Brigadoon, 40 Mercer Street, Queenscliff
40 Mercer Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
Central Queenscliff Precinct
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Statement of Significance
Statement of Significance as recorded under the Queenscliff Heritage Study 2009
Brigadoon is of historical and architectural significance to the Borough of Queenscliffe. Historically, the dwelling dates to the earliest phase of development in the township. It is also significant as an example of a modest brick and weatherboard residence, with a typically simple form and articulation which was common in Queenscliff during the 1850s and 1860s. It is additionally part of a group of buildings (nos 34-40 Mercer Street) which share a modest architectural form and presentation.
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Brigadoon, 40 Mercer Street, Queenscliff - Physical Description 1
Brigadoon has a low hip-roofed timber front section of two rooms, and a stuccoed brick section at the rear. It has been altered only in detail externally, including the replacement of the door. Other details like the ogee section roof gutter are intact. Owing to its simple composition and corner siting, Brigadoon is perhaps the best of this early group of dwellings and shops some of which have already been demolished and non sympathetic infill has taken their place.
Brigadoon, 40 Mercer Street, Queenscliff - Physical Description 2
Extract from the 2009 study
Brigadoon is a largely externally intact (to the original building component), simply detailed, modest single-storey dwelling, with no setback to the street. It is a low-pitched, doubled hipped cottage with a Colorbond sheet metal roof; and timber framed, four-paned, sash windows flanking the central front entrance which faces onto Mercer Street. The openings are asymmetrically placed in the facade; the front door is a later replacement and the plain glazed fanlight above also appears to have been inserted at a later date. The front section, which contains two rooms, is clad in weatherboard on a rendered plinth; the rear section is rendered masonry and has a brick chimney at each end of the roof. Regarding the original roof cladding, the rate books of the 1860s and '70s note a slate and shingled roof; the ogee section roof guttering appears to be intact. A small extension to the north-west corner of the building provides a link to the larger weatherboard extension with hipped roofs at the rear (west) of the site, and also creates a courtyard area enclosed on three sides by verandahs.
Brigadoon, 40 Mercer Street, Queenscliff - Intactness
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Heritage Study and Grading
Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Urban Conservation Study
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates P/L, Architects
Year: 1982
Grading:Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Heritage Study
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2009
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