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Location8 DICKENS STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 169250
File NumberY2011:9746LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The front fence and non-original alterations and additions to the cottage are not significant. How it is significant? Why it is significant?
The house at 8 Dickens Street, Richmond, is significant. The house, built in 1886-87 in the Italianate style, is clad in weatherboards with a complex hip roof covered in corrugated metal. Its plan is unusual, with the front room projecting entirely from the rest of the house, creating a narrow double-fronted composition.
The house at 8 Dickens Street, Richmond is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Yarra.
Aesthetically, the house is small but ornate example of an 1880s Italianate cottage with a number of unusual decorative details such as the rendered chimney with a frieze of brackets and patarae below the cornice and wythes with a sunburst pattern above, and the verandah with intricately chamfered timber posts and pierced timber frieze and brackets. The visual complexity and interest of the verandah is heightened by its double-return form. (Criterion E)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House