110 Princess Street Kew

110 Princess Street is a large Federation house with a transverse main ridged roof with central dormer rising to a hip and projecting two fairly broad wings toward Princess Street. The roof is timber framed with terracotta tiles in a Marseilles pattern, with decorative scalloped ridge capping and bud finials above each gable. The chimney stacks are tall and narrow, in exposed red face brick with stuccoed cornices and single terracotta pots. The southern of the two front wings has a simple gable end over a brick wall with canted bay under a faceted tiled hood, while the northern wing is a composite in elevation, combining a flat front in exposed face brick with porthole, set alongside an octagonal-plan corner tower, returning on the north elevation to a flat-fronted projecting bay window. The central bay to the principal elevations is a recessed porch with round arched screen flanked by gridded fretwork suggesting a Japanese grid pattern.

110 Princess Street is of historical and aesthetic (architectural) significance to the City of Boroondara.

110 Princess Street is a relatively intact and representative example of Federation house design, and incorporates key characteristics of the typology, combining a number of discrete elements in an episodic manner. In this case, the house conforms broadly to the corner tower, and hipped-roof and asymmetrical wing form of early Federation. It combines a prominent hipped tiled roof combined with a conventional gable-ended bay with canted window, central porch with gridded timber fretwork screen and an octagonal corner tower. While it has undergone some alterations, based on the fabric visible from the street, these are not such that the presentation or significance of the building is diminished. While not amongst the most outstanding examples of Federation house design in Boroondara, this is a handsome and assured example of the type, its design given added interest by the corner tower.

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Residential buildings (private)

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House