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Mount Ephraim; Edgecombe; Mount Edgecombe

Other Names Mount Edgecombe ,  Mount Ephraim ,  Sometimes known as 24-26 Edgecombe Street, Kew ,  Edgecombe Location 26 Edgecombe Street KEW, BOROONDARA CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

Edgecombe (formerly Mount Ephraim) is of local historical and architectural significance as one of a relatively limited group of surviving substantial pre-1870s villas and mansion houses in Kew. Though altered through the addition of the portico in the c. 1920s, the replacement of the original slate roof cladding, and rear additions, Edgecombe remains a fine and relatively externally intact example of a substantial brick villa of the late 1860s. It is also of historical interest in the local context for its association in the 1880s with Ruyton, one of the better known girls' schools in the area.