HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road
27 Chivers Road TEMPLESTOWE, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The house, constructed c.1896 for Thomas Rutter Chivers, and the associated outbuildings and mature pine trees at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe.
How is it Significant?
The house, outbuildings and mature trees at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe are of local historic and aesthetic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The house, outbuildings and mature trees at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe have historic significance as a representative example of a former orchard property, which has strong associations with the Chivers, pioneer district fruit growers. (RNE criteria A.4, D.2 and H.1)
The house has aesthetic significance as a good and largely intact example of a late-Victorian weatherboard farmhouse. A rare surviving example of an orchard house in Templestowe, the house is sited on a large allotment with an original or early outbuilding and some mature pine trees, which evokes its originally rural setting. (RNE criterion E.1)
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HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
5.02 - Orchards & market gardens
HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Physical Description 1
The house at 27 Chivers Road, Templestowe, is a single-storey double-fronted Edwardian weatherboard villa with a projecting gabled bay and bullnose verandah to the front. It has a corrugated iron roof penetrated by corbelled red-brick chimneys with terracotta pots. The front bay contains a paired timber-framed double-hung sash window and gable infill of roughcastpattern pressed metal. The verandah is supported on stop-chamfered timber posts and has a cast iron valance. The house is sited on a large allotment with an original or early weatherboard shed and a number of mature pines.
HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Integrity
Integrity Minor Modifications
HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Physical Description 2
Threats Redevelopment
HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Physical Description 3
Key elements
Building
Outbuilding
Tree(s)
HOUSE AT 27 Chivers Road - Physical Description 4
Associations
Chivers family
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:Manningham - Doncaster & Templestowe Heritage Study Additional Sites Recommendations
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1993
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