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Location 38 COLLINS STREET DIAMOND CREEK, NILLUMBIK SHIRE Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The c.1892 cottage with Edwardian additions at 38 Collins Street, Diamond Creek is significant.38 Collins Street, Diamond Creek is of local historic and representative significance to the Shire of Nillumbik.The residence at 38 Collins Street, Diamond Creek is historically significant as an early residence in the township of Diamond Creek demonstrating its establishment as a result of the gold rush in the area. It demonstrates the typical humble dwelling constructed by a labourer/miner in the 1890s but also incorporates unusual features such as the scalloped gable end bargeboards, angled alignment of the front house and a second early residence on the site now incorporated into the one house. The residence is one of a small collection of Victorian and Edwardian houses surviving in the Diamond Creek township, to demonstrate its establishment and appearance at its peak at the turn of the 19th century. (Criterion A) The residence at 38 Collins Street is aesthetically significant as a substantially intact Victorian style residence demonstrating the typical form and features of a humble c.1890s labourers/miners cottage. Features of note on the residence include the openings on the front elevation and their placement, the brick corbelled chimney, the typical form of a gable roof wing with skillion wing to the rear and skillion verandah to the front and the gable end scalloped bargeboards are an interesting decorative feature. The building is also significant for the incorporation at the rear of what may be an additional c.1900 gable roofed residence on the site. (Criterion D)