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ABERFELDIE STABLES (FORMER)
Location47 & 49 COMBERMERE STREET, ABERFELDIE, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The other buildings on these sites are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant? The whole of the building, including the remaining wall and the
adjoining land is of importance for its potential to yield further
information about the historic development of this area. (Criterion C)
The former 'Aberfeldie' stable block, constructed c.1869 and
situated at the rear of the houses at 47 and 49 Combermere Street,
Aberfeldie, is significant. The main surviving part of the stables is
situated on the rear boundary of no.47, with the east wall of the
building following the boundary line. It is a single storey building
constructed of brick, with bluestone foundations and a low-pitched hip
roof clad in slate. The iron guttering along the east and north
appears to have a very early profile and may be original. At the north
end is a skillion roof section (roof now missing) with a parapet wall
on the boundary. The west elevation has several openings with louvred
shutters, while the east elevation or boundary wall has two closed
over windows with segmental brick arched windows with bluestone sills.
The roof of the building has been truncated where it meets the
boundary of the adjoining property to the south (no.49), however, part
of the boundary wall continues and has been incorporated into a new
wall along the boundary of that property. The surviving section
includes a bluestone sill indicating the position of another window.
The former 'Aberfeldie' stable block at 47 and 49 Combermere
Street, Aberfeldie is of local historic and archaeological
significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
It is significant for its associations with the early settlement
of Essendon as the only surviving building of 'Aberfeldie' which was
the first house in this district and gave the area its name, and as a
building that pre-dates the suburban development that commenced from
1888 onwards. It is also significant as a rare representative example
of an early stables building and of a building dating from the 1860s.
It is also significant for its association with the pioneering
Robertson family, who were among the first European settlers in the
Aberfeldie district. (Criteria A, B, D & H)
Group
Farming and Grazing
Category
Stables