
The building
The tiny six-room home was built from bricks made in the area. It originally had four rooms before being expanded in the early 1880s. The original layout of the structure has not changed despite its extension.
The structure has four distinctive chimneys. These included:
- two square chimneys
- an octogonal chimney,
- a circular chimney on a square base.
It also has an elaborate timber veranda.
Significance
St. Elmo is significant historically because it shows how a professional bricklayer lived around the middle of the 19th century and used his skill as a successful kind of trade advertising.
It is a well-preserved illustration of a worker’s cottage from the early 1860s. It still contains many of its original, frequently simple joinery and fixtures, including fireplaces, doors, architraves, skirtings, and built-in furniture.
The extensive timber veranda is remarkable as a distinctive visual element because of its infilled ends.