13 Sydney Street
13 Sydney Street MADDINGLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Residence and its setting at 13 Sydney Street, Bacchus Marsh.
How is it significant?
The Residence and its setting at 13 Sydney Street, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Residence and its setting at 13 Sydney Street, Bacchus Marsh is of local historical significance for its demonstration of the prosperous period in the history of Bacchus Marsh stimulated by farming, industry and closer settlement. The residence built in 1907 was one of the earlier residences in this part of Bacchus Marsh. The intactness and representative nature of the building gives the building historical significance as a representative embodiment of a way of life in the early 1900s.
The Residence and its setting at 13 Sydney Street, Bacchus Marsh is of aesthetic significance as an excellent intact example of an Edwardian residence demonstrating key features of the style. Representative features of the Edwardian style illustrated by the residence include the overall form with a main hipped roof and a projecting gable wing and front verandah terminating at the projecting wing. Other features of note include the half-timbered gable end with decorative timber barge, tripartite windows with stone sills and flat apron-work below, bullnose verandah with flat Edwardian style lace, and a verandah floor paved in geometric encaustic tiles.
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RESIDENCE
Victorian Heritage Register H0503 -
BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKS
Victorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCE
Victorian Heritage Register H0505
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