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Verdon Street Heritage Precinct

Other Name

Government Survey Heritage Precinct

Location

Verdon Street (part) and Parker Street (part) and Pasco Street (part) and Perry Street (part) WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
Verdon Street Heritage
[2/2]
Verdon Street Heritage

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Verdon Street Heritage Precinct, which comprises all land within HO32 and generally includes properties with a frontage or side boundary to Verdon Street, Williamstown.

How is it Significant?

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

Why is it Significant?

Historically, Verdon Street is an integral part of the broader Government Survey Heritage Precinct and illustrates the development of Williamstown during the late nineteenth century. (AHC criteria A4 and D2)

Aesthetically, it is a cohesive late nineteenth and early twentieth century residential streetscape that comprises groups of larger villas from the Victorian to Interwar periods, as well as the intact nineteenth century street layout including mature Elm and Oak street trees, which add to and reinforce the period setting. (AHC criterion E1)

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

- Verdon Street (odd) 1, 3, 7-21, 29, 47A, 55-59, 69-77, 79, 81 (Street tree only), 87, 91, 93 and 95 (even) 2, 6-16, 40, 48, 50, 66, 70-78, 84, 88-92, 96 and 106-108 (inclusive)

- The early or nineteenth century street layout including the basalt guttering, grassed and gravelled verges and Elm street trees.

Please note that some heritage places within this precinct may also have an individual citation in this Study.

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