HOUSES
9-15 Union Road NORTHCOTE, Darebin City
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The four dwelling terrace at nos. 9-15 Union Street, Northcote (Merri), built in 1909-10 by Patrick Doolan as an investment.
How is it significant?
The four dwelling terrace at 9-15 Union Street, Northcote is historically significant to Darebin City.
Why is itsignificant?
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as the largest development of its type in Union Street, the vast majority of comparative dwellings having been erected in pairs also during the Post Federation period. It demonstrates an aspect of the economic recovery that followed Federation and shows also how the terraced form continued well into the twentieth century.
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HOUSES - Physical Description 1
A row offour formerly identical single storeyed dwellings separated by common brick party walls with cast cement ornamentation and orb finials and having hipped corrugated iron clad roofs, weatherboard facades with shingled bands and timber posted verandahs with ladder frame friezes and fretted spandrels. Eaves brackets are simplified and the verandah form is basic. Red brick chimneys are corbelled and there are small front gardens screened by later fences.
HOUSES - Integrity
Condition: Sound. Integrity: Medium, verandahs altered, later window to no. 13, concrete verandah floors to nos. 11-15, unsympathetic roof linings to no. 9.
HOUSES - Historical Australian Themes
4. Building settlements, towns and cities (Northcote).
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 NORTH FITZROY POST OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H0900
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FORMER NORTH FITZROY ELECTRIC RAILWAY SUBSTATIONVictorian Heritage Register H0939
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