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HOUSE
Location20 Winifred Street, PRESTON VIC 3072 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and/or additions are not significant. How is it significant? Architecturally, the house is significant as a representative example of a Victorian polychromatic brick dwelling, with other features typical of this style and period. (AHC criterion D.2)
This polychromatic brick Victorian house at 20 Winifred Street, Preston, constructed c.1895, is significant. The original external form, materials and detailing of the house is significant.
This house at 20 Winifred Street, Preston is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house is significant as evidence of the small degree of successful development achieved by developers in Preston during the land boom just before the economic crash of the 1890s. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House