Laura Street
1-25 & 6-28 LAURA STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Laura Street precinct, a residential area with one major period of development during the second half of the 1880s, is significant. The houses at 1-5, 9-11A, 15-25 & 6-16, 20-26 Laura Street contribute to the significance of the precinct.
The house at 7 Laura Street is Significant and also contributes to the significance of the precinct.
Non-original alterations and additions to the Significant and Contributory houses and the houses at 13, 18 & 28 Laura Street are not significant.
How is it significant?
The Laura Street Precinct is of local historic, architectural, and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Why is it significant?
Architecturally and aesthetically, Laura Street comprises a particularly cohesive streetscape of detached single-storey houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; these are enhanced by the setting, which includes original front fences, bluestone gutters, and wide nature strips with mature street trees. (Criteria D & E)
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Laura Street - Physical Description 1
Laura Street largely comprises late nineteenth and early twentieth century housing in the form of detached single-storey buildings.
The Victorian houses consist almost entirely of double-fronted villas; most have asymmetrical facades with projecting bay windows (i.e., nos. 1, 5, 7, 21, 73, 25, 26), although a few have symmetrical facade (Nos 17, 19, 20 and 22). There are also three single-fronted terraces: one at No 9, and an attached pair at Nos 11-11A. These nineteenth century houses are, with only two exceptions, of masonry construction - either face brick (nos. 1, 7, 17 and 19) or rendered (nos. 9, 19, 20, 23 and 25). The two timber villas, at nos. 22 and 26, are respectively weatherboard and block-fronted. Most of the Victorian houses retain their original slate roofs, and verandahs with cast iron columns and lacework friezes; among the more interesting villas are those at No 7, with its unusual Gothic Revival detailing (quatrefoils to the gable end), and No 20, with its twin canted bay windows.
Please refer to attachment for complete descriptionHeritage Study and Grading
Moonee Valley - City of Moonee Valley Heritage Review Stage 4
Author: Heritage Alliance
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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