FORMER CROYDON STATION MASTER’S RESIDENCE
Other Name
Department Residence 3393
Location
63 WICKLOW AVENUE CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY
Level
Heritage Inventory Site
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Station Master’s Residence
How is it significant?
The Station Master’s Residence is significant because of its association with early suburban Victorian railways. The Residence forms an integral part of the railway and has potential to provide detail regarding daily life of early 20th century Melbourne. It is of potential archaeological significance due to the likelihood that deposits and foundations remain intact due to the asphalting of the carpark.
Why is it significant?
Surviving examples of this type of building are rare and thus any buried deposits and artefacts that do remain can have significant archaeological potential for the investigating of early 20th century Victorian railway infrastructure.
The Station Masters Residence meets three of the themes in the Victorian Framework of Historical Themes – 3.3 Connecting Victorians by Transport and Communications, Linking Victorians by Rail, 5.7 Building Victoria’s industries and workforce, catering for tourists and 6.3 Building towns, cities and the garden station shaping the suburbs. (Heritage Victoria 2009).
Theme 3.3 Connecting Victorians by Transport and Communications, Linking Victorians by Rail. The Station Masters Residence is a building specifically constructed to house a rail employee and his family and can answer questions about daily lives of a rail employee.
Theme 5.7 Building Victoria’s industries and workforce, catering for tourists. Croydon was a tourist destination and a stopping point from the late 19th century, and the Station Master would have to oversee the public relations with tourists who came through Croydon station. The Station Masters residence can answer questions about the living conditions of workers who participated in the tourist industry and how the Station Master would accommodate tourists.
Theme 6.3 Building towns, cities and the garden state shaping the suburbs. The construction of the Station Masters Residence was a direct influence of the accelerating growth of the population in Croydon, which was stimulated by the construction and the electrification of the railway. Within the suburb, the Station Masters Residence was a house that was built for a specific purpose, in a specific architectural style that would be unique compared to the houses in the rest of the suburb.
Group
Transport - Rail
Category
Railway Residence/Quarters
