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HOUSES

Location

12-16 CHRISTMAS STREET, NORTHCOTE, DAREBIN CITY

File Number

Darebin Database #349

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
City of Darebin Heritage
[2/2]
City of Darebin Heritage

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The attached pair of houses and detached villa at nos. 12-16 Christmas Street, Northcote, built possibly by the contractor Charles Bacon for the gentleman investor, John Scott, in 1890.

How is it significant?
The attached pair of houses and detached villa at nos. 12-16 Christmas Street, Northcote is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Darebin.

Why is it significant?
The housesare aesthetically significant (Criterion E) on account of their unusual cast cement niches and for the manner in which the details including the bi-chromatic brickwork and cast cement ornamentation enable them to be recognised as the work of a single owner. The unusual use of clinker bricks may be linked with the products of the nearby Northcote Brick Works which was a vast undertaking occupying the site of the present Northcote Shopping Plaza. They are in other respects representative investment buildings of their time.

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