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HOUSE

Location

52 Shaftesbury Parade THORNBURY, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #346

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The villa at 52 Shaftesbury Parade, Thornbury, built in 1892 for the surveyor, Frederick D.Smith.

How is it significant?
The villa at 52 Shaftesbury Parade, Thornburyis historically and aesthetically significant to Darebin City

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its capacity to demonstrate the development sustained in the locale during the Victorian period comparing with subsequent phases in its development including the Post Federation and Inter War periods. It is of interest also as a very late villa to be erected, the year of construction coinciding with the onset of the Depression.

It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an imposing and substantially intact representative middle class villa residence of the period.

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