LANDATA Land Victoria 2-sheet plan printout dated 3/12/1985.Sheet 1 includes Sandhurst Grove and Chittingstone Drive (later Braden Brae Drive) Warranwood, Vic. Sheet 2 includes Standen Court and Chittingstone Drive (later Braden Brae Drive) Warranwood, Vic.

LANDATA Land Victoria 4-sheet plan printout dated 2009.Sheet 1 includes Canterbury Road, Heathmont Road, Dickasons Road and Bennett Avenue, Heathmont. Additional markings include PC353066. Sheet 2 includes Heathmont Road, Bennett Avenue and Orchid Street, Heathmont. Additional markings include PS326369 and SP24567. Sheet 3 includes Dickasons Road and Bennett Avenue, Heathmont. Additional markings include LP46776, SP28005 and PS335189. Sheet 4 includes Dickasons Road, Bennett Avenue and Orchid Street, Heathmont. Additional markings include SP25998, SP31080, SP31780, SP25968, SP25969 and LP46475.

LANDATA Land Victoria 2-sheet plan printout dated 2009Sheet 1 includes Mount Dandenong Road, Valda Avenue and Velma Grove, Ringwood East. Additional markings include SP35514, SP22189, SP34206, SP35514, SP26794, PS319109, PS319010 and PS304868. Sheet 2 includes Mount Dandenong Road, Valda Avenue, Mirabel Avenue and Velma Grove, Ringwood East. Additional markings include SP26430, SP25320, PS341575, PS319110, PS319010, LP48415, SP22732, SP25844, PS304936 and PS304937.

Double sided LANDATA Land Victoria 2-sheet plan printout dated 2009Sheet 1 map and Sheet 2 enlargement including Wonga Road, Holyrood Crescent, Harwick Close, Berkley Road, Frederic Drive, Kenwood Crescent, Adele Court and Marilyn Street, Ringwood. Markings also include LP83722 .

LANDATA Land Victoria 2-sheet plan printout dated 2009Sheet 1 includes Kalinda Road, Ringwood. Additional markings include LP113117. Sheet 2 includes Kalinda Road and Maroondah Highway, Ringwood. Additional markings include LP86253. Both sheets include location of Drainage and Sewerage Reserve along Mullum Mullum Creek.

LANDATA Land Victoria 3-sheet plan printout dated 2007Sheet 1 includes Wonga Road, Mundara Drive, Gilston Way and Oakleaf Court, Ringwood. Additional markings include SP25252. Sheet 2 includes Wonga Road and Oakleaf Court, Ringwood. Sheet 3 includes Wonga Road, Wyndarra Court and Gem Close, Ringwood.

LANDATA Land Victoria 2-sheet plan printout dated 2010.Sheet 1 includes Dickasons Road, Barnic Road, Muller Road and Kenbry Road, Heathmont. Sheet 2 includes Barnic Road and Possum Lane, Heathmont. Additional markings include LP83779.

LANDATA Land Victoria 4-sheet plan printout dated 2009Sheet 1 includes Alvena Crescent, Bedford Road and Canterbury Road, Heathmont. Additional markings include RP16869. Sheet 2 includes Alvena Crescent and Bedford Road, Heathmont. Additional markings include PS318390 and CP161633. Sheet 3 includes Bedford Road, Alvena Crescent and Royal Avenue, Heathmont. Additional markings include RP454. Street name amended from Leonard Street to Royal Avenue Vide Gaz 1962 P.427. Sheet 4 includes Alvena Crescent, Royal Avenue, Coleman Street and Canterbury Road, Heathmont. Additional markings include SP27861, PS305057, RP10566, SP34722 and LP116573.

LANDATA Land Victoria 2-sheet plan printout dated 2009Sheet 1 includes Wonga Road, Holyrood Crescent and Georgian Court, Ringwood. Sheet 2 includes Wonga Road, Holyrood Crescent and Stonington Place, Ringwood.

LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout dated 2008Map includes Wonga Road, Berea Avenue, Fyfe Avenue and Collett Avenue, Ringwood. Markings also include PS309215, LP143952, LP210020, LP24182, LP70960, SP29097, RP9235, SP19956 and LP113437.

LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout dated 2008Map includes Heathmont Road, Heathmont, with allotments adjoining Railway Reserve. Other markings include LP95632NS.

LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout dated 2010Part of Crown Allotments 1, 1A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 55, 56, 57. Section C Crown Allotments 3, 12 & part of 2. Section B Map includes Bedford Road, Government Road (later Bedford Park Road then Hill Street), Marwarra Street and Tooronga Road, Ringwood. (Sheet 1 of 2 - Sheet 2 not included with collection).

LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout circa 2010Part of Crown Allotment 30. Map includes Warrandyte Road, Kennedy Avenue and Wonga Road, Ringwood. Street name amended from Wonga Road to Loughnan Road 1940. Other markings include CP102182, CP171386, LP127934, PS349846, RP7582, PS309312,RP8679 and CP106336.

LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout dated 2010Map includes Rupert Street and Prospect Court, Ringwood.

LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout circa 2008Map includes Cuthbert Street, Orchard Grove, and Lowen Avenue (formerly part of Balfour Avenue), Heathmont. Other markings include SP25736, LP98835 and LP40209.

LANDATA Land Victoria 4-sheet plan dated January 2003 - copy of original 1889 subdivision, amended with 1947 amendments by Assistant Registrar of Titles.Sheet 1 includes Main Lilydale Road (later Old Lilydale Road), Wandin Road (later Mount Dandenong Road), and Joseph Street, Ringwood East. Additional Plan markings SP30844, SP32804, LP144251, PS332061, PS305232. Sheet 2 includes Main Lilydale Road (later Old Lilydale Road), Wandin Road (later Mount Dandenong Road), and Dynes Street, Ringwood East. Additional Plan markings LP43708, LP44231, LP124702. Sheet 3 includes Main Lilydale Road (later Old Lilydale Road), Dynes Street, Albert Street (later Wyrunga Street), and Carcoola Road, Ringwood East. Additional Plan markings LP114181, LP114180, LP18261, LP214030, LP67300, PS354509, PS335500. Sheet 4 includes Main Lilydale Road (later Old Lilydale Road), Albert Street (later Wyrunga Street), and Carcoola Road, Ringwood East. Additional Plan markings PS315494, PS319495.

Department of Lands and Survey photocopy dated 17/1/1951, page number 12308.Map includes Canterbury Road, Heathmont Road, Dickasons Road, Bennett Avenue, Orchid Street and Allens Road, Heathmont, Vic.

Map showing layout of 4 numbered allotments coloured red and land coloured blue appropriated or set aside for drainage and sewerage puposes.Map includes Nelson Street and Ringwood Street, Ringwood, Vic.

Plum Cottage is covered by Heritage Overelay HO256 in the Nillumbuk Planning Scheme This two-lot land holding was created as a subdivision and sold to Charles Stuart McNeil by May 1955. Sometime in the period 1955-1960, the builder-designer, John Harcourt had created a pise house on the site, straddling the two subdivision lots. The designer, John M. Harcourt was a pioneer builder in pise-de-terre and mudbrick in the Eltham Shire, Eltham being synonymous with alternative lifestyles and building practises until the onset of suburbia in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This hipped-roof house is set high above Main Road on a V-shape plan characteristic of the Arts & Crafts style, with rammed earth or pise walls, timber joinery and a cement tiled roof. The V shape plan was used by important English and Eltham Arts & Crafts designers. The use of natural materials such as stone and timber construction is an essential part of the Arts & Crafts style and Harcourt’s work. So too is the application of the style on both the exterior and interior of the house as a holistic concept. The house adjoins the Lim Joon adobe house built and designed by Alistair Knox in the same era (HO119), thus forming a distinctive pair, both using an uncommon plan form. This house was identified in the Shire of Shire of Eltham Heritage 1992 as contributory to the Eltham Gateway Conservation Area, then proposed as an urban conservation area (now Heritage Overlay Area). Land Ownership Emily Jane Smith of 12 Woodside Street Fitzroy owned Crown Allotments 1 & 2 Sections 14, 27 by August 1918, selling to William Henry Smith of 12 Woodside Street, Nth Fitzroy May 1921. (John) James Isherwood of Main Road, Eltham owned the property by 1928 (the year of his death) with the beneficiary of his estate and next owner of this site being his widow, Minnie Maria Isherwood of Cemetery Road, Eltham. His holding in Main Road included parts of what was described in rate records as allotments1 & 2 Section E6. In the late 1930s, early 1940s her son Alfred John Isherwood was also rated for the land around this site, with the rated nett annual value varying between £2 and £5. Alfred Isherwood also lived at Main Road, Eltham with his wife Ellen: her early death at the age of 24 was reported in the Argus of 1923. Part of the Isherwood land was divided off and sold to Charles Stuart McNeil by May1955. Sometime in the period 1955-1960, the builder-designer, John Harcourt had created a pise house on the site, straddling the two subdivision lots. The house is visible on an aerial photograph from 1960s. Reputedly the house was called Plum Cottage and erected for Harcourt’s mother-in-law. A garage was added in 1959. Charles McNeil died in1971 aged 87: he was the son of Don McNeil and Margaret Arkell. Available rate records from the construction era start in the of the 1970s (1972-3) and list Mr H.C. & M/S A.V. Charity at 616 Main Road Eltham of this property with a nett annual value of $740. More recent valuer's data describes the property as lots 1 & 2 LP25668, located in the Central Riding of Eltham Shire, owned by Ann Valerie Charity and later, in 1990, by the Chincarini family. Building Description This hipped roof 11 .5 square house is set high above Main Road on a characteristic-shape plan and has rammed earth or pise walls, timber joinery and a cement tiled roof. The V-shape plan was used by Important designers such as C.F.A. Voysey (UK) who interpreted medieval domestic architecture as part of the Arts & Crafts style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The pise walls are covered with a textured render while the cement roofing tiles are also seen in the Harcourt Hill examples. Reputedly the ceiling joists are of a deep section and span long lengths with no need for hanging beams in the roof space. The ceilings are low and panelled in main rooms with apparently Caneite soft board infill panels between the exposed ceiling beams. These are painted white but may have been stained at one time. The focus of the house is the large living area with its vast random stone fireplace. Significance Plum Cottage is significant to the locality of Eltham because: Historically: • Plum Cottage is closely associated with the important historical theme of earth construction evident in Eltham and elsewhere in the Shire since theear1y Arts & Crafts inspired creations at Penleigh Boyd's The Robins (1912, HO101) and those at Montsalvat (1934-, HO82) but more prominent from the Second War period when earth building in Eltham was promoted in national periodicals as an alternative building method that avoided the building materials shortages of that era; • The choice of the earth building technique also expresses the theme of refuge or alternative living, synonymous with Eltham in the early to mid 20th century; • as a good example of domestic architecture from John Harcourt who was the first major post Second War figure in an important phase of Eltham’s earth building development, using his characteristic Old English or Arts& Crafts style that relies in this case on the pise wall construction, pitched roof forms, exposed ceiling joists, half timbering, random stonework, and panelled internal wall finishes. Architecturally: • Plum Cottage's pise wall construction is uncommon among the early earth-walled structures in the Shire, that are mainly of adobe or mud brick, and as a building material is uncommon among the Shire’s suburban dwellings generally which are clad typically with either fired clay bricks or timber boarding. Aesthetically: • Plum Cottage is a good and well preserved example of a modern Old English or Arts & Crafts style earth-walled building in the Shire • For the proximity of the significant Lim Joon adobe house designed by Alistair Knox adjoining to the north, providing a distinctive earth wall house pair, with uncommon plan forms. Reference Heritage Assessment of Plum Cottage, 616 Main Road, Eltham; Graeme Butler & Associates 2010main road, eltham, property, houses, (john) james isherwood, alfred john isherwood, ann valerie charity, arts and crafts style, charles stuart mcneil, chincarini family, eltham gateway zone, emily jane smith, h.c. charity, heritage assessment, john harcourt, john m. harcourt, lim joon house, main road eltham, minnie maria isherwood, pise construction, plum cottage

