Hayes house, 255-257 Errol Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme15/01/1985
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Hayes house, 255-257 Errol Street, North Melbourne
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEGrading as at 1985 : BPeriod : Early Victorian (1867-1868)Grantee : H Peck 1865History- Patrick Hayes, a shoemaker, and his wife, Fanny, a dressmaker, were the only owners from 1867-1895. They lived there until 1890 when it was leased to Donald Robertson, a cordial maker.Description- A double fronted, weatherboarded house with a hipped concave roof, timber verandah and a triple transverse gable roof line, iron clad. A timber, spade headed picket fence, and face brick chimney with a corbelled top are typical of the construction date. Beaded edges to the softwood boards, architraves to the openings and the capitals to the stop-chamfered verandah posts are further embellishments of this simple early form.Integrity - Generally original but perhaps, there was a scrolled timber valence to the verandah.Streetscape - Part of a varied generally 19th century streetscape, in materials form and type, but shares the generally single-storey nature and narrow frontages.Significance - Architecturally, a common type, but given its age, wall material and original condition of high regional significance to the metropolitan area.Historically, perhaps the best illustration of North Melbourne's prescribed role in the then metropolis and its eventual physical state, of a repository of cheap timber housing for the returned gold rushers. It was also, for a long period, the home-occupation of a shoemaker, an almost peculiarly 19th and early 20th century occurrence: of regional importance.Recommendations - repaint in original or typical colours.References:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory)1. RB 1867-68, 2181; RB 1875-76, 1683; 1895-96, 1592
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