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197 Highett Street
197 HIGHETT STREET RICHMOND - PROPERTY NUMBER 139665 AND 197 HIGHETT STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
Highett Street Precinct
197 Highett Street
197 HIGHETT STREET RICHMOND - PROPERTY NUMBER 139665 AND 197 HIGHETT STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
Highett Street Precinct
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Single-storey, single-fronted Italianate bichromatic brick, hip-roofed terrace of three houses. The tuck-pointed brickwork is red with cream dressings. They have skillion verandahs between wing-walls, with queens' head corbels on scroll brackets. There is a cast-iron palisade fence. The cornice and frieze have timber bracket pairs between end corbels, with lions on scroll brackets. Chimneys have dog-tooth brick decoration. At rear are double-storey wings. The verandah paving tiles and verandah cast-iron lace fringe are recent.
How is it significant?
The house row is aesthetically and historically significant (National Estate Register Criteria E1, A4) to the locality of Richmond.
Why is it significant?
The building is significant:
- for its good representation of a key period in the City's history; and
- as a characteristic Italianate single-storey, single-fronted polychrome brick terrace, distinguished by the double-storey rear wings.
Single-storey, single-fronted Italianate bichromatic brick, hip-roofed terrace of three houses. The tuck-pointed brickwork is red with cream dressings. They have skillion verandahs between wing-walls, with queens' head corbels on scroll brackets. There is a cast-iron palisade fence. The cornice and frieze have timber bracket pairs between end corbels, with lions on scroll brackets. Chimneys have dog-tooth brick decoration. At rear are double-storey wings. The verandah paving tiles and verandah cast-iron lace fringe are recent.
How is it significant?
The house row is aesthetically and historically significant (National Estate Register Criteria E1, A4) to the locality of Richmond.
Why is it significant?
The building is significant:
- for its good representation of a key period in the City's history; and
- as a characteristic Italianate single-storey, single-fronted polychrome brick terrace, distinguished by the double-storey rear wings.
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197 Highett Street - Integrity
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Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gap Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0142
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0143
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FORMER DENTON HAT MILLSVictorian Heritage Register H0815
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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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