34-40 Eades Place, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme11/01/1985
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34-40 Eades Place, West Melbourne
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11/01/1985
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BIF-NORTH 103015 511006 511007 511008 511009
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Grading as at 1985 : CNational Trust file 1558Period : Early Victorian (1871-1894)Grantee : J Watson 185938 Eades Place is the oldest of these four row houses built in 1871 for John Darbyshire who was probably also the builder. He was an owner/occupier until he was bought out by Henry Munn, a boot and shoemaker, in 1877. Next came 34 Eades Place in 1879 owned and occupied by William Chambers and his wife for the next twenty years. Henry Munn built 36 in 1884 and c1894 he added 40, in which he was residing by 1895; his other houses being leased to John Mountain and Edwin Buckley.A two-storeyed stuccoed and brick parapetted row of four houses, each of different construction date (and owner in 34,38), but all appearing to be part of a whole. Due to the acquisition by Munn of 36-8, 40 was added by him to match 38.: the same philosophy may have determined a general match to 34 by 36 when Munn built the latter six years after the former. All have simple parapet cornices, are built to the street alignment, possess symmetrical fenestration and utilise, albeit misaligned, string-moulds. Shutters and paired doorways are in common but 34,36 have parapet entablatures, gabled and arched with scrolls and dates, where 38-40 have not.Architecturally, each is original, simply ornamented and fenestrated which is typical of the date of the initial buildings of the group but not the later two (36.40) and thus the group may be an early expression of the desire for visual cohesion: of regional significance. Historically, Further examples of the owner-builder predominance in the study area: of local importance.
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