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Tinning Street

Other Name Precinct Location 82-136 & 95-155 TINNING STREET, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Tinning Street precinct, comprising 82-136 & 95-155 Tinning Street, Brunswick. Tinning Street is residential area, which was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with most of the houses dating from c.1910-1920 and a smaller number of nineteenth century houses. It comprises predominantly double fronted single storey weatherboard late Victorian and Federation housesand Edwardian bungalows. Almost all the houses are detached with similar front and side setbacks and have hip and/or gable roofs clad in corrugated iron, and brick or render chimneys. Verandahs have turned timber posts, usually with a cast iron frieze. Windows are timber frame and are either sash or casements, the latter often with coloured top lights and grouped in two or threes or as part of bow or box bays and some in leadlight. Most are either symmetrical with hipped roofs and separate bullnose verandahs or asymmetrical with a contiguous or separate verandah on one side of a projecting bay. Exceptions include the gable-fronted bungalows at nos. 95 and 149, and the Queen Anne style attached pair at nos. 134 & 136. Notable within the precinct are the symmetrical 'Victorian survival' villas with distinctive recessed entrances and rich timber detailing at nos. 94, 98, 99, 106, 110, 112, 137 & 139, and the asymmetrical bungalows with equally fine timber detailing and decorated gable ends at nos. 86, 97, 101, 126, 130, 132, 141 & 143. Fences are low, many are sympathetic, but none are original. The street retains bluestone kerbing, and bluestone laneways to the rear of some of the houses on the south side, which contributes to the historic character.