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HOUSE (LEURA)
Location268 TYLER STREET, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and/or additions, including the front fence are not significant. How is it significant? The house at 268 Tyler Street, Preston is architecturally significant as a representative example of a relatively substantial example of a middle class Victorian era weatherboard villa with architectural embellishment and other elements that are typical of this period. (AHC criterion D.2) The significance of the house as a representative example is enhanced by its rarity value as one of a relatively small number of houses that survive relatively intact, and one of the few constructed in timber (AHC criterion B.2).
The house, formerly known as 'Leura' at 268 Tyler Street, Preston, constructed c.1890 for W.J. Wilkinson, is significant. It is a double-fronted late Victorian weatherboard villa with a hipped corrugated galvanised steel roof, and eaves with timber brackets. There is a pair of cement rendered chimneys with mouldings at their tops. The south (Tyler Street) elevation is block-fronted. A bullnose verandah, with a cast iron frieze, extends across the south elevation to the east of a projecting bay. The projecting bay has a pair of timber frame double-hung sash windows.
This house at 268 Tyler Street, Preston is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house is historically significant as a representative example of a late nineteenth century house that is associated with the first phase of suburban development in Preston during the late nineteenth century. (AHC criterion A.4)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House