HOUSES (WAHROONGA & LEAHOLME)
297 and 299 TYLER STREET, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
This pair of houses at 297-299 Tyler Street, Preston, constructed c.1892, is significant. The houses have a shallow set back from the street boundary behind a garden. They each have a hipped roof clad in slate tiles and two chimneys with mouldings at their tops. The north (Tyler Street) elevation is symmetrically composed with a central front door flanked by timber frame double-hung sash windows. Verandahs extend across the fronts of both houses. The houses are relatively intact and form a cohesive element in Tyler Street.
Later additions and/or alterations, including the front fences, are not significant
How is it significant?
The houses at 297-299 Tyler Street, Preston are of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Why is it significant?
Historically, this pair of houses at 297-299 Tyler Street, Preston is significant as representative examples of speculative housing, which provides evidence of the small degree of successful development achieved by developers in Preston during the land boom just before the economic crash of the 1890s (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2). The houses are architecturally significant as good and relatively intact examples of medium-scale detached double-fronted Victorian cottages, with features that are typical of this type and style of housing (AHC criterion D.2). The significance of the houses is enhanced by their rarity value (AHC criteria B.2).
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HOUSES (WAHROONGA & LEAHOLME) - Physical Description 1
A pair of detached single-storey double-fronted brick Victorian cottages. The houses have a shallow set back from the street boundary behind a garden. They each have a hipped roof clad in slate tiles and two chimneys with mouldings at their tops. The north (Tyler Street) elevation is symmetrically composed with a central front door flanked by timber frame double-hung sash windows. Verandahs extend across the fronts of both houses.
Heritage Study and Grading
Darebin - Darebin Heritage Study
Author: Context P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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BRAITHWAITES TANNERYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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BROADHURST TANNERYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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COUNCIL CLUB HOTELVictorian Heritage Inventory
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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"1890"Yarra City
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'BRAESIDE'Boroondara City
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'ELAINE'Boroondara City
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