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2 Wells Street
Location2 WELLS STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY LevelIncl in HO area contributory |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? - The houses at 2, 3, 4, 5 & 8 Wells Street. Non-original alterations and additions to the Contributory buildings listed above, and other houses and buildings are not significant. How it is significant? Why it is significant? The Wells Street precinct is aesthetically significant as a visually cohesive late nineteenth residential area, which is notable for the strong sense of enclosure created by the narrow street with houses built on or close to the frontage. (Criterion E)
The Wells Street precinct, comprising the houses constructed in the period from c.1885 to c.1910, is significant. The following buildings and features contribute to the significance of the precinct:
- The overall consistency of building forms (pitched gabled or hipped roofs, one storey wall heights), materials and detailing (walls of weatherboard, brick or render chimneys, post-supported verandahs facing the street), and siting (small or no front and side setbacks).
- The nineteenth century subdivision pattern comprising regular allotments.
- Traditional streetscape materials such as asphalt pathways and bluestone kerb.
The Wells Street precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Yarra.
The Wells Street precinct is historically significant as an example of the 'unplanned' or 'ad-hoc' residential subdivisions that were created during the land boom of the late nineteenth century. Typically, it comprises a short, effectively 'dead-end' street containing houses built close to the street frontage. The significance of the precinct is enhanced by its rarity value as one of the few relatively intact surviving examples in Richmond. (Criteria A, B & D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residential Precinct