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15 Gower Street, Kensington

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-20051999

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Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

1999

Reference number:

BIF-FLKE 104382

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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

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Graphic materialsTextual material

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Series: Flemington and Kensington (BIF-FLKE)

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UnrestrictedOpen access.

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Period: VictorianConstruction date: pre-1883History:The house at 15 Gower Street was built prior to 1883. The rate books for 1883-84 describe the house, which was owned and occupied by Francis Murphy, a traveller, as a six-room brick house with a Nett Annual Value of #40 and a population of eight. An amendment to the rate book shows that during 1884, Murphy was succeeded by Francis J Murphy, listed as a traveller, and later as an accountant. The Sands & McDougall directories are unclear as to the earlier history of the house, although its style suggests it was constructed in the early 1880s..Description:The building at 15 Gower Street is a single-storey Victorian house of bichromatic brick construction with a hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves. Body bricks are brown, with cream brick dressings and quoining. L-shaped in plan, the house has a projecting section with a canted bay window and an ogee-profile verandah with cast iron columns and decorative lacework. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes. The chimneys are brick with moulded rendered cappings. The cream brick front fence is not original..Significance:The house at 15 Gower Street, Kensington, is of local aesthetic and historic importance. Historically, the house is a representative of the first phase of development of Kensington. Aesthetically, the house is a particularly intact example of an ornate bichromatic Boom period villa, a type relatively rare in Kensington. It makes an important contribution to the streetscape, and relates to the house nearby at No. 19.

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