Stone Pitched Road or Paved Yard
Altona Road ALTONA, Hobsons Bay City
Hobsons Bay City
Statement of Significance
What is Significant?The stone pitched road or paved yard and land within nominally 5m of its perimeter, constructed c.1870, adjacent to Altona Road, Altona.
How is it Significant?The stone pitched road or paved yard is of local historic and technical significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.
Why is it Significant?Historically, it is significant as one of the few sites that have associations with the early settlement of the Altona area as a recognisably early part of the former main access road to the Altona homestead. It illustrates the early pattern of settlement in this area. (AHC criteria A4 and H1)
Technically, it is significant as an early road or yard paving which is constructed from bluestone typically quarried in the region but laid in a form which is unusual in the City. (AHC criterion B2, E1 and F1)
