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Terrace
Location64-68 High Street WINDSOR, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The row can best be described as the Boom-style variant of Italianate, with tall, highly decorated and boldly modelled parapets concealing their roofs. The front walls are of tuckpointed brown Hawthorn brick with cream brick dressings in the form of beltcourses and surrounds to the upper half of the front door and front window. The single-storey houses at nos. 64 & 66 both have bullnose verandah roofs, a dentilated verandah beam, and cast-iron in a timber frame with separate brackets. The two-storey no. 68 has the same dentilated verandah beam at ground floor level, and cast-iron frieze (in timber frame) and brackets at both levels. There is also one fluted cast-iron column at each level, and a first floor balustrade of alternating cast-iron panels and posts. The render applied to the front facade of no. 64 is not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant? Aesthetically, the terrace houses are distinguished for their creatively decorated parapets and cornice. Just above the verandah roof, there are three panels infilled with a repeating triangle design to the frieze and a dentilated cornice resting on modillions. Above it is a parapet decorated with a diminutive blind arcade. Above its centre bay is a flat pediment flanked by large scrolls. No. 68 retains two cast-concrete eagles atop the pediment, and is also distinguished for the fine stained glass with handpainted panels, around the front door. (Criterion E)
The terrace row at 64-68 High Street, Windsor, is significant. It was built in 1891 by owner and builder Joseph Bruce, replacing two earlier timber cottages. Joseph and wife Harriet Bruce replaced their timber house at no. 64 with a two-storey terrace house, adjoined by two single-storey rental houses.
The terrace row at 64-68 High Street are of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Architecturally, the terrace row is a representative example of the Boom-style houses constructed in Melbourne's suburbs in the late 1880s and early 1890s. More modest examples, such as these, are similar to earlier terrace houses below verandah level, with bichrome brick walls and cast-iron verandah detail, but they are distinguished by their over-sized and highly detailed cement rendered parapets and high level of intactness. (Criterion D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Terrace