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HOUSE
Location685 Gilbert Road, RESERVOIR VIC 3073 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The house in terms of its form, scale, materials (excluding roofing and other recent material) and architectural embellishment is significant. Later alterations and/or additions, including the tiles on the roof, the post-war addition at the rear of the house and the high brick front fence, are not significant How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The house at 685 Gilbert Road, Reservoir, built c.1890 as a farmhouse for the Staples family until the 1920s. It is a double fronted Victorian era farmhouse, which is constructed in bi-chromatic brickwork. It has a cast iron verandah and frieze, which is enclosed by projecting wing walls at either end. The centrally placed front door has sidelights and highlights and flanked by tripartite windows, while other windows are double hung sash. Other detailing includes eaves brackets and consoles to ends of the wing walls and there are two bi-chromatic brick chimneys with moulded tops.
The house at 685 Gilbert Road, Reservoir is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house at 685 Gilbert Road, Reservoir is significant as a representative example of a Victorian era brick farmhouse with typical detailing, which is associated with development of small farms in Reservoir in the late nineteenth century. The significance of the house is enhanced by its rarity value as one of a small number of relatively intact late nineteenth century farmhouses within Reservoir. It has important associations with the Staples family, one of the early farming families to settle in this area. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2 & H.1)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House