Dwelling,14 and 16 Lerderderg Street
14 Lerderderg Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Residence and its setting at 14-16 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh.
How is it significant?
The Residence and its setting at 14-16 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh are of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Residence and its setting at 14-16 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical significance for its reflection of the Inter-War period of residential development stimulated by the expansion of the orcharding industry. The orcharding industry expanded around Bacchus Marsh in the Inter-War period due to a number of factors, including the introduction of cool storage, the mechanisation of fruit grading, improved irrigation methods, use of bulk handling techniques, and after 1932, preferential entry into the British markets for fresh, dried and tinned fruit. Due to its intactness it is of historical significance as a representative embodiment of a way of life in the 1920s.
The Residence and its setting at 14-16 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of aesthetic significance as an excellent intact and representative example of a substantial Inter-War Bungalow demonstrating many key features of the style.
Constructed in 1928, the residence exhibits characteristic Inter-War Bungalow features, including the combined clinker brick and roughcast walls, broad shallow curved bow window, dominant pitched roof form clad in terracotta Marseilles tiles, deep verandah with a hipped roof, concrete columns and a brick balustrade, triple double hung windows with leadlight upper sashes, and roughcast chimneys with flat broad cornices. The original clinker brick front fence with pillars and wrought iron panels contributes to the aesthetic significance of the property.
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Dwelling,14 and 16 Lerderderg Street - Physical Conditions
Very Good
Dwelling,14 and 16 Lerderderg Street - Intactness
Excellent
Dwelling,14 and 16 Lerderderg Street - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted clinker brick Californian Bungalow. It is roughcast above dado height, some of the brickwork is tuckpointed and the roof has unglazed terra-cotta Marseilles pattern tiles. There is a major gable facing Lerderderg Street, and a minor gable nesting into that, at left. This has a broad shallow curved bow window. There is a hip verandah across the front, formed as a break-pitch extension of the main gable. It is supported on pre-cast concrete Doric square section posts on a brick balustrade, with soldier-course decoration. The double bay windows are triples, with leadlight upper sashes. The (unpainted) roughcast chimneys have flat Voyseyan tops. Siting is prominent, closing the vista at the top of Gell Street. The fence is compatible with clinker tuckpointed brick and a "wrought iron" geometric pattern balustrade, with gates which have riveted joints. The drive is still gravel surfaced. Adjacent, at left is a grassed footpath right of-way with a timber rail fence. The diamond pattern pre-cut concrete footpath begins in front.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0503
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0505
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