Map showing layout of 2 allotments coloured red in Velma Grove, adjacent to Valda Avenue and Mirabel Avenue, Ringwood East, Vic.Handwritten notation dated 29/8/1961 by Alf King, Licensed Surveyor, 14 Grace Street, Mont Albert (Phone) WX2020 regarding plans being forwarded to Council for inspection visit.

A4 LANDATA Land Victoria plan printout dated 2010Map includes Derwent Street and Warrandyte Road, Ringwood. Although marked See Sheet 2, no other page included with collection.

A4 Title Search Enquiry printout dated 2003, with Subdivision Map including Fairbank Avenue and Woodlands Road, Heathmont, Vic.Issued under Regulation 12 on the approval of the above Plan of Subdivision. Derived from Vol 8618 Fol 718, 26/8/1966. Proprietor - Donald Ian Carmichael of 37 Dorrington Avenue Glen Iris.

Map of residential allotments in Wantirna Road and Reilly Street, Ringwood, and Philip Street, Heathmont, Vic.Footnote includes "Lots numbered 5 to 11 and 16 to 23 both inclusive are not included in this plan. Signature of Consulting Engineer - Alan J. Brown BCE, LS, MVIS, Licensed Surveyor, Dillons Buildings, 1 Riversdale Road, Camberwell (Phone) WF3528 dated 1-4-1957.

Map of residential allotments coloured red, with land coloured blue set apart for drainage & sewerage easements. Rubber stamped J.P. Tuohy, Licensed Surveyor, 25 Howe Street Murrumbeena, Tel. 561945, dated 38.8.1962.Map includes Maidstone Street, Norfolk Avenue, Stanhope Court and Wrights Court, Ringwood, Vic. Also includes handwritten Estate Agent sales notations.

Map showing residential allotments numbered 1, 2, 4 and 5, on Through Road, Ringwood, Vic., with property dimensions, including weatherboard house and galvanised iron garage on lot 2.Kirkpatrick & Webber, Licensed Surveyors, Civil Engineers & Town Planners, Maroondah Highway, Ringwood, Telephone 8700321. Ref 3438C. Date 4th December, 1964. Amended 19th July, 1965. Notation: "The land coloured blue is a drainage and sewerage easement. Levels are to Board of Works Datum. Lot number 3 has been omitted."

Map showing residential allotments numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4, on Wilson Street and Braeside Avenue, Ringwood East, Victoria.Signed and dated 1/12/1961. Rubber stamped Kirkpatrick & Webber, Licensed Surveyors, Civil Engineers & Town Planners, 225 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood, Telephone 870-0321. Ref 3438C. "Note: Lot 4 is to be transferred to the Registered Proprietor of Lot 2 on Lodged Plan 23477 and is to be consolidated therewith." Map also includes handwritten Estate Agent notations.

Map showing residential allotments numbered 1 and 2 on Through Road and Unsworth Road, Ringwood, Vic., with property dimensions and location of drainage & sewerage easement.H.J. Macey Licensed Surveyor, 36 Nerissa Street, Burwood (Telephone) BX1917.