HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue
1 Eastway Avenue DONVALE, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The house at 1 Eastway Avenue (formerly 390 Springvale Road) was constructed c.1909 and extended between 1912 and c.1920 and associated for a long period with the Sell family who ran an orchard on the property.
How is it Significant?
The house at 1 Eastway Avenue, Donvale is of local historic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The house is of historic significance as a representative example of a house associated with the district's fruit-growing industry and as a now rare reminder of the time when Donvale, Doncaster and Templestowe were major orchard areas. It is also significant for its long association with the Sell family, one of the pioneering orchard families in this area. (RNE criteria A.4, B.2, D.2 & H.1)
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HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
5.02 - Orchards & market gardens
HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Physical Description 1
The house at 1 Eastway Avenue, Donvale, is a symmetrical, double-fronted, timber
Victorian/Edwardian transitional villa with a hipped corrugated iron roof. The front elevation
(which faces away from Eastway Avenue and toward Springvale Road, its original address)
contains a central panelled timber front door flanked on either side by timber-framed, double-hung
sashes. The rear elevation has been substantially altered by non-original windows and later
additions. The house is situated on a well treed block.
HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Physical Conditions
Condition Fair
HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Integrity
Integrity Altered
HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Physical Description 2
Threats Deterioriation
HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Physical Description 3
Key elements
Building
HOUSE AT 1 Eastway Avenue - Physical Description 4
Associations
Sell family
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:
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