HOUSE

How is it significant?
The house at 5 Vernon Street is of historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
Historically, the house provides evidence of a particularly early phase of residential settlement in Strathmore. First recorded in directories in 1922 (although stylistic evidence suggests it may have been built a few years earlier), this small house predates much of Strathmore's inter-war building stock, which mostly developed following the gradual subdivision of the Napier family estate in the later 1920s. The house is particularly rare and unusual in Strathmore's northern extremity, which is otherwise strongly characterised by post-war housing. It is clearly one of the oldest twentieth century houses north of Woodland Street.

Aesthetically, the house is a representative, if slightly late, example of the bungalow style of the 1910s, characterised by small dwellings with symmetrical frontages, hipped roofs, timber weatherboarding and roughcast render. The house remains as distinctive element in this now small street, partly truncated by the erection of the Tullamarine freeway.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House