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RESIDENCE
40 GREYSHARPS ROAD HURSTBRIDGE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

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85 - Stone Pine Tree at Hurstbridge Pre School - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study 1992

Cool Store, Fruit Drying and Jam Making complex, undated. Residence is the building to the right

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The property at 40 Graysharps Road, Hurstbridge with a residence constructed in circa 1923. The original form, materials and detailing of the residence is integral to its significance.

Any post 1920s alterations and additions to the residence and other buildings on the site are not significant.

How is it significant?

The property at 40 Graysharps Road, Hurstbridge is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?

The property at 40 Graysharps Road, Hurstbridge is historically significant for associations with the once prosperous orchard industry in the Hurstbridge District and the role of Hurstbridge as the commercial centre to this industry and district in the early 20th century. The residence is the only surviving remnant of the Cool Store complex established near the Hurstbridge Railway Station soon after the extension from Eltham was completed. The site is also important for its associations with prominent resident Martha Wilson who had the residence constructed in circa 1923 and was proprietress of the Cool Store complex in the 1920s. Located within the central area of Hurstbridge, the property contributes to the significant early 20th Century streetscape history of the township and in particular the establishment of Hurstbridge as a commercial centre for the area during the 1920s. (Criteria A & H)

The property at 748 Heidelberg-Kinglake Road, Hurstbridge is aesthetically significant as a substantially intact example of a weatherboard inter-war bungalow. Key features of the style include the overall all encompassing gable roof form with a projecting gable wing to one side, projecting gable verandah to the front with stucco and timber strapping to the gable end, tall narrow brick chimneys, twin timber framed double hung windows, weatherboard cladding and other timber framed openings. The residence is significant for its location behind the Hurstbridge Railway Station indicating the location of the now removed Cool Store Complex. (Criterion E)

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- Physical Description 1
  
  RESIDENCE - Physical Description 1
  
  The building on the site is a timber framed, weatherboard clad California Bungalow style residence set back from the street. The residence has a main gable roof running perpendicular to the street that encompasses the main rectangular section of the floor plan. There is a projecting gable wing on the rear side elevation facing the bowls club. The roof is clad in corrugated metal sheet and features tall narrow red brick chimneys.
  
  The front of the residence facing Graysharps Road includes a centrally placed projecting gable, which forms a verandah across the front. The gable end of the verandah has a painted stucco finish with vertical timber straps, which run into a horizontal timber strap at the base. The verandah is supported on simple square timber posts. The front elevation contains a twin timber framed double-hung windows either side of a central timber framed single entry door. Other original openings to the building are timber framed.
  
  At the front of the property there is a tall timber picket fence, which is not original. There is a driveway down the one side of the residence.
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Nillumbik - Shire of Eltham Heritage Study
  
  Author: David Bick
  Year: 1992
  Grading: C
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