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Location

74 Skene Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205136

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

A most singular and elaborate Late Victorian timber house in excellent condition, built in 1892, with some fascinating if sometimes charmingly naïve decorative details. It has architectural significance locally for its unusual decoration and representative of domestic stylistic extravagance of the Boom period and historically in embodying the pretension of a trade family in Newtown just before the economic crash of 1892.

INTACTNESS: Very good. The fence and major double-storey rear addition are recent, the chimney brickwork has been painted and the finial has been truncated at the roofline.

CONDITIONS AND THREATS: Excellent

REFERENCE: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence