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Location36 High Street WINDSOR, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? It is a single-storey Italianate house with a symmetrical facade. Typical features of this style include the low M-profile hipped roof, ruled rendered walls and chimneys, moulded cornices to the chimneys, bracketed eaves, segmental arched openings, and cast-iron posts and frieze to the front verandah. Due to its narrow inner-suburban block, it has wing-walls along the side boundaries. The masonry front fence and the terracotta roof tiles are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The house at 36 High Street, Windsor, is significant. It was built in several phases, beginning with a timber house in 1864, to which a brick shop was added in 1873, owned and occupied by bootmaker Edward Attfield. The current house appears to date from c1880. The masonry front portico was added after 1895, probably by owner-occupier architect William Espenett.
The house is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Aesthetically, the house at 36 High Street is distinguished by the fine classical portico added to its facade after 1895, and also by the high level of ornament applied to its wing walls. The portico is of rendered masonry, with round-arched openings on three sides with expressed keystones, and pilasters. The front arched opening is framed by pilasters, above which is a cornice and triangular pediment resting on boldly modelled modillions. The tympanum of the pediment is carefully defined by one circular and two triangular panels. (Criterion E)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House