Footscray Residential Heritage Area

The Footscray Residential Precinct is historically significant to the City of Maribyrnong because:
- it is expressive of two major and distinguishable growth periods in the city's development with:
- small Victorian & Edwardian single-storey detached housing with mainly weatherboard wall cladding, corrugated iron roofing, front verandahs, similar front and side setbacks and narrow block frontages,
- some surviving early asphalt footpaths and stone kerb and channel,
- originally with no provision for on-site vehicle parking for most of the identified housing as an evocation of the pre-motor age, and -major built form of the typical Edwardian villa main hip and projecting gable roof form combination (Criterion A4);
- its demonstrates typical Victorian & Edwardian-era residential siting, close to the workplace, transport routes and transport outlets (Criterion C2) .

Australian Heritage Commission (AHC) criteria

The Australian Heritage Commission criteria consist of a set of eight criteria which cover social, aesthetic, scientific, and historic values. Each criterion has sub-criteria written specifically for cultural or natural values. The relevant criteria are:

A.4 demonstrates well the course and pattern of history, important historic events

C.2 research potential

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct