Annobel apparently the cottage is from Bendigo which was a booming gold mining town in Victoria in the 1800s. I am not sure when it was built, I would think around the 1920s. It would have been moved to this part of Victoria with many other cottages after the second world war when returned soldiers who were granted land to farm were looking for homes. The owners would have owned the land that the vineyards are now on and one of the previous owners would have sold the land and just kept the 20 acres that D2 and SIL's house was built on. The cottage was kept too and was lived in just a couple of years ago, but it desperately needed repairing.
Interesting that the cottage comes from an area that had gold because the land that ex and I owned together was near an old gold mine in the Adelaide Hills. We had huge boulders of quartz, some of it was underground, we often found pieces of crystal. There was an old gold mine just over the hill and I often wondered if there was gold on our land that might have ended up in our creek over the years. There is still a gold mine in operation nearby. I seem to have gold around me, I have had two amazing dreams about gold, one had gold bullion bars stacked on top of each other. Now that would be nice wouldn't it! 