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TERRACE HOUSES

Other Name

Bichrome

Location

109 & 111 ALBERT STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 5517

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The terrace houses at 109 & 111 Albert Street, Brunswick, constructed c.1910 are significant. The houses were built for, and most likely by, the first owner, Arthur W. Lawrence, who was a bricklayer. Non-original alterations and additions and the front fences are not significant.

How is it significant?
The terrace houses at 109 & 111 Albert Street, Brunswick, are of local representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
The houses are significant as a very late example of the Victorian Italianate style applied to a terrace pair of cottages that demonstrates the transition to the Federation style. This is demonstrated by the Victorian terrace form and detailing including the ornate parapet, combined with the red brick with banded render and paired double hung windows still evident at no.109. Aesthetically, the houses are distinguished by the rich detailing and ornamentation, which includes the vermiculated bands and panels to the parapets and wing walls of both houses, and as skirts beneath the front windows and bands to the lower facade of no.109, and the diaper pattern bi-chrome brickwork, a series of moulded string courses and the arched pediments surmounted by acroterions and flanked by volutes to both parapets. (Criteria D & E)

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