1-3 Edgecombe Street
1-3 Edgecombe Street KEW, Boroondara City
Clutha Estate Precinct Kew - HO525
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1-3 Edgecombe Street - Physical Description 1
1-3 Edgecombe Street, Kew is an attached pair of double-storey inter-war flats, designed to read as a single large house. The simple hipped roof form is clad with terracotta tiles and is penetrated by a pair of clinker brick chimneys with tapestry brick caps and banding. The building generally comprises clinker brick construction but includes a projecting bay of tapestry brick which defines the entrance to No.3, and tapestry brick soldier course. The entrance doors and some window openings are further defined by cream tapestry brick dressings. The asymmetrical facade of No.1 includes a recessed bay containing the entrance flanked by a broad projecting bay to the north. Further north, the remaining facade is divided in two by the double-height break-fronted bay which extends past the eaves line, containing the entrance to No. 3 above which is a single doorway to a small balcony retaining original wrought iron balustrade. Fenestration between floor levels is regular and repetitive and all but one opening contains timber-framed double-hung sash windows with fixed and casement sashes; the exception is the window above the entrance to No. 1 which comprises glass blocks. The timber sashes may have replaced earlier steel-framed sashes. Many retain original wrought iron screens. Both flats have timber entrance doors with wrought iron screen doors, however a non-original canvas awning has been fixed above the entrance to No.1.
Brick garages were constructed at the rear of each flat in the late 1950s / early 1960s and in 1977 an application was made for brick additions to the rear. The property is screened by a high textured grey brick wall with two sets of wrought iron gates (which appear to be non-original). A non-original palisade fence divides the front garden and each garden is lit by a cast iron coach lamp.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Kew Heritage Precincts Study
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2012
Grading: ContributoryBoroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: CBoroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study
Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
Year: 1988
Grading: B
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THE HAWTHORNSVictorian Heritage Register H0457
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D'ESTAVILLEVictorian Heritage Register H0201
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0944
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