Monterey cypress drive & planting (mature conifers and palms), Lambert House
5 MERUKA DRIVE ELTHAM, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
ELTHAM STUDY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
This place includes trees of significant size that have cultural landscape value as an intact continuous driveway avenue that follows the topography in an unusual way. This driveway is rare on a Shire-wide basis for both its design and planting.
REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (with AHC criteria) 2001
MONTEREY CYPRESS DRIVE & PLANTING (mature conifers, palms) at the Lambert house site are significant to Eltham:
- for the mature exotic trees of significant size which make up the former house garden, rare within the Shire for both the design and planting composition ( Criterion B2);
- for the cultural landscape value of the intact continuous driveway avenue that follows the topography in an unusual way and indicate the former rural land use, now rare on a Shire-wide basis ( Criterion A4,B2)
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Monterey cypress drive & planting (mature conifers and palms), Lambert House - Physical Description 1
ELTHAM STUDY DESCRIPTON:
Driveway avenue of approximately 28 closely spaced trees which winds, up a steep slope to the Child Care Centre. Some trees are particularly large with trunk diameters of up to 1,000 mm whilst other trees have been overshadowed to a significant degree and are spindly and in poor condition. There is also other exotic planting on the site, not individually identified.
REVISED OR EXTENDED DESCRIPTON:
There are 43 Monterey cypress on the drive (20, '23), planted as an avenue and probably from the inter-war period. '
At the former house site (now child care centre) there are many mature exotic trees including;
-2 'Cupress ustorulosa';
-1'Gedrus deodara';
- 2 'Cupressus sp.'
- 1 'Phoenix canariensis';
- 1'Trachycarpus fortuneii'.
Monterey cypress drive & planting (mature conifers and palms), Lambert House - Physical Conditions
Gener-ally good (partially disturbed, well preserved)
Monterey cypress drive & planting (mature conifers and palms), Lambert House - Integrity
Substantially intact/some intrusions
Monterey cypress drive & planting (mature conifers and palms), Lambert 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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RICE HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0123
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ADOBE RESIDENCE AND IRON GATES - "ROCKNALL"Nillumbik Shire
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FLORRIE'S COTTAGENillumbik Shire
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