HOUSE

Location

31 BURNELL STREET,, BRUNSWICK WEST VIC 3055 - Property No 13668

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1886, at 31 Burnell Street, Brunswick West is significant. Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?
The house at 31 Burnell Street is of local historic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
The house at 31 Burnell Street is historically significant as one of the earliest dwellings constructed within this part of Brunswick and provides rare evidence of the limited development associated with the speculative residential subdivisions of the mid-1880s. While several houses were built in the late nineteenth century on the Melville Manor estate, many have been demolished or altered and those that remain relatively intact were constructed during the 1890s. (Criteria A & B)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House