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TERRACE HOUSES & FRONT FENCE

Other Name

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Location

241 & 243 VICTORIA STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 9791

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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241-243 Victoria St Brunswick
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241-243 Victoria St Brunswick

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The double-storey terrace houses at 241 and 243 Victoria Street, Brunswick, built in 1885-86, and the cast iron palisade front fences with bi-chrome brick pillars and side walls, are significant.

How is it significant?
The houses at 241 and 243 Victoria Street, Brunswick, are of local historical, representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
The houses are significant as a representative example of Victorian terrace houses, displaying the typical features of this style in Brunswick, including the bi-chrome brick facade and chimneys, a two-level verandah with cast iron posts, frieze and balustrades, the timber framed tripartite windows, and solid timber doors with decorative timber surrounds. Built in the mid-1880s, they illustrate the limited decoration that characterised houses of the pre-Boom period. The houses are distinguished by the less common undivided roof form, which demonstrates the lack of fire protection that endured well into the 1880s in Brunswick at a time when most other Councils had outlawed such buildings, and also for the original cast iron front fences, which feature unusually tall bi-chrome brick piers and side walls with deep ogee profiles. (Criterion D)

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