64 Milton Street
64 Milton Street HAMILTON, Southern Grampians Shire
Statement of Significance
SIGNIFICANCE: The best and most representative example of an important vernacular style of domestic architecture and an associated naive style of gardening.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
House and Garden
64 Milton Street
This house and its garden are of local significance for the architecture of the house and the design of the garden. The house was built in the 1970s on land originally sold by the Crown in 1890 to J Vines. It is the best and most representative example of an important period vernacular style of domestic architecture and an associated naive style of gardening. The house uses a simple and economical method of construction to create a basic form elaborated with fancy stone veneer and over large multi-paned windows. The front garden uses rigorously dwarfed plants, lawn and brightly painted ornaments to create a fantasy landscape. This is echoed in another cluster of ornaments beyond the carport. The concrete drive, enhanced with a centre stip of pebbles set in the cement, is about the most dominant element and leads to the double garage at the rear. There is no front fence. The whole is strongly reminiscent of West Coast American Suburbia. The house and garden are significantly intact and are maintained in excellent condition.
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