16 Queen Street
16 Queen Street KEW, Boroondara City
Queen Street Precinct Kew - HO529
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
16 Queen Street, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and externally relatively intact example of a broadly symmetrical two storey Italianate residence of the late 1880s and 1890s. 16 Queen Street has a delicacy in detail- particularly in its lace and its cornice and window and door mouldings - that sets it apart from many contemporaries.
Queen Street Precinct (HO529)What is significant?
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
-
-
16 Queen Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 16 Queen Street, Kew, is a two-storey double-fronted Italianate villa of rendered brick construction. The hipped slate roof has bracketed eaves to the facade and a pair of rendered chimneys with moulded caps. The symmetrical facade displays a ruled ashlar finish and is screened by a double-height cast iron verandah with concave corrugated galvanised steel roof, 'barley sugar' columns, cast iron balustrade, frieze and brackets and delicate fascia moulding. The side elevations have had a later textured finish applied and the original two-storey rear wing has a red face brick finish. The verandah floor retains bluestone surrounds but has been retiled with a tessellated tile finish and the ends have been infilled with stud-framing and fibro-cement cladding. The facade comprises three bays at each level with canted bays flanking the main entrance at ground floor level and paired window openings flanking a single door to the verandah above; windows have tall timber-framed double-hung sashes with moulded architraves. The original entrance door has been replaced with a V-jointed timber door, however, the timber-framed panelled surround remains, albeit with later glazing. The first floor verandah door is an original half-glazed panelled timber door with coloured margin glazing.
Rear alterations and additions carried out around 1989 are not visible from the street and the exterior of the building appears otherwise intact to the degree noted above.[i] The cast iron palisade fence is recent, as is the stamped concrete driveway paving and other landscape.[ii]
[i] Drawings sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #4657, dated 27 September 1989.
[ii] Building Permit no 04/33591, dated 5 November 2004, City of Boroondara Building File 40/408/30050, Part 1.
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
Grading:
-
-
-
-
-
XAVIER COLLEGEVictorian Heritage Register H0893
-
D'ESTAVILLEVictorian Heritage Register H0201
-
POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0944
-
"1890"Yarra City
-
"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
-
"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
-
-