HOUSE

The house at 299 Brunswick Road, Brunswick, is of local representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

It is significant as a representative example of a 'Victorian Italianate Survival' house with form, materials and detailing that reflects the transition in housing styles that occurred around the turn of the century. Here, the 'Italianate' style including the symmetrical form, the M-profile hipped roof form with separate front verandah with classical-style cast iron posts and frieze, timber brackets and other eaves decoration, and imitation Ashlar boards to the facade is combined with Federation/Edwardian style paired timber windows on either side of the entry door and the corbelled red brick chimney. (Criterion D)

It is of aesthetic significance for the fine timber detailing to the windows and front door, and the arched central entry portico, which projects slightly from the line of the verandah. The architraves to the windows and doors are in the form of pilasters with capital mouldings while the windows have curved timber aprons below the sills. The portico is supported by paired columns and has a timber bargeboard with pronounced circular lobes. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House