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HOUSE
Location664 BELL STREET,, PRESTON VIC 3072 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and additions to the house including the later garage to its west are not significant. The high front brick fence is intrusive. How is it significant? Why is it significant? The house is architecturally significant as an fine and relatively early example of an attic style California/Craftsman Bungalow with Arts and Crafts detailing. The aesthetic qualities of the house are enhanced by its siting behind a generous garden setback containing a mature Canary Island Palm, which provides an appropriate and related setting for the house. (Criteria D).
The house, constructed c.1916 in the Craftsman Bungalow style, and the mature Canary Island Palm (Phoenix canariensis) at 664 Bell Street, Preston. The form, original materials and detailing and siting of the house within a generous garden setback contributes to the significance of the place.
The house and Canary Island Palm at 664 Bell Street are of local historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to Darebin City.
The house at 664 Bell Street, Preston is historically significant as place that provides tangible evidence of the recovery in development in the relatively undeveloped areas of Preston following the economic crash of the late 1890s and prior to the post-First World War boom (Criterion A).
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residence