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Residence

Location

19 Retreat Road, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204291

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

A most unusual late Victorian symmetrical timber house, built by William Purnell in 1892. The design has several rather early advanced elements, and materials, unless they were added later: pressed metal, asbestos cement slates, etc. It is architecturally significant locally as an unusual and forward-looking design, despite its symmetry and historically significant as an embodiment of comfortable life in Newtown, before the financial crash of 1892-3.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence