House at 486 Doncaster Road
486 Doncaster Road DONCASTER, Manningham City

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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The house, constructed c.1920 for Eliza Witchell, orchardist, at 486 Doncaster Road, Doncaster.
How is it Significant?
The house at 486 Doncaster Road, Doncaster is of local historic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The house at 486 Doncaster Road, Doncaster has historic significance as a representative example of an orchardists house, which demonstrates the prosperity of the orchard industry in Doncaster during the Inter-war period. (RNE criteria A.4 and D.2)
Note: The house has potential aesthetic significance, but further investigation is required.
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House at 486 Doncaster Road - Historical Australian Themes
7.05 - Houses of the 1920s-30s
House at 486 Doncaster Road - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
House at 486 Doncaster Road - Integrity
Integrity Intact
House at 486 Doncaster Road - Physical Description 1
The house at 486 Doncaster Road, Doncaster is an Inter-War brick and roughcast bungalow under
a long gabled tiled roof with deep eaves supported on triangular timber brackets. Stylistically, it
may show Arts and Crafts influence, but it is concealed behind a high brick wall and is hard to see.
As an Inter-war orchardists house it compares with the Petty house directly opposite at 478-82
Doncaster Road, as well as the houses at 46-48 and 52 Old Warrandyte Road, Donvale.
House at 486 Doncaster Road - Physical Description 2
Associations
Eliza Witchell
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:
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