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DELTA AVENUE & LORENSEN AVENUE PRECINCT

Other Name

PRECINCT - MERLYNSTON (DELTA AVE & LORENSEN AVE)

Location

1, 2 & 3 DELTA AVENUE, and 17, 19, 1/21 & 2/21 LORENSEN AVENUE, COBURG NORTH, MORELAND CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/9]
Delta Avenue Lorensen Avenue
[2/9]
1 Delta Ave
[3/9]
19 Lorensen Ave
[4/9]
19 Lorensen Ave - gable end
[5/9]
21 Lorensen Ave
[6/9]
3 Delta Ave
[7/9]
2 Delta Ave
[8/9]
17 Lorensen Ave
[9/9]
17 Lorensen Ave fence

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Delta Avenue & Lorensen Avenue precinct is an inter-war residential area comprising houses at 1, 2 & 3 Delta Avenue and 17-21 Lorensen Avenue. The following features and elements are integral to the significance of the precinct:

- The houses, all constructed by 1932, at 1, 2 & 3 Delta Avenue and 17-19 & 1/21 Lorensen Avenue.
- The front fences and gates at 17 Lorensen Avenue.
- The homogeneous inter-war character created by the consistency of form, scale, style and detailing of the contributory dwellings, the detached siting behind garden setbacks and low front fences, and the extent to which development in one period is evident.
- The relatively high integrity of the dwellings when viewed from the street.

Non-original alterations and additions and outbuildings and the house at 2/21 Lorensen Avenue are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Delta Avenue and Lorensen Avenue precinct is of local historic and architectural significance to Moreland City.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant for its associations with D.S. Bain as one of the estates he developed, thus creating the new suburb of Merlynston. (Criterion A & H)

It is architecturally and aesthetically significant as a notable group of inter-war houses, which stand out in Coburg North because of their consistency of form and fine quality of detailing. (Criteria D & E)

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