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Rifle Cottage
'Rifle Cottage', at 62 Tuckfield Street, is situated next door to Gun House and was originally designed to house two officers and their families. Both buildings were of similar design. All rooms in the house were contained within the main building except the 'man's room, which had access from the rear verandah. The two bedrooms, two sitting rooms, dining room and kitchen had fire places and a wash house was provided at the rear of the residence.
During World War II the cottage housed single officers but, in the early 1950s, the layout of the building was changed internally to provide a single residence. The name, 'Rifle Cottage', is known to have carried on from the 1970s. It is said to have been dubbed as such by the residents to distinguish its diminutive status from the neighbouring Gun House.
References and Links
Major-General Peter Phillips 1996, The Heritage Homes of the Australian Defence Force: One Hundred Australian Homes and Two Hundred Years of History, Defence Housing Authority: 75.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 18 June, 2020 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/riflecottage.html (it was last updated on 5 April, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.