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HOUSE (ANASTASIA)

Location

55 HOLMES ROAD, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, 'Anastasia', built c.1898, at 55 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds is significant.

How is it significant?
The house at 55 Holmes Road, Moonee Pondsis of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
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 forms part of a group of houses of similar era in Holmes Road. (Criterion A)

Aesthetically, it is a fine and intact (if somewhat late) example of a polychromatic brick villa, distinguished by its ornate verandah and ornamental roof cresting. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House