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Other Nameformerly 64 Eglinton Street Location56 EGLINTON STREET,, MOONEE PONDS VIC 3039 - Property No 191556 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and additions to the house (including the Edwardian era addition at the side) and the front fence are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant? Aesthetically, it is a particularly fine example of a substantial Victorian brick villa, distinguished by its elevated siting on a high bluestone plinth, and by its distinctive and unusual rendered quoining. (Criterion E)
The house at 56 Eglinton Street, Moonee Ponds is significant. It is a single-storey double-fronted Victorian villa of red brick construction, raised on a high bluestone plinth, with a hipped slate roof. The asymmetrical street frontage, articulated by unusual rendered quoining to corners and openings, has a canted bay window to the west side, and a return verandah extending along the south and east sides. The verandah has a concave roof of corrugated galvanised steel, supported on pairs of cast iron columns; the verandah retains an ornate cast iron railing (With matching balustrade to the front entry staircase) although the lacework frieze has evidently been removed.
The house at 56 Eglinton Street, Moonee Ponds, is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Historically, it is representative of an important phase in the residential development of Moonee Ponds, spurred by the opening of the nearby railway station and tramways. (Criterion A)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House