1 Ward Street

The Great Glen Iris Railway Junction Estate Precinct, Ashburton, is of cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:

The precinct contains diverse and generally intact housing from the 1920s-30s, reflecting the dynamics and character of Camberwell as an urban growth area during that period.

-The place demonstrates the influence of the railways on the subdivision and development of housing estates following WWI.

- The place demonstrates the methods employed by developers of the time to create housing estates with distinct character. Methods used in the Great Glen Iris Railway Junction Estate include specific road surfacing treatments, street tree selection and street name identification. These features remain predominantly intact.

- The place comprises a highly intact interwar landscape with concrete roads and related mature street trees.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House