6 Gellibrand Street
6 Gellibrand Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
6 Gellibrand Street, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance as a fine and externally relatively intact example of a substantial two-storey Italianate residence, featuring an elaborately decorated two-storey verandah. The house has an impressive and richly decorated two-storeyed verandah which extends to follow the alignment of the projecting canted bay and returns around the south side of the house, giving it a distinctive rambling quality.
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6 Gellibrand Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 6 Gellibrand Street, Kew, is a large two-storey double-fronted late Victorian Italianate villa of brick construction and asymmetrical form. The hipped slate roof has bracketed eaves and rendered chimneys with moulded caps. The rendered facade and side wall returns display a ruled ashlar finish with overpainted brickwork elsewhere and the otherwise straight elevation is relieved by a double-height canted bay. An impressive double-height cast iron verandah screens the front elevation, following the form of the canted bay and returning on the south side to the main entrance. The verandah has a bullnose corrugated galvanized steel roof supported by Corinthian columns with cast iron balustrades at both levels, frieze and brackets and timber floor.[i] The frieze and brackets are not original; these elements were missing at the time of the Kew Conservation Study survey in 1987-8 and have been reinstated. The main entrance, located in the south elevation, contains a panelled timber door with glazed surround and a non-original screen door. Windows have moulded architraves with keystones with timber-framed double-hung sashes; the ground floor windows have segmental arched heads.
Extensive rear additions and a garage to the north of the house were constructed in the 1960s and 1970s[ii] and the bluestone and wrought iron front fence and gates were constructed around 1963.[iii]
[i] The datasheet produced in 1988 for the Kew Urban Conservation Study indicates that the frieze and brackets had been removed at the time.
[ii] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #164, dated 13 November 1962 (garage), #2588, dated 27 May 1971 (kitchen alterations and additions), #3126, dated 10 March 1972 (BV additions).
[iii] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #345, dated 12 March 1963.
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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