PORTARLINGTON VILLA
150 SOMERSET STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 156865
Gardner Street Precinct
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house 'Portarlington Villa' at 150 Somerset Street, Richmond is significant to the extent of the nineteenth century fabric. Built in the Boom-time era, double-fronted, single-storey, Baroque-influenced, Boom style detached villa. There is a strong continuous cornice and frieze-mould, with a parapet. The left bay is set forward, with a canted bay-window and a convex roof verandah, in the angle, returning at the right. Both chimneys have deep Classical moulds with bevelled top and vermiculated panels. The parapet has four large urns. There is a centrepiece over each bay, between piers: at left, blind arched, with acroterion; at right, a rectangular name-panel, with small urns. Vermiculated cills are on scroll-brackets.
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
Portarlington Villa at 150 Somerset Street, Richmond is architecturally and aesthetically significant to Richmond and the City of Yarra.
Why is it significant?
Portarlington Villa is architecturally and aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an unusual, double-fronted, rendered, Baroque-influenced Boom-style villa which presents an unusual house type for Richmond particularly in this location, on the flat.
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PORTARLINGTON VILLA - Physical Description 1
The house is an unusual, double-fronted, single-storey, Baroque-influenced, Boom style detached villa. There is a strong continuous cornice and frieze-mould, with a parapet. The left bay is set forward, with a canted bay-window and a convex roof verandah, in the angle, returning at the right. Both chimneys have deep Classical moulds with bevelled top and vermiculated panels. The parapet has four large urns. There is a centrepiece over each bay, between piers: at left, blind arched, with acroterion; at right, a rectangular name-panel, with small urns. Vermiculated cills are on scroll-brackets.
The verandah has been altered.
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gap Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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