House

The house at 6 Mitchell Street, Heathcote is significant.

The house at 6 Mitchell Street is of local, historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo.

The house at 6 Mitchell Street is historically significant for its association with G. B. Shakespear(e), a prominent member of the Heathcote community. George Bee Shakespear(e) was a member Heathcote Roads Board and Heathcote Municipal Council from 1859-1863 and trustee of the Heathcote hospital grounds. The house is also important for its association with Edwin Field who was rated as the occupant in 1864. Field and the Coster Brothers established the Costerfield Gold and Antimony Mining Company. Edwin Field owned and occupied the house from 1866-1868. Other owners include mining manager William Youle. Members of the Youle family owned the house until at least 1892. Criterion A

The house at 6 Mitchell Street has a number of unusual features including Morwood and Rogers patent tilt metal roof tiles to the front and rear parts of the house. The parapets to the end brick walls are less common than eaves with barge boards. Other important features include the cut out pattern in the verandah beam and unusually long rear wing also clad with roofing tiles. Another unusual, although not unknown feature, is the doorway being off centre to the front elevation. Given the presence of the Morwood and Rogers roofing tiles, it is possible that this house was built prior to 1860, this making it one of the earliest houses still extant in Heathcote. Criteria D, B