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HOUSE
Location17 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? The house at 17 Yann Street, Preston is architecturally significant as a representative example of a two-storey Victorian terrace house with typical detailing. The significance of the place is enhanced by its rarity value as one of only a small number of examples of this type within Preston. (AHC criteria B.2, D.2)
The house at 17 Yann Street, Preston constructed by 1892, is significant. It is a double storey Victorian brick terrace house, which has typical detailing. It has a hip roof clad in slate tiles and there is one brick chimney with a moulded top. Wing walls extend to enclose the verandah, which have vermiculated mouldings and consoles at the ends. The verandah has cast iron lacework frieze on the lower and upper levels and a cast iron balustrade to the first floor. Windows to the first floor of the front elevation are timber double hung sash, while there is a tripartite timber window in the ground floor facade.
The house at 17 Yann Street, Preston is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house at 17 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 Arthur Hurlstone. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House