| House | $1,221,500  |
| Unit | $665,000  |
| Land | $2,033,500 |
Surrounding suburbs
| Bulleen | $1,419,500 |
| Heidelberg Heights | $949,200 |
| Ivanhoe | $1,546,800 |
| Rosanna | $1,250,200 |
| Viewbank | $1,169,900 |
| House | $579 |
| Unit | $496 |
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| Map | Street view | Nearby property price |
| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - April 30, 2010 What is significant? The former Heidelberg Baby Health Centre, built c.1928, and the setting in a strip of parkland close to Warringal Hospital, is significant. How is it significant? The former Heidelberg Baby Health Centre is of local historical, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Banyule. Why is it significant? The former Heidelberg Baby Health Centre is of historical significance for its associations with the history of maternal and infant welfare in Victoria demonstrating the strength of community concern about infant and maternal welfare prior to official government involvement. Designed to resemble a typical middle class suburban house in a garden setting, the purpose-built centre remains a symbol of domesticity and stability. The building of a permanent baby health centre was also symbolic of a culturally progressive caring society, a place associated with new scientific ideas, and professionally designed programs designed to improve the health education of women raising families in the suburbs. (Criterion A) The former Heidelberg Baby Health Centre is of architectural significance as an intact example of an early baby health care centre. As a building constructed in the Inter War Bungalow style, it is important for its high degree of external integrity, in particular for its unpainted roughcast rendered exterior and stylistic detailing. Importantly, the building is representative of many subsequent baby health centres of the inter-war period built in the domestic style, a style which demonstrates a philosophical association between early baby health centre designs and the ideal suburban house, both traditionally perceived as the domain of women and children. The planting of conifers, and other detailed garden plants reflects the era in which the building was constructed and contributes to the setting. (Criteria D & E) The former Heidelberg Baby Health Centre is of social significance for its enduring civic value to the community as demonstrated by the range of community uses accommodated in the building, and importantly for its current use as a location for parenting programs. (Criterion G) |
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