Category:61 Willmington Road, Luddenham

English: 61 Willmington Road is a heritage-listed cottage on Willmington Road (formerly The Northern Road) in Luddenham, New South Wales. The late nineteenth century weatherboard cottage has a hipped pyramidal roof sheeted in corrugated metal and altered front and side verandahs with a skillion roof. The cottage has a symmetrical front elevation with panelled front door and flanking sash windows. There is a chimney to one side with an elaborately corbelled capital. The cottage is located within the village reserve and is set back from the road.

This late nineteenth century weatherboard cottage provides insight into the evolution of residential development in Luddenham following the release of freehold land in the 1880s. The cottage is a very good example of a Federation era cottage set within a rural village subdivision. The scale and materials of the cottage and its garden setting contributes to defining the village as a nineteenth century rural village in the region. The building is one of a number of structures in Luddenham village erected over the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century that demonstrates the pattern of a village settlement at this important location on a former section of The Great Northern Road.

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• Portions of this description come from the Heritage NSW description, which is licensed under CC-BY 4.0.