Gold Street Precinct

The majority of the contributory elements include are detached and attached Victorian-era and Edwardian-era mainly one-storey houses having:

. Pitched gabled or hipped roofs, with some facade parapets;

. Mainly one storey wall heights but with some two storey house rows;

. Weatherboard, ashlar-board, face brick (red, bichrome and polychrome), or stucco walls;

. Corrugated iron roof cladding with some slate roofing;

. Chimneys of either stucco finish (with moulded caps) or of matching face brickwork with corbelled capping courses;

. Post-supported verandah elements facing the street, set out on two levels as required with cast-iron detailing;

. Less than 40% of the street wall face comprised with openings such as windows and doors;

. Front gardens, originally bordered by timber picket front fences of around 1m height.

Contributory elements also include:

. Corner shops and residences with display windows and zero boundary setbacks and commercial buildings such as corner hotels;

. Pre Second War era buildings, including commercial, public, residential, and industrial buildings; and

. Public infrastructure, expressive of the Victorian and Edwardian-eras such as bluestone pitched road paving, crossings, stone kerbs, stone channels, and asphalt paved footpaths.

How is it significant?
HO321 Gold Street Precinct is aesthetically and historically significant to the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The Gold Street Precinct is historically significant (Criterion A):

-For its good representation of modest substantially intact timber and masonry workers' housing, interspersed with occasional industrial and commercial buildings dating predominantly from the late 19th and early 20th century. This residential and industrial mix contributes to an understanding of this area's heritage as a working class industrial suburb;

-As the largest group of early residential buildings remaining in Collingwood with the ability to demonstrate what was once more typical nature of the broader suburb;

-For the well-preserved late 19th century and early to mid 20th century industrial and commercial buildings;

The Gold Street Precinct is aesthetically significant (Criterion E):

-For the buildings that are of individual significance; and

-For the early street, lane and allotment layouts, together with some original bluestone infrastructure such as kerbs and guttering, providing an appropriate setting for this collection of buildings.

Group

Urban Area

Category

Mixed Use Precinct