This is a brick residence in the former Housing Commission precinct of houses constructed primarily in the 1950s. This residence and others in Ballard Avenue, is one of the later residences in the housing precinct but still demonstrating common features that that unite this precinct in materials, window styles, roof types and scale. The residence is contributory in the Newlands Estate Precinct Coburg HO124.
Sometime in the later 20th century, some of the original timber frames windows to this residence had been replaced with aluminium frames. The funding application was to replace the existing aluminium windows to the front of the residence, with timber framed double hung windows to return the building to the earlier appearance. Other houses in the street as well as extant original side windows to this residence, demonstrated that the front windows would have originally been timber framed and double hung.
In December 2024 the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $2,000 towards the timber window reinstatement works to the front of the residence to match the original.
The works funded by the VHRF have restored an original feature of the building and improved the appearance of the residence in the Heritage Overlay Precinct.