Keepers Cottage

Keepers Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with some minor alterations and refurbishment occurring at the time of inspection in November 2002. The structure features a timber frame made of light scantling arranged in roughly square panels, with rendered brick and wattle and daub infill, topped by a plain clay tile roof.

The building has a three-bay lobby-entry plan, with a catslide outshut and a slightly later single-bay addition at the rear, along with a small mid-20th century addition to the side. The front elevation includes two two-light 20th-century casement windows to the left and one three-light casement window to the right of a 20th-century gabled porch aligned with the ridge stack. There is a small gabled eaves dormer to the left featuring a metal-framed two-light window. The left gable end has long diagonal braces, while the rear addition has v-struts from the collar. The left gable end also contains a two-light 20th-century casement window on the first floor and a plank door with a glazed panel in the outshut. The right gable end features a similar window above a 20th-century lean-to addition extending to the rear. The rear gable has a two-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window on the first floor. Notably, the building has bracketed timber weather boards at the girding, tie beam, and collar levels, which are designed to protect the windows and timber frame from driving rain.

Inside, the central room on the ground floor has a chamfered spine beam with ogee chamfer stops, and there is another chamfered spine beam in the right ground floor room, which is now open to the 20th-century extension. The left ground-floor room features a Victorian winder stair with a turned newel and stick balusters, infilled fireplaces in the massive stack, exposed trusses in the catslide outshut, and a 'ladder' staircase leading to the first floor of the single-bay addition at the rear.