8 Denmark Street
8 Denmark Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
8 Denmark Street, Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a representative and broadly externally intact example of a Federation attic storey house. The house makes a strong contribution to the intact and impressive group of Federation houses at the lower end of Denmark Street. Though not an outstanding example of his work, the association of the house with the architect, Christopher Cowper, is of interest.
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8 Denmark Street - Physical Description 1
8 Denmark Street, Kew, is an attic storey, double-fronted Federation villa. The broad hipped and gabled roof is clad with terracotta tiles and is penetrated by tall rendered chimneys with brick banding which terminate in flat caps with terracotta pots. Centrally located, a large dormer window has a hipped roof and bays of timber-framed casement sashes above weatherboard cladding. The half-timbered flying gable ends are supported on timber brackets and elsewhere the rafters are exposed. Tuckpointed red face brick walls are augmented by a bluestone plinth and roughcast rendered frieze. The principal facade contains a central recessed porch supported by rendered pilasters which bear on a bluestone plinth with bluestone steps; it contains a broad Romanesque arch within which is a timber door surrounded by extensive leadlight glazing. This detail is echoed in the main entrance which is located in the southern elevation. The front porch is flanked by a pair of projecting bays, each containing broad bow windows with timber-framed casement sash windows and highlights containing leadlight glazing.
Alterations appear to be confined largely to the rear of the house and are indicated by a small gable projecting above the ridge line. The possibility that the attic storey may have been an addition was raised in a report prepared by Bryce Raworth in 2003,[i] however, the findings of this report were inconclusive in relation to this issue, and there is no reference in Council files to such an addition.
The property is screened by a recent steel fence which replaces an earlier, non-original brick fence.
[i] Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd, 8 Denmark Street, Kew, Review of Significance, July 2003, p. 3.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: BBoroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study
Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
Year: 1988
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