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Mason, 64 Capel Street, West Melbourne

Butler, Graeme14/01/1985
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Title:
Mason, 64 Capel Street, West Melbourne
Date of work:
14/01/1985
Reference number:
BIF-NORTH 101564
Level of description:
Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
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General notes:
Grading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Early Victorian (1859-1866)Grantee : John Harbison 1859This house was built by Joseph Dean probably between 1859 and 1866, and possibly in two stages, the second storey being added some time after the first. Dean was a stonemason and lived in the house himself for short periods but generally leased it until selling in 1897. He had lived in Peel Street and was the builder of the Methodist Connexion Church School, later the Congregational Church on the corner of Rosslyn and William Street. It has been demolished.Some tenants of 64 Capel Street included William Allen, Stephen Bell, Charles Morel and Mrs Hill.The house is a two-storey parapeted and part-stuccoed building of basalt coursed rubble with sandstone quoins to openings as seen on the north face. The two-level timber verandah has cast-iron frieze panels, bellied iron balustrade panels and a modified square head picket fence. The architraved upper level window has the distinctively early detail of half side-lights, with adjoining hung sashes over a lower panel. Decorative stucco elements include parapet scrolls, a cornice and unusual stylised brackets and rolled mouldings to the side walls faces, set against the stone work. Notable features include fence, verandah decoration, verandah roof and structure, stonework.It is of historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria, being of historical significance as evidence of the early form of residential development in inner Melbourne. The house is one of the earliest in the area, the land here having been sold in the late 1850s. It provides an excellent example of the kind of buildings erected by the small-scale owner-builders that were common in this part of Melbourne in the 1850s and 1860s. Dean, the builder and occupier of this house, built several others in the area. It is of architectural significance as an example of domestic architecture displaying uncommon early details and cast iron pattern and as an unusual example of combined stone (basalt and freestone) and stucco work.
Record types:
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Record number:
1342447
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