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Residence

Location

8 Villamanta Street, GEELONG WEST VIC 3218 - Property No 211096

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

SIGNIFICANCE

Together with No .8 and No. 10 McNicol street these cottages are part of the earliest building stock which once made up Little Scotland. They are significant in that they are the only dissimilar attached cottages known in Geelong West. They are of Regional Signfigance.

POLICY/RECOMMENDATIONS

National Estate Register, External restoration of these cottages should be encouraged including the careful removal of paint from brickwork.

REFERENCES

Taylors 1854 map of Little Scotland, Ashby and portion of Kildare.

Thomson Ward Rate Books, 1863-4, 1870-1, 1874-5 .

Villamanta Ward Rate Books, 1854, 1855-6, 1859-60.

Villamnata Ward Valuation Books, 1853, 18545.

The Morrow Pioneers Index. GHRC.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence