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Turner Street

Location

1-43 & 1/2-46 TURNER STREET AND 242-252 & 247 O'HEA STREET PASCOE VALE, MERRI-BEK CITY

File Number

3537

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Turner Street Precinct, comprising houses at 242-252 and 247 O'Hea Street and 1-43 and 1/2-46 Turner Street. Pascoe Vale South is significant. Buildings and features that contribute to the significance of the precinct are:

relatively intact interwar and postwar houses
relatively intact postwar non-residential buildings including the single storey rendered brick shops with stepped parapets at 44-46 Turner Street and the single storey former Baby Health Centre built of cream brick at 43 Turner Street
cohesion of scale of the buildings, materials and setbacks in Turner Street and O’Hea Street, enhanced by generally well-maintained front gardens and open reserves on the corners of Turner Street and O’Hea Street.

Recent alterations and additions to the contributory places are not significant.

Non-Contributory properties include:

O'Hea Street: 250-252.
Turner Street: 2/2, 3/2, 12, 17, 18, 24, 32A and 38.

How is it significant?

The Turner Street Precinct is of local historical and representative significance to the City of Merri-bek.

Why is it significant?

The Turner Street Precinct is of local historical significance as tangible illustration of the pattern of residential development in Pascoe Vale, which was the construction of housing in the interwar period on allotments left vacant since late 19th century subdivisions. Further residential construction in the postwar years followed in a similar style and scale. The development of shops and community facilities are closely linked to the postwar residential development of the neighbourhood. (Criterion A)

The Turner Street Precinct is of architectural significance as a representative collection of substantially intact interwar and postwar houses and commercial buildings which display a high level of integrity and cohesion of scale, materials and setbacks, enhanced by generally well maintained front gardens and open reserves on the corner of Turner and O’Hea Streets. (Criterion D)

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