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19 Gower Street, Kensington

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-20051999

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

1999

Reference number:

BIF-FLKE 104384

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materialsTextual material

Part of:

Series: Flemington and Kensington (BIF-FLKE)

Access restrictions:

UnrestrictedOpen access.

Use restrictions:

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General notes:

Period: VictorianConstruction date: pre-1883History:The house at 19 Gower Street was built prior to 1883. The rate books for 1883-84 describe the house, which was owned by Edward Cooper and occupied by Robert J McCulloch, a journalist. That year, the house was described as a six-room brick house with a Nett Annual Value of #40 and a population of four people. 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 houst at 19 Gower Street is a single-storey Victorian villa a brick construction with a hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves. L-shaped in plan, the projecting section has a canted bay window and the adjacent verandah has an ogee profile roof. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes, and the chimneys are of bichromatic brickwork with moulded cappings. Alterations include the painting of the bichromatic brickwork and the removal of the verandah frieze decoration. The timber picket fence is recent..Significance:The house at 19 Gower Street, Kensington, is of local aesthetic and historic interest. Historically, the house is a representative of the first phase of development of Kensington. Aesthetically, the house is a reasonably intact example of a Boom period brick villa, a type relatively rare in Kensington. It makes an important contribution to the streetscape.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesCity of Melbourne Heritage Review 1999Mid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)Slate tilesChimneysPolychrome brickwork1880-1889

Places:

Kensington (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1276473