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A 1755 cottage moved from England, brick by brick.

Cooks’ Cottage · Fitzroy Gardens

Cooks' Cottage in Fitzroy Gardens

Photo: Rexness / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Display cropped.

About this place

Visit Victoria records the cottage’s construction in Yorkshire and relocation to Melbourne in 1934.

The record

Comparison: The age and relocation of this imported cottage.

It was not built in Melbourne in 1755, and the date does not make it evidence of colonial settlement here at that time.

Visiting

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Sources

Sources checked 23 September 2026. A publisher’s claim is attributed; it is not a complete independent survey.

  • Visit Victoria

    Supports the specific claim and comparison described above.