Lucas houses, 335-339 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme18/1/1985
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Lucas houses, 335-339 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
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18/1/1985
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEGrading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Early Victorian (1865-69)Grantee : W Gledhill 1864History- Between 1865 and 1869 these offices, formerly shops and residences were built for Charles Lucas, a painter, who lived for thirty years in 339 Queensberry Street, leasing the other building for the first years. By c1875, 337 had been acquired by John Donovan, the bootmaker, who resided there, adding another premises at the rear, 335 Queensberry Street, which he alternately occupied and leased to such persons as James Hall, engineer, and for a long period, Michael Fitzgerald, a bootcloser and presumed associate on Donovan's bootmaking business. John Donovan and later, Mary Donovan, occupied 337 until the early Twentieth Century, whilst Lucas was in 339 during the 1890s and E C Lucas after that date.Description- Of distinctively early form, 335, 337 and 339 consist of two-storey stuccoed brick row house pair with high hipped roofs and dividing parapet with common chimneys. Each has an unusual side entrance which communicates with premises at the rear, one of which has now a separate address (335) and which were presumably the manufacturing premises for both Lucas and Donovan. A shop front with a flat pediment over, survives in 335 whilst its entrance is placed hard against that of 335 which is expressed on the street by a slim wall section with an unusual bay window cantilevering over it (added?). 339 has uncommon asymmetrical fenestration and the same expressed side entrance bay as 337.Integrity - The common chimney cornice has been altered and the shaft stuccoed (see chimney at rear of 339); all four-panel doors have been replaced; a 1'lindOl" bay has been added to 335; and slates replaced on 339; the Corporation pattern iron street veranda~ has been removed. Streetscape - Part of a row of old-form simply elevated two-storey former shops and residences, most of stucco and all built to the street alignment (339-321) .Significance- Architecturally, of an uncommon roof form seen generally undivided in early areas such as Portland, Kilmore and Port Albert, but seldom divided as for a row house. The side entrance bays are other uncommon aspects, illustrating typical 19th century combined residential and manufacturing uses, and the building relates to the streetscape of similar building types. Original and early elements such as the shop front and head moulding are valuable: of regional importance. Historically, evocative of manufacturing combined with residential uses and linked with two families for a long period: of local importance.Recommendations - Repaint in original or typical colours;replace doors with four panel, Victorian pattern;examine shop front of 337; refer photograph held by N.M.AReferences:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory)1. RB 1865, 29; RB 1869-70, 102-32. RB 1880- 81, 133; RB 1875-6, 132; D. 1899-1900, D. 1895
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