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HOUSES & CAST IRON FENCE

Other Name Individual Location 176-180 WESTON STREET,, BRUNSWICK EAST VIC 3057 - Property No 1667 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Houses (3) and Cast Iron Fence

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The houses at 178-180 Weston Street, constructed c.1900, the house at 176 Weston Street constructed c.1910, and the cast iron front fence to Nos. 176-78 Weston Street, Brunswick.

How is it Significant?
The houses and cast iron front fence at 176-180 Weston Street, Brunswick are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it Significant?
Historically, the houses and cast iron front fence are important for their long associations with the locally important Oakley family who established Brunswick's first iron foundry in Weston Street in the late nineteenth century. It is likely that the cast iron front fence was constructed by the Oakley foundry and as the foundry itself has now been demolished the houses and the fence provide an important link to the early history of this area. (AHC Criteria A.4, D.2 and H.1)

Aesthetically, the house at No. 176 is significant as a representative and intact example of an Edwardian asymmetrical villa. (AHC Criterion E.1)