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TERRACE HOUSES

Location

58-60 EDINBURGH STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 202735

Level

Rec for HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The terrace at 58-60 Edinburgh Street, Richmond is significant. It comprises a pair of two-storey attached polychromatic brick houses. Italianate in style, they have brown brick walls with cream and red window dressings and quoining. There is a concave-profiled corrugated-iron clad single-storey verandah between brick wing walls with rendered copings and vermiculated consoles. The verandahs have cast iron lacework friezes. The rendered parapet has a cornice and central segmental pediment flanked by scrolls and decorated with a shell motif. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes.

Non-original alterations and additions to the terrace are not significant.

How is it significant?

The terrace at 58-60 Edinburgh Street, Richmond is of local historic and architectural significance to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?

The terrace at 58-60 Edinburgh Street, Richmond, is of local architectural significance. Whilst not the most ornate or unusual example of polychromatic brickwork as applied to a residential terrace, the building is nonetheless a good example of the style, and overall a relatively intact example of a building type more common in the more affluent parts of Richmond. (Criteria D & E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House