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HOUSES

Location

2-4 Normanby Avenue THORNBURY, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #362

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The houses at 2-4 Normanby Avenue, Thornbury, built in 1891 presumably for the agent/auctioneer Walter Spencer Stott as aspeculative venture.

How is it significant?
The houses at 2-4 Normanby Avenue, Thornburyare historically and aesthetically significant to Darebin City.

Why is it significant?
The housesare historically significant (Criterion A) as examples of a late nineteenth century Boom period speculative venture undertaken by a local estate agent/auctioneer and tenanted at different times by a cable tram gripman and a conductor; the cable tram depot being situated a block away in High Street. In these respects, the terrace demonstrates aspects of a past lifestyle in Thornbury seen today solely in the built form of the locale.

The terrace is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a representative example of a Boom period terrace, complete with ornamentation surviving in a substantially intact condition

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