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44 Wellington St
Other NameBalino Cottage Location44 WELLINGTON STREET, CREMORNE VIC 3121 - Property No 166385
File NumberY2011:6074LevelRec for HO area indiv sig |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? How is it significant?
A characteristic double-fronted, symmetrical, rendered, Boom-style cottage, set on the street line, with rich decoration. There is a balustraded parapet between piers, surmounted by balloons. The centrepiece has a scallop-shell in a round arch, with acroterion. Piers are supported by small scroll-brackets. A frieze and cornice-mould is supported by brackets, between festoons. The parapet and verandah wing-wall corbels are vermiculated, the latter on scroll-brackets. The brickwork beneath the verandah was exposed, decorated with diamond ceramic tiles. The tripartite window has barley-sugar Tuscan mullions and bluestone cill and fanlight over door. The verandah is convex, with cast-iron posts, lace-valence and brackets. There are encaustic geometric tiles. The chimney has deep rendered Classical mould. There is an iron palisade fence. Both left parapet balloons lack spikes. The front, under the verandah has been bagged and painted.
The building is aesthetically and historically significant (National Estate Register Criteria E1, A4) to Cremorne.
Why is it significant?
The building is significant:
- as a characteristic double-fronted, symmetrical Boom terrace cottage, set on the street line, with rich decoration (unusually intact and elaborate parapet including festoons, rococo shell, cast cement balls and arched pediment); and
- for its good representation of a key period in the City's history.
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