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17 Vernon Street CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY

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House at 17 Vernon St
House at 17 Vernon St
House at 17 Vernon St
House at 17 Vernon St
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Statement of Significance

An interesting timber Californian Bungalow, built about 1930, with an extremely complicated gabled roof at the front. It has several mature trees in the front garden and nature strip. It is particularly intact and in good condition, one of two linked groups. It is historically significant to Maroondah with the others of these groups as a representative embodiment of rural family life in Croydon about 1930, just before the Great Depression. It is architecturally significant as a good representative example of this domestic style, with its front roof being an extraordinary element.

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    • Physical Description 1

      House - Physical Description 1

      A triple-fronted timber Californian Bungalow, with an extremely complicated gabled roof at front, with a major gable facing Vernon Street. Other gables and a skillion nest into this. At left, is a verandah under a gable that projects at left, covering a verandah at front. This recedes to the central entrance and at right becomes a skillion hood on deep brackets over a shallow window. A minor front facing gable nests into the major gable and another gable faces at the entrance, as a porch. These have most unusual deeply louvred vents, on bull-nosed brackets and vertical timbers. Chimneys (and the porch) are roughcast, with finely tuckpointed brick dressings, plate top and stoneware pot. Rafters are exposed. The porch has an arched opening, with a slotted balustrade in roughcast. There are several mature trees including the splendid spruce at the street corner and several in the nature strip.

      Physical Conditions

      House - Physical Conditions

      Very good.

      Intactness

      House - Intactness

      Excellent.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Study

      Author: Richard Peterson Architect & Conservation Consultant
      Year: 2010
      Grading:

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    This is my house!!!!!

    • 25/10/16

    I just discovered that this house was on the database, after realising that it was my house! I've lived here for 7 years, but I never knew it was on here. I've submitted a picture of the house today, after a second floor was added.

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Notes See all notes

This is my house!!!!!

• 25/10/16

I just discovered that this house was on the database, after realising that it was my house! I've lived here for 7 years, but I never knew it was on here. I've submitted a picture of the house today, after a second floor was added.

Images See all images

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