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537-539 Macaulay Road, Kensington

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-20051999

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

1999

Reference number:

BIF-FLKE 106330 106331

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.

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General notes:

Period: VictorianConstruction date: pre-1881History:The pair of houses at 537-539 Macaulay Road was constructed prior to 1881. The rate books for 1881-82 list the buildings as two four-room brick shops* owned by Thomas Bellair, who also owned two adjacent wooden shops. The occupants were Christmas (?) Long, a cooper, and Mary Fitzgerald, and the Nett Annual Values were #25 and #22 respectively. The Sands & McDougall directory for 1881 lists Long and Fitzgerald as neighbours, but is unclear as to the earlier history of the building. Throughout the 1880s the houses were let to a succession of tenants including a grocer and a laborer, and by 1890 the houses had been acquired by Eglinton & Co. of Melbourne. By early 1892, the effect of the economic slump was evident, and the Nett Annual Value of each house had fallen to on 15 pounds.,Description:The building at 537-539 Macaulay Road is a pair of double-storey Victorian brick terrace houses with double-storey verandahs; that to No. 539 has been extensively altered. The hipped corrugated galvanised steel roof has two prominent rendered chimneys. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes, tripartite to the upper levels and single at ground floor level, while the four-panelled timber front doors have fanlights..Significance:The pair of houses at 537-539 Macaulay Road, Kensington, is of local historical and aesthetic interest. Historically, the house are representative of the type of speculative housing which was constructed in this part of Kensington in the Victorian period. Aesthetically, although the houses have lost some of their verandah details, the nineteenth century form of the building is evident, and it continues to contribute to the streetscape. The pair relates to the neighbouring Victorian buildings in scale.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesFlemington/Kensington Conservation Study 1984Mid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)Terrace housesBrickCast iron work1880-1889

Places:

Kensington (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1278902