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HOUSE
Location1 Wild Street, RESERVOIR VIC 3073 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and/or additions are not significant. How is it significant? The house is architecturally as a representative example of modest double-fronted timber Victorian cottages, and has features that are typical and characteristic of this type and style of house. It is notable for its level of intactness and the canted bay windows, which are an unusual feature within houses of this type in Reservoir. (AHC criterion D.2).
The house, constructed c.1890, at 1 Wild Street, Reservoir is significant. It is a double-fronted symmetrically composed weatherboard Victorian house, with a hipped roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel sheeting. A verandah, which extends across its north elevation, has square timber posts, some with brackets. The front door is flanked by canted-bay windows with double-hung sash windows. There are two brick chimneys with corbelling at their tops. The street-facing (north elevation) is block-fronted and has paired eaves brackets and a frieze. The house is set back a short distance from the street boundary and to the east of the house is a lane.
The house at 1 Wild Street, Reservoir is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house is significant as evidence of some residential development achieved by developers in Reservoir during the land boom just before the economic crash of the 1890s. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House