BRUNSWICK TRAM DEPOT
807-827 SYDNEY ROAD,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 19644
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Statement of Significance
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BRUNSWICK TRAM DEPOT - Physical Description 1
The Brunswick Tram Depot is a complex of buildings between Sydney Road, Peveril Street and Cameron Street. The main depot building is to the south of the site, a three storey brown brick building with a Georgian facade. A wide projecting central section, rendered and painted white, has six round-headed arched openings, incorporating the ground and first-floor windows, which are separated by rendered panel with simple rectangular mouldings, which also occurs above the low plinth along the ground floor. The first floor windows have fixed glazing and appear to be steel-framed; the ground floor windows have six-paned double-hung sashes. One opening has a simple front door. At third floor level is a row of six small square windows above a Vitruvian scroll frieze. The arch spandrels are enriched with abstract moulded bosses. Apart from a rendered cornice to the parapet, the rest of the building is face brickwork.
To the north of this building is a row of shops, also in brown brick, with a face brick parapet. The shopfronts have been significantly altered. The remainder of the site, ringed by a high red brick wall with rendered coping, comprises tram sheds. The northern elevation, to Peveril Street, has a series of abstracted brick pilasters. Abutting it, on Peveril Street, is a single storey building, almost Moderne in style, with a long strip of small windows beneath a rendered string course.
Key Architectural Elements: face brick and render Classical Revival facade
three-storey buildingprominent landmark in Sydney Road
Conservation Guidelines: preferably reinstate original shopfront designs
Comparative Examples: Coppin Masonic Hall, 195 Weston Street, Brunswick
Principal Historic Themes: moving goods and peoplepublic transport systemHeritage 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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FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0705
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GLENCAIRNVictorian Heritage Register H0375
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THE AMERICAN COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Register H0139
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