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Alphington East Precinct

Location

ALPHINGTON, YARRA CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Alphington East Residential precinct, which comprises Adams, Chamouni, Como, Killop streets, Lucerne Crescent, Old Heidelberg and Parkview roads, Phillips Street, Riverview Grove, Roemer Crescent, St Bernards and St Gothards roads, View and Yarralea streets, Alphington is significant. Contributory buildings include Victorian, Edwardian and interwar houses, all set in garden allotments and having typically:

. pitched gabled or hipped roofs;

. one storey wall heights;

. detached siting;

. painted or stained weatherboard, some face pressed brick and stucco wall cladding;

. unglazed terra-cotta Marseilles pattern tiles (Edwardian-era and interwar),

. corrugated iron, with some slate roofing (Edwardian-era and Victorian-era);

. chimneys of face red brick, with capping course, or stucco finish with moulded caps or of matching face brickwork with corbelled capping courses;

. timber post-supported porch or verandah elements facing the street;

. less than 40% of the street wall face comprised with openings such as windows and doors, framed as single vertical rectangles or groups of vertical rectangular frames; and

. front gardens, bordered by low front fences, typically of timber picket, or wire fabric, random stone or matching brick pier and panel for interwar.

Contributory elements also include public infrastructure, expressive of the interwar and Edwardian-eras such as stone pitched road paving, kerbs and channels, and asphalt paved footpaths, median strips.

How is it significant?

The Alphington East Residential precinct is aesthetically and historically significant to the locality of Alphington and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?

The precinct is historically and aesthetically significant as a residential enclave, physically contained by the early transport route of Heidelberg Road and the natural barrier of the Yarra River, which was built up in the late Victorian-era and early 20th century as consistent and well preserved house groups in the Italianate, Federation and Californian Bungalow suburban styles, differing to most other parts of the City by their garden setting and deep garden setback. (Criteria A & E)

The precinct is aesthetically significant for the distinctive street layout arising from Manning's early Alphington village subdivision, with its curving base in the form of Roemer Crescent at the Yarra River. (Criterion E)

The precinct is historically significant for the artistic associations of the area as the chosen domain (along with the adjoining Ivanhoe and Heidelberg areas) of many prominent artists and businessmen linked with art and artisan pursuits from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Criterion A)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct