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SYDENHAM STREET
Other NamePRECINCT Location1-9 SYDENHAM STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non-original alterations and additions to the houses, and all fencing
is not significant.
How it is significant?
Why is it significant? The houses have aesthetic significance as a distinctive group of
Italianate villas with similar form and detailing including the ornate
facades that are enriched by moulded cement architraves and sills to
the bay windows (nos. 1-5 & 9 have vermiculated keystones and
impost moulds, while the separate tripartite windows to no.7 have stop
chamfered reveals, with typical details such as bracketed eaves and
stringcourses and less common features such as the decorative quoining
to the wall corners and the incised panels between the bay windows and
to the frieze beneath the eaves to nos. 1-5 (no.7 has a plain frieze,
while no.9 features paired brackets rosettes and vermiculated panels).
(Criterion E)
The Victorian Italianate villas, constructed c.1884 to c.1888, at
1-9 Sydenham Street, Moonee Ponds are Contributory. The overall
consistency of housing form (single storey, asymmetrical plan with
hipped roofs and separate verandahs), materials and detailing
(rendered walls with boom style cast cement detailing, slate roofs,
cast iron verandahs with tiled floors, paneled front doors with
sidelights and toplights, brick and render or rendered chimneys with
cornices) and detached siting with consistent front and side setbacks
contributes to the significance of the precinct.
The houses at 1-9 Sydenham Street, Moonee Ponds are of local
historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Historically, the houses are associated with the intense period of
residential development that occurred during the land boom within
Moonee Ponds in the area surrounding the railway station. They are
representative of the speculative housing built to similar or standard
designs for investors. (Criteria A & D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House