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TERRACE HOUSE & FRONT FENCES

Other Name

Ethel (213), Edith (215), Alice (217) and Betty (219)

Location

211 & 213-219 BARKLY STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 1447

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The terrace house at 211 Barkly Street (built 1877-78 and altered c.1890) and the single storey terrace row at 213-219 Barkly Street (built 1889-90), Brunswick, are significant. The front fence is also significant. Later alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?
The terrace house at 211 Barkly Street and the terrace row at 213-219 Barkly Street, Brunswick are of local historical, representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Together, the terrace houses are representative of the pattern of development that occurred in Brunswick in the 'Boom' years of the 1880s when it was common for a single landowner/contractor to build a row or group of houses to be tenanted. Typically, an owner would build a row of simple houses to be let out, often with a larger house at the end of the row or group for their own use. In this case, the owner remodelled the earlier double storey house at number 211 and built and rented the single storey houses at numbers 213-219. (Criterion A)
Together, they are representative of late Victorian terrace row houses with typical form, materiality (bi-chrome brick walls) and Italianate detailing, but which are notable for the ornate balustraded parapets and rich ornamentation. At 211 Barkly Street this features a broken pediment with large ball/orb finial and garland moulding and a draped urn finial at one end of the parapet. A row of smaller garland motifs alternating with eaves brackets forms the deep frieze below the balustrade and there are further decorative mouldings on the wing walls. At ground level, an ornate entry has a semi-circular arch with arched highlight windows. The broken pediment detail (this time with an urn finial and ball finials) is also used at 213-219 Barkly Street and other details include the house name within each panel, a frieze of eaves brackets and vermiculated panels beneath the parapet, bi-chrome brickwork (over-painted on one house), and an iron palisade fence with bluestone plinth and bi-chrome brick piers with rendered caps. Together with the double storey shop at the corner of Ewing Street the houses form a distinctive grouping of Victorian era buildings in this part of Barkly Street. (Criteria D & E)

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