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Other Name Flats Location 827 PARK STREET, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] 827 Park St. Brunswick

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The 1927 two storey brick flats, associated front fence and gates at 827 Park Street Brunswick.

How is it Significant?
The flats at 827 Park Street, Brunswick, are of local historical significance and architectural interest to the City of Moreland.

Why is it Significant?
Erected in 1927, the flats are associated with a burst of residential development in prestigious Park Street in the early twentieth century, being one of several residential buildings erected on part of a large site which was occupied by the workshops and showroom of the Gillbrook Pottery for almost fifty years. They are a comparatively rare example in Brunswick of the type of interwar flats which proliferated in the more fashionable suburbs such as Toorak, St Kilda and Elwood in the 1920s and '30s. They also represent an early instance of the tendency to erect flats in Park Street to exploit the pleasant southerly views, a pattern of development which became increasingly common in the second half of the twentieth century. (AHC Criterion B.2)

Aesthetically, the flats are a representative, if somewhat unremarkable, example of their type.