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HOUSE

Other Name

Review, New

Location

84 MAIN STREET, PAKENHAM, CARDINIA SHIRE

Level

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House, 84 Main Street
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House, 84 Main Street
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House, 84 Main Street
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House, 84 Main Street
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House, 84 Main Street

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1910, at 84 Main Street, Pakenham is significant. This Edwardian timber house is asymmetrical in plan and has a high hipped roof that extends to form a verandah at one side of the projecting gabled bay. The verandah is supported by a turned timber post at the corner with half-posts where it meets the walls and has carved timber brackets. Windows are timber double hung sash and the walls are clad in square edged weatherboards with half-timbered detail at the top of the gable end that projects slightly from the wall. There is one corbelled brick chimney. The house has good integrity and intactness and is setback from the street behind a garden.

There is a flat-roofed addition at the rear and other non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?
The house at 84 Main Street, Pakenham is of local historic significance to Cardinia Shire.

Why is it significant?
It is significant as one of the oldest houses in Pakenham and its historic significance is enhanced by its rarity value as one of five known surviving pre-World War One houses and one of only two situated in Main Street, which was the main residential area in the town until the interwar period. It is representative of the simple timber houses erected in Pakenham in the early 1900s. (Criteria A & D)

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