Dwelling
80 Lerderderg Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The residence at 80 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh.
How is it significant?
The Residence at 80 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Residence 80 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of historical importance for its associations with the development of the orchard industry in 1920s Bacchus Marsh. The property is of historical significance as part of the Nagle Estate, which contained the Bacchus Marsh Flats and was sold as productive land. The property is of historical significance for its associations with the prominent orcharding family, the Durhams. The Durhams' association with the district began when Arthur Hunter Durham purchased this property in 1918.
The Residence at 80 Lerderderg Street, Bacchus Marsh is of aesthetic significance as an example of an Inter-War Californian bungalow demonstrating key features of the period, including the tall gables with weatherboard cladding, deep verandah with broad brick pillars, and tripartite timber framed double hung windows.
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Dwelling - Physical Description 1
A triple-fronted brick Californian Bungalow orcharding house, with various contextual elements, including the operating orchard. The two left-hand bays are covered by a major broad gable, facing. All roofs have exposed rafters. The right hand bay has a gable facing right. Upper gables are weatherboards, with a rectangular vent. They jetty on joists and brackets. A flat roofis stepped over the verandah and across the front ofthe central and right bays, the central bay being recessed. The red bricks are tuckpointed, but the verandah is supported on clinkers with Cubist decoration. Windows are triple double-hung sashes. The paint colours are appropriate.
There is an unusual chain-link fence with in situ concrete off-form posts: the mesh is in rare large diamond pattern, with metal ribbon and chain-link pedestrian gates . There are cypresses and cedars. On the Dickie Street north-east comer are apple storage sheds, with a tall cypress hedge separating them from the house. There is a split timber post and wire fence on Dickie Street. On Lerderderg Street is diamond pattern pre-cut concrete-paved footpath.
Dwelling - Intactness
Excellent. The vehicular gate is later.
Dwelling - Historical Australian Themes
Townships.
Dwelling - Usage/Former Usage
Farmhouse, warehouse & orchard.
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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