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Moore & Hardy Streets Precinct

Other Name Centred on Moore Street, South Yarra Location Moore Street SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Moore and Hardy Streets Urban Conservation Area has significance as an area demonstrating a pattern and sequence of development from the 1850s to the 1890s, and retaining a sequence of relatively intact single fronted, single storey cottages typical of nineteenth century artisan housing and once common throughout Prahran.

The street pattern and materials demonstrate continuity in the traditional use of asphalt and bluestone.

The key heritage characteristics of the Moore and Hardy Streets Urban Conservation Area are:

the evidence of the 1850s land subdivision provided by Hardy and Argo Streets the consistent form, scale, setback and period of the buildings characteristic of a nineteenth century artisan housing area (complemented by the nearby hotel and former corner shops) the continuity of residential uses as the predominant historical and present-day land use the narrow street widths, part of the street pattern of this locality, with the continuing use of asphalt and the retention of bluestone as traditional street construction materials the relationship of this area to a larger precinct which demonstrates the working class history of this part of the municipality.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct