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Hickford Street

Other Name

Precinct

Location

49-91 & 60-102 HICKFORD STREET, BRUNSWICK EAST, MORELAND CITY

File Number

6686

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Hickford Street precinct, comprising 49-91 & 60-102 Hickford Street, Brunswick East. Hickford Street is an early twentieth century residential area, which was developed from c.1910-30. It comprises predominantly double fronted single storey brick or weatherboard detached bungalows that illustrate the subtle transition in styles from the Federation to the Interwar period. Almost all the houses are detached with similar front and side setbacks and have hip and/or gable roofs clad in corrugated iron or clay tiles, and brick or render chimneys. Windows are timber frame and are either sash or casements, the latter often with coloured top lights and grouped in two or threes or as part of bow or box bays. Fences are low, many are sympathetic and some appear to be original or early (e.g., cyclone wire fences at nos. 61 & 71, low brick fence with mild steel gate at no. 65, crazy paving fence at no.80 and low brick and decorative steel fence at no.82). The street retains bluestone kerbing, one early bluestone driveway to no.88, and bluestone laneways to the side and rear of the houses, which contributes to the historic character.

Non-contributory elements include the post-war houses at 63, 66, 68, 68A, 74, 79,89 & 89A and concrete driveways to several houses.

How is it significant?
The Hickford Street precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance as evidence of the residential development in Brunswick East during the early twentieth century that was associated with the establishment of the electric tram and growth in industry and employment along Lygon Street. (Criterion A)

Of aesthetic significance as a representative example of an early twentieth century residential precinct comprising houses that are related in form, materials and detailing and illustrate well the transition in housing styles during the Edwardian to the Interwar periods. (Criteria D & E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)