BAXTER STREET PRECINCT
McIvor Road and Larritt Street and Hargreaves Street and McCrae Street and Hopetoun Street and Havelock Street and Arnold Street BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
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BAXTER STREET PRECINCT - Physical Description 1
Key Sites
Garden, 37 Arnold Street 1860CWilliam
Ladd's House, 94 Baxter Street 1860c
John Jeffrey's House (carter), 56 Chapel Street 1905
Catholic Bishop's Palace, 174 McCrae Street 1876-?
St. Kilian's Catholic Church, 181 McCrae Street 1888
Dr.Backhaus's Grave, 181 McCrae Street
BAXTER STREET PRECINCT - Physical Description 2
Contributory Streets:
Arnold, Victorian, Edwardian, timber. Baxter, Edwardian, timber.
Hargreaves, Edwardian, timber
Havelock, Edwardian, 1920s-30 timber
Hopetoun, Edwardian, timber
Larritt, Edwardian, 1920s-30, timber
McCrae, Edwardian, timber
BAXTER STREET PRECINCT - Physical Description 3
The existing Baxter Street Precinct (HO2) is located east of Tomlins Street, Bendigo, and consists of houses on the west and east sides of Hargreaves, McCrae, Hopetoun, Larritt, Havelock and Arnold streets. Located at the edge of the city , the Baxter Street Precinct comprises small allotments and tree lined streets with wide verges, including some that are unsealed (Havelock Street). The area is defined by the Bayne Street Reserve with the gardens of Lake Weeroona in the background, the diverging paths of Back Creek and Bendigo Creek, the paved banks of which conceal remnants of the early alluvial mining that took place along them. Chapel Street forms the boundary between the commercial areas of the city and the residential allotments of 'Irish Town'.
St. Kilian's and the complex of church buildings, once the first permanent buildings in the area, are the focus of this precinct. The mature elm street trees in streets such as Havelock, Hargreaves and Hopetoun are important features of the precinct. The St. Kilian's complex and surviving structures such as 37 Arnold Street and other small cottages dotted along Joseph Street, still evoke the character of old Irishtown where many Irish names are listed in Bendigo rate books of the 1860s-70s.
The development of the tramway to Lake Weeroona along McCrae Street, and the development of the Electricity Supply Co. of Victoria between the railway and Back Creek are marked by Tramway Avenue, where the area comprises a concentration of Edwardian era houses related to this period of development.
The various house types within the precinct area consist of detached houses and cottages dating from the Edwardian and Victorian eras, as well as a late-Victorian Church and a c1860s garden. Arnold Street and McCrae Streets had some commercial sites including the McCrae Street Hotel, the Baxter Street corner, Bridget Flood's grocery and J McMahon's Farriers' Arms Hotel. The Lake View Hotel at 204 McCrae Street is a reminder of this activity.
The north and south sides of Havelock Street and the east side of Arnold Street are proposed as an extension to this precinct given that there are a number of contributory properties in these streets with a the similarity in character and integrity to the street already within the existing precinct.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1993
Grading:Greater Bendigo - White Hills & East Bendigo Heritage Study 2016
Author: Context P/L
Year: 2015
Grading: Local
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