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Edward St and Richardson St

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Precinct

Location

34-40 DAISY STREET and 1-23 & 2-60 EDWARD STREET and 1-57, 8-22 & 50-60 RICHARDSON STREET and 14-22 & 9-25 Miller Street and 2-6 & 5-7 THISTLE STREET and 8 THORN STREET and 1-7 MCHALE COURT and 6-8 Shamrock Street ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Richardson Street
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Richardson Street trees

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Edward Street and Richardson Street precinct in Essendon is a residential precinct comprising housing from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. The houses include a small number of surviving Victorian villas, Queen Anne villas, Edwardian timber cottages and bungalows, and inter-war bungalows and houses. The following elements contribute to the significance of the precinct:

1. The houses and any associated early/original front fences at:
- 34-40 Daisy Street
- 1, 1A, 3-7, 11-23 and 2, 12-16 & 20-28, 34-48 & 58-60 Edward Street
-9-11, 11A, 17-25 & 16-22 Miller Street
- 3-7, 11-19, 23-27, 41-57 and 8-12, 18-22, 52-54 & 60 Richardson Street
- 2-6 Thistle Street
- 8 Thorn Street

- 8 Shamrock Street

Key attributes that contribute to the significance of this precinct include:

- the consistency of scale (one or two storey), form, siting (uniform or similar front and side setbacks), and original materials and detailing (weatherboard, face brick or render with iron or tiled hip or gable roof, verandah with cast iron or timber detailing) of the contributory houses and fences
- the high degree of intactness to the late nineteenth century and early-mid twentieth century development dates with contributory buildings that typically survive with their presentation to the street being largely intact
- original front fences and low height of fences meaning that dwellings are visible from the street
- regular road alignments and allotment patterns resulting from the nineteenth century subdivision
- the relative absence of vehicle accommodation including driveways and crossovers
- the mature street trees in Richardson Street (Camphor Laurel, Cinnamomum camphora) and Miller and Shamrock streets (Oaks, Quercus sp. & Elms Ulmus sp.)
- the bluestone kerb and channel in various streets throughout the precinct, and the grassed street verges with mature street trees (as noted above) in Richardson Street.

Other houses in the precinct, post-WWII fences, and non-original alterations or additions to contributory places are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Edwards Street and Richardson Street precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant as a representative example of a residential area, which demonstrates several successive phases of development in Essendon from the land boom of the 1880s to the inter-war era. The precinct provides a tangible illustration of how the development of more remote nineteenth century subdivisions was inhibited until the improvement of public transport networks in the twentieth century. (Criteria A & D)

Richardson Street is architecturally and aesthetically significant as a fine example of a middle class residential area, which is notable for consistency of built form and the relatively high degree of integrity to the main periods of development. The aesthetic qualities of the streetscape are enhanced by the mature street trees and road layout. (Criteria D & E)

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