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Waxman Parade

Other Name

Precinct

Location

4-10 WAXMAN PARADE, BRUNSWICK WEST, MORELAND CITY

File Number

6799

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Waxman Parade Precinct Map
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Waxman Parade Precinct
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Waxman Parade Precinct - No.4
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Waxman Parade Precinct - No.6
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Waxman Parade Precinct - No.8
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Waxman Parade Precinct - No.10

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The houses at 4 to 10 Waxman Parade, Brunswick West are significant. This group of four detached single storey interwar bungalows were all built c.1928 on allotments excised from the small farms established here in the early 1900s on the Brunswick Closer Settlement Estate. The weatherboard houses at nos. 4-8 are of identical design. Symmetrical in plan, they have a transverse gable tile roof that extends to form a verandah with a central gablet. The entrance doorway is recessed and is flanked on the left by a triple sash window and on the right by a bow window. Both have leadllights to the upper sash. The verandahs are supported on tapered rendered piers with balustrades, and there is one plain brick chimney. The fourth house at no.10, constructed brick, is asymmetrical in plan with a hip tile roof that extends to form a verandah at one side of the projecting gabled bay, which is half timbered and has a bow window. Beside the double entrance doors is a quadruple sash window. The verandah is supported on tapered brick and render piers and has a brick balustrade. There is one brick chimney. The houses are all very intact - there are sympathetic fences at nos. 6 & 8, whilst the low brick and wrought iron fence to no.10 could date from the late interwar period. .

Non-original additions to the houses are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Waxman Parade precinct, comprising 4 to 10 Waxman Parade, Brunswick West is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
The houses are associated with the development boom of the 1920s and are of historic significance as evidence of the first phase of suburban development of this remote part of Brunswick West that began following the subdivision of the Brunswick Closer Settlement Estate. (Criterion A)

The houses are of aesthetic significance as an intact group of interwar bungalows that stand out in an area otherwise predominantly characterised by post-war housing. The distinctive qualities of the group are enhanced by the identical houses at nos. 4-8. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)