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Mount Eagle Estate

Location

Outlook Drive and Summit Drive and Burley Griffin Place and Lower Heidelberg Road and The Eyrie and Maltravers Road EAGLEMONT, BANYULE CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Mount Eagle Estate was the first and most successful of Walter Burley Griffin's estates in Victoria. It was designed to maximise the potential of the sloping site, providing each allotment with a high standard of visual and functional amenity. The irregularly curved streets and the internal parklands were innovative in Victoria at the time.

The street configuration and its terrain, juxtaposed with surrounding grid-iron subdivisions, makes the estate readily identifiable as a visual entity, enhanced by later mature private gardens and street planting. The planting and buildings date mainly from the period 1930-70.

Pre-dating the subdivision, Mount Eagle was the focal point in the founding of the Heidelberg School of Impressionist Art; the site of the 'Eaglemont School' being within the estate. Of local historical and landscape significance are the remnant 19th century trees which have been reinforced by subsequent exotic planting, predominantly evergreen.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct