JOHN CURTIN HOUSE
2 FALLON STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 5598
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Statement of Significance
The house, constructed c.1906, at 2 Fallon Street, Brunswick.
How is it significant?
The house at 2 Fallon Street, Brunswick is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland and of interest for historical associations.
Why is it significant?
Of aesthetic significance as a good and intact representative example of an early 1900s timber ashlar villa, with fine detilaing including the central pediment to the verandah, intact cast iron lacework and paired elongated double-hung sash windows. (AHC Criterion E.1)
Of historic significancefor its brief association with John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia (1941-45) who resided in the house in his late 20s, from 1912 to at least 1915, during his most vehement anti-conscription phase.
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JOHN CURTIN HOUSE - Physical Description 1
The house at 2 Fallon Street, Brunswick is early 1900s single storey double-fronted timber ashlar and weatherboard villa with a hipped painted corrugated iron roof return and a bullnose verandah. It has red brick chimneys with rendered caps and plinths and paired brackets under the eave line. The verandah has turned timber verandah posts and an elaborate lacework frieze. A central pediment with carved decorative bargeboards marks the front entrance. The front door is flanked by paired elongated double-hung sash windows, with a further elongated double-hung sash window at end of the verandah return.
The house is set back on a wide block of land behind a narrow front garden with a closely pruned privet hedge. The house is very intact and is in fair condition externally.JOHN CURTIN HOUSE - Physical Conditions
Good
JOHN CURTIN HOUSE - Integrity
Minor Modifications
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: LocalMoreland - Moreland City Council: Local Heritage Places Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading:
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