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Newport Estate Residential Precinct

Location

Agg Street, Elizabeth Street (part), Mason Street (part), Mirls Street (part), Newcastle Street (part), Oxford Street (part), Ross Street (part), Schutt Street (part), Speight Street (part), Steele Street (part) , Walker Street (part) NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Newport Estate Residential Precinct, which comprises all land in HO23 and includes properties in Agg Street and parts of Elizabeth, Mason, Mirls, Newcastle, Oxford, Ross, Schutt, Speight, Steele and Walker Streets in Newport.

How is it Significant?

The Newport Estate Residential Precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant for its strong associations with the rapid residential growth, which occurred in the Newport area during the Edwardian-era and post World War One period. The layering of the area's history is illustrated by very early houses such as 85 Mason Street and 41 Speight Street, the line of the 1860s farmlet allotments preserved as roadways, the more numerous house allotments of the 1880s boom period and some houses from that period and evidence (by the existence of later development) of the effects of the 1890s Great Depression where many of the speculative Victorian-era residential estates were left vacant for a generation. It also has associations with locally important individuals such as D McPherson and William Hall and the surveying firm of Bruford and Braim. (AHC criterion A4)

Aesthetically, it is significant for the groups of relatively intact examples of representative housing, from the Victorian, Federation and Interwar periods. They are notable for their consistent character, which is derived from the predominantly weatherboard single storey detached houses often with a front verandah or porch, a garden or front setback, some side setback, hip or gable roof forms clad in Marseilles pattern terra-cotta tiled or corrugated iron and low timber framed front fences. (AHC criterion E1)

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

-Agg Street (odd) 9, 17, 19, 23-27, 35-47, 51, 53, 57-63, 67-71, 75-81, 85 and 91 (even) 2-14,18-26, 30, 34-50, 54-90.

-Elizabeth Street (odd) 15 and 17.

-Mason Street (odd) 81-93.

-Mirls Street (odd) 21-37.

-Newcastle Street 9, 20 and 24.

-Oxford Street (odd) 1-15 (even) 4-14.

-Ross Street (odd) 5-13.

-Schutt Street (odd) 31-33, 41-45, 49-53 and 57 (even) 30, 32, 36, 40, 50-56.

-Speight Street (odd) 35-53, 59, 61, 65-69, 73, 75 (does not include 75a Speight Street) and 79 (even) 36-50, 54, 56, 60, 66, 68 and 76, 82.

-Steele Street (odd) 1-9 and 13-23.

-Walker Street (odd) 19-23 (even) 24-30.

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