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1 Tennyson Street

Location 1 Tennyson Street KEW, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of B Graded Buildings

Statement of Significance

1 Tennyson Street, Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance. The house and shop combination provides a reference to an earlier form of retailing and service provision in Melbourne suburbs, where small neighbourhood shops developed in combination with houses were located in residential areas away from shopping strips. The survival of the stables building at the rear is of interest and some significance in this context. 1 Tennyson Street is one of a very few known detached house and shop combinations in Boroondara, and may be the only one from the early Bungalow period. Architecturally, the shop itself is a standard brick unit, but the house is a striking example of a large symmetrical and single-fronted bungalow, of a type which is uncommon in Boroondara, with some boldly drawn (if altered) detailing. It is of interest as one of a number of very similar houses in this part of Kew, the others located in Eglington and Bright Streets.