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HO52 - House, 932-1036 Holden Road, Diggers Rest

Other Name

932-1036 Holden Road, Diggers Rest (Lot 1 PS 448042)

Location

932-1036 Holden Road DIGGERS REST, Melton Shire

File Number

103

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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House

Statement of Significance

The house at 932-1036 Holden Road, Diggers Rest, is significant as a predominantly intact example of an interwar homestead Bungalow style, the composition reflecting Federation design. Built in 1931 for the Tyquin family one of the allotments sold in the break-up of the Clarke pastoral estate, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the road. This house appears to be the most intact and substantial example of an interwar homstead Bungalow style in the Melton Shire. It has recently undergone extensive heritage renovations.

The house at 932-1036 Holden Road is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level (AHC D.2). It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar homestead Bungalow style. These qualities include the central hipped roof form, together with the projecting minor gables linked by the return verandah formed as an extension of the main hipped roof. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, two red brick chimneys, broad eaves with exposed timber rafters, round, tapered concrete verandah columns supported by rendered brick piers with concrete cappings, flat roofed faceted bay window, timber framed double hung windows and the timber framed doorways. The timber post and woven wire fence and scrolled metal gate also contributes to the significance of the place and has been recently replaced by a replica fence type.

The house at 932-1036 Holden Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level (AHC A4). It is an example of one of the many small to medium sized farms and homesteads established as a consequence of the historic break-up of the large pastoral estates in Melton Shire in the early twentieth century, in particular the Clarkes' vast Rockbank estate.

Overall, the house at 932 Holden Road is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Farming and Grazing