13 Coppin Street

Location

13 COPPIN STREET RICHMOND - PROPERTY NUMBER 199625 AND 13 COPPIN STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

This place is within the Gardner Street Precinct. Please refer to the precinct citation for a history, description and statement of significance for this precinct.

What is significant?
The house at 13 Coppin Street, built in 1899-1900 for Mary Weston is significant. It is a single-storey double-fronted Italianate style villa of rendered brick construction. It has a symmetrical facade with a central panelled front door flanked by tripartite timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house has a curved-profile corrugated galvanised steel verandah with a central gablet trimmed with a cast iron finial. The gable-end has cast iron lacework infill. The verandah is supported on cast iron columns, paired beneath the gablet, and has a decorative cast iron lacework frieze. The verandah roof is hipped at the north end, and terminates at a brick wing wall at the southern end, decorated with a console and mask. The roof is concealed behind a balustraded parapet which has a bracketed cornice and a small, ornately decorated triangular pediment flanked by urns. There is a brick chimney with a wide, moulded cap.

The iron picket front fence is a recent reconstruction and is not significant.

How is it significant?
The Weston house at 13 Coppin Street, Richmond is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
It is architecturally significant as a relatively intact example of an ornate, symmetrical Italianate house with an ornate cast iron verandah. (Criterion D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House