Heritage is often associated with buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. However, even modest houses originally designed for workers can sometimes be listed as having heritage value.

For this award-winning house, built in the 1950s on the heritage-listed Newlands Housing Estate in Preston, Victoria, each move made by the architects, SSdH, showed a deep respect for and understanding of the past, as much as building on the home’s future.

The Dunstan House, as it’s referred to, located in an enclave of half a dozen streets, was originally conceived as housing for workers employed at the nearby Kodak factory, now demolished.

These simple red clinker brick homes, with their pitched tiled roofs, all came with similar footprints, and each one was approximately 100 square metres (the size

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