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Location 21 JAMES STREET, PAKENHAM, CARDINIA SHIRE Level Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house and garden at 21 James Street, Pakenham. The house, a highly intact Interwar weatherboard and fibro bungalow, was built in 1927-28 for Caroline Lewis. It is visually dominated by a transverse gable roof with exposed rafters and clad in cement tiles. The front verandah is recessed under the roofline and has paired timber posts with distinctive lozenge shaped capitals. The large front garden contains a collection of plants and other features, including layout and fence, characteristic of gardens of the interwar period. The front wire and post fence with carriage gates, and the side paling fence appear to be original.

How is it important?
The house and garden at 21 James Street, Pakenham are of local architectural and aesthetic significance to Cardinia Shire.

Why is it significant?
Architecturally and aesthetically significant as a highly intact and attractive representative example of its type: a middle-class town house and garden of the Interwar period, with distinctive decorative flourishes characteristic of the local builder. (RNE criterion D.2)
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Context Pty. Ltd., Cardinia Local Heritage Study Review. Volume 3., 2017, p.470-471.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House