House at 272-274 Melbourne Road
272-274 Melbourne Road NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City
Private Survey Heritage Precinct
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Statement of Significance
The houses, constructed in 1915, at 272-274 Melbourne Road, Newport.
How is it Significant?The houses at 272-274 Melbourne Road, Newport are of local aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.
Why is it Significant?Aesthetically, they significant as very late examples of transitional Victorian, intact and locally rare single storey attached brick row houses with an undivided roof that is characteristic of such developments in Williamstown. (AHC criteria B2 and E1)
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House at 272-274 Melbourne Road - Physical Description 1
A pair of single-storey, red brick semi-detached houses with a hipped slate tile roof with no dividing wall. A red brick wing wall separates each house's verandah. The houses are set back from the street by a shared small garden. Other significant original elements include:
- The unusual Transitional form
- Tuck pointed polychromatic brickwork - red brick with cream brick dressings
- Timber panelled entrance doors with leadlight glazing sidelights
- Brick chimney on no. 272
- Cast iron imitation fretwork valance verandah supported on timber posts
- Wide double-hung sash windows
- Inter-war woven strapped steel and timber fence - no fence between two houses
House at 272-274 Melbourne Road - Integrity
External Integrity
Generally original except for the later front fence.
House at 272-274 Melbourne Road - Physical Description 2
Context
Melbourne Road comprises a mix of housing from the Victorian to Interwar periods.
House at 272-274 Melbourne Road - Historical Australian Themes
Making Suburbs
House at 272-274 Melbourne Road - Physical Description 3
Associations
George HM Paine.
Heritage Study and Grading
Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study
Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
Year: 2006
Grading:
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