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HOUSE
Location40 GLOUCESTER STREET, RESERVOIR, DAREBIN CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and/or additions, including the large gabled garage on the north side of the house, the cyclone wire fence, and other more recent garden plantings are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The house at 40 Gloucester Street, Reservoir, built by 1916 for Henry Wilkins, a poultry farmer, is significant. It is a Queen Anne-style asymmetrical block (ashlar) fronted weatherboard villa, now situated on a suburban allotment. It has a high hip and gable roof with (new) corrugated colourbond steel. There are two tall brick chimneys with rendered tops and terracotta pots. The separate verandah has a timber frieze and brackets with art-nouveau detailing. A notable feature is the window detailing to the projecting bay. This comprises a half-timbered flying gable with a narrow throat above the hipped hood (with a timber frieze and curved brackets) over the tripartite casement and transom bay window. The other window underneath the verandah is also a tripartite casement and transom, but not a bay. There is a panelled front door with a large sidelight and highlight, which appears to contain leadlight (It is not known whether this is original).
The house at 40 Gloucester Street, Reservoiris of local historic and architectural significance to Darebin City.
Historically, the house is significant as evidence as a house associated with the small farms established in Reservoir just prior to suburban development in the inter-war period. The house is architecturally significant as a representative and well-detailed example of a Queen Anne style weatherboard house, which is relatively intact and has notable detailing to the projecting bay window. The setting of the house is enhanced by the Canary Island Palm. The significance of the house is enhanced by its rarity value as one of a small number of surviving early twentieth century farmhouses in this part of Darebin. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2 & D.2)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House