Dudley Street

Other Name

Precinct

Location

1-19 & 2-22 DUDLEY STREET, and 27-51 KING STREET FITZROY NORTH, MORELAND CITY

File Number

6800

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The Dudley Street precinct,comprising 1-19 and 2-22 Dudley Street and 27-51 King Street, Fitzroy North is a residential area that contains Edwardian houses built within a short period of time, many by the same builder. The majority of the original houses are asymmetrical timber villas, which have steep hip and gable roofs (with a gablet to the main roof), and are distinguished by the fine details, which include the treatment of the gable end and the timber decoration to the eaves, and casement windows. Verandahs are supported on turned timber posts with either timber lattice (arched or straight) or cast iron frieze. The symmetrical timber houses at 1, 5, 9 & 13 Dudley Street are much simpler in form and detailing. Almost all have imitation Ashlar to the front wall and all have corbelled brick chimneys. The single fronted timber houses at 22 Dudley Street and 27, 29, 33 & 35 King Street have similar detailing. They have walls of roughcast or roughcast and weatherboard with half-timbered gable ends and half-return verandahs. There are three brick houses within the precinct; a semi-detached pair at 47 & 49 King Street and a detached house at no.51. These have walls constructed of red brick with roughcast render to the upper section, and hip and gable roofs clad in terracotta tiles. The brick chimneys have terracotta pots. The semi-detached houses have distinctive semi-circular windows with arched label moulds under the verandah. Other details are similar to the timber houses.

Fences are low and many are sympathetic (e.g., reproduction timber picket or woven wire) Original infrastructure within the precinct includes the bluestone kerb and channeling in Dudley Street and the bluestone laneway between the houses in Dudley and King Streets.

The house at 37 King Street is not significant.

How is it significant?

The Dudley Street precinct is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?

Of historic significance as an illustration of the rapid residential development that occurred during the early twentieth century on the subdivisions of former industrial and quarry sites. (Criterion A)

Of aesthetic significance as a remarkably intact and homogeneous precinct of early twentieth century housing. It is especially notable for the finely detailed Edwardian timber villas, which have similar form and subtle variations in detailing creating cohesive and interesting streetscapes.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct