BRAESIDE

'Braeside', at 52-54 Radovick Street, Korumburra, and the significant trees in the front garden, built in 1899 and designed by FW Turton, are significant. The house is a large single storey weatherboard Transitional villa with a return bullnose verandah. The verandah is supported by paired turned verandah posts and timber brackets with original pre-1901 Ballarat-style cast iron frieze. There is a projecting hip on the verandah that supports a triangular glass nameplate reading 'BRAESIDE'. Other features include three robelled and tabbed brick chimneys, exposed rafter ends, and double hung windows. The front door, in a recessed door case, is surrounded by stained glass side lights and top lights, including features hand painted glass panels. On the roof is a reconstructed hipped storey lantern. 
Internal features include two original ceiling roses and original timber cornices in the entry hall, a grand entrance with arched walkway, plaster convex cornices in the billiard room, one original bell pull and original colour scheme.
There are three significant mature Norfolk Island Pine trees in the front garden. 
Non-original alterations and additions, other than those specified above, are not significant.

'Braeside', at 52 Radovick Street, is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, it is one of the oldest dwellings in Korumburra. It is disproportionately large for Radovick Street, demonstrating the hope that was felt towards the town during the early years of Korumburra. James Edwards, the original owner, was a local solicitor who was part of a prominent family within the South Gippsland community. His mother lived in Braeside from 1903. Peter Hudson later owned the property who was a manager of Austral/Black Diamond Coal Mine and Shire Councillor and part of the decline of mining in South Gippsland. (Criterion A)
Aesthetically, this is a grand example of a Transitional villa in an urban setting in South Gippsland. Th is building has unique features that demonstrate the history of the site and the connection to Ballarat. The original internal features including grand entrance and original colour scheme contribute to the aesthetic significance of the homestead. The three mature Norfolk Island Pines contribute to the context and aesthetic values of the site. (Criterion E)