Department for Environment and Heritage Heritage South Australia Newsletter Edition 30 March 2007 In this issue: John Barton Hack & the Manning Cottages Black Hill Lodge The Lodge, Stirling George Paech’s farmhouse Steam Exchange Brewery Goolwa State Heritage Area 2006 Schools Heritage Competition Woolshed Flat Church Burra Regional Art Gallery Frederick Dancker Heritage Southwww.environment.sa.gov.au Australia Newsletter March 2007 DEH has contributed financial support Contents to an innovative heritage project in partnership with the Adelaide 3 Heritage Places City Council to conserve the former John Barton Hack & Beresford Arms Inn in Gilles Street. This the Manning Cottages important heritage building is one of the few non-government or religious 150th Anniversary-Black Hill Lodge buildings within the city remaining The Lodge, Stirling relatively intact from the earliest years George Paech’s farmhouse of settlement. 7 Adaptive Re-use On a broader scale, the practical side of heritage conservation received a Steam Exchange Brewery boost with the allocation of more than 8 State Heritage Areas $244,000 to 54 projects to repair and restore State Heritage Places across Goolwa Minister’s South Australia. Funds were directed 9 2006 Schools Heritage towards conservation and stabilisation Competition Update works, particularly where the work will enhance the financial viability of 0 Heritage Volunteers DEH is mourning the loss of a valued a place. and well-respected friend and Woolshed Flat Church colleague with the unexpected This issue also puts the spotlight on Burra Regional Art Gallery passing of Maritime Archaeologist Terry the tremendous volunteer effort that Arnott. Terry was a valued member of maintains many of our heritage places 2 Architects & Builders of SA - 3 the Heritage Branch who was held in in the best possible way – by using Frederick Dancker high regard by his colleagues across them. From a small but majestic church in a hillside paddock near Rhynie which 4 DEH Heritage News government and academia for his significant contributions to maritime hosts an annual carols by candlelight 6 Heritage Bookshelf heritage in South Australia. gathering, to the former Post and Telegraph Office at Burra which in 2006 Seeds of Change Manager Sue Averay left the Heritage celebrated its tenth anniversary as the Branch on 2 February to take up a 6 Events Burra Regional Art Gallery, I would like position in the Office of the Chief to acknowledge the efforts of people Executive. I would like to thank Sue in local communities who so generously for her leadership of the Branch give of their time and expertise to over the last two years as she has look after these places for all South set the course to achieve the goals Australians to enjoy. outlined in the Government’s Heritage Directions strategy to manage heritage Hon Gail Gago MLC in South Australia. The position has Minister for Environment been advertised nationally. In the and Conservation interim it is business as usual as the Branch continues its work under the very capable guidance of Principal Front Cover: Former Woolshed Flat Heritage Officer Brian Samuels. Wesleyan Methodist Church near Rhynie, SA (1994). Heritage South Australia Newsletter Department for Environment Heritage Directions creation of modern amenities. and Heritage Our heritage directions must … the South Australian Government ISSN 1443-9719 therefore be wisely mapped and believes that heritage considerations carefully managed. Heritage March 2007 Number 30 must be an integrated part of strategies and policies must provide For further information planning the future of our urban a degree of certainty for the please contact: and rural environments. However, community, property owners and The Editor, protecting heritage does not mean developers. They must also protect Heritage South Australia Newsletter freezing the past. Nor does it mean our valuable heritage assets at GPO Box 1047, Adelaide, SA 5001 the indiscriminate conservation of the same time as promoting good Telephone: (08) 8124 4947 anything old. urban character and facilitating Facsimile: (08) 8124 4980 It is important that heritage is seen sympathetic new development. Email: [email protected] as living and constantly evolving, www.heritage.sa.gov.au Extract from Heritage Directions: A Future for co-existing with new developments, Built Heritage in South Australia (Department © Department for Environment and Heritage for Environment and Heritage, 2003) All rights reserved architectural innovation and the FIS 2716.07 Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007 Heritage Places John Barton where door, window and walling units cottage, together with its distinctive Hack and were each of the same dimension. gabled roof, survive as Walkley cottage. They were locked in place as panels the Portable As its slate-clad roof indicates, the between top and bottom plates and Friends’ Meeting House was never Colonial between posts each located on a designed to be as portable as Cottages strict modular grid. The cottages were Manning’s more usual products. of Henry originally roofed in tarpaulin and the Although it is reputed to have been first only tool required was a spanner. Manning erected at London’s East India Docks Paul Stark There is little doubt that Hack’s as an advertisement by Manning to Just off Pennington testimonials from Adelaide caused intending emigrants, the qualities of its Terrace, two timber buildings continue Henry Watson, his brother-in-law, to also prefabrication were utilised more to the adjacency they have shared for bring out a Manning cottage. In June provide expedient accommodation almost one hundred and seventy years. 