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1 Davison St

Location

1 DAVISON STREET, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 288515

File Number

Y2011:3031

Level

Rec for HO area indiv sig

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
A slate hip-roofed, brick, triple-fronted Edwardian house with two similar row-houses attached, part of the same development. Cresting, ridge-capping and finials are terra-cotta and red brick is dyed. Chimneys are roughcast with bosses, bands and terra-cotta pots. The house at number 1, has its right bay set forward as a hip, with a projecting gablet, with elaborate pendant barges, over a rectangular bay, with good Art Nouveau influenced leadlight, jettying on ogee timber brackets. Above is pressed metal, roughcast pattern timbered. There are bellied roughcast bands at dado and string-course level. At left is a similar, but lower gablet. The verandah is between, under the main roof and both have Art Nouveau-influenced fretwork of sinuous tendrils and sunburst brackets, with a square-moulded post. The verandah floor has diamond-pattern quarry tiles.

The entry has side and fanlights, with a small side window. The gate is an early Cyclone type with Gothic posts, with an overgrown hedge. Nos.3 and 5 are more retrogressive designs, with some Italianate characteristics. Being on the corner of the park and with nos.2-8 opposite, they form a streetscape element. One cresting tile is broken. Row-house brickwork is painted and their fence is not appropriate.

How is it significant?
The houses are aesthetically and historically significant (National Estate Register Criteria E1, A4) to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The building is significant:
- for its good representation of a key period in the City's history; and
- as an intact brick, triple-fronted, Edwardian house with some Art Nouveau decorative influences, distinctive verandah detail and with two attached similar, though more retrogressive, row-houses as part of the same development.

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