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Hannan's Farm Heritage Precinct

Location

Castle Street and Collins Street and Esplanade (part) and Gellibrand Street (part) and Hannan Street and Knight Street and Osborne Street (part) and Swanson Street and Winifred Street WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Hannan's Farm Heritage Precinct, which comprises all land in HO13 and generally includes properties with a frontage to Castle Street, Collins Street, Hannan Street, Knight Street and Swanston Street, Williamstown.

How is it Significant?

The Hannan's Farm Heritage Precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, Hannan's Farm is significant as a nineteenth century speculative subdivision, which resulted in streets that were not fully developed until the Interwar period. It demonstrates how the expansion of the nearby railway workshops and related industry led to a revival in Williamstown during the early twentieth century after the decline of the port at the end of the nineteenth. The nineteenth century origins of the street are demonstrated by the Victorian era dwellings, while the main period of development is illustrated by the Edwardian and Interwar villas. (AHC criteria A4 and D2)

Aesthetically, Hannan's Farm is significant as an early twentieth century residential precinct, which comprises predominantly Edwardian and Interwar era houses with common or similar characteristics of design, siting and scale that create a cohesive and homogeneous streetscape. Many are externally intact and others, although altered, still retain their distinctive form and siting and hence contribute to the precinct. (AHC criterion E1)

On this basis, the following properties contribute to the significance of the precinct:

- Castle Street (odd) 7, 17, 23 and 25 (even) 10 and 20

- Collins Street (even) 4-12 and 18-26

- Esplanade 108

- Gellibrand Street (even) 34-38

- Hannan Street (odd) 3, 7-21, 25-29, 33, 35, 39-85, 87-95, 101, 105, 107, 111-115, 121 and 123 (even) 2-10, 16, 20, 26, 34, 44, 52, 54, 60-64, 76, 78, 82, 84, 88-92, 100, 102, 106, 110, 112, 118.

- Knight Street (even) 4-10

- Swanston Street 7 and 9

Please note that some heritage places within this precinct may also have an individual citation in this Study.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct