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House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road
278 and 280 Melbourne Road NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City

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House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006

House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006 - No 280

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The houses, designed by Mr Roberts and constructed in 1936-37, at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road, Newport.

How is it Significant?

The houses at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road, Newport are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, the houses are significant for their associations with Mr. Roberts who designed many houses during the Interwar period. The long association of No 280 with the locally known King family is also of interest. (AHC criterion H1)

Aesthetically, they are significant as locally rare and superior examples of architect-designed Interwar English Domestic Revival houses with a range of original features that are hallmarks of this style. (AHC criteria B2 and E1)

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- Physical Description 1
  
  House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road - Physical Description 1
  
  The house at 280 Melbourne Road, Newport is a single-storey, detached asymmetrical English Domestic Revival style villa with a gabled terracotta tiled roof. It is built of timber, which has had a roughcast render applied to its walls. The house is set back from two street boundaries by a garden. Other significant original elements include:
  
  - The distinctive form, which is typical of the style
  
  - Diagonal cement rendered chimneys with clinker brick caps
  
  - Diamond-paned leadlight windows
  
  - Arched entrance door with decorative steel flywire door and carriage lamp.
  
  - A pair of varnished timber entrance doors
  
  - Clinker brick planter box next to chimney's base
  
  - Timber shingled roof above canted bay window
  
  While different in plan and layout, the house at No. 278 is similar single-storey, detached asymmetrical English Domestic Revival style villa with a gabled terracotta tiled roof. It is also built of timber, which has had a roughcast render applied to its walls.
  
  Integrity
  
  House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road - Integrity
  
  External Integrity and condition
  Generally original and in good condition.
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road - Physical Description 2
  
  ContextOne of a number of interwar houses in Melbourne Road, but otherwise surrounded by mixture of earlier and later development.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Making Suburbs
  
  Physical Description 3
  
  House at 278 and 280 Melbourne Road - Physical Description 3
  
  Associations
  Mr Roberts, King family.
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study
  
  Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
  Year: 2006
  Grading:
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- WILLIAMSTOWN CEMETERY
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1837
- FORMER MANAGER'S RESIDENCE, NEWPORT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1840
- FORMER DEPUTY MANAGER'S RESIDENCE, NEWPORT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1839
- 1 Fordham Court
  
  Yarra City
- 1) SWEENEY'S COTTAGE, 2) BARN, 3) GLASSHOUSE, 4) GOLDEN ASH TREE, 5) LEMON SCENTED GUM TREE, 6) PEAR TREE, 7) PINOAK TREES, 8) YELLOW BOX TREES, 9) OTHER MATURE PLANTING AND 10) GARDEN
  
  Nillumbik Shire
- 10 Fordham Court
  
  Yarra City