Albert Street
59-85 ALBERT STREET, 280 LYGON STREET, and 1-18 SEDGMAN STREET, BRUNSWICK EAST, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Albert Street Precinct, comprising buildings at 59-85 Albert Street, 1-18 Sedgman Street and the East Brunswick Club Hotel at 280-294 Lygon Street.
How is it significant?
The Albert Street Precinct is of local architectural significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
The Albert Street Precinct is of local architectural significance as a predominantly residential area which comprises a notable mix of 19th century housing types, with small, single-storey brick terraces in Sedgman Street contrasting with the dominating late Victorian two-storey terraces in Albert Street. The Sedgman Street terraces are all near identical single storey, single fronted decorative brick houses with party walls while the Albert Street terraces are in two near identical groupings of ornate rendered brick buildings typical of the late Victorian period. The East Brunswick Hotel is the most imposing of the structures captured by the precinct as a three-storey Classical Revival building dominating the Albert and Lygon Street intersection.
Non-Contributory properties include:
Albert Street: 73
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Albert Street - Physical Description 1
The Albert Street Precinct comprises the properties at 59-85 Albert Street, 280 Lygon Street (East Brunswick Club Hotel), and 1-18 Sedgman Street, East Brunswick.
The Albert Street Precinct is a predominantly residential area, with the exception of the East Brunswick Club Hotel, on the corner of Lygon Street. The Precinct includes three Victorian terraces. The two-storey terrace at 59-69 Albert Street, built c.1899, dominate the Precinct, displaying polychrome brickwork with cream and brown patterning on red brick. All retain cast iron picket fences and gates, red brick party fences and front stanchions. The parapets have raised pediments and decorative mouldings, with a zigzag pattern in contrasting brickwork. Further west in Albert Street is a second white painted rendered two-storey terrace at Nos. 79-85. The housing along the west side of Sedgman Street comprises a row of 16 single-storey brick terraces (interestingly numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.) and a pair of similar and long single-storey cottages at Nos. 18-20.
Street planting is restricted to Melaleuca in Sedgman Street. Traditional street elements retained include bluestone kerb and guttering and asphalt footpaths in Albert Street.Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review. Additional Precincts
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 2001
Grading:
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BRUNSWICK FIRE STATION AND FLATSVictorian Heritage Register H0916
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FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0705
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FORMER HOFFMAN BRICKWORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0703
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