1839, Watson recorded putting up his than for reasons of portability. They speak volumes about the circum- house in Pennington Terrace. He was Hack was once again instrumental in its stances of procuring colonial expansion somewhat reluctant about the venture, purchase and acted as agent in South and the provisioning by some British observing that good stone and brick Australia for its receipt on site. However, emigrants for their new life. houses were to be had. Despite this, at the time of its arrival Watson and having frozen in winter and almost Both the Meeting House of the Religious recorded somewhat ruefully that the ‘broiled’ in summer, Watson still had kind Society of Friends (Quakers) and Friends had all gone up to Mount Barker words for his Manning cottage (albeit Walkley Cottage (now part of St Mark’s and that ‘…he had little expectation of encased in brick by the end of 1840). College) began life on the floors of seeing a second Pennsylvania here.’ Watson and Hack, as business partners, the workshop of Henry Manning at It was nevertheless erected on its were trying to sell the components of 251 High Holborn in London. They intended (and present) site in 1840. a portable cottage made by one of also share a common link through Hack was obviously pleased with the Manning’s rivals for the emigrant trade association with John Barton Hack, result, recording the Meeting House as in prefabricated buildings. Quaker, early South Australian a very handsome building; ‘…Manning immigrant and an enthusiastic …It is one of Thompson’s trumpery has done full justice to it².’ affairs – I never hear of any person advocate for Manning’s ‘portable bringing one of T’s houses that does The Friends’ Meeting House is one of colonial cottages’. He brought two not rue his bargain – Manning is a the most sophisticated of Manning’s cottages to South Australia in 1837 respectable tradesman and his goods products known to have survived. Even in which to more comfortably house are no take-in¹. more amazing than its survival intact his family. With the inevitable alterations and against termites or loss by fire, is the Hack would have been well aware of additions, much of Watson’s Manning survival of its prefabricated furniture. contemporary references to the ‘great beauty in their construction’. Further claims that no section of a Manning cottage was heavier than a man or boy could carry, and that the London price of 50 pounds would provide a two-roomed cottage that could be quickly built, were borne out by Hack’s experiences with his own cottages. On 19 February 1837 Hack and his family were still on board the ship from England. The materials for the two Walkley Cottage, North Adelaide (1979) cottages were off loaded and on the 21st they were hauled up the beach to a suitable site at Glenelg. On the 22nd the family spent their first night in one of the cottages. Obviously pleased with the performance of the Manning cottage, Hack proudly wrote home recording that by the 14th April he had not only dismantled the cottage, but brought the materials of both to the site of the new City and erected them together to form a four-roomed house. The key to this ‘portability’ was the essence of modern prefabrication, Quaker (Society of Friends) Meeting House, North Adelaide (2005) Heritage South Australia Newsletter March 2007 3 Heritage Places Manning genuinely endeavoured to 2. Portfolio 8.86, Friends Library, London (letters A cottage, which will be required as provide system-built accommodation of Hack to T G Darton) and SLSA PRG 456/1 a residence for the person in charge Out-letters of John Barton Hack, 1-17 of the weir and the works connected that would respond well in most (14 June 1840) therewith, has been built in the Gorge parts of the then British Empire. He 3. SLSA PRG 1044/1/3, Out-letters of G F of the Torrens, at a cost of £480, and continued to fine-tune the specification Dashwood, (1 October 1846). expected to be finally completed in of his cottages in the fifteen years a few days. of greatest demand for his products 50th Anniversary- The five-roomed stone dwelling (c1830- c1845), and also offered the was built for the weirmaster, who application of anti-combustible paints Black Hill Lodge maintained and monitored the supply to resist fire as well as washes of water from the Torrens Gorge Weir to Former Weirmaster’s House, to combat dry-rot.