| House | $1,856,600  |
| Unit | $500,200  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Brunswick | $1,290,300  |
| Brunswick East | $1,291,700 |
| Carlton North | $1,592,300 |
| House | $1,050 |
| Unit | $570 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - January 1, 2014 Evans house, 2-4 Wilson Street, Princes Hill 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 Evans house at 2-4 Wilson Street, Princes Hill was created in 1920 for Clara and Evan Albert Evans and has close historical associations with them. The place has a good integrity to its creation date (balcony enclosed). Fabric from the creation date at the Evans house is locally significant within the City of Yarra, compared to other similar places from a similar era. How is it significant? The Evans house at 2-4 Wilson Street, Princes Hill is architecturally significant to the locality of Princes Hill and the City of Yarra. Why is it significant? The Evans house is significant as a relatively well-preserved and distinctive red brick and stucco English Domestic Revival attic style design, set on a corner site, with expressed boxed window groups, steeply gabled roofs and an unusual entry porch and balcony. Precinct statement of significance Component streets include: Arnold Street, Bougainville Place, Bowen Crescent, Cassar Place, Garton Street, Holtom Street, Keeley Lane, Lang Street, Lygon Street, Macpherson Street, Mcilwraith Street, Park Street, Paterson Street, Pigdon Street, Richardson Street, Solly Avenue, Wilson Street. Statement of Significance What is significant? Subdivision form In 1855 the whole of the area now known as Carlton, including Princes Hill and North Carlton, formed part of Princes Park on the South Ward of the municipality of Melbourne. The Crown land between the cemetery and Pigdon Street was subdivided by the government in 1876-79. The 1879 survey plan shows the new street grid, bounded on the west side by part of the former Princes Park carriage drive (now known as Bowen Crescent). The street layout of Princes Hill was by government survey, as had been the case with North Carlton, and this ensured that planned and regular development occurred from the outset. By 1878 at least twelve dwellings had been erected, and development continued rapidly thereafter. With the exception of a few blocks to the north of the area, few vacant sites remained after the First Wo |
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