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Location

39 (2) Virginia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205392

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

A large late Italianate timber house between 1879 and 1894. It is architecturally significant locally as representative of this domestic style on a larger scale and historically as embodying comfortable middle class family life in 1880s Newtown and as the home of William Purnell, builder of this and so many other houses in the vicinity in this period.

INTACTNESS: Very Good, It lacks its entrance door.

CONDITIONS & THREATS: Very Good

REFERENCES: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks. The owner, Mr Davies, thinks the construction date is 1892;but he could not offer a source for this.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House