Victoria Street Precinct

The Victoria Street Precinct 'Mediterranean idiom' style facades at 223-229 Victoria Street, Brunswick are significant. The rear extensions are not significant.

The dwelling at 227 Victoria Street, Brunswick is individually significant within the precinct. The 'Mediterranean idiom' style of the building is significant, specifically the rendered and painted brickwork, simplified parapet with the removal of decorative Victorian era features, curved concrete porch cover that narrows to an 'eave' as it extends across the facade, decorative steel rail atop the porch roof, and face brick front boundary fences with brown glazed tiles and steel inserts.

The dwelling at 223 Victoria Street, Brunswick is individually significant within the precinct. The 'Mediterranean idiom' style of the building is significant, specifically the rendered and painted brickwork, simplified parapet with the removal of decorative Victorian era features, curved concrete porch cover that narrows to an 'eave' as it extends across the facade, laminated edge to the eave to appear like stone, decorative steel rail atop the porch roof, and face brick front boundary fences with brown glazed tiles and steel inserts.

Contributory places include: 225 and 229 Victoria Street.

Individually Significant places include: 223 and 227 Victoria Street.

The Victoria Street Precinct has historical significance and representativeness value.

The Victoria Street Precinct is historically significant as evidence of southern European migration to Brunswick after World War Two and the migrant tradition across Melbourne of heavily modifying earlier facades, in this case Victorian era residences, with the 'Mediterranean idiom' style. (Criterion A) The Victoria Street Precinct demonstrates key characteristics of the post-war 'Mediterranean idiom' style dwellings which were adapted from earlier Victorian residences, specifically through facade alterations that are in keeping with the postwar era and associated migrant influences. (Criterion D)