Lochview Cottage

Lochview Cottage is a small timber and stone cottage on a wooded slope above a small lake in southern NSW. The cottage is a single-room structure with an attached lean-to for storage. The roof is corrugated iron, recently replaced. The front verandah looks down toward the lake, framed by a few large eucalypts. The garden around the cottage is overgrown but contains a few introduced ornamentals: daffodils in spring, an old pear tree, a hedge of escallonia. The cottage's small size puts it in the category of holiday accommodation rather than working homestead.

Cottages like Lochview were built across rural NSW in the early to mid-twentieth century as weekend retreats for city families with property in the country. They were small, basic, and intended for occasional use. As family circumstances changed and property was inherited or sold, many of these cottages stopped being visited. The current condition of Lochview Cottage suggests it has been used occasionally for the past decade or so, with periods of full vacancy in between. The corrugated-iron roof was replaced at some recent point, indicating that whoever owns the cottage has spent at least some money on keeping it standing. It is not abandoned, but it is not occupied either.