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Location 37-39 Doveton Avenue,EUMEMMERRING, Casey City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1890, and the privet hedge and Pepper Tree at 37-39 Doveton Avenue, Eumemmering.

How is it significant?
The house, privet hedge and Pepper Tree at 37-39 Doveton Avenue, Eumemmering are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?
HIstorically, this house on its large allotment is significant as an early building surviving in a highly urbanised area, reputedly once used as a stopping place for coaches travelling along the Gippsland Road and later, the home of the widow of Victorian Premier McLean. (AHC criteria A4, D2 & H1)

Aesthetically, the house is significant as a representative example of a simple Victorian cottage, a type that is rare in the Doveton/Eumemmering area. The pepper tree and privet hedge provide an appropriate setting and make the property a landmark in Doveton Avenue. (AHC criteria B2 and E1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House