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Daly Street
Location25-67 & 26-60 DALY STREET AND 437-507 & 382-462 ALBERT STREET AND 3-63B & 4-56 HUNTER STREET AND 19-63 & 40-70 PEARSON STREET AND 464-494 VICTORIA STREET BRUNSWICK WEST, MERRI-BEK CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Daly Street Precinct, comprising 437-507 and 382-462 Albert Street, 25-67 and 25-60 Daly Street, 1-63A and 4-56 Hunter Street, 19-63 and 40-70 Pearson Street, and 464-494 Victoria Street, is significant. Building and other features that contribute to the significance of the precinct include:
- The houses constructed before 1945 throughout the precinct, including the former caretaker’s cottage relocated to 46 Hunter Street Brunswick West.
- Commercial and community buildings constructed before 1945, including the former shops and residences at 505A Albert Street, 25-27A & 57 Daly Street, 29 & 31 Pearson Street, and 480 Victoria Street.
- Bluestone kerb and channelling and crossovers, and bluestone laneways.
Recent alterations and additions to the significant and contributory places are not significant.
Significant properties within the precinct include:
Significant properties within the precinct include:
- The Modern style Maternal & Child Health Centre (1942) at 482 Victoria Street.
- The former Brunswick West Progress Hall at 484-486 Victoria Street*.
- The former Brunswick West Primary School No.2890 at 490-492 Victoria Street comprising a former Infant's School with a distinctive courtyard plan incorporating verandahs (new developments 8-12/44 Hunter Street are not significant).
- The former shop and residence at 31-33 Pearson Street
- The former shop and residence at 480 Victorian Street
- The shops and flats at 49 & 51 Pearson Street
- The row of terraces at 35-45 Hunter Street
Non-contributory properties include:
- Albert Street: 1-3/382, 402, 450, 481, 483 and 501.
- Daly Street: 1-4/28, 34, 37, 46, 48, 49, 50, 50A, 51A and 52.
- Hunter Street: 1, 1A-1B, 28-30, 32, 8-12/44A, 63A and 63B.
- Pearson Street: 50-52, 54-56, 55, 1-4/63.
- Victoria Street: 470, 476-478, 488, 490, 492A, 494 and 2-10/494.
How is it significant?
The Daly Street Precinct is of local historical, representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Merri-bek.
Why is it significant?
The Daly Street Precinct is of local historical significance as evidence of the residential development in Brunswick West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The housing, interspersed with former local shops, a large hotel, and community facilities including the maternal child health centre and a former school and progress hall demonstrates how self-contained communities formed in the period prior to World War II. (Criterion A)
The former Progress Hall is of historical significance, for its historical association with the West Brunswick Progress Association, which was formed to represent the interests of those who has settled in the area as part of the Brunswick Estate Closer Settlement Scheme. As a meeting hall, cinema and dance hall, it was a social focus for the West Brunswick community. (Criterion A)
The former Progress Hall is of historical significance, for its historical association with the West Brunswick Progress Association, which was formed to represent the interests of those who has settled in the area as part of the Brunswick Estate Closer Settlement Scheme. As a meeting hall, cinema and dance hall, it was a social focus for the West Brunswick community. (Criterion A)
The Daly Street Precinct is of local representative significance as a precinct containing many examples of residential, commercial and community buildings illustrating the principal domestic architectural styles of Victorian, Edwardian and Interwar periods, which as a whole reflects the two major periods of development in West Brunswick. The terrace at 35-45 Hunter Street, which is notable both for its length and original detailing dating from the Victorian period, particularly the bi-chrome brickwork. (Criteria D)
The precinct comprises highly intact early buildings including the former shop at 480 Victoria Street (c1890s), which retains a rare example of an original timber shopfront. The Maternal Child Health Centre at 482 Victoria Street is a fine and intact example of a model baby health centre. Its simple domestic scale and design in the Moderne style is typical and represents the philosophy of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association. The former West Brunswick Primary School at 490-492 Victoria Street is the only metropolitan example of a school with a distinctive courtyard plan, which incorporated verandahs; while the Infant's School was one of the first built by the Public Works Department. The Moderne style facade on Victoria Street is a notable example of the type. (Criterion D)
The precinct comprises highly intact early buildings including the former shop at 480 Victoria Street (c1890s), which retains a rare example of an original timber shopfront. The Maternal Child Health Centre at 482 Victoria Street is a fine and intact example of a model baby health centre. Its simple domestic scale and design in the Moderne style is typical and represents the philosophy of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association. The former West Brunswick Primary School at 490-492 Victoria Street is the only metropolitan example of a school with a distinctive courtyard plan, which incorporated verandahs; while the Infant's School was one of the first built by the Public Works Department. The Moderne style facade on Victoria Street is a notable example of the type. (Criterion D)
The Daly Street precinct is of aesthetic significance, as a relatively intact area containing many examples of buildings in the Victorian, Victorian Italianate, Edwardian and Interwar architectural styles. It contains a number of individual buildings of particular interest, including the Grand View Hotel, a local landmark, which is a fine example of a grand late nineteenth century hotel with exuberant Italianate detailing typical of boom-style architecture, prominently sited on a high point of land. The former Progress Hall is a well-executed example of the Spanish Mission style, an unusual style for this building type. (Criteria E)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residential Precinct