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HOUSE
Location34 King William Street, RESERVOIR VIC 3073 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The later alterations/additions and the front fence are not significant. How is it significant? The house is architecturally significant within Reservoir as a relatively substantial example of a Victorian house that has architectural embellishment and other elements that are typical of this period. (AHC criterion D.2)
This house at 34 King William Street, Reservoir, constructed c.1892 for Emily and Albert Crispe, is significant. It is a two-storey rendered brick Victorian house with a hipped roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel. It has two rendered brick chimneys with mouldings at their tops. It is set back from its street boundary behind a mature garden and concealed from view from the street by a high timber paling fence. It occupies one-half of a double block. The house has a pair of timber frame tripartite windows on its upper level, and arched window and door openings on its lower level. A cast iron balustrade extends across the upstairs balcony, and there is a cast iron frieze on the lower level verandah.
The house at 34 King William Street, Reservoir is of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house is significant as it provides evidence of the first phase of suburban subdivision and development in Reservoir during the late nineteenth century. It was one of the first houses to be constructed within this part of Darebin and is now one of a small number of relatively intact dwellings from the Victorian period to survive. It is also significant as a representative example of a substantial middle class villa, which has important associations with the locally important Crispe family. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2 & H.1)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House