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Other NamesFormer Oaklands Private Hospital, , Hospital, Former Lilleville Private Hospital Location418 MURRAY ROAD, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and/or additions, including the flag poles, front fence and garden elements are not significant. How is it significant? Aesthetically, the house is significant within Preston as a relatively substantial and well-detailed example of a Victorian Italianate villa. (AHC criterion D.2)
This Victorian villa at 418 Murray Road, Preston, constructed c.1892, is significant. It is a symmetrically composed, double-fronted single-storey brick Victorian villa, with a hipped-roof clad in slate tile. It has two rendered brick chimneys with Classical mouldings at their tops. The house has two canted bays that flank a central entrance. A cast iron verandah extends across the facade and returns along the east and west elevations of the house. The walls of the building are rendered brick. The house is set back from the street (south) boundary behind a garden. Initially used as a private residence, for most of the twentieth century it was used as a private hospital.
The Victorian villa at 418 Murray Road, Preston is of local historic and aesthetic significance to Darebin City.
Historically, it is significant as one of a relatively small number of substantial middle class villa erected in Preston during the land boom, which provide tangible evidence of the limited development that occurred in areas that were relatively remote from urban services. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Villa