HOUSE (CLOSER SETTLEMENT)
47 CUMMING STREET,, BRUNSWICK WEST VIC 3055 - Property No 14033
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Statement of Significance
47 Cumming Street is of local historical and architectural Significance.It is a particularly intact example of a house built on the Dal CampbellEstate, which formed part of the Brunswick Estate Closer SettlementScheme, Victoria's second such scheme. Architecturally, the house is anexcellent example of the fine timber fretwork and detailing whichcharacterises the Queen Anne style.
*A Contributory place within the Closer Settlement Houses serial listing. Please refer the serial listing citation (Hermes no. 200502) for the statement of significance for this place.
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HOUSE (CLOSER SETTLEMENT) - Physical Description 1
The house at 47 Cumming Street, Brunswick West, is a single storey timber house in the Queen Anne style. It has weatherboard wall cladding on the side and rear walls, and mock-ashlar cladding to the facade. The gambrel roof is clad in corrugated iron, has cast iron ridge capping and finials, and is penetrated by red brick chimneys with corbelled tops and terracotta chimney pots. The tripartite windows are timber-framed, and a small round window, probably leadlit, overlooks the verandah. The corrugated iron roofed return verandah, which has a corner gable, has turned timber posts and elaborate timber fretwork openings, exaggerated horseshoe arches in form. The projecting front gable has curved timber bargeboards, a decorative bracketed finial and two courses of scallop-edged weatherboarding. The window below the gable has carved timber surrounds and a bracketed canopy, the cladding of which has been removed. A side window has a similar canopy.
There appears to be a recently-constructed porch with turned timber posts to the rear of the house.
Key Architectural Elements: gabled corrugated iron roof with decorative iron ridge capping and finials
tall red brick corbelled chimney with terracotta chimney pots
unusual horseshoe arched timber fretwork verandah frieze and balustrading
timber-framed windows with timber dressings
ornate timber window canopies, gable-end brackets, canopy brackets
Conservation Guidelines: reinstate original cladding material to window canopies
Principal Historic Themes: early 20th century suburban developmentHOUSE (CLOSER SETTLEMENT) - Physical Description 2
This is a single storey timber house in the Queen Anne style. It has weatherboard wall cladding on the side and rear walls, and mock-ashlar cladding to the facade. The gambrel roof is clad in corrugated iron, has cast iron ridge capping and finials, and is penetrated by red brick chimneys with corbelled tops and terracotta chimney pots. The tripartite windows are timber-framed, and a small round window, probably leadlit, overlooks the verandah. The corrugated iron roofed return verandah, which has a corner gable, has turned timber posts and elaborate timber fretwork openings, exaggerated horseshoe arches in form. The projecting front gable has curved timber bargeboards, a decorative bracketed finial and two courses of scallop-edged weatherboarding. The window below the gable has carved timber surrounds and a bracketed canopy, the cladding of which has been removed. A side window has a similar canopy.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland Heritage Gaps Study 2017
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading:Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading:Moreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: Local
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