206 Coppin Street

The properties at 204-208 Coppin Street, Richmond, date from 1913 and include three two-storey face brick houses, with upper level balconies, gabled forms, and terracotta roofs in Marseilles-pattern tiles. No. 204 is more conventionally Federation in design, with a basic L-fronted form over two levels. Nos 206 and 208 Coppin Street have large gabled single-fronted forms, with balconies to the attic levels.

How is it significant?

The properties at 204-208 Coppin Street, Richmond, are of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance.

Why is it significant?

The three dwellings at 204-208 Coppin Street, Richmond, are of local historical significance. They are a largely externally intact collection of three substantial residences, dating from 1913, and demonstrative of more middle class housing constructed in Richmond in the early twentieth century. Coppin Street, as one of the more prominent north-south running streets in Richmond, and a relatively wide thoroughfare dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, was in part a favoured location for larger villas. The subsequent conversion of the dwellings to flats and boarding houses was also a common occurrence for larger private residences in the inner suburbs in the middle decades of the twentieth century. The three dwellings, in the late Federation style with Arts and Craft influences, are also of local aesthetic/architectural significance. They are a prominent group to Coppin Street, where they read as a complementary collection of two-storey face brick houses, with upper level balconies, gabled forms, and terracotta roofs in Marseilles-pattern tiles. No. 208 is a particularly bold design, with large expanses of asymmetrical face brick surfaces. The jerkin-headed gabling on nos 206 and 208 is of note; all the houses also have exposed rafters, at eaves level.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House