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TERRACE

Location

14-20 YOUNG STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The terrace of four houses, constructed c.1890 for Dr. J.Y. Fishbourne, at 14-20 Young Street, Moonee Ponds is significant. Constructed in brick, each house has a main hipped roof, with skillion roofs to the rear wings. The roofs are concealed behind decorative Anglo-Dutch style parapets. Each has at least one bi-chromatic brick chimney and there is bi-chromatic detailing surrounding the front windows and entrance. The cottages retain their original verandahs, which have a cast iron frieze and one chamfered post. Other original verandah detailing includes dentilling along the front of the fascia (This has been reconstructed to No.20). The verandahs are separated by wing walls, which include decorative consoles. Beneath the verandah is one double-hung sash window, while the front door has sidelights and highlights.

Non-original alterations and additions and the front fencing to No.20 and side and rear fencing to all houses are not significant.

How it is significant?
The terrace at 14-20 Young Street, Moonee Ponds is of local historic and architectural significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant as a speculative residential development constructed during the land boom in Moonee Ponds and following the opening of the new Moonee Ponds railway station. While a number of these terrace rows were constructed in the area surrounding Moonee Ponds station in the late 1880s, many have now been demolished and the significance of this place is enhanced by its rarity value as one of the few surviving intact rows in the area immediately surrounding Puckle Street. (Criterion A, B & D)

It is architecturally significant for the distinctive and unusual Anglo-Dutch design of the parapet, which is notable as a very early and rare example of this style in Moonee Valley City. (Criteria B & F)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Terrace