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Glen Harrow

Other Name Homestead complex, house, barn Location 2 Cole Avenue, BELGRAVE VIC 3160 - Property No 56163 File Number 258 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Glen Harrow, including the barn, cottages and garden at 2 Cole Avenue, Belgrave.

How is it significant?
Glen Harrow, 2 Cole Avenue, Belgrave, is of local aesthetic and historical significance.

Why is it significant?
Of aesthetic significance because the gardens contain a beautiful and wide variety of exotic flora species, especially the Himalayan Lily. RNE criterion A.3

Of historical significance because the barn and cottages are some of the oldest surviving structures in the Belgrave district, and because the property and gardens were developed by JC Cole, one of the early horticulturalists in the long tradition of fruit and flower growing and the establishment of fine gardens. RNE criteria D.2, H.1