Connor's Cottage is situated on Piesse Street in

Toodyay, Western Australia Toodyay (, ), known as Newcastle between 1860 and 1910, is a town on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, north-east of Perth. The first European settlement occurred in the area in 1836. After flooding in the 1850s, ...

. It was constructed about 1870 for

Daniel Connor Daniel Connor (183112 January 1898) was an Irish people, Irish convict penal transportation, transported to colony of Western Australia, colonial Western Australia, who would go on to become one of the wealthiest, and most successful men in the ...

, a significant identity in the history of the development of the Toodyay town and district. The cottage is on one of the first large landholdings Connor acquired in the town site, on the corner of Stirling Terrace and Piesse Street. It is most likely the cottage was built by George Henry Hasell who also built the adjacent flour mill (

Connor's Mill Connor's Mill is a steam driven flour mill located on Stirling Terrace, Toodyay, Stirling Terrace in Toodyay, Western Australia, Toodyay, Western Australia. The mill is still operational; the Shire of Toodyay protected the then dilapidated bui ...

) for Connor around the same time. Another large residence ( Connor's House) was built on the lot in about 1890. Connor's Cottage is a single storey, painted brick building with a corrugated iron roof. A verandah extends around much of the building. Whilst originally built as a dwelling, the building has also been used as a bakery and restaurant, and a number of extensions have taken place over the years. The origin of the alternative name, Ted Chapman's Cottage, has not been confirmed. Today the Toodyay Visitor Centre is located in between Connor's Mill and Connor's Cottage.

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