12 Newry Street
12 NEWRY STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
Edinburgh Street Precinct
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house, constructed by Clements Langford by 1891, at 12 Newry Street, Richmond is significant. It is an asymmetrically planned Italianate villa with a verandah to one side of the facade and a projecting bay with a tripartite window to the other. The verandah retains cast-iron columns and cast-iron integrated frieze and brackets and the floor retains cream and red square tiles set on a diagonal, edged with bluestone. The facade is rendered, while the side elevations are of face brick. The house is distinguished by its highly ornate cement-render detailing, including paired cornice brackets with raised panels and rosettes between them, label moulds over the tripartite window with floral bosses, barley-twist colonnettes framing the windows (the sills of which rest on scroll brackets), and large incised floral patterns on the rendered walls. The fielded four-panel door is framed by sidelights and highlights. There is one rendered chimney with a moulded cornice.
Non-original alterations and additions to the house and the front fence are not significant.
How is it significant?
The house at 12 Newry Street, Richmond is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Yarra.
Why is it significant?
This house is a fine and well-detailed example of the Italianate style, which was popular in domestic architecture in the late nineteenth century. The characteristic form and detailing, including the stuccoed ornamentation to the facade, cast iron verandah, tripartite windows the projecting bay and rendered chimney that expresses the flamboyant style of the Boom era and fashion for 'show'. The house is distinguished by its highly ornate cement-render detailing, including paired cornice brackets and raised panels, label moulds over the bay windows with floral bosses, barely-twist colonettes framing all windows, and large incised floral patterns on the rendered walls. The incised decoration is rare for residential buildings in Richmond. (Criteria B, D, E & F)
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12 Newry Street - Physical Description 1
It is an asymmetrically planned Italianate villa with a verandah to one side of the facade and a projecting bay with a tripartite window to the other. The verandah retains cast-iron columns and cast-iron integrated frieze and brackets and the floor retains cream and red square tiles set on a diagonal, edged with bluestone. The facade is rendered, while the side elevations are of face brick. The house is distinguished by its highly ornate cement-render detailing, including paired cornice brackets with raised panels and rosettes between them, label moulds over the tripartite window with floral bosses, barley-twist colonnettes framing the windows (the sills of which rest on scroll brackets), and large incised floral patterns on the rendered walls. The fielded four-panel door is framed by sidelights and highlights. There is one rendered chimney with a moulded cornice.
Apart from the roof tiles, the house has a high degree of intactness and integrity.
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gap Study: Review of Central Richmond 2014
Author: Context P/L
Year: 2014
Grading: LocalYarra - Heritage Gap Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Contributory
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0710
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FORMER LALOR HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0211
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ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0586
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