HOUSE

Location

8 DICKENS STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 169250

File Number

Y2011:9746

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The house at 8 Dickens Street, Richmond, is significant. The house, built in 1886-87 in the Italianate style, is clad in weatherboards with a complex hip roof covered in corrugated metal. Its plan is unusual, with the front room projecting entirely from the rest of the house, creating a narrow double-fronted composition.

The front fence and non-original alterations and additions to the cottage are not significant.

How it is significant?
The house at 8 Dickens Street, Richmond is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Yarra.

Why it is significant?
Aesthetically, the house is small but ornate example of an 1880s Italianate cottage with a number of unusual decorative details such as the rendered chimney with a frieze of brackets and patarae below the cornice and wythes with a sunburst pattern above, and the verandah with intricately chamfered timber posts and pierced timber frieze and brackets. The visual complexity and interest of the verandah is heightened by its double-return form. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House