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QUEENS TERRACE

Other Name

House

Location

9-17 CROWN STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 168045

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Queens Terrace, constructed 1890, at 9-17 Crown Street, Richmond, is significant. It is a two-storey Italianate brick terrace. The ground floor facades appear to have originally been face brick, although all are now painted, and the first floor facades are rendered and decorated with paired Ionic pilasters. Side walls are of face red brick. Windows are double hung sashes; those on the first floor are embellished with simple pilasters and segmental arched pediments. Each house has a convex-profile verandah between two brick wing walls with rendered copings. The single-storey verandahs have decorative cast iron lacework friezes. The only other decorations are single rosettes above the windows and beneath curved hood moulds, and decorative rectangular vents flanking each window. There is a plain parapet with simple cornice, crowned by a shallow central triangular pediment bearing the words QUEENS TERRACE 1890. Nos. 9 and 11 retain original iron picket fences.

How is it significant?
Queens Terrace at 9-17 Crown Street, Richmond is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
Queens Terrace is architecturally significant is one of the few two-storey residential terraces in the northeast of Richmond. Architecturally, it is a restrained composition, which incorporates classical elements at first floor level, pilasters and window dressings, which are relatively rare on otherwise modest dwellings. The row is a prominent heritage element in a streetscape in a residential pocket of Richmond, which has otherwise been substantially eroded by 20th century industrial buildings. (Criteria B & D)

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