48 Foley Street
48 Foley Street KEW, Boroondara City
Denmark Street Precinct Kew - HO526
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Statement of Significance
48 Foley Street, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance. A fine, representative, and relatively externally intact example of a Federation weatherboard house, it is distinguished from many other examples by elements such as the striking fretwork gable screens, and the 'hammer beam' composition of Japanese patterning in the verandah frieze.
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48 Foley Street - Physical Description 1
48 Foley Street, Kew, is a single-storey asymmetrical double-fronted Federation timber house. The gabled roof is clad with slate and features terracotta ridge cresting, tall red face brick chimneys with terracotta pots and roughcast rendered bands and caps. Gable ends are bracketed and finished with roughcast and carved timber fretwork screens, detail which is repeated in a window canopy. The verandah has a timber floor, turned timber posts and arched fretwork frieze; it would appear that an earlier timber balustrade - which appears not to have been original - has been removed. The weatherboard walls feature shingled boards to dado height and a roughcast frieze. The central entrance contains a half-glazed timber door with matching leadlight fan and sidelights. To the left of the entry, the projecting gable-ended wing contains a pair of timber-framed double-hung sashes in a projecting bay, while to the right of the entry, a pair of non-original French doors with flanking sidelights is set into a second projecting bay onto the verandah.
The front fence is timber-framed with woven wire panels and wrought iron gates, probably not original but sympathetic. Single-storey rear additions constructed around 1993 are largely concealed from the street.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: BBoroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study
Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
Year: 1988
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