HOUSE
307 BRUNSWICK ROAD,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 404
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house at 307 Brunswick Road, Brunswick, built 1891-92, is significant. Non-original alterations and additions, and the front fence are not significant.
How is it significant?
The house at 307 Brunswick Road, Brunswick, is of local representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
It is significant as a fine and intact example of a Victorian Italianate polychrome villa of the superior type built for middle class residents in the more desirable southern part of Brunswick, close to parklands and the border with Carlton and Parkville. It exhibits typical features of this type including the asymmetrical form with a canted bay projecting to one side, a M-hip roof with bracketed eaves and separate front verandah, and brick chimneys with deep moulded cornices. Of note are less common details such as the French windows under the verandah, which has the cast iron frieze set within a timber frame with separate cast iron brackets. (Criterion D)
It is of aesthetic significance for the less common use of polychrome brickwork, which combines red brick with contrasting bands of cream and dark brick for both the facade and the chimneys, the ovolo profile stop chamfers to the window reveals, and the fine and delicate cast ironwork. (Criterion E)
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HOUSE - Physical Description 1
Victorian house
The house at 307 Brunswick Road, Brunswick is a Victorian Italianate villa of characteristic asymmetrical form with a canted bay to one side. The M-profile hipped roof is clad in corrugated iron and the convex profile verandah has cast iron posts with classical capitals and a delicate cast iron verandah frieze set within a timber frame, with separate brackets and dentil detailing to the verandah beam. The white tuck pointed polychromatic brick walls feature three colours of brick, with bands of cream or cream and brown brick used as feature courses against the red brick, over the arched window openings, and under the eave line and at mid and lower wall height, and in diaper patterns and bands in the two chimneys, which have rendered cornices. There are paired eaves brackets with a moulded stringcourse below. The three-segmented arched timber sash windows to the canted bay and the two narrow French timber sash windows under the verandah have ovolo profile stop-chamfered reveals. The verandah floor is tiled and has bluestone edging.
Until recently (c.2014) the property contained what appeared to be the remains of the stables within the rear yard. These have since been demolished.
The bluestone and iron front fence is not original.
HOUSE - Physical Conditions
Excellent
HOUSE - Integrity
Minor Modifications
The house is relatively intact. The roof and verandah cladding has been replaced (possibly, the house originally had a slate roof).
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland Heritage Gaps Study 2017
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: LocalMoreland - Moreland City Council: Local Heritage Places Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading:Moreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: Local
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