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Essex Park

Other Name

Pines Estate

Location

13 Aquila Crescent ENDEAVOUR HILLS, CASEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
'Essex Park', comprising the homestead constructed in 1939 and its related mature garden setting, at 13 Aquila Crescent, Endeavour Hills.

How is it significant?
'Essex Park' is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?
Historically, Essex Park homestead is significant as one of the oldest houses in Endeavour Hills, predating the establishment of the suburb by some thirty years. Its site has historical importance, demonstrating an earlier farming use of the area, as the location from 1900-1930 of the Pines Estate and from 1932-39 (after subdivision), as the location of the Essex Park dairy farm of Brown, owner of the Essex Dairy in Dandenong. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)

Aesthetically, it is significant as a fine example of an interwar residence. Its grand 1939 design and formal garden setting is substantially intact, demonstrating the architecture and tastes of this period. The front garden is also of design interest and has a significant visual relationship with the house. (AHC criterion E1)

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