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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Cable Tram Engine House 187-201 Abbotsford Street,, NORTH MELBOURNE VIC 3051 - Property No B3890	The North Melbourne Engine House building, possibly designed by the distinguished architect Alexander Davidson, is of national architectural, historical and technological significance as the most complete and original example of an engine house of Melbourne's former cable tram system, which was the most extensive cable tram system in the world operated by a single authority. The east elevation is composed around a great entry door and single gable with large circular vent ... more	B3890	National
Banyule 60-74 Buckingham Drive, HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B1085	Banyule, Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg, was built for overlander and grazier Joseph Hawdon in several stages. The first section, dating from c1842, is the single storey wing constructed of clay and locally quarried stone. The two storey main house was completed by 1846 and is constructed of stuccoed brickwork on stone footings. Asymmetrically composed, the design is characterised by its gabled parapets and corner pinnacles, bay window and porch, chimneys and prominent string ... more	B1085	National
Gaston Brothers Pty Ltd 348 Arden Street, KENSINGTON VIC 3031 - Property No B5668	The yard is roofed in several places to provide work and storage areas, and there are a number of wood and iron buildings against the fences of the yard. The plumbers shop is in the south west corner of the yard. An open-sided structure with a galvanised iron roof covers a large area used as the boiler yard. One of the supports for the structure is a ship's spar post. The ground cover in the boiler yard is made from ships plate welded together. There are two other sheds on the ... more	B5668	Local
The Gables 20 Ivanhoe Parade,, IVANHOE VIC 3079 - Property No B6267	The Gables, built in 1891 for Annie and Edward Aland, is architecturally significant at a regional level. The Gables is important as a near externally intact and successfully designed example of a small group in the State which influenced the turn away from classically inspired villa style to those emanating from Medieval sources, culminating in the Melbourne Queen Anne revival style in the Edwardian period. It is also the only late nineteenth century private house in Heidelberg to ... more	B6267	Regional
Goldsborough Mort & Co Ltd 514 - 526 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0106	Probably the finest of the large woolstore/warehouse buildings left in Melbourne. Construction began in 1861 & finished in 1862. Back section completed at a later date. It was important that an example of iron post and beam construction of this type should be preserved. Particular note is made of the ashlar bluestone masonry and prominently rusticated base and arches. The detail of the parapet panel bearing the Company's name is of particular note; the chimneys rising from ... more	B0106	State
Former Austin Hospital for Incurables Complex Austin Hospital Complex 145 - 163 Studley Road,, HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B5645	The former Austin Hospital for Incurables Complex, Studley Road, Heidelberg, was founded in 1882. Contributory elements include the Davies Building of 1889-90 and mature Washingtonia robusta palm tree, the former Gate Lodge of 1892 and 1906-7, the Bowen Centre of 1897 and adjoining mature ficus tree, the former Marian Drummond Nurses' Home of 1913-14, Zeltner Hall of 1917 and two mature plane trees, the former Edward Wilson Nurses' Home of 1925, and the mature oak ... more	B5645	Regional
Former GJ Coles Building David Jones Menswear 299-307 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B5791	The Coles Store in Bourke Street, completed in 1929 and extended in 1939, designed by noted architect Harry Norris, is significant at the State level for architectural and historical reasons. Architecturally, the Coles Store is one of the most exuberant and colourful interwar buildings in the city, featuring mauve terracotta facades in a broadly 'Commercial Gothic' style, with extensive coloured Jazz Moderne (a subset of Art Deco) detailing. The tiling of the former Coles ... more	B5791	State
Shenval Mona 47 Bayview Crescent, BLACK ROCK VIC 3193 - Property No B1632	Classified: 21/05/1964	B1632	File only
Market Gardeners Tram Plateway Market Gardeners Vehicle Metal Traffic Strips Centre Dandenong Road, near Grange Road Junction,, HEATHERTON VIC 3202 - Property No B2252	The Centre Dandenong Road market gardeners' tram rail is historically significant at the State level to the extent that it demonstrates a past way of life, being the practice of conveying vegetables to City markets by means of horse drawn wagons guided by iron rails. It recalls the once extensive system of such tracks, or "plates", having the Point Nepean Highway as their spine, and was unique when built for its design, which represened an advance over previous forms. The ... more	B2252	State
Farleigh 6 Farleigh Grove,, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B0499	Farleigh was designed by prominent Melbourne Architect Charles Webb and erected as the Webb family residence in 1865. This two storey ashlar sandstone residence is symmetrically arranged about a classical porch with balustraded balcony above and with a timber, double post single storey verandah. Prominent quoins, architraves,eaves and cornices define Webb's inimitable conservative classical style. Farleigh is a most distinctive Webb design with important historical ... more	B0499	State

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