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Cooma Cottage is one of the oldest surviving rural houses in Yass, New South Wales. It has historic significance as a relatively intact complex of rural buildings. It has a variety of significant natural and built elements, including an example of an early tree called the Picconia, a relative of the olive and rare in Australia, which is almost extinct in its native Canary Islands.〔National Trust Cooma Cottage Content Management Plan, 1987/88:35, 37〕 Cooma Cottage stands as evidence of what the first settlers built for themselves, their families and servants. The handmade bricks and crafted woodwork are the result of local skills and manufacturing. 〔An Adventure in the Southwest: Hamilton Hume and Cooma Cottage 1797 to 1897 by Kevin Baker (1998).〕 The cottage grew from a bungalow through a series of additions over the 19th century.〔Cooma Cottage, NSW Heritage register entry, http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritageapp/ViewHeritageItemDetails.aspx?ID=5000656 retrieved Jan 2014〕 The cottage has important heritage values as the home of Hamilton Hume for more than 30 years from 1839,〔http://www.nationaltrust.org.au/nsw/CoomaCottage, retrieved Jan 2014〕 after he ended his travels and became a grazier. It is a valuable part of the early development of the merino wool industry in Australia.〔http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/australia/new-south-wales/sheep-and-cheerful/2008/10/08/1223145445618.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2〕 == Architecture == The original section of the cottage is among the earliest remaining rural homesteads in New South Wales. To this colonial bungalow Hume added his own version of Palladian style wings and a Greek revival portico. The immediate landscape is virtually unchanged since the 19th century although fast-developing Yass spreads nearby and busy roads have started to intrude.〔http://www.outbackmag.com.au/stories/article-view?195〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cooma Cottage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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