HOUSE

Other Name

Individual

Location

87 GARNET STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 16637

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1914, at 87 Garnet Street, Brunswick.

How is it significant?
The house at 87 Garnet Street, Brunswick is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance as the first house constructed in Garnet Street, some 15 years after the first release of land in the street for housing, which illustrates the severe impact of the 1890s depression on development in this area. (AHC Criterion A.4)

Of aesthetic significance as a good example of Edwardian domestic architecture which is unusual in that its verandah directly addresses its corner site. (AHC Criteria D.2 & E.1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House