HOUSE & STABLES

Location

10 PEARSON STREET and 11 CHAPEL STREET CREMORNE, YARRA CITY

File Number

Y2011:5400

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house and stables at 10 Pearson Street, Cremorne are significant. The house dates to the Edwardian period, while the stables may date as early as 1897.

The house is a double-fronted brick building with a projecting gabled bay. The hip-roof is clad with slate and has terra-cotta finials, cresting, capping and chimney pots. The skillion verandah is clad with scalloped slate.

The commercial stables have brick perimeter walls and weatherboard-clad inside faces. A two-storey building at the left has a gantry and loft door in the gable fronting Chapel Street. There is a bluestone pitcher-paved yard between the gantry and a single-storey corrugated steel-clad building.

Non-original alterations and additions to the buildings are not significant.

How is it significant?
The house and stables at 10 Pearson Street, Cremorne are historically and architecturally significant to Cremorne.

Why is it significant?
The house and stables are historically and architecturally significant (Criteria A , B & D) as a remarkably intact characteristic, double-fronted, Edwardian brick house that retains an original stables building, which is rare in Richmond.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House