RAILWAY GATEKEEPER'S CABIN & GATES
267 BRUNSWICK ROAD, 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 at Brunswick Road is a small weatherboard cabin with a corrugated iron gabled roof. The single doorway is in the west elevation, facing the railway tracks. As at Albert Street and Brunswick Road, a separate skillion-roofed porch adjoins the south, and the west elevation has no verandah. A brick chimney penetrates the east gable. The north and south elevations are each penetrated by single timber-framed double-hung sash windows, and the porch has a wide horizontal window facing north. The main gable end has a timber finial.
A small flower garden and vegetable patch, tended by the gatekeeper, are adjacent to the cabin.
The Brunswick Road railway gates are constructed of white-painted timber, with five horizontal members and three vertical ones. The gates have diagonal iron bracing members. Much of the original picket fencing forming the pedestrian crossing remains.
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, Barkly Street 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 - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: LocalMoreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading:
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IRON HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0665
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FORMER HOFFMAN BRICKWORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0703
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CHRIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0129
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