HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road

The house, constructed c.1896 for Thomas Rutter Chivers, and the associated outbuildings and mature pine trees at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe.

How is it Significant?

The house, outbuildings and mature trees at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe are of local historic and aesthetic significance to Manningham City.

Why is it Significant?

The house, outbuildings and mature trees at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe have historic significance as a representative example of a former orchard property, which has strong associations with the Chivers, pioneer district fruit growers. (RNE criteria A.4, D.2 and H.1)

The house has aesthetic significance as a good and largely intact example of a late-Victorian weatherboard farmhouse. A rare surviving example of an orchard house in Templestowe, the house is sited on a large allotment with an original or early outbuilding and some mature pine trees, which evokes its originally rural setting. (RNE criterion E.1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House