Renovated 3 bedroom 2 bathroom timber and iron cottage with polished timber floor boards throughout the original home. The front verandah overlooks the state forest where you can sit and enjoy the sounds of the birds over a cup of tea. From the moment you enter the front door the home just oozes character as you walk into the lounge room with a wood tile fire high ceilings and wooden floors. All three bedrooms are a good size with fans in each room, and evaporative ducted air conditioning. The kitchen has the prime position in the centre of the home and has been tastefully renovated with lots of cupboards and bench space, a pantry, a gas cooktop and electric oven. Just off the hallway we find the renovated bathroom with a vanity, shower and toilet. The second bathroom and separate toilet are off the laundry with a gorgeous claw foot bathtub and shower. A large family room extension at the rear of the house is ideal for entertaining or just curling up with a book by the wood fire in the winter or enjoying the air conditioning in the summer. Double french doors open out to the back patio which is a great spot for a BBQ on those warm summer nights. Green lawns and shady trees surround the house with a wooden picket fence along the front boundary and has secure fencing surrounding the property keeping both animals and children safe. There is a double carport with plenty of other parking for visitors and caravans. The property comes complete with the all important 6 x 8m powered shed providing plenty of storage room or work area for the handyman.
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This property at 47 MARGINATA CRESCENT, Dwellingup is a three bedroom, two bathroom house sold by Margaret Herbert at Professionals Waroona on 17 Jul 2020.
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Dwellingup is located in a timber and fruitgrowing area in the Darling Range ESE of Pinjarra. Townsite lots were surveyed at this place by Surveyor W.F. Rudall in 1909 after the Lands Department became aware that the site was planned as the terminus of the "Pinjarra-Marrinup Railway". Names suggested for the place by Rudall were "Dwellingerup" or "Marrinup", after nearby brooks, or "McLarty" after a local MLA who had been very active concerning the railway. Surveyor General H.F. Johnston chose "Dwellingupp" after being misinformed regarding the spelling of Dwellingerup Brook. Ignoring a suggestion from the Under Secretary to amend the name to "Dwellingdown", the Minister for Lands approved the name as "Dwellingup" in December 1909. Eventually, the spelling "Dwellingupp" was chosen by order of the Under Secretary for Lands, and the townsite was gazetted as Dwellingupp in February 1910. The spelling was amended to Dwellingup in 1915. Dwellingup is an Aboriginal name said to mean "place of nearby water". The town was burnt out by a bushfire in 1961 but was rebuilt.
The double 'p' spelling in the original gazettal of this name was used because the Lands and Surveys Department had adopted a system for spelling Aboriginal names developed by the Royal Geographical Society. A number of Aboriginal names ending in "up" were for a time spelt with the "upp" ending (including Kirupp, Kulikupp, Manjimupp and Mungalupp). The RGS system had a rule that vowels are pronounced as in Italian and consonants as in English. This would have meant that names ending in "up" should have been pronounced as "oop", because the Italian "u" was a long "u", as in flute. These Aboriginal names were meant to be pronounced as "up", and the Department asked the RGS for a rule to assist in correct pronunciation. The RGS solution was that doubling the following consonant shortened the preceding vowel, and this meant the "upp" ending ensured the "up" pronunciation. However, this particular rule was rescinded in 1915 for SW towns with the suffix "up", as the Australian way of pronouncing the letter "u" was almost always short, and rarely the Italian "oo".