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Location

1 Adelaide Street and 3 Adelaide Street ASCOT VALE, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The pair of bungalows at 1 and 3 Adelaide Street, Ascot Vale, is significant. The two houses were built in 1927 for estate agent Harold M Butler, and he and his family resided in number 3.

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The significant fabric includes the:

original building and roof form as a pair of detached dwellings;

verandahs including decorative timberwork, brick steps and brick balustrades;

fenestrations;

weatherboard cladding;

chimneys;

roof tiles;

eave and gable end detailing;

window hoods;

door and window joinery and leaded glass; and

post and woven wire fence and gates at number 3.

The carport at number 1 and the extension and garage on the north side of number 3 are not significant..

How is it significant?

The pair of Californian Bungalows at 1 and 3 Adelaide Street, Ascot Vale, is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?

The pair of timber Californian Bungalows at 1 and 3 Adelaide Street, Ascot Vale, are of aesthetic significance for their joinery detail and prominent appearance. In keeping with the Japanese influence on bungalows when they developed in California, this pair boasts picturesque detail of this type including taper-cut bargeboards to the outer sides of the paired gables of each front facade, the tapered architraves to windows and doors, the elaborate window hoods, and the pierced timber frieze to number 3. The presence of the houses is greatly enhanced by their situation as a pair, at the top of a hill, and by their elongated front facades, with two gables surrounding the front porch. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House