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Larne Grove & Roxburgh St Precinct

Location

1-31 and 4-26 LARNE GROVE, 1-23 and 2-24 ROXBURGH STREET, 23-33 DUNDAS STREET, and 30-36 MILTON CRESCENT, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
This precinct comprises the properties at 1-31 & 4-26 Larne Grove, 1-23 & 2-24 Roxburgh Street, and 23-33 Dundas Street, Preston and Adams Park at the northern end of the precinct. It is a residential area comprising houses predominantly built during the inter-war period from c.1919 to c.1940. The Contributory houses in the precinct include Californian Bungalows and other inter-war villas and the consistent quality and single-storey scale of the built form and the extent to which development in key phases from the late 1920s through to the late 1930s and early 1940s are important characteristics of the precinct. The garden suburb character created by the consistent siting of houses behind garden setbacks with low front fences (the fences at 16 Larne, and 6, 17 & 19 Roxburgh are early or original to the house), and the views to Adams Park are also integral to the significance of the precinct.

Non-original alterations and additions to Contributory houses, front fences other than specified aboveand the houses at 3, 9, 24 & 24A Larne Grove, and1, 3, 10, 22 & 24 Roxburgh Street are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Larne Grove & Roxburgh Street precinct is of local historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to Darebin City.

Why is it significant?
Historically, the Larne Grove & Roxburgh Street precinct provides evidence of an important and rapid phase of suburban development of Preston during the inter-war period, which was stimulated by the improvements to public transport in the 1920s. The housing in the street is characteristic of medium scale suburban housing of the inter-war years. (AHC criteria A.4 &D.2)

The precinct has architectural and aesthetic significance as a fine example of an inter-war residential area, incorporating a small park, which is notable for the consistent quality of its built form and the high degree of intactness to the key phases of development. (AHC criteria D.2 & E.1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct