Remove from your active Pick list Save for later

27-29 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 104388 104389

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:

Refer to individual item records for Use Restrictions.Please contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images. High resolution files may be held by City of Melbourne Libraries and available on request. Users must acknowledge City of Melbourne Libraries when reproducing items.

General notes:

Period: VictorianConstruction date: 1887History:The houses at 27-29 Gower Street were built in 1887. The rate books for 1887-88 show Thomas Hulse as the owner of vacant land with a 43 foot frontage to Gower Street and a Nett Annual Value of #10. The following year, Hulse is listed as the owner of two five-room brick houses, each with an Nett Annual Value of #40. Hulse, a railway employee, was living at No. 29, while No. 27 was vacant. The rate books for 1888-89 show that the first tenant of No. 27 was William Pegley, a cutter. The Sands & McDougall directories show that Hulse and Pegley remained as occupants until approximately 1892..Description:The building at 27-29 Gower Street is a pair of single-storey, semi-detached Victorian houses constructed of brick and housed under a common hipped roof. Each house has a verandah with a corrugated galvanised steel roof supported on timber posts and recent cast iron frieze decoration. The entrance doors are four-panelled with side and fanlights, and windows are tripartite double-hung sashes. Alterations include the painting of some of the brickwork and the re-cladding of the roof in terracotta tiles. The timber picket fences are recent..Significance:The pair of houses at 27-29 Gower Street, Kensington, is of local historical and aesthetic interest. The houses are an important remnant of Boom period speculative development in Kensington. Aesthetically, the houses are substantially intact example of small Italianate terrace-style brick cottages, and make an important contribution to the streetscape.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesCity of Melbourne Heritage Review 1999Mid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)Brick housesVerandahs1880-1889

Places:

Kensington (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1276639