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CONCRETE HOUSE
Other NameConcrete House Location70 HELLER STREET,, BRUNSWICK WEST VIC 3055 - Property No 6972 LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The concrete house, constructed by 1913, at 70 Heller Street,
Brunswick West is significant. Non-original alterations and additions
are not significant.
The concrete house at 70 Heller Street, Brunswick West is of local
historical, representative and aesthetic significance to the City of
Moreland.
It is significant as an intact representative example of an early
concrete house dating from prior to World War I. Many early concrete
houses were in reasonably conservation or oldfashioned styles and this
example is notable for its relatively progressive transitional
bungalow form and detailing and high degree of intactness and
integrity. Notable features include the simplified detailing,
low-pitched gabled roof, whilst details such as the distinctive
chimney apertures and the timber screen to the gable end show an Arts
& Crafts influence. (Criterion A, D & E)
The significance
of the house is enhanced by its rarity values as many of the other
earlier examples of concrete houses have been demolished.
Consequently, it has potential to provide further information about
early concrete construction techniques. (Criteria B & C)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House