658 Nicholson Street
658 NICHOLSON STREET FITZROY NORTH AND 658 NICHOLSON STREET FITZROY NORTH, YARRA CITY
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Statement of Significance
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658 Nicholson Street - Physical Description 1
has 658 on house; 2 storey; former Catholic church residential building? some garden; opposite HO326
658 Nicholson Street - Intactness
Good
658 Nicholson Street - Integrity
The property at 658 Nicholson Street, North Fitzroy, is a large two storey brick house built as a doctor's surgery and residence in 1907. The house is square in plan form with hipped slate-clad roof forms with terracotta ridge capping, and projecting gabled bays to the north and west. The exterior walls are exposed face-brick with flat-faced overpainted string course lines at sill and upper window levels on each storey. The gable to the front (west) bay is supported on curved timber brackets above a wall frieze in roughcast stucco, which in turn is above a moulded string course. The two upper windows on the west wing have flat-fronted arches; the other windows are all large double-hung sashes with flat or slightly cambered heads, some with overpainted dressings. There is a bay window on the recessed front facing Nicholson Street, capped by a moulded cornice. The gabled wing facing north has a plain gable in exposed face brick with corbelled kneelers, angled brick and cement-rendered coping, and an orb finial in cement. The house has a return two-storeyed verandah with cast-iron lacework frieze and cast-iron columns. Aerial photographs suggest the overpainted steel verandah roof has been recently replaced. The main entry on the north side appears to have the original timber door and frame with side and fan lights.
The house is positioned towards the front (west) and south of the site, with a wide concreted driveway to the north boundary and bitumen car parking to the rear. An original iron palisade fence, on a stone plinth, marks the front (Nicholson Street) boundary. There are also additions to the rear (east) side of the house. Some of the windows to the house have been replaced and air-conditioning units have been fitted to three existing windows. The changed colour of the brickwork on the north elevation, at ground level under the verandah, suggests that a window may have been bricked-in here. Also on the north bay at ground level, the brickwork has been overpainted and the wall extended approximately 1m to the east where a cyclone wire fence and gate enclose the rear car park.
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gap Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: LocalYarra - City of Yarra Heritage Gaps Study 2012 (Heritage Gaps Amendment two)
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2012
Grading: Local
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FORMER CABLE TRAM ENGINE HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0718
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BRUNSWICK STREET OVAL GRANDSTANDVictorian Heritage Register H0751
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0163
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