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TERRACE HOUSES

Other Name

Row house

Location

35-37 KENT STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 155450

File Number

Y2011:3685

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house pair at 35-37 Kent Street, Richmond is significant to the extent of the nineteenth century fabric. Built in 1887 for owner Alfred Hudson, the pair of double-storey terraced houses are rendered, with a plain parapet and Classical cornice mould and a shallow central pedimented raised entablature, which conceals a hipped main roof. The upper levels have heavy quoins at the corners. There is an elegant concave verandah with cast-iron valence at first-floor level, and brackets at first and ground levels. The first-storey window openings are arched with architrave-moulds, and the doors also have moulded cement architraves, all of which is uncommon. There is a simple spearhead double palisade wrought and cast iron fence at No. 35.

Non-original alterations and additions to the houses, including the sympathetic reproduction fence at no.37 are not significant.

How is it significant?
The house pair at 35-37 Kent Street, Richmond is architecturally and aesthetically significant to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The house pair at 35-37 Kent St, Richmond is architecturally and aesthetically significant (Criteria D & E) as a characteristic pair of late Victorian era terrace house, which are notable for the distinctive including the arched upper level window openings, the iron fence to No. 35 and restrained cement mouldings.

Group

Residential buildings (private)