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Location1 Albion Street and 3 Albion Street ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The pair of semi-detached dwellings at 1-3 Albion Street, Essendon, is significant. They were constructed c1940-41 as a rental property for Percy Wheeler.
The significant fabric includes the:
Original building and continuous roof form as a pair of detached dwellings;
tiled roofs and original chimneys;
unpainted face brickwork including panels of contrasting brickwork;
porches with parapet detailing;
door and window joinery
cream brick front fence and mild steel gates; and
garage of number 1 on the Fitzgerald Road frontage.
The carport to No 3 is not significant.
How is it significant?
1-3 Albion Street, Essendon, is of local architectural (representative) significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Why is it significant?
The semi-detached pair at 1-3 Albion Street, Essendon, is a fine representative example of the Moderne style. The pair is distinguished by the decorative use of brickwork - here, cream with brown manganese accents - to create features such as the stepped chimneys with arched insets of brown brick in a chevron pattern, and the projecting brick porches with parapets feature a fin with contrasting manganese inlay and layered recessing at the edges. Its presence is heightened by the integration of the two mirror-image dwellings in a single building under a continuous roofline. Its significance is also enhanced by the retention of a highly intact setting, including matching front brick fences and mild steel gates, concrete front paths, and the matching garage to No 1 on the Fitzgerald Road frontage. (Criterion D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Duplex