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HOUSE

Location

99 FRANCIS STREET,, ASCOT VALE VIC 3032 - Property No 176011

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house at 99 Francis Street, Ascot Vale, built for Andrew Rogers in 1893, is significant. It is a white tuckpointed red brick Elizabethan influenced cottage in bi-chrome brick with a posted verandah, cabled window mullions and unusual stepped parapet with cast cement enrichment and plasters suggestive of Elizabethan influence.

How is it significant?
The house at 99 Francis Street, Ascot Vale is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically representative of the late Victorian Boom period suburban settlement associated with operation of rail services to Essendon (Criterion A) but is distinguished by its architectural treatment in the Elizabethan manner (Criterion E) from other villas in the locale.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House