DesJardins Cottage

Originally the home of the DesJardins, a pioneering family at Gehrvale (Mt.Mort).

A photo of hut in it's original location is on display.

Typical of the homes built by the early settlers, it demonstrates a building craft using the readily available ironbark for slab walls and shingle roof.

The roof has been covered with tin to preserve it but is visible from inside the hut.

The outside walls were lined for warmth with hessian and then newspapers and journals glued on with flour and water paste.

Located where it likely the original kitchen of the slab hut would have been situated, is the Antbed Clay Bakers Oven.

The oven was originally built at Blenheim in 1931 and used until 1945 for the baking of bread