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Mount View

Other Name

Maerewhenua, House

Location

428 Main Street, Lilydale VIC 3140 - Property No 4227

File Number

324

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Mount View house and site, at 428 Main Street, Lilydale.

How is it significant?
Mount View house has local historical and aesthetic significance.

Why is it significant?
Of historical significance as a representative example of a house that demonstrates the residential development of Lilydale after the coming of the railway in 1881. Also because it was built as a home for Henry Charles White, surveyor, a notable district resident, and his family. Ernest Winterbottom, Shire Secretary, lived at Mount View in the 1920s. RNE criteria A.4, H.1

Of aesthetic significance as an early weatherboard house built in 1886. RNE criterion E.1

Group

Residential buildings (private)