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Location

48 Virginia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205411

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

A symmetrical Italianate timber house with Georgian influences, most unusual for Newtown (if they are original), built in c1888. It has architectural significance locally as an unusual variant of this domestic style and historically in embodying life in Newtown in the prosperous late 1880s.

INTACTNESS: Fair? Has this been reduced from an Italianate house more similar to no. 50, next door.

CONDITIONS & THREATS: Excellent

REFERENCES: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence