Collier Crescent
67-103 & 60-98 COLLIER CRES, 25 & 27 FITZGIBBON ST, 1-7 & 2-6 TEAGUE AVE, 224-250 UNION ST, 18 FODEN ST, BRUNSWICK WEST, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Collier Crescent Precinct, comprising buildings at 69-103 and 60-89 Collier Crescent, 18 Foden Street, 25-27 Fitzgibbon Street, 1-7 and 2-6 Teague Avenue, Denzil Don Kindergarten (Wylie Reserve), and 224-248 Union Street.
How is it significant?
The Collier Crescent Precinct is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
The Collier Crescent Precinct is of local historical significance for its association with the earliest brickworks and clay-pit established in this vicinity in 1857 by Jenkin Collier and James MacKenzie Barry. These men became the two most significant brick-makers in Brunswick. Evidence of their early activities are reflected in the curved street pattern of this area, which differs from the rectilinear planning of the surrounding street grid.
The Collier Crescent Precinct is of local architectural significance, particularly Teague Avenue which is distinguished by its intact Post-War cottages set in gardens either from, or in keeping with, the period. Collier Crescent includes a large number of Edwardian houses and Inter-War Bungalows whilst the housing in Union Street represents a variety of styles, and dates from the Inter-War period.
Non-Contributory properties include:
Collier Street: 77 and 84.
Foden Street: 18.
Union Street: 224.-
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Collier Crescent - Physical Description 1
Address: 69-103, 60-98 Collier Crescent
25-27 Fitzgibbon Street
1-7, 2-6 Teague Avenue
Denzil Don Kindergarten (Wylie Reserve)
224-248 Union Street
The Collier Crescent Precinct is predominantly residential area, containing mostly late Victorian and Edwardian and inter-War housing.
Teague Avenue is notable its substantially intact 1940s and '50s intact 1940s residences in a mixture of timber and brick, with tiled roofs and side or rear garages. Many of these properties have gardens which are either original or in keeping with their architectural style and period. Good examples are Nos. 4, 5 and 7.
Collier Crescent includes a larger number of Edwardian houses and inter-War bungalows. No. 83 retains an original timber fence.
The housing in Union Street represents a variety of styles, and dates from the inter-War period.
Non-residential buildings include Denzil Don Kindergarten, the Church, and tennis clubhouse. The Uniting Church at 242 Union Street is a simplified gothic structure with paired pointed arch windows and a tiled jerkin head roof. The adjoining tennis clubhouse is a single-storey Edwardian timber building.
Traditional street elements retained include bluestone kerb and guttering and asphalt footpaths in Collier Crescent. A network of bluestone lanes has been retained in the area north of Collier Crescent. The concrete kerb and guttering, wide grassed nature strips and Prunus street trees in Teague Avenue are also typical of the period-or a slightly later period-in which this street was constructed. In Fitzgibbon Street large Melaleuca alternate with Prunus.Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review. Additional Precincts
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 2001
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