| House | $685,000  |
| Land | $116,100 |
Surrounding suburbs
| Barnawartha | $733,300 |
| House | $483  |
| Unit | $323 |
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| Map | Street view | Nearby property price |
| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| What is significant? Lake View, Chiltern is a single-storey, red brick Victorian residence built in c.1870 with a separate brick kitchen. The bricks were probably made locally. The six-roomed residence is a standard Victorian style with a central passageway. The house has French doors at either end of the passageway and also opening onto an encircling verandah. Four equidistant chimneys are set into a hipped, corrugated iron. The house is situated on the south bank of Lake Chiltern. There are remnant plantings from the original garden layout. The house was briefly the residence of medical practitioner Dr Walter Lindesay Richardson and his family, including his daughter Ethel Florence Richardson, who later became the novelist Henry Handel Richardson. The Richardsons moved to Lake View upon their arrival at Chiltern in 1876 and departed the following year when Dr Richardson's medical practice failed. Henry Handel Richardson's three-volume novel, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, has been acclaimed as one of Australia's greatest novels. The house featured as 'Barambogie' in the final of the three-volumed novel, Ultima Thule, published in 1929, and was also mentioned in her autobiographical account, Myself When Young (1948). Lake View continued to be used as a doctor's residence and practice in the twentieth century. It was restored in the 1960s and has since operated as a house museum. How is it significant? Lake View, Chiltern, is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant Lake View, Chiltern, is of historical significance for its association with Henry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Australian novelist Ethel Florence Robertson (nee Richardson) (1870-1946). Items of Richardson family memorabilia, which are on display in the house, contribute to the building's significance. Lake View, Chiltern, is of architectural and historical significance as an example of a country villa residence built during a period of prosperity in the mining town of Chiltern. [Online Data Upgrade Project 2004] |
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