RAILWAY GATEKEEPER'S CABIN & GATES
BARKLY STREET, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
Upfield Railway (Brunswick & Coburg)
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Statement of Significance
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RAILWAY GATEKEEPER'S CABIN & GATES - Physical Description 1
The Gatekeeper's Cabin is a small weatherboard structure with a corrugated iron gabled roof. A single doorway is in the west elevation, facing the railway tracks, and the north and south elevations are each penetrated by single timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The cabin has a narrow skillion-roofed awning on the south and west elevations, supported by timber brackets, and a brick chimney penetrates the east gable. The main gable end has a timber finial, as at the Brunswick Road and Park Street cabins.
The signal post to the north is a simple steel pipe mast, of the type introduced in the 1960s.(3)
The Barkly Street railway gates are constructed of white-painted timber, with five horizontal members and three vertical ones. The gates have diagonal iron bracing members. At Albert Street, part of the original pedestrian crossing remains, although some of the picket fencing has been replaced with cyclone wire.
(3) Gutteridge Haskins & Davey, Upfield Railway Line, p. 13.
Key Architectural Elements: simple timber cabin with gabled corrugated iron roof
Conservation Guidelines: repaint to original colour scheme to match other cabins on Upfield line
Comparative Examples: Gatekeeper's Cabins and Gates, Albert Street, Brunswick Road and Park Street, Brunswick
Principal Historic Themes: significant phases in the development of towns and suburbs; 19th century speculative building activity
significant phases in the development of towns and suburbs (urban settlement); 19th century speculative subdivision patterns
association with 19th centuHeritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: LocalMoreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading:
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LYNDHURST HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0964
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