Smith Orchard House
125 Cherry Tree Road HURSTBRIDGE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
ELTHAM STUDY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
The two mature Canary Island palm trees are good specimens of a very fashionable tree during the first decades of the 20th century and are also significant streetscape elements. The weatherboard house is of standard design and one of the very few dwellings of this type anywhere in the rural areas of the Shire of Eltham. The number of pre 1930 dwellings in the Shire is also quite small and most of them are cottages, smaller and more basic in size and design. REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (with AHC criteria) Smith Orchard house, with CANARY ISLAND PALMS (2) are significant to the HURSTBRIDGE locality as:
- two mature and well formed Canary Island palms, being a fashionable tree in the first decades of the 20th century but relatively rare in the Shire (Criterion A4, B2);
- significant mature trees in the general landscape (Criterion A3);
- a relatively well preserved example of an inter-war orchardist's house of a conservative design but one of a small group of dwellings of this type in the rural areas of the former Shire of Eltham and larger than the most pre 1930 dwellings which are typically smaller and of a more simple design ( Criterion B2);
- a house and its landscape setting long associated with the pioneering Smith family (Criterion H1).-
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Smith Orchard House - Physical Description 1
ELTHAM STUDY DESCRIPTON:
Style Victorian/Edwardian.
The house is a conservative weatherboard M-hipped roof house design, with a return skilllon form timber verandah. The fretted verandah brackets and general design are typical of the Edwardian-era.
Design standard.
Plan rectangular.
Single storeyed.
Walls timber stud construction, weatherboard clad.
Roof hipped with eaves, corrugated iron clad.
Features are the standard design house.
REVISED OREXTENDED DESCRIPTON:
Two mature Canary Island palms are placed symmetrically about the line of the front door.
Smith Orchard House - Integrity
substantiallyintacUsome intrusions- the verandah has been enclosed and possibly rebuilt, the windows have been enlarged and additions made to the rear
Smith Orchard House - Physical Conditions
good (partially disturbed, well preserved)
Smith Orchard House - Historical Australian Themes
PRIVATE PLANTING, FARMING
Heritage Study and Grading
Nillumbik - Nillumbik Shire Heritage Study 2001
Author: Graeme Butler & Assoc
Year: 2001
Grading:
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Smith Orchard HouseNillumbik Shire
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