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Manallack and Union Streets Precinct

Other Name

Manallack and Union Streets were two separate precincts, merged as part of Amendment C78 (2009) to form HO214 Manallack and Union Streets Precinct. Union Street Precinct superseded.

Location

2-14 MANALLACK STREET, and 8-14 UNION STREET, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY

File Number

1035

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Manallack Street Precinct Map
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Manallack street
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Union street

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The Manallack and Union Streets Precinct comprising the land at 2 - 14 Manallack Street and 8-14 Union Street, Brunswick. The building at No. 2 Manallack Street is the only non-contributory structure.

Why is it Significant?
The Manallack and Union Streets Precinct is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of Moreland.

How is it Significant?
Of historical significance as evidence of typical residential development in the area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The houses, erected around 1890 and also between 1907-1919, are unpretentious, small in scale and originally occupied by the working-class, This demonstrates the continuation of the tradition of modest worker's housing, which so strongly characterised this part of Brunswick in the late nineteenth century. (AHC Criterion A.4)

Aesthetically the precinct is significant as the buildings are intact and representative examples of their respective types, some distinguished by polychromatic brickwork. Collectively, they comprise a small but significant section of an intact Edwardian and Victorian residential streetscape which reinforces the value of the individual buildings. The cohesive row of terraced dwellings of comparable scale, material and setback are punctuated by the traditional corner shop at the intersection of Manallack and Union Streets. (AHC Criterion E.1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)