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Laura Street

Other Name

Precinct, Review

Location

1-25 & 6-28 LAURA STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Laura Street precinct, a residential area with one major period of development during the second half of the 1880s, is significant. The houses at 1-5, 9-11A, 15-25 & 6-16, 20-26 Laura Street contribute to the significance of the precinct.

The house at 7 Laura Street is Significant and also contributes to the significance of the precinct.

Non-original alterations and additions to the Significant and Contributory houses and the houses at 13, 18 & 28 Laura Street are not significant.

How is it significant?

The Laura Street Precinct is of local historic, architectural, and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Why is it significant?

Historically, it is representative of the type of residential expansion, which took place in Moonee Ponds following the introduction of the tramway and rail services in the boom period of the 1880s. (Criterion A)

Architecturally and aesthetically, Laura Street comprises a particularly cohesive streetscape of detached single-storey houses from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; these are enhanced by the setting, which includes original front fences, bluestone gutters, and wide nature strips with mature street trees. (Criteria D & E)

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