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HOUSE
Location8 Yann Street, PRESTON VIC 3072 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? Why is it significant? The house at 8 Yann Street, Preston is architecturally significant as a representative example of a Victorian house with typical detailing. (AHC criterion D.2)
This house at 8 Yann Street, Preston, constructed c.1891 for Alfred James Hurlstone, is significant. It is an asymmetrical Victorian rendered brick house with a hip roof (now clad in tiles) and a separate return verandah. It has rendered chimneys with moulded decorative tops. The windows in the projecting bay are a pair of narrow double hung sash.
The house at 8 Yann Street, Preston is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house at 8 Yann Street, Preston is significant as a representative example of a house that is associated with the first phase of suburban development of Preston during the late nineteenth century. It is also notable for its early association with Alfred James Hurlstone. (AHC criteria A.4, D.2)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House