HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street
4 Parker Street TEMPLESTOWE, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The house, constructed in 1888, at 4 Parker Street, Templestowe.
How is it Significant?
The cottage at 4 Parker Street, Templestowe is of local historic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The cottage at 4 Parker Street, Templestowe has local historic significance as one of a small number of surviving nineteenth-century buildings that demonstrate the early development of the Templestowe township reserve. Although very altered, it nonetheless retains its simple cottage form and is recognisable as an early building within the area. (RNE criteria A.4, B.2 and D.2)
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HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
2.01 - Towns & settlements
HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 4 Parker Street, Templestowe is a simple double-fronted cottage with rendered walls on a high stone plinth. It has a tall hipped roof with no eaves and there is an internal red brick chimney with a corbelled top. There is a spruce tree at the front.
Alterations include external rendering, skillion additions at rear and side, a metal awning at the entry, security shutters and aluminium-framed windows. The clinker brick front fence with wrought iron gate dates from c.1930.
HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Physical Conditions
Condition Fair
HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Integrity
Integrity Altered - minor modificati
HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Physical Description 2
Threats Redevelopment
HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Physical Description 3
Key elements
Building
Tree(s)
HOUSE AT 4 Parker Street - Physical Description 4
Associations
Alexander Calder
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:
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MENLOVictorian Heritage Register H2294
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FINNS HOTELVictorian Heritage Inventory
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BILL SNELL HOUSEManningham City
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