Neville
46 Fellows Street KEW, Boroondara City
Barry Street Precinct, Kew
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Statement of Significance
HO143 Barry Street Precinct, Kew
Barry Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:
- The place has an unusual concentration of highly graded buildings, many of which were designed by prominent Melbourne architects.
- The area is one of Melbourne's best concentrations of large late Victorian and Federation house designs, in varied materials and often ably utilising the topography of the area. The precinct also has a number of distinctive designs of the interwar period.
-Many of the streets are marked by original basalt kerbing and grading, and the area features mature gardens and street trees.
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Neville - Physical Description 1
Peter Roe Clarke Ussher, A Wesleyan Minister, And Christiana Ussher Were The Original Owners and occupiers of this house[3] and were presumably related to the building's designer, Beverley Ussher. Attracting an initial N,A,V, of £54[4], the residence was designed to have several rooms in the roof space[5]. The Usshers occupied the house until at least 1895[6] and by 1900 George Perrin, a civil servant, was occupant of the property[7]. By that date the N,A.V, had increased to £70[8]
The house was described and illustrated in the Building Engineering and Mining Journal three years after its completion, The illustrations bear out the description that it was '", designed to be as nearly a one-storeyed villa as possible, with some rooms in the roof from which to catch all the views.'[9], It is dominated by the steep roof that envelopes the second storey and has two principal facades connected by a verandah, while each facade has a half timbered gable that breaks into the sweep of the roof. Designed in the early 1890s, the house is an early example of the type of architecture produced by Ussher and his associates for at leas! the following decade,
References --
1 City of Kew, Rate Books, 1894
2 The Building, Engineering and Mining Journal, 13 November 1897, p.
3 City of Kew Rate Books, loc.cit.
4 ibid.
5 The Building. Engineering and Mining Journal, loc.cit,
6 City of Kew Rate Books, 1895
7 ibid., 1900
8 ibid.
9 The Building, Engineering and Mining Journal, loc.cit,
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study
Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
Year: 1988
Grading: A
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D'ESTAVILLEVictorian Heritage Register H0201
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0944
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FORMER KEW POST OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H0885
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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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