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13 Coppin Street
Location13 COPPIN STREET RICHMOND - PROPERTY NUMBER 199625 AND 13 COPPIN STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
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Statement of Significance
This place is within the Gardner Street Precinct. Please refer to the precinct citation for a history, description and statement of significance for this precinct. What is significant? The iron picket front fence is a recent reconstruction and is not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The house at 13 Coppin Street, built in 1899-1900 for Mary Weston is significant. It is a single-storey double-fronted Italianate style villa of rendered brick construction. It has a symmetrical facade with a central panelled front door flanked by tripartite timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house has a curved-profile corrugated galvanised steel verandah with a central gablet trimmed with a cast iron finial. The gable-end has cast iron lacework infill. The verandah is supported on cast iron columns, paired beneath the gablet, and has a decorative cast iron lacework frieze. The verandah roof is hipped at the north end, and terminates at a brick wing wall at the southern end, decorated with a console and mask. The roof is concealed behind a balustraded parapet which has a bracketed cornice and a small, ornately decorated triangular pediment flanked by urns. There is a brick chimney with a wide, moulded cap.
The Weston house at 13 Coppin Street, Richmond is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.
It is architecturally significant as a relatively intact example of an ornate, symmetrical Italianate house with an ornate cast iron verandah. (Criterion D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House