Airlie House
31 Somerville Road, YARRAVILLE VIC 3013 - Property No 4087015800
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Statement of Significance
Architecturally, expresses both an early construction date and the basalt construction distinguishes Footscray from other suburbs. Historically, linked with some of the city's earliest river front industrialists and the maritime activities (via Walpole) which made Victoria's busiest 19th century port, Williamstown, and its industrial partner, Footscray, a prominent duo in the metropolitan area. Also a possible link exists with the romantic novelist Walpole and a later entertainment (the cinema) via the Footscray Walpole's progeny.
Maribyrnong Heritage Review, Volume 6
These elm trees are significant to the City of Maribyrnong:
- as mature and large examples of their type, being among the largest, and therefore possibly oldest, in the City ( Criterion B2);
- for their association with Horace Walpole and other well known persons who lived in this house ( Criterion H1).
Australian Heritage Commission (AHC) criteria
The Australian Heritage Commission criteria consist of a set of eight criteria which cover social, aesthetic, scientific, and historic values. Each criterion has sub-criteria written specifically for cultural or natural values. The relevant criteria are:
B.2 rarity
H.1 association with important person or group
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Airlie House - Physical Description 1
(obscured-inspection required)
Apparently of some age (old chimneys) and once fronting Stephen Street (for good reason given its first owner), this hipped roof stone house is comprised of house and a once detached kitchen (?). The latter still possesses exposed stonework, but the former has been stuccoed over. Both are set well back from Somerville Road with the frontage aptly demarcated by a row of mature (severely pruned) elms.
Airlie House - Physical Description 2
Streetscape
Unrelated to the streetscape proper but probably the precedent for the later well to-do households which were established here during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Heritage Study and Grading
Maribyrnong - City of Footscray Urban Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1989
Grading:
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SUN THEATREVictorian Heritage Register H0679
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STATE SAVINGS BANKVictorian Heritage Register H0723
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INTERLOCKING RAILWAY CROSSING GATESVictorian Heritage Register H1028
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