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Alanbrae

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Location

73 PLUMPTON AVENUE,, GLENROY VIC 3046 - Property No 52945

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Alanbrae

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The house at 73 Plumpton Avenue, Glenroy (otherwise known as 'Alanbrae') is significant. The Victorian boom-era style and form of the house is significant, along with key decorative features including the roof, windows, portico and verandah on the exterior, and the roof trusses, skirting boards and decorative mouldings to ceilings on the interior.

How is it significant?

The house has local historical, aesthetic and associative significance, as well as rarity value, to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?

Alanbrae is historically significant as one of the first residences to be built in Glenroy. It was one of four mansions built to encourage sales in the new development of a 1500-acre subdivision to the east of Pascoe Vale Road, in what is now modern day Glenroy. (Criterion A)

Alanbrae is rare as one of two remaining mansions built as part of the Glenroy Land Co. There were originally four dwellings. (Criterion B)

Alanbrae has aesthetic significance as a Victorian boom era mansion which retains high-quality original features, including the form and materiality of the roof, windows, portico and verandah on the exterior. On the interior, the dwelling has aesthetic significance for features including the timber joinery of roof trusses, skirting boards and decorative mouldings to ceilings. (Criterion E)

Alanbrae has associative significance for its association with Frank Stuart, one of four early shareholders in the Glenroy Land Co which owned a 1500-acre subdivision in Glenroy. Stuart was a highly influential man inlate nineteenth century Melbourne, being president of the Chamber of Manufacturers in 1885-56 while also being president of the Clothing and Manufacturers' Association, representative for East Melbourne in 1889 and eventually representative for Melbourne North in the Legislative Council between 1894-1907. Alanbrae also has associative significance for its association with Robert Lewis, winner of four Melbourne Cup races between 1902-1927. He lived at the property between 1910-1947, passing away at the home. He remains one of Australia's greatest jockeys of all time. (Criterion H)

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