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86 Kent Street
Location86 KENT STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house, constructed c.1894 or earlier for John Thomas, at 86 Kent Street, Richmond is significant. It is a single-storey symmetrical late Victorian rendered brick villa. The front elevation has a central door with side- and highlights flanked by single timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house is relatively wide in plan, and has a transverse Dutch-gabled roof, clad in corrugated iron. The verandah has a hipped, skillion corrugated iron roof with bracketed eaves, turned timber posts, and a decorative cast iron frieze. There are two tall, unpainted rendered chimneys, each with moulded tops and incised decoration on their shafts. The timber picket fence is not original. The house at 86 Kent Street, Richmond, is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra. It is architecturally significant as a relatively intact example of an unusually composed late Victorian villa, which exhibits several unusual characteristics, including the wide plan with symmetrical facade, Dutch gable roof and highly detailed chimneys. (Criterion D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House