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ADOBE HOUSES AND DAM (PECK'S DAM)

Location Napier Cres MONTMORENCY, Banyule City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] ADOBE HOUSES AND DAM (PECK'S

Statement of Significance

The group of houses built on the late 1940s subdivision of Panorama Heights is an early example of the development of a distinctive Eltham building style using adobe (mud-brick). The houses are also significant for their associations with a group of artists and intellectuals who, in the post World War II period, were attracted to the Eltham landscape and developed a distinctive residential lifestyle. Most of the houses have been altered and extended in an adhoc fashion, in accord with the philosophy of mud brick construction.