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THE GRANGE
39 BELGRAVE STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 23494

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Statement of Significance

The Grange is of state architectural and historical Significance. It is one of the earliest surviving buildings in the Pentridge district and was the residence of Peter Virtue, a prominent figure in the early history of the Baptist Church in Victoria. The building has been extensively altered, but retains its basic configuration and structure. Its bluestone construction reinforces its contemporaneity with the early development of the Pentridge and the surrounding core of bluestone buildings.
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    • Physical Description 1

      THE GRANGE - Physical Description 1

      The Grange has a facade of ashlar bluestone, and side and rear walls of coursed random bluestone rubble with granite sills to timber windows (some from c.1930s), and a steep hipped roof with two small weatherboard-clad dormers. The roofing material is green pressed steel imitation tiles (1974), and the facade has been painted, possibly with a lime wash. The original iron lace verandah remains; the turned timber verandah posts are not original.

      Part of the rear of the house is constructed of red brick, and there is a small side pavilion with a weatherboard and timber lattice-enclosed lean-to roofed in red-painted corrugated iron. The clinker brick front fence, and possibly the concrete front and side paths, date from the 1940s. There are some mature trees in the front garden, but none of the original garden layout is evident.

      Key Architectural Elements: random coursed bluestone construction

      Conservation Guidelines: remove paint from bluestone
      reinstate windows to original design
      reinstate original roofing material
      preferably remove later intrusive additions

      Comparative Examples: Gowrie, 63-65 Gowrie Street, Glenroy.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Moreland - City of Coburg Heritage Conservation & Streetscape Study

      Author: Timothy Hubbard Pty Ltd
      Year: 1991
      Grading: Local

      Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review

      Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
      Year: 1999
      Grading:

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