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MAROURA & KOREIN

Other Name

Houses

Location

164 & 166 BRIGHTON STREET, RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

File Number

Y2011:10247

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Maroura and Korein, the houses built in 1898 for Julius Matthews at 164 & 166 Brighton Street, Richmond are significant. They are a symmetrical pair of double-fronted late Victorian semi-detached houses separated by a brick party wall projecting through the roof line. The walls are of red face brick, with painted rendered dressings. Each house has a projecting bay with tripartite windows, and a corrugated iron verandah spanning between the bay and a central brick wing wall. No. 166 retains its original bullnose-profile verandah, whilst the verandah on No. 164 has been reconstructed to a skillion profile. Both verandahs have cast iron lacework friezes. Beneath each verandah is a front door and a double-hung sash window. The bays have gabled roofs with timber fretwork and finials to the gable-ends. Continuing from under the eaves of the main hipped roof and across the front of each bay is a flat, rendered frieze which bears the names MAROURA (No. 164) and KOREIN (No. 166) respectively. There are rendered string courses at window head and sill level.

No. 164 retains its red brick chimneys which have unpainted render string courses and moulded caps. The roofs of both houses have been re-clad in corrugated galvanised steel. Both houses retain their original iron picket front fences.

How is it significant?
Maroura and Korein, 164-166 Brighton Street, Richmond, are of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The houses are a substantially intact example of a late Victorian semi-detached brick pair, which incorporates some Edwardian elements, including the timber gable-end details. Although the design of the pair is not particularly original, its composition is unusual, and the houses make an important contribution to the heritage streetscape of the south end of Brighton Street. (Criterion D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)