Kelvin

'Kelvin', at 16 Ballater Street, Essendon, is significant. It is an attic-storey brick house constructed in 1923 for William Pattison.

Significant fabric includes the:

original building form and roof forms;

verandah and fenestrations;

tiled roof, chimneys, unpainted face brickwork and render bands;

eaves and gable end details including timber strapping; and

attic windows, leaded sash windows and window and door joinery

The rear extension and front fence are not significant.

How is it significant?

16 Ballater Street, Essendon, is of local architectural (representative) significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?

'Kelvin' at 15 Ballater Street, Essendon, is an intact representative example of an interwar Arts and Crafts Attic Bungalow. It displays characteristic features of the style including the dominant front gable with attic window, expressed here as a floating gable above the tiled verandah roof. Materials are typical of the early interwar period, with combined red and clinker face bricks, rendered bands to the walls, dwarf verandah piers topped with square timber posts, and casement windows with simple diamond leadlights. (Criterion D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House