HOUSE
29 LORNE STREET,, MOONEE PONDS VIC 3039
Lorne St
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1892, at 29 Lorne Street, Moonee Ponds. The form, scale, and original external materials and detailing of the house contributes to the significance of the place.
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The house at 29 Lorne Street, Moonee Ponds is of local historic and architectural significance to Moonee Valley City.
Why is it significant?
It is historically important for its capacity to demonstrate the continuing attraction of Moonee Ponds in the immediate vicinity of the railway line as a residential location towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the end of the Land Boom. (Criterion A)
It is architecturally significant as an unusual villa of its type, which is distinguished as an early example of the emerging and highly fashionable Queen Anne Style and prior to the widespread adoption of the style during the Federation period. It has aesthetic significance as a building that contributes to the historic character of the Lorne Street precinct. (Criteria E & F)
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HOUSE - Physical Description 1
The house at 29 Lorne Street, Moonee Ponds is an unusual late Victorian Queen Anne influenced villa distinguished by its centrally placed chimney with strapwork. Surmounting the steeply pitched pyramidal roof, now clad with metal tiles, and the prominent asymmetrical porch in red brick is a steeply pitched stuccoed pediment characteristic of the Queen Anne Style. The walls are of red brick with stuccoed banding and the turned timber posted verandah has a fretted frieze highly representative of the Queen Anne Style that led into the architecture of the Federation period.
The house is in good condition and has a relatively high degree of external integrity. It makes an important contribution to the historic character of the Lorne Street precinct.
HOUSE - Historical Australian Themes
4. Building settlements, towns and cities. 4.1.2. Making suburbs (Moonee Ponds).
Heritage Study and Grading
Moonee Valley - City of Moonee Valley Heritage Study
Author: Andrew Ward
Year: 1998
Grading: LocalMoonee Valley - Review of HO precincts
Author: David Helms HPM
Year: 2010
Grading:
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