Asbestos Cottage

If the cottage walls could talk, they would tell a story of love and heartache. Love between a man and woman and the heartache of how they came to be there. Escaping from an abusive relationship, Annie Fox met Henry Chaffey around 1914 and went to live with him in the secluded cottage miles from anywhere until Henry's death 40 years later.

The pitsawn timber cottage also has a rich link to the mining community and to asbestos workers for whom the cottage was originally constructed in 1897.

Today, the cottage is used as a category 4 tramping hut.