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24 Appleton Street

Location

24 APPLETON STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

File Number

Y2011:6175

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

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RICHMOND APPLETON STREET

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house at 24 Appleton Street, Richmond is significant to the extent of its nineteenth century fabric. Built by 1883 (probably for the first occupant Henry Hutchinson), it is an asymmetrically planned Italianate villa with a bullnose verandah to one side of the facade and a canted window bay with its own hipped roof on the other. The verandah retains cast-iron columns and cast-iron integrated frieze and brackets. The facade is rendered, while the side elevations are of face brick. The house is distinguished by its highly ornate cement-render detailing, including paired cornice brackets and raised panels, label moulds over the bay windows with floral bosses, barley-twist colonettes framing all windows, and large incised floral patterns on the rendered walls.

The two-storey rear extension is not significant.

How is it significant?
The house at 24 Appleton Street, Richmond is aesthetically and historically significant to the locality of Richmond.

Why is it significant?
The house is aesthetically significant (Criterion E)for the render ornamentation of the house which is high in quality and intact, as is the verandah and chimneys. The use of incised decoration is relatively rare in Richmond, particularly for domestic buildings.

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