Whitby Street

The Whitby Street Precinct, comprising houses at 1-65 and 4-38 Whitby Street, 73-91 Pearson Street and 2A Wallace Street.

How is it significant?

The Whitby Street Precinct is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?

The Whitby Street Precinct is of local architectural significance as a precinct containing a mixture of substantially intact 19th and early 20th century dwellings. Whitby Street includes Victorian villas and terraces, a number of Edwardian and Inter-War Bungalow houses, and Whitby House, which is individually significant and a local landmark. Pearson Street contains some brick Edwardian and timber Inter-War houses. Houses within the precinct are generally intact, with those of particular architectural note being the brick villas at 55 and 57 Whitby Street, and the two-storey terraces at 70-80 Pearson Street.

The Whitby Street Precinct is of local historical significance as a residential area which demonstrates successive stages of development over a series of eras, from a single estate in the 1850s, to subdivision in the 1880s with development limited by the 1890s depression, and the building on the remaining allotments in the early twentieth century.

Non-Contributory properties include:

Whitby Street: 22, 23, 1-4/24, 45 and 47.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct