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Silvern Birches

Location 13-23 Hull Road CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Silver Birches is a wilfully eclectic and Romantic double-storey asymmetrical brick house designed by important domestic architects Blackett & Forster and built in 1930. The flat-roofed porch is characteristic of the architects' work. It is historically significant to the Melbourne region as an extraordinary embodiment of a privileged way of life and social values, in a rural context. It is architecturally significant as a sophisticated example of the architects' work and of a Romantic and eclectic domestic style, little recognised and studied by scholars, which is particularly intact and in good condition.