Bramber
47 Wills Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Bramber, at 47 Wills Street, Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a fine and externally highly intact example of a single-storey brick villa of the early Federation period, combining earlier Italianate modes with the new Federation style as it was emerging in the mid 1890s. Bramber's half-hipped gabling is unusual, and the house is marked by a flexion of scale characteristic of the more inventive early Federation designs.
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Bramber - Physical Description 1
Bramber at 47 Wills Street, Kew, is a single-storey double-fronted Victorian villa with an asymmetrical plan and of brick construction on a bluestone plinth. The hipped roof is finished with slate and features half-hipped gable ends, carved timber barge boards, oriel gable vents and red brick chimneys with corbelled caps and bands. A return verandah screens the principal north and east elevations and terminates in a projecting bay on the east side; on the north elevation, however, it steps out, following the form of the box bay window. The verandah comprises a bullnose corrugated galvanised steel roof supported by carved timber posts, between which is an elegant arched timber frieze and a tessellated tiled floor. The principal facades display tuckpointed red face brickwork with overpainted rendered dressings. The north elevation contains the main entrance which is entered via a brick arch and comprises a panelled timber door with matching glazed surrounds and non-original aluminium screen door. It is flanked by a second box bay window containing a bipartite window opening with arched head and timber-framed double-hung sashes. The projecting bay on the east elevation contains a tripartite window opening with semi-circular arched head. Other than for a non-original handrail to the front steps, the house appears intact externally.
The timber picket front fence and gates are relatively recent and a brick garage located at the end of the driveway would appear to date from the 1950s.[i] The front garden contains a small number of mature trees.
[i] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #584, dated 17 October 1956.
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:
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D'ESTAVILLEVictorian Heritage Register H0201
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0944
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FORMER KEW POST OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H0885
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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