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Como Conservation Area

Other Name

Lechlade, Como and Fulham Avenues Precinct

Location

Como Avenue and Fulham Avenue and Lechlade Avenue SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Como Urban Conservation Area is of regional significance as a fine and substantially intact example of a large mansion allotment dating from the earliest period of Melbourne's suburban development which was subsequently subdivided and developed in the Federation and inter-war period. It illustrates the pattern of development resulting from the subdivision of early properties fronting the Yarra River, and is one of the least altered and most easily interpreted examples of this sequence of development in Melbourne's inner suburbs.

This significance is enhanced by its inclusion of the National Trust's Como propery, one of Victoria's most important historic sites, and by the quality and integrity of the Federation and inter-war houses built upon the Como property's 1911 subdivision, many of which are notable examples of the work of well-known Melbourne architects. The streets of this subdivision and the hosues, through their scale, forms and materials, provide an important illustration of a model middle-class suburban development for the periods immediately preceding and following the First World War.

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