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HOUSE
Other NameReview, New Location84 MAIN STREET, PAKENHAM, CARDINIA SHIRE LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? There is a flat-roofed addition at the rear and other non-original
alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The house, constructed c.1910, at 84 Main Street, Pakenham is
significant. This Edwardian timber house is asymmetrical in plan and
has a high hipped roof that extends to form a verandah at one side of
the projecting gabled bay. The verandah is supported by a turned
timber post at the corner with half-posts where it meets the walls and
has carved timber brackets. Windows are timber double hung sash and
the walls are clad in square edged weatherboards with half-timbered
detail at the top of the gable end that projects slightly from the
wall. There is one corbelled brick chimney. The house has good
integrity and intactness and is setback from the street behind a
garden.
The house at 84 Main Street, Pakenham is of local historic
significance to Cardinia Shire.
It is significant as one of the oldest houses in Pakenham and its
historic significance is enhanced by its rarity value as one of five
known surviving pre-World War One houses and one of only two situated
in Main Street, which was the main residential area in the town until
the interwar period. It is representative of the simple timber houses
erected in Pakenham in the early 1900s. (Criteria A & D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House