HOUSE
68 HOLMES ROAD,, MOONEE PONDS VIC 3039 - Property No 191966
Holmes Rd Residential
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house at 68 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds is significant.
How is it significant?
The house at 68 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Why is it significant?
Historically, it is representative of an important phase in the residential development of Moonee Ponds, spurred by the opening of the nearby railway station in the 1880s. (Criteria A)
Aesthetically, it is a fine and intact example of a Boom-style Victorian brick villa, which contributes to the historic character of the Holmes Road precinct. (Criterion E)
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HOUSE - Physical Description 1
The house at 68 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds, is a single-storey double-fronted Victorian bichromatic brick villa on a bluestone plinth. Occupying a corner site, the asymmetrical house has two street frontages, each with a projecting bay at the outer end, and a return verandah between. It has a hipped slate roof, supported on moulded eaves brackets and penetrated by rendered brick chimneys with moulded caps. The brown brick walls are articulated by simple cream brick quoining to corners and the door and window openings. The return verandah has a convex roof of corrugated galvanised steel, supported on simple cast iron columns with an ornate cast iron lace frieze.
The property has a cast iron palisade fence on a bluestone base along the two street frontages; the house is otherwise much concealed by its densely landscaped setting.
HOUSE - Historical Australian Themes
AHC Criteria
A.4 - Importance for association with events, developments or cultural phases which have had a significant role in the human occupation and evolution of the nation, State, region or community.
D.2 - Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of the Range of human activities in the Australian environment (including way of life, philosophy, custom, process, land use, function, design or technique) .
E.1 - Importance for a community for aesthetic characteristics held in high esteem or otherwise valued by the community.
H.1 - Importance for close associations with individuals whose activities have been significant within the history of the nation, State or region.
Thematic Context
4 Building settlements, towns and cities 4.1.2 Making suburbs (Moonee Ponds)Heritage Study and Grading
Moonee Valley - City of Moonee Valley Heritage Review Stage 4
Author: Heritage Alliance
Year: 2004
Grading:
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