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Terracedale

Location

3 McLachlan Street NORTHCOTE, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #98

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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

Statement of Significance

Terracedale is of local architectural and historical signiftcance. With the exception of the alterations to the rear elevation and removal of the original verandah the house is otherwise externally intact.

The house is enhanced by its sitting within the Merri Creek Valley and its environs of mature pepper trees (Schinus molly), conifers (Pinus pinaster) and eucalypts.

It is historically important as the claimed site of the first private telephone service in Australia.

Terracedale is one of a group of houses situated at the comer of McLachlan and Walker Streets which were the fist to be built in the Government township of Northcote.

Group