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55 Baker St

Location 55 BAKER STREET, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 153495 File Number Y2011:3316 Level Rec for HO area indiv sig

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
A double-fronted, Edwardian, red brick row-house pair. They have a most unusual plan: the entry door is not visible from the street. They have hip-roofs, but the gambrel bay is set forward, sweeping down break-pitch as a verandah. This verandah has elaborate lattice and fretwork decoration with a "spade" motif. The gablet is timbered roughcast with a square timber finial. The hip-roof also breaks pitch over a narrow porch, set well back. The extraordinary chimneys are Voyseyesque, with flat tops and reverse ogee brackets. Brickwork is tuck-pointed with a dado band. Casements are triples and quadruples. They lack the original verandah floors, 53 lacks a finial, number 55 finial is truncated, its window altered and brickwork painted.

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