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Tyrone Street Precinct

Other Name

Tyrone Street, South Yarra

Location

Tyrone Street SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The Tyrone Street Urban Conservation Area has significance for its retention of a sequence of relatively intact single fronted and single storey cottages, once common throughout Prahran. The form of development, including the street pattern, housing types and street materials, provides important evidence of Prahran's historical role as an area of artisan housing.

Heritage Characteristics

The key heritage characteristics of the Tyrone Street Urban Conservation Area are:

the consistent form, scale, setback and period of the buildings the narrow street width, 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 consistent and continuing residential use characteristic of a nineteenth century artisan housing area as the dominant land use the relationship of this area to a larger precinct which demonstrates the working class history of this part of the municipality.

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