13 Coppin Street
13 COPPIN STREET RICHMOND - PROPERTY NUMBER 199625 AND 13 COPPIN STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
Gardner Street Precinct
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Statement of Significance
This place is within the Gardner Street Precinct. Please refer to the precinct citation for a history, description and statement of significance for this precinct.
What is significant?
The house at 13 Coppin Street, built in 1899-1900 for Mary Weston is significant. It is a single-storey double-fronted Italianate style villa of rendered brick construction. It has a symmetrical facade with a central panelled front door flanked by tripartite timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house has a curved-profile corrugated galvanised steel verandah with a central gablet trimmed with a cast iron finial. The gable-end has cast iron lacework infill. The verandah is supported on cast iron columns, paired beneath the gablet, and has a decorative cast iron lacework frieze. The verandah roof is hipped at the north end, and terminates at a brick wing wall at the southern end, decorated with a console and mask. The roof is concealed behind a balustraded parapet which has a bracketed cornice and a small, ornately decorated triangular pediment flanked by urns. There is a brick chimney with a wide, moulded cap.
The iron picket front fence is a recent reconstruction and is not significant.
How is it significant?
The Weston house at 13 Coppin Street, Richmond is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.
Why is it significant?
It is architecturally significant as a relatively intact example of an ornate, symmetrical Italianate house with an ornate cast iron verandah. (Criterion D)
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13 Coppin Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 13 Coppin Street, Richmond, is a single-storey double-fronted Italianate style villa of rendered brick construction. It has a symmetrical faþade with a central panelled front door flanked by tripartite timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house has a curved-profile corrugated galvanised steel verandah with a central gablet trimmed with a cast iron finial. The gable-end has cast iron lacework infill. The verandah is supported on cast iron columns, paired beneath the gablet, and has a decorative cast iron lacework frieze. The verandah roof is hipped at the north end, and terminates at a brick wing wall at the southern end, decorated with a console and mask. The roof is concealed behind a balustraded parapet which has a bracketed cornice and a small, ornately decorated triangular pediment flanked by urns. There is a brick chimney with a wide, moulded cap.
The iron picket front fence is a recent reconstruction.13 Coppin Street - Integrity
not assessed
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gaps Study: Review of remaining 17 heritage precincts from the 2009 Gaps report
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2013
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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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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