| House | $1,134,500  |
| Unit | $850,100  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Abbotsford | $1,207,300 |
| Clifton Hill | $1,567,800 |
| East Melbourne | $3,052,500 |
| Fitzroy | $1,649,100 |
| Fitzroy North | $1,577,200  |
| Richmond | $1,454,900 |
| House | $792 |
| Unit | $673 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - January 1, 2014 Clapton house, 23 Ballarat Street, Collingwood This site is subject to a Statement of Significance for the building, as well as a Statement of Significance for the Precinct in which it is located. Please find below the Statement for the building, followed by the Statement for the Precinct. Statement of Significance for the building What is significant? The Clapton house at 23 Ballarat Street, Collingwood was created in 1928 for Eric W. T. Clapton. The place has a good integrity to its creation date. Fabric from the creation date at the Clapton house is locally significant within the City of Yarra, compared to other similar places from a similar era. How is it significant? The Clapton house at 23 Ballarat Street, Collingwood is architecturally significant to the locality of Collingwood and the City of Yarra. Why is it significant? The Clapton house is significant as a well-preserved Californian Bungalow style house with distinctive details; the privet hedge and fence are related elements, as are boxed bay windows, and lead lighting. Precinct statement of significance Component streets include: Alexander Street, Alexandra Parade, Ballarat Street, Bendigo Street, Blanche Street, Budd Street, Charlotte Street, Easey Street, Emma Street, Forest Street, Gold Street, Hotham Street, Keele Street, Mater Street, Sackville Street, Wellington Street Statement of Significance What is significant? The land comprising the Gold Street Heritage Overlay Area was first sold in 1839. Part was sold to Sydney-based merchants Hughes and Hoskins, and the northern lots 86 and 87 to J S Ryrie and A Mossman. Subdivision of the south of the area commenced in 1850. Hodgkinson's map of 1858 indicates a small number of houses at the southern ends of Gold and Wellington Streets. The Proeschel 'Map of Collingwood' c.1855 shows Gold, Ballarat, Alexander, Forest and Bendigo Streets, named after the principal Victorian goldfields. Subdivisions seeking to attract former gold seekers were common in 1850s Melbourne, as in the early Yarraville Township (50). Development elsewhere in the Heritage Overlay Area was inhibited by its poor drainage. By 1858 the Reilly Street drain, now under Alexandra Parade, had been formed with the intention of draining the Crown land in Clifton Hill, thus increasing land values and hence enabling profitable sales to developers. The vision of urban improvement advanced and the 1860s saw building in the a |
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