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HOUSE (RATHDRUM)
Location33 HODDLE STREET,, ESSENDON VIC 3040 - Property No 200693 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? How is it significant? Why is it significant? It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a highly picturesque and substantial villa of its type, further distinguished by its ornamental half timbered gable ends and in particular by the paired south facing gables recalling the seminal work of English Arts and Crafts architects including Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944), Niven and Wigglesworth and William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931).
The house once known as 'Rathdrum' at 33 Hoddle Street, Essendon, built for Miss Elizabeth Byrne in 1909, is significant.
The house at 33 Hoddle Street, Essendon is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
It is historically significant (Criterion A) because it demonstrates with other houses of its period that Essendon in the vicinity of the railway station consolidated its reputation as a prestigious middle class suburban location prior to the Great War.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House