HOUSE
127 CLARKE STREET, NORTHCOTE, DAREBIN CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house at 127 Clarke Street, Northcote, built in 1919 for Ethel Cooke. Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The house at 127 Clarke Street, Northcote is aesthetically significant to Darebin City.
Why is it significant?
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a local exemplar of an attic storeyed bungalow in the Arts and Crafts manner, this type of house being uncommon in Northcote and generally preceding the more often seen single storeyed bungalow in Northcote and the northern areas of the Municipality. The use of shingles, the picturesque massing of the elements including gable ends and chimneys and the Arts and Crafts motifs are important contributory design elements, the place being enhanced by the survival of the front fence and garden in an apparently near original state.
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HOUSE - Physical Description 1
A picturesque attic storeyed bungalow in the Arts and Crafts manner with shingled gable ends and tall rough cast chimneys with terra cotta pots. The walls are of red brick with rough cast upper sections and there are rough cast piers to the porch which has a curved timber bressemer and spandrels in the Arts and Craft mode. The porch incorporates a shingled balustrade and the otherwise unprotected front window has a shingled sun hood. This house is set well back from Clarke Street on the highest section of the allotment and is separated from this busy thoroughfare by a pierced red brick fence incorporating moulded bricks in the manner of the period and including, ovolos, ogees,squints and bull nosed bricks.
HOUSE - Integrity
Condition: Sound. Integrity: High, includes spacious ornamental garden with mature plantings appropriate to the period of the house.
HOUSE - Historical Australian Themes
Thematic Context
4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Northcote-Merri).
Heritage Study and Grading
Darebin - Darebin Heritage Review
Author: Andrew Ward
Year: 2000
Grading:
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OLD COLONISTS HOMESVictorian Heritage Register H0821
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FORMER LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGEDVictorian Heritage Register H1950
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TERRACE HOUSESVictorian Heritage Register H1774
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