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BAIN AVENUE PRECINCT

Other Name

Merlynston (Bain Avenue)

Location

1-3 & 4-30 BAIN AVENUE, 5, 7 & 9 BOUNDARY ROAD, and 10 & 12 PLAISTED STREET, COBURG NORTH, MORELAND CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Bain Avenue Precinct Map
[2/4]
Bain Ave
[3/4]
6 Bain Ave
[4/4]
4 Bain Ave

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Bain Avenue precinct is an inter-war residential area comprising houses in Boundary Road, Bain Avenue and Plaisted Street, which were built to standard designs for Captain D.S. Bain between c.1926 and c.1928 as one of his estates of 'spec' homes. The following features and elements are integral to the significance of the precinct:

- The houses at 5, 7 & 9 Boundary Road, 4-24, 28 & 30 Bain Avenue and 10 Plaisted Street.
- The front woven wire or chain-link fences and gates at 10 (including the return section along part of the side boundaries) and 16 Bain Street.
- The homogeneous inter-war character created by the consistency of form, scale, style and detailing of the contributory dwellings, and the extent to which development in one period is evident.
- The 'garden suburb' character created by created by the detached siting with open front gardens and low front fences.
- The relatively high integrity of the majority of dwellings when viewed from the street.

Non-original alterations and additions and outbuildings, the house at 26 Bain Avenue and the former shop and residence at 12 Plaisted Street are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Bain Avenue precinct is of local historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to Moreland City.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant as evidence of the significant growth of Coburg during the inter-war period and for its associations with D.S. Bain as one of the estates he developed, thus creating the new suburb of Merlynston. (Criteria 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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