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MORELAND PARK

Other Name House, Mansion, Individual Location 130 RENNIE STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 21741 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 130 Rennie Street

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former Moreland Park, at 130 Rennie Street, Coburg East, including the exterior, interior and mature garden elements.

How is it significant?
The former Moreland Park, at 130 Rennie Street, Coburg East, including the exterior, interior and mature garden elements, is of historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance for its direct associations with Montague Dare, who developed the Moreland Park Estate, planned and perceived from conception to the current day to be the most prestigious area of Coburg. Dare built this house, the former Moreland Park, as his own residence. Also for its associations with architect TJ Crouch who designed a series of villas for the estate and probably also designed Moreland Park. It also demonstrates the speculative development associated with the land boom in Coburg just prior to the 1890s depression. (AHC Criteria A.4 & H.1)

Of aesthetic significance, as a good example of a Boom style Italianate villa, which, rather than being conceived as a two storey building, remained single storey with extensive wings which contained the ballroom and other rooms. Although slightly altered, the house retains a number of significant original features, particularly internally. These include externally polychromatic brickwork and narrow full length double hung sash windows to the front facade, and internally, fretwork, fire surrounds and most significantly original pressed metal ceilings which retain their original paint schemes. Also for its mature remnant garden elements. (AHC Criterion E.1)