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Other Name Individual Location 225-233 BELL STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 29721 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/3] 225-233 Bell Street, Coburg [2/3] 225-233 Bell St. Coburg [3/3] 225-233 Bell St. Coburg

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The houses (225, 229, 231, & 233 Bell Street) and driveway to the tennis court and nursery (227 Bell Street), Coburg.

How is it significant?
The houses and drive to the tennis court - nursery at 225-233 Bell Street Coburg are of historic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it Significant?
Of historic significance as a phase of subdivision and settlement on a once larger allotment in the former City of Coburg, thereby creating an unusual development pattern in an area of otherwise regular earlier subdivisons. (AHC Criterion A.4)

The resulting brick villa houses are also of some aesthetic interest as a group of four similar early 1940s houses with a commonality of materials (brick walls and variegated tile roofs), style, set backs, heights and massing. Otherwise they are typical of their era.