Back to search results » Back to search page »

254 Burnley Street

Location

254 BURNLEY STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

File Number

Y2011:4264

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
RICHMOND BURNLEY STREET
[2/2]
254 Burnley St

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house, constructed by Joseph Hollow in 1884-5, at 254 Burnley Street, Richmond is significant. It is a single-fronted late Victorian Boom style terrace house. The parapet is tall and complex: at its centre is a semicircular pediment set between piers and consoles, and on either side is a blind balustrade with classical turned balusters, which terminates in lower piers at the outer edges. Atop each of the four parapet piers is an unusual version of an orb (or balloon). The orbs are not spherical in shape, but more of a cube with rounded corners. On each face is a rosette and on the top is a tapered finial. Beneath the parapet is a moulded cornice with modillions that is set within corbels and there is a stringcourse above the verandah. The verandah has a slight concave profile with what appears to the original cast iron frieze set within a timber frame with cast iron brackets. Beneath the verandah are a tripartite window and a four panel door with a toplight. There is a brick chimney with rendered cap and a smaller chimney toward the rear.

The fence and gates and other non-original alterations and additions to the house are not significant.

How is it significant?
The house at 254 Burnley Street, Richmond is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The house at 254 Burnley Street is a fine and well detailed example of the late Victorian Boom style, which is notable for the tall and complex parapet that characterises the flamboyant architecture of the Boom era and exemplifies the fashion for show, while the tripartite window and cast iron verandah frieze set within a timber frame with cast iron brackets are also redolent of late Victorian architecture. While Victorian era houses are common within this part of Richmond, Boom style houses are rare and this is notable for its high degree of intactness. (Criteria B, D & E)

Group