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Mackey House

Location

6 Castle Road NORTH WARRANDYTE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

ELTHAM STUDY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

This attic house is one of the finest pre 1950, small, picturesquely designed dwellings in the Shire of Eltham, as well as being one of the oldest buildings in the area. Dwellings of this type built before 1960 are very rare anywhere in the Municipality. The comparable building in the Shire is the nearby "The Robins" in the Kangaroo Ground Warrandyte Road. (Shire of Eltham Heritage Study, pg 1092)

REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (with AHC criteria)

The Mackey house (later The Rest) is significant to the Nillumbik Shire as: - a picturesque and good example of the English Domestic style within a semi-rural setting and enhanced by the river side sitting as the subject of distant views to the property (Criterion F1); - a well preserved example of a rural home for a successful City based professional, Mackey ( criterion 82)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House