. Acquired by the Victorian Conservation Trust from the Sage family in 1977,[3] the building was used as a restaurant and tourist facility before being purchased by Menzies Inc., an organisation dedicated to caring for disadvantaged youth.[4]
The former stables on the farm site have been transformed into a rustic event venue, popular for weddings.[8]
See also
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References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Sages Cottage, Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H302, Heritage Overlay HO225". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- ↑ "Sages Cottage & Garden (NTA-V list: Property No B1546)". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- 1 2 "Eurutta (Place ID 5827)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. 21 March 1978. Retrieved 27 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Historic Cottage". Sages Cottages. Wallara Australia. 2026. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- 1 2 Carroll, Georgina (May 2022). "A sage partnership". Peninsula Essence. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ "Our story". Wallara Australia. n.d. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ "About". Sages Cottages. Wallara Australia. 2026. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
- ↑ "Home page". The Stables at Sages. Retrieved 1 August 2026.
Additional reading
[edit]- Allom Lovell and Associates (2005). Sages Cottage, Baxter: Conservation Management Plan (Report). Melbourne.
External links
[edit]- 1870 establishments in Australia
- Buildings and structures in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula
- Cottages
- Farms in Australia
- Houses completed in 1870
- Houses in Melbourne
- Places on the Victorian Heritage Register in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula
- Social enterprises
- Victorian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
- Wooden buildings and structures in Australia