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FAIRVIEW

Location

101 Church Street COLERAINE, Southern Grampians Shire

File Number

0511

Level

Stage 2 study complete

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23056 Fairview 101 Church St
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23056 Fairview 101 Church St
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23056 Fairview Coleraine 0441

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Fairview is a single storey timber house located at 101 Church Street Coleraine, five blocks to the south-west of central Coleraine. It was erected in 1887 by a local merchant, Leon Lesser, and the construction was supervised by Coleraine's civil engineer, Arthur Hill. Fairview is symmetrical about the front door which has sidelights and an arched fanlight. There are two bay windows. The house has a timber verandah on all sides, now missing its decorative detailing and a corrugated iron hipped roof. The chimneys have also been removed. It is otherwise intact and is in fair condition. Service rooms complete the rear of the house. The garden includes a large Cupressus macrocarpa hedge on the east side boundary. The original drive with brick spoon drains survives.

How is it significant?
Fairview is of architectural and historical significance to the township of Coleraine and the Southern Grampians Shire Council.

Why is it significant?
Fairview is of architectural significance as one of a small number of professionally designed residences from the nineteenth century within the township of Coleraine. The unusual bay windows whose roofs merge into the main ridge are of architectural interest. Historically, it demonstrates the lifestyle of a successful middle class merchant, the proprietor of Lesser's Store.

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