Buller Street Heritage Precinct

The Buller Street precinct comprising detached houses dating from the Victorian and Edwardian eras and including houses in Buller, Bobs and Napier Streets is significant. 

Contributory elements of the precinct include:

. 23 Bobs Street 

Buller Street 

. 1A Buller Street 

. 3 Buller Street

. 5 Buller Street 

. 10 Buller Street 

. 324 Napier Street

. 326 Napier Street

. 328 Napier Street

. 334 Napier Street

. 338 Napier Street

. Elms in Napier Street 

Buller Street precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo.

Buller Street is significant as a predominantly late nineteenth century development linking White Hills to Bendigo. It represents urban development as a result of agricultural and industrial development to the north of Bendigo. (Criterion A)

Located between Napier and Bobs Streets, Buller Street is significant for its wide gravel verges and terminating views to the railway workshops and to Lake Weeroona, the view framed by street trees at the corner of Napier Street. The Buller Street precinct is significant for its demonstration of the highly decorative and sophisticated approach to Victorian architecture that has been characterised as the 'Bendigo Boom' style. This style, sometimes applied to basic timber or brick villas but derived from the work of migrant architects such as William Carl Vahland and later William Beebe, is significant for its way of lending a higher degree of sophistication to more modest dwellings, mainly through applied ornament. Architectural qualities are expressed in several properties including 324 Napier Street and 5 Buller Street, both houses displaying elaborate architectural detailing in the form of cast iron verandah friezes, small gablets over the front door, and cream and red brick chimneys. (Criterion E) 

Contributory elements of the precinct include several other representative Victorian timber houses and a large timber Edwardian house as a prominent landmark at 332 Napier Street and the street trees that frame the entrance to Buller Street.