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PRECINCT - MAY STREET

Location

1-35 and 2-48 MAY STREET and 72 and 74 O'HEA STREET, COBURG, MORELAND CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The houses, constructed between c.1890 and c.1935, at 1-7 & 11-35 and 4, 8-24, 28 & 36-48 May Street and 72 & 74 O'Hea Street, Coburg are significant. The legibility of the main periods of development as represented by the housing types and styles, and the consistency of form, scale, siting with small front setback and low front fence, materials and detailing of the contributory dwellings is integral to the significance of this precinct. The bluestone kerb and channel also contributes to the significance of the precinct.

Non-original alterations and additions to the contributory houses, the houses at 2, 6, 9, 26, & 30-34, and outbuildings are not significant.

How is it significant?
The May Street precinct is of local historic significance to Moreland City.

Why is it significant?
The May Street precinct is historically significant as a residential area that provides tangible evidence of key phases in the suburban development of Coburg in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This street is notable as one of the few in this part of Coburg where the limited development prior to the 1890s depression and the recovery and significant development that occurred before and after World War I can be interpreted though the housing stock. (Criterion A & D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct