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HOUSE

Location

4 MOUNT STREET,, PRESTON VIC 3072

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed by 1917, at 4 Mount Street, Preston, is significant. It is an early twentieth century bungalow constructed in brick with a low-pitched hip slate roof.

Outbuildings, the front fence and gates and later alterations and additions including the skillion at the rear of the house are not significant.

How is it significant?
The house at 4 Mount Street, Preston is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.

Why is it significant?
The house at 4 Mount Street, Preston is historically significant as place that provides tangible evidence of the recovery in development in the relatively undeveloped areas of Preston following the economic crash of the late 1890s and prior to the post-First World War boom (Criterion A)

The house at 4 Mount Street, Preston is architecturally significant as early twentieth century house of unique design, with an unusual combination of features that illustrates the transition in styles from the Edwardian era to the bungalows that emerged during the inter-war period. (Criteria D & F)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House