Surrey Road/Cromwell Crescent Precinct
Cromwell Crescent SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City
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Statement of Significance
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Surrey Road/Cromwell Crescent Precinct - Physical Description 1
The Cromwell Crescent and Surrey Road North Urban Conservation Area comprise a group of buildings on an unusual curved crescent. The buildings within the Area are all shown on the 1895 MMBW plan. It remains largely intact as a group today, and takes up essentially one quarter of a circle (or quadrant). At the north eastern point is a single storey timber house. It is adjoined to the west by two detached two storey terrace-form houses, of which No. 10 is painted but No.8 ('Attwood') retains its unpainted polychromatic brickwork. Further west is a single storey detached villa (no. 6) with similar detailing. A bluestone laneway leads between this building and the rest of the group to the west and south, to a rear courtyard area that is now a small park. Continuing to the west are two detached single storey villas (Nos. 4 and 2) and further west two pairs of terraces, again single storey, (70 and 68 Surrey Road).
The current setting of the area detracts substantially from the quality of the street form and the architecture of the buildings. Traffic management works in the form of roundabouts, have changed the streetscape. Likewise the building of high brick fences in front of a number of these houses has impacted on their unity and cohesion as a group.Surrey Road/Cromwell Crescent Precinct - Local Historical Themes
8.2 Middle-class suburbs and the suburban ideal
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - Conservation Review City of Prahran Volume 3: Urban Conservation Areas
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1993
Grading: Various
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467Victorian Heritage Register H1032
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PRAHRAN TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0203
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FORMER RECHABITE HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0575
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