House at 86 The Avenue
86 The Avenue SPOTSWOOD, Hobsons Bay City
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Statement of Significance
The house, constructed in 1898, at 86 The Avenue, Spotswood.
How is it Significant?The house at 86 The Avenue, Spotswood is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.
Why is it Significant?Historically, it is significant as the oldest house in the Newport and Spotswood area, and the only known example which illustrates the earliest period of settlement in this area prior to the speculative subdivision that occurred in the late nineteenth century. Its method of construction also demonstrates associations with the extensive stone quarrying in the area. (AHC criteria A4 and B2)
Aesthetically, it is significant as a rare example within the Newport and Spotswood are as an early Victorian cottage, which is distinguished by its stone construction and early form, representing the extensive stone quarrying era in the locality (AHC criteria E1 and F1)
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House at 86 The Avenue - Physical Description 1
This is an altered but early weatherboard house, with a simple hipped roof (shingledoriginally?) and simple timber verandah. The small low scale of the house suggests a very early date: not the c1898 suggested by rate records.
Internally, the front rooms are small with low ceilings, with possible use of wide boards on the walls as a base for paper but now overlaid with Masonite, and bead-edge ceiling lining with the typical early slim beading between boards in the main rooms. There are also slim architraves, and a saw cut through the weatherboards over the front four-panel door possibly where it was joined after moving.
Pepper trees and a silky oak are related mature landscape (20th century), along with an altered timber picket fence.
House at 86 The Avenue - Integrity
External Condition
Fair
External IntegrityModerate - substantially intact/some intrusions- verandah rebuilt or detail missing.
House at 86 The Avenue - Physical Description 2
Context
Isolated in generally later detached housing development.
House at 86 The Avenue - Historical Australian Themes
Making suburbs
House at 86 The Avenue - Physical Description 3
Associations
James Steele, Florence Bullard, Walter E Bullard
Heritage Study and Grading
Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study
Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
Year: 2006
Grading:
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THREE PARALLEL RISING MAINSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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