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Gordonville, 28-30 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 104419

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: c1879History:The house at 30 Gower Street was constructed prior to 1882. The 1881-82 rate books, prepared in May 1882, show Frederick Harper as the owner of a six-room wooden house with a Nett Annual Value of #34. The house was occupied by Thomas Hales, a jockey. The Sands & McDougall directories list a Frederick Hooper in the area in 1880, but not in 1879, however the directories prior to 1882 are inconclusive. The 1883-84 rate books show Hales to have been succeeded by Maria Calman, owner and occupier of the house that year. Calman was succeeded as owner by Herbert Quarry, a government employee from Brighton, who also built adjacent house (No. 32; see separate datasheet) in 1891 as his own residence, while leasing No. 30 to Phillip Conway, a gas stoker..Description:Gordonville is a single-storey, block-fronted Victorian villa with a hipped roof with timber bracketed eaves. L-shaped in plan, the house has a projecting section with a tripartite double-hung sash window with a timber bracketed hood. The adjacent verandah has cast iron columns and ornate cast iron lacework. Alterations include the recladding of the roof in terracotta tiles..Significance:Gordonville, at 30 Gower Street, Kensington, is of local historical and aesthetic interest. It is a reasonably intact example of the type of weatherboard villas built during the first phase of development of Kensington. Aesthetically, the house contributes to the largely intact Gower Street streetscape, and relates visually to the adjacent house at No. 32.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesCity of Melbourne Heritage Review 1999Mid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)Weatherboard buildingsVerandahsCast iron work1970-1979

Places:

Kensington (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1276859