Glover cottages, Colonial Georgian cottages in Kent Street, Millers Point, Sydney, Australia.
The Glover Cottages are two semi-detached single-storey stone cottages on Kent Street in Millers Point, built in the Colonial Georgian style between 1820 and 1838. They stand on an artificial rock shelf on the east side of the street, probably cut by quarrying between 1810 and 1830, and a courtyard was added at the rear when they were restored in 1979.
Built between 1820 and 1838 by cooper Edward Ewen on an artificial rock shelf, the cottages were sold to publican Thomas Glover, who used them as rental income and added two more houses. After Glover died intestate in 1836, the property passed to his son James in 1840 and stayed in the family until 1900, when it was known as The Ark. Resumed under the Darling Harbour Wharves Resumptions Act after the plague outbreak, the cottages were restored for non-residential use in 1979 and heritage-listed in 1989.
The name 'The Ark' was used for the property and cottages by 1900, when the Glover family had held them for six decades. Thomas Glover was a publican based in Cumberland Street, The Rocks, not a convict. The cottages later housed workers under the Sydney Harbour Trust and its successor, the MSB.
The cottages sit prominently on Kent Street in Millers Point and can be clearly seen from the street level. Since the buildings are now privately held, visitors can best appreciate their appearance and position from the public roadside.
The name 'The Ark' was in popular use for the property and cottages by 1900, when the Glover family's long tenure ended. It referred to the whole holding, not just the two surviving cottages, which were restored for non-residential use in 1979 with a courtyard added at the rear.
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