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Yarraville Residential Heritage Area

Other Name

Somerville Rd, Melbourne to Geelong railway, Avoca St, Woods, Willis, Simpson, Ballarat, Norfolk, Sussex, Stephen, Ducker, and Knox Streets

Location

Somerville Rd, Melbourne to Geelong railway, Avoca, Castlemaine, Woods, Willis, Simpson, Ballarat, Blackwood, Norfolk, Sussex, Stephen, Ducker, Goulburn, Lennox, Maggie, Ovens, Schild, Tarrengower, Wilson and Knox Streets YARRAVILLE, MARIBYRNONG CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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HO15(1) - Yarraville
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HO15(2) - Yarraville
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HO15(4) - Yarraville

Statement of Significance

The Yarraville Residential Precinct is significant to the City of Maribyrnong because:
- it (with the Yarraville Commercial & Civic precinct) is expressive of two major development periods in the City's history (Victorian-era, Edwardian-era), with all of the elements which make up an urban area from these periods, such as the transport hub and associated entertainment, civic and commercial buildings close to the station, and the surrounding residential areas which still express the dominant Edwardian and Victorian-eras, as expressed by:
- small Victorian & Edwardian single-storey detached housing with mainly weatherboard and some brick 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,
- pre motor-car age indicated by no provision originally for on-site vehicle parking for most of the identified housing,
-major built form of the typical Victorian era hipped roof and Edwardian era main hip and projecting gable roof form combination,
- some early two storey masonry parapeted, zero lot line, corner-sited commercial development at prominent locations in the streetscape,
- mature elm street tree planting typical of the Victorian-era (Criteria A3, A4);
- of the early underlying street, subdivision pattern and street names (1859 plan of Yarraville Township) which derive from one of the early private town surveys in the Colony of Victoria and the oldest known private township plan to be created and sold within the City ( Criterion A4); and
- it contains elements of the earlier phase of Yarraville's commercial development which occupied prominent street corners (Criterion A4).

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.3 richness and diversity of cultural features

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

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