Keilor Village Precinct

Old Calder Highway and Macedon Street KEILOR, Brimbank City

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Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Keilor Village Precinct - Physical Description 1

    The Keilor Village streetscape is formed predominantly by the street median plantings and adjacent reserves. Significant individual buildings include the Court House, Police Station and Keilor Hotel, while the Chisholm Shelter site and the old Maribyrnong River Bridge form the eastern approach to the precinct. Plantings include good un-pollarded sugar gums. Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis) and maritime pine mixture are part of the general street landscape, which also includes elms. There is a pine avenue along Macedon Street/Old Calder Highway and a notable tree avenue extending from near Kennedy Street to north of Overnewton Road. Median planting in Macedon Street is mainly a mixture of gum and stone pine (Pinus pinea). This particular landscape is special in terms of the unusual mix and number of trees.
    
    
    
    The Site Number in the right hand column identifies places that are also individually listed in the Brimbank Heritage Study. The surviving places that are contributory to the precinct include the following:
    
    
    
    NO STREET Place DATE Significance Level Site Number
    
    Bonfield Street (Scout Reserve) Bonfield Reserve Old Keilor State School site Contributory - Local
    
    Macedon Street Maritime & Canary Island pines Contributory - State
    
    Macedon Street Cenotaph war memorial 1920c Local 091
    
    Macedon Street Elm Row Contributory
    
    Macedon Street former Keilor Municipal Office 1957 1980s Contributory
    
    Macedon Street Keilor Reserve 1880s c. Local 090
    
    Arabin Street Pepper tree row 1880-90? Contributory- Local
    
    Macedon Street McFarlane gates, Keilor Recreation Reserve 1935 Local 089
    
    Macedon Street Stone pine avenue Contributory
    
    658 Macedon Street Chisholm Shelter Shed site archaeological 128
    
    670 Macedon Street Keilor Hotel, former Galway Arms Hotel, & Red Lion Hotel 1848 State 015
    
    755 Macedon Street Lagoon Reserve, trees 1860s Local 130
    
    777 Macedon Street former Shire Hall & Courthouse - Community Arts Centre 1859 Regional 037
    
    779 Macedon Street Keilor police station, former 1863 State 001
    
    Old Calder Highway Basket Bridge/Keilor Road Bridge 1868 State 016

    Physical Conditions

    Keilor Village Precinct - Physical Conditions

    The survial of extensive opwn space and wide road reserves with their mature trees is the significant component of this streetscape precinct, and represents a high level of integrity. Modern road construction such as the introduction of extensive concrete kerbing, footpaths and road widening is intrusive, however.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Keilor Village Precinct - Historical Australian Themes

    3 Developing local, regional and national economies
    3.5 Developing primary production

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study

    Author: G. Vines
    Year: 2000
    Grading: State

    Brimbank - Melbourne Western Region Industrial Heritage Study

    Author: G. Vines & A. Ward
    Year: 1989
    Grading:

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