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Coles Paddock Estate Precinct

Location

RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Cole's Paddock Estate precinct, comprising Bennett, Davison, and Leslie streets, and parts of Buckingham and Victoria streets, Richmond is significant. Contributory elements include the Edwardian and interwar houses, having typically:

- pitched gabled and hipped roofs;
- detached siting but some attached;
- one storey with some two wall heights;
- painted weatherboard and red brick walls;
- corrugated iron and unglazed Marseilles pattern terra-cotta tile roofing;
- chimneys of matching face brickwork with corbelled capping courses;
- post-supported verandah or porch elements addressing the street; and
- less than 40% of the street wall face comprised with openings such as windows and doors.

Contributory elements also include:

- Small front gardens, bordered by low front fences, typically of timber picket or wire fabric (interwar); and
- Public infrastructure, expressive of the Edwardian-era, such as stone pitched road paving, kerbs and channels, and asphalt paved footpaths.

How is it significant?
Cole's Paddock Estate precinct is historically and aesthetically significant to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The precinct is historically significant as a relatively homogenous Edwardian-era house group that expresses the growth in the City of Richmond that accompanied new industrial development after Federation. The precinct is one of the largest Edwardian-era house groups in the former City of Richmond. It is also significant as an expression of the long-lived Coles Paddock area that remained free of construction over a long period because of its use in combination with Thomas Cole's important Richmond nursery. (Criterion A)

The precinct is aesthetically significant for the groups of Edwardian-era and interwar residences with picturesque roof forms and distinctive verandah details. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct