261 Highett Street
261 Highett Street, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 139520
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Statement of Significance
The following wording is from the Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998 for the property. Please note that this is a "Building Citation", not a "Statement of Significance". For further information refer to the Building Citation held by the City of Yarra.
History:
The house at 261 Highett Street was built in 1893. The first owner was Thomas Colbert, a grocer, who already owned a 4 room wooden house at No. 267. The first occupier of No. 261 was Susan Gore, a widow. The Rate Books for 1893 indicate an unfinished 4 room brick house, valued at ₤6, at No. 261. The house remained in the ownership of the Colbert family until at least 1941.
Description:
The house at 261 Highett Street is a two-storey detached polychromatic brick terrace. Italianate in style, it has brown brick walls with cream and red window dressings, string courses and diaper work. There is a convex-profiled corrugated-iron clad verandah between two wing walls with rendered copings and vermiculated consoles. The verandah has a cast iron lacework frieze. There is no balcony. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes, with bluestone sills. The parapet has polychromatic brick panelling with an unpainted rendered copings, cornice, and a central segmental pediment flanked by scrolls and decorated with swags. There is an urn at each corner of the parapet. The house has are two polychromatic chimneys with rendered moulded caps.
The brickwork colours and patterning, and the parapet match those on the adjacent single-storey house at 263 Highett Street (see separate datasheet). Both houses have timber and woven wire front fences.
Significance:
The house at 261 Highett Street, Richmond, is of local architectural significance. It is a particularly elaborate example of polychromatic brickwork, and unusual in its incorporation of three cream and red brick string courses into the upper level, including within the parapet. The house is particularly intact, retaining its original unpainted rendered dressings. The house forms an interesting and significant pair with No. 263, a double-fronted single-storey composition of the same elements, with many very similar or identical details.
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261 Highett Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 261 Highett Street is a two-storey detached polychromatic brick terrace. Italianate in style, it has brown brick walls with cream and red window dressings, string courses and diaper work. There is a convex-profiled corrugated-iron clad verandah between two wing walls with rendered copings and vermiculated consoles. The verandah has a cast iron lacework frieze. There is no balcony. Windows are timber-framed double-hung sashes, with bluestone sills. The parapet has polychromatic brick panelling with an unpainted rendered copings, cornice, and a central segmental pediment flanked by scrolls and decorated with swags. There is an urn at each corner of the parapet. The house has are two polychromatic chimneys with rendered moulded caps.
The brickwork colours and patterning, and the parapet match those on the adjacent single-storey house at 263 Highett Street (see separate datasheet). Both houses have timber and woven wire front fences.261 Highett Street - Integrity
not assessed
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Richmond Conservation Study
Author: John & Thurley O'Connor, Ros Coleman & Heather Wright
Year: 1985
Grading: CYarra - City of Yarra Heritage Review
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates
Year: 1998
Grading: LocalYarra - City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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1984 - Building Identification Form - Richmond Conservation Study
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1984 - Building Identification Form - Richmond Conservation Study
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1984 - Building Identification Form - Richmond Conservation Study
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1984 - Building Identification Form - Richmond Conservation Study
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1998 - Building Citation - City of Yarra Heritage Review, Allom Lovell and Associates
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1984 - Building Identification Form - Richmond Conservation Study
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FORMER GROSVENOR COMMON SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H0654
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0710
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FORMER LALOR HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0211
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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"1890"Yarra City
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'BRAESIDE'Boroondara City
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'ELAINE'Boroondara City
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