Osborne house
13 Clarke Street, ABBOTSFORD VIC 3067 - Property No 110365
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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 first Collingwood Rate Book, for 1864, lists John R Osborne, an accountant, as the owner of a brick house valued at ₤37. Osborne remained the owner and occupier of the house until 1869, when ownership passed to Mary Watson.
Description:
The house at 13 Clarke Street, Abbotsford, is a simple, double-fronted brick villa with a hipped slate roof. The detached house is set back from the street, and has walls of Hawthorn Flemish bond brickwork with a bluestone plinth. The brickwork appears to have been recently repointed. The symmetrical street facade has a central four-panelled door flanked by double-hung sash windows. It has a concave-profile corrugated iron verandah supported on timber posts. The brick chimneys have rendered moulded caps.
To the rear on the west side of the house is a timber single-storey building with an attic, clad in weatherboard with a gabled corrugated iron roof, which also appears to date from the 19th century and may pre-date the main house.
The timber picket fence is not original.
Significance:
The house at 13 Clarke Street is of local architectural significance. Architecturally, the house is a substantially intact example of a relatively austere Victorian villa, which is a remnant of the middle class villas which were erected close to the Yarra River in the pre-Boom period. Being freestanding on a comparatively large block it is one of a small number of such dwellings within the municipality.
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Osborne house - Physical Description 1
The house at 13 Clarke Street, Abbotsford, is a simple, double-fronted brick villa with a hipped slate roof. The detached house is set back from the street, and has walls of Hawthorn Flemish bond brickwork with a bluestone plinth. The brickwork appears to have been recently repointed. The symmetrical street faþade has a central four-panelled door flanked by double-hung sash windows. It has a concave-profile corrugated iron verandah supported on timber posts. The brick chimneys have rendered moulded caps.
To the rear on the west side of the house is a timber single-storey building with an attic, clad in weatherboard with a gabled corrugated iron roof, which also appears to date from the 19th century and may pre-date the main house.
The timber picket fence is not original.Osborne house - Integrity
not assessed
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
Year: 1989
Grading:Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
Year: 1995
Grading: LocalYarra - 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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