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Power Street Heritage Precinct

Location

Power Street WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Power Street Heritage Precinct, which comprises all land in HO26 and generally includes properties with a frontage or side boundary to Power Street, Williamstown (along the eastern side).

How is it Significant?

The Power Street Heritage Precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, Power Street illustrates the effects of the 1890s Great Depression where many speculative residential estates created in the 1880s near railway lines were left vacant for a generation until the second phase of rapid residential growth that occurred in the City during the Edwardian and Interwar periods following the development of local industries. (AHC criteria A4 and D2)

Aesthetically, it is significant as a cohesive grouping of representative housing predominantly from the late Victorian & Edwardian eras that is typical of the Private Survey subdivision precinct in Williamstown and Newport. (AHC criterion E1)

On this basis, the following properties and other elements contribute to the significance of the precinct:

- Power Street (even only) 2A, 8-28, 32-54, 58, 62, 64, 68, 74-88, 94, 98-104, 110-120 and 128-132.

Some heritage places within this precinct may also have an individual citation in this Study.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct