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PERSEVERENCE

Other Name

House

Location

1 EGAN STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 142320

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Perseverance

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Perseverance, the house at 1 Egan Street, Richmond built in 1892-93 for Mrs. Hannah Callaghan is significant. It is a two-storey double-fronted freestanding symmetrical Italianate bichromatic brick terrace house. The walls are of face brown brick with red brick dressings. The house as an ornate two-storey verandah, supported on cast iron columns with ornate lacework friezes, enclosed at each end by projecting wing walls. The frieze has been removed from the first floor balcony. At ground floor, the central panelled entrance door has narrow sidelights and a highlight, and is flanked by tripartite double-hung sash windows. The first floor has three, regularly spaced double-hung sash windows. The roof is concealed behind a high rendered parapet, which has a central pediment containing the name and date of the house in raised rendered lettering, a bracketed cornice and decorative swags and urns. The parapet retains its original unpainted render finish.

The timber picket front fence is not original.

How is it significant?
Perseverence at 1 Egan Street, Richmond is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
Perseverance is architecturally significant as a a notable example of a large, two-storey, double-fronted, bichromatic, symmetrical, freestanding Italianate style terrace house, distinguished by its prominent, unpainted rendered parapet and extensive cast iron decoration. (Criterion D)

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