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Residence

Location

50 Virginia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 505410

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

A characteristic timber Italianate house with some significant elements including: gates and cladding boards, built in 1890. It was built and owned by prolific local builders Purnell & Sons. It is architecturally local significant as representative of this domestic style and historically in embodying life and speculative developments in Newtown before the economic crash of 1892.

INTACTNESS: Fair. A window hood, the verandah including its floor with a concrete slab, were all replaced c1925. The fence is recent.

CONDITIONS & THREATS: Good

REFERENCES: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks and Mr Hands, present owner in conversation in RP on 30 March 1997.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence