397 Punt Rd

(part 395-397 Punt Rd)

What is significant?
A double-storey, rendered, Boom style terrace pair, set back from the street with a parapet and raised entablature. The parapet centrepiece is set between abstracted Doric pilasters, supported by scrolls. The cornice and frieze-mould has vermiculated corbels; also to verandah, these being on scroll-brackets. The skillion verandah, between wing-walls, has cast-iron lace valence and Composite Order posts, with the first-storey balustrade in an unusual pattern of panels between balusters. Ground-window is tripartite with Tuscan fluted mullions. Doors have fan and sidelights. Chimneys have corbelled brick-bands. They are painted, 397 lacks sidelights and the high front fence is not appropriate.

How is it significant?
The building is aesthetically and historically significant (National Estate Register Criteria E1, A4) to Richmond.

Why is it significant?
The building is significant:
- for its good representation of a key boom period in the City's history; and
- as a characteristic double-storey, rendered Boom-style terrace pair, well proportioned with ornate verandah detail, chimneys and unusual first floor balustrading.

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