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Nichol House
Location49 Kangaroo Ground -Warrandyte Road NORTH WARRANDYTE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010 What is significant?
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The 1949 house and the surrounding site to the title boundaries.
The house is architecturally and historically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.
The house is historically and architecturally significant as one of six notable houses in the Warrandyte-Eltham area designed by the prominent architect Robin Boyd between the 1940s and 1960s and as a rare, early and notable example of Australian Modernist domestic architecture. It is also are relatively rare early example of Boyd's work (Criteria B, F & H). The house is historically significant for its association with the active artistic community of the Eltham-Warrandyte area (Criterion H).
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House