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Baker House

Other Name

Two Houses

Location

305-307 Long Forest Road LONG FOREST, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

Statement of significance A large Modern house complex, designed by the eminent architect Robin Boyd in 1964 and built of local slate over 1965-66. A nearby smaller house was designed in 1966 and completed in 1968. When built, the site in the Long Forest Mallee, was remote and wild.

The complex is of State architectural significance as an innovative and extraordinary late domestic design by Robin Boyd which has survived relatively intact and in the same ownership. It is of state historical significance as an extraordinary embodiment of a particular way of life and its adherent social values, which crystallises some perhaps romantic aspirations of the period of the mid to late 1960s.

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