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TERRACE HOUSES

Other Name

Eleazer Lesser houses

Location

1-11 DICKENS STREET, RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

File Number

Y2011:10578

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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P1280733 1- 11 Dickens

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The dwellings at nos 1-11 Dickens Street, Richmond, are a group of six single-storey Federation brick terraces, built in 1912. The dwellings share a transverse gable roof form, clad in terracotta tiles with ridge capping, and punctuated by brick double chimney stacks. The cottage facades to Dickens Street are in exposed face brick, and have recessed front doors and three-sash box framed bay windows. The centre pair have floating gables, while the outer pairs have gablets attached to their verandah fascias.

How is it significant?
The properties at nos 1-11 Dickens Street, Richmond, are of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance.

Why is it significant?
The dwellings at nos 1-11 side of Dickens Street, Richmond, are of local historical significance. They are a substantially externally intact collection of six modest Federation brick cottages, which provide evidence of worker's housing constructed in Richmond in the early twentieth century. The dwellings are associated with Eleazer Lesser, who acquired and developed a number of properties in Richmond in this period, including other similar residential developments in Lord Street, Bell Street and Burnley Street. The dwellings are also of local aesthetic/architectural significance. While modest in size, they constitute a row of Federation brick cottages with distinguishing features including the varied gable placements, which successfully generate a basic symmetry in the grouped composition; and the shared transverse gable roof form given emphasis by the ridge capping and intact double chimney stacks.

Group

Residential buildings (private)