"Brooklyn", Special Accommodation Resdience
132 Aphrasia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 200416
-
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
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Although a relatively plain design for a large house in 1891, "Hendra" is regionally significant for it's clear Aesthetic Movement influenced details, such as: the rising sun, starts and palm fronds. "Hendra" is historically regionally significant as an example of the Edwardian residence constructed on elevated sites for Newtown's affluent citizens, mainly professional and businessmen. The former "Hendra" was built for Alfred David Price, a local grocer. It has associations in the post World War 1 period with a local tanner, William Munday, and later, as Butler House, formed part of St. Josephs College.
REFERENCES:
Newtown Rate book 1892-93, West ward 1557
Ibid, 1891-92, Nos. 1538, 1540
See map of area in Jean Moreton, Life at Newtown Brae, in the Investigator, 1 March, 1987, p16.
Moreton, p. 15.
Ibid, pp 17-17
Newtown Rate Book 1911-12 No 1752
Ibid, 1917-18, No 1906; 1935; No 2414
-
-
"Brooklyn", Special Accommodation Resdience - Physical Description 1
A plain, bichromatic brick double-storey house. It is Aesthetic Movement influenced, with Edwardian elements. The main roof is slate, of half-hips with terra-cotta fern frond denials. The gables decorated with a rising-sun motif embossed in render. It is triple-fronted, the east (side) wing has a full height canted bay with a hip-roofed. The north (side) wing has a full height canted bay dentillated pediment rendered with the date (1891) and palm frond embossed. The eaves are also dentillated. There is a double-storey verandah around the angle. The first floor level has a decorative fretwork valence with turned posts. The ground level has a deep valence screen with a star pattern fretwork. All is on a bluestone base. There is a round-head window over stair.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading:
-
-
-
-
-
THE HEIGHTSVictorian Heritage Register H0429
-
FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
-
SACRED HEART CONVENT AND COLLEGEVictorian Heritage Register H0555
-
-