OLINDA

'Olinda' at 75 Balmain Street, Cremorne is significant to the extent of the house and the garden layout, front fence and lych gate. The house is a double-fronted brick cottage (since overpainted) with a hipped roof, projecting bay and bull-nosed verandah. The garden layout is uncommon, as well as the central path of encaustic tiles and the arch over the pedestrian gate, which is shallow arched, with fretwork members on two Gothic posts. The fence-posts are similar and the gate is metal ribbon and chain-link.

Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?
'Olinda' at 75 Balmain Street, Cremorne is architecturally and aesthetically significant to Cremorne.

Why is it significant?
'Olinda' at 75 Balmain Street, Cremorne is architecturally and aesthetically significant (Criteria B, D & E):

. as a characteristic, unpretentious, early Edwardian, double-fronted, detached brick cottage, which is notable for the rare surviving early garden-layout, with its fence elements intact and a very rare Edwardian timber archway over the entrance gate.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Gate