Stokes Street Precinct

What is significant?

This precinct comprises a group of relatively externally intact and representative late Victorian residences, one and two-storey and constructed variously of a timber and brick. They exhibit a high level of consistency of scale, form and design quality.

Specific significant and contributory buildings within the precinct are identified in the attached schedule.

How is it significant?

This precinct is of historical and aesthetic significance to the Borough of Queenscliffe.

Why is it significant?

While its high level of consistency is somewhat atypical in a Queenscliff context, the Stokes Street precinct is of local historical importance for its ability to demonstrate the nature of residential development of the 1880s and 1890s.

The aesthetic qualities of the precinct derive from its relative intactness and consistency as a group of terraced and detached residences of the Victorian period. While representative rather than extraordinary examples in a broader state context, in the Queenscliff context, this is a notable collection of fine Victorian residences with considerable presence in the township. A number are considered to be of individual significance in the local context.

Gordon Terrace at the east end of this precinct is unique in Queenscliff. It is largely intact and is of significance as the only two-storey terrace development within the town.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Other - Residential Buildings (private)