263 Adderley Street, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme10/1/1985
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263 Adderley Street, West Melbourne
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10/1/1985
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BIF-NORTH 100223
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Grading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Early Victorian (1875)Grantee : W French 1865William French developed quite a few properties around this intersection on his original crown allotment of 1865. 263 Adderley was one of two houses he built in 1875 as an investment. It was leased for the first twenty years of its life to such as Joseph Boswell, James Davis and John Wood.It is a two-storey, stuccoed brick house, with a parapetted roof line and arcarded ground-level. Cast-iron columns support three arches, with drip-moulds, above which an incised string-frieze marks the storey-line: two flat-pedimented and architraved windows, and a parapet cornice follow. An iron picket fence is used at the frontage. Notable features include the fence, verandah decoration, elaborate/high standard design of cement rendered surfaces, arcaded verandah, iron columns, and fanlight to doorway.Architecturally, it marks the early part of the period of Italian Romanesque/Renaissance influence on Melbourne Architecture, with the relatively uncommon arcaded form and is near original: of regional significance. Historically, the best of a number of buildings by French at this corner, and thus typifying the predominance of builder-owners in West and North Melbourne.The mural was painted by owner and local residents c.1975-6.
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| Type | Reference No. | Extent | Status/Desc |
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| Original | 100223 | 1 PDF : 1190 KB ; A4 | Single Item (May not be issued, may not be reproduced) |