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Hoddle Street

Other Name

Precinct

Location

23-57 & 18-50 HODDLE STREET, 17 BREWSTER STREET, 26 & 26A FLETCHER STREET, and 26, 27 & 28 RALEIGH STREET, ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
Hoddle Street
[2/2]
Hoddle Street

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Hoddle Street precinct, which is a residential area comprising housing constructed during the Victorian, Federation/Edwardian and inter-war periods, is significant. The following houses contribute to the significance of the precinct:

- 29-31, 33*, 37*, 39, 45-49, 57 & 18-42, 46 & 50 Hoddle Street
- 17 Brewster Street
- 26* & 26A Fletcher Street
- 26, 27, 28 Raleigh Street

*These places are Significant and also contribute to the Precinct. They have their own citation and statement of significance.

The wide street formation with its central median also contributes to the significance of the precinct.

Non-original alterations and additions to the Significant and Contributory houses, and the houses and flats at 23, 27, 35, 41, 44, 48, 51, 53, 55 Hoddle Street, and the trees within the central median are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Hoddle Street Precinct is of local historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant as the pattern of early Victorian and Edwardian houses surrounded by later houses built in the interwar period demonstrates the rapid spread of Melbourne suburbs in the 1880s assisted by the advent of the railways and tramways. Houses such as nos. 33 and 37 demonstrate the continued status of Essendon as a prestigious middle class suburb rapidly growing along the Melbourne to Essendon Railway prior to World War I. It is also significant for its association with Robert Hoddle, not only as Melbourne's original surveyor, but also as an early landowner in the area since 1846. The surrounding streets including Fletcher, Raleigh and Brewster were also associated in name with major land holders in the Parish of Doutta Galla. (Criteria A & H)

The streetscape is representative of the commodious suburban development within the original Essendon township. The representative qualities are enhanced by the area's high integrity and retention of early building stock and the streetscape with its wide central median. Of particular note are the houses at nos. 33 and 37, which are aesthetically important as highly picturesque and substantial villas of their type. (Criteria D & E)

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