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HOUSE (KELVIN GROVE)

Location

40 MARGARET STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, formerly known as Kelvin Grove, at 40 Margaret Street, Moonee Ponds is significant. It was constructed c.1887 for John Thomson as his own residence while he built the adjoining row of 12 attached houses known as Kelvin Terrace. Kelvin Grove is a typical double-fronted Victorian house, constructed in brick with a M-hip roof clad in slate. The house has a symmetrical appearance with a central entrance door with highlights and sidelights flanked by tripartite windows. The symmetry of the facade is enhanced by a pair of rendered brick chimneys, and there are further rendered or face brick chimneys at the rear. Other windows in side elevations are double hung sash. The form and materials of the front verandah (with the exception of the floor) are sympathetic, but it appears to be a reconstruction.

Non-original alterations and additions and the front and side fencing are not significant.

How it is significant?
The house at 40 Margaret Street, Moonee Ponds is of local historic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant as a house constructed during the land boom in Moonee Ponds as the residence of an owner/developer who also built a speculative terrace row on the adjacent property. While many of these houses were constructed in the area surrounding Moonee Ponds station in the late 1880s, many have now been demolished and the significance of this place is enhanced by the historic and visual connection with the adjoining terrace row. (Criterion A & D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House