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Location5 LAURA STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 5007 LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The house at 5 Laura Street, constructed by
1893 by John and Samuel Duffell, and the Edwardian verandah is
significant. The cast iron palisade fence on a bluestone plinth is
also significant. Non-original alterations and additions (made after
1945) to the house are not significant.
The house at 5 Laura Street, Brunswick, is
of local representative and aesthetic significance to the City of
Moreland.
It is significant as a modestly sized but
finely executed example of a Victorian Italianate villa, with
characteristic asymmetrical form with a projecting bay, a M-hip roof
clad in slate with bracketed eaves, and brick chimneys with deep
moulded cornices and complemented by a cast iron fence with bluestone
base. It is notable for the bold and dramatic patterning created by
the bi-chromatic brick to the walls and chimney, and also for uncommon
details such as the colonettes to the tripartite window, and the
pointed arch wall niches. Also, while the verandah is not original, it
is nonetheless of note as a fine and well-detailed example of its type
with paired turned timber posts grouped in pairs, and a timber frieze
with turned spindles, interspersed with square panels with a clover
motif between the double posts. (Criteria D & E)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House