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839 PARK STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 2051
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Statement of Significance
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HOUSE - Physical Description 1
The house at 839 Park Street is a large double-fronted attic-storeyed bungalow of face red brick construction. It has a hipped roof clad in Marseilles pattern terracotta tiles, with a prominent central infilled balcony at the upper level, ornamented with terracotta ridging and a scrolled finial. The dormer has a half-timber roughcast gable end, and contains a tripartite sliding window, flanked by fretted brackets and sidelights with lattice screens.
The street facade is asymmetrical at ground floor level. The broad hipped roof envelops a verandah which returns down the east side, and has a roughcast rendered fascia, supported on pairs of plain columns with shallow capitals and octagonal bases. The verandah floor is tiled, with bluestone edging. An off-centre doorway is flanked on one side by a rectangular bay window, and on the other by a bow window in a three-quarter arc which curves around the corner. Both windows have rendered lintels and sills, and narrow timber-framed casement sashes with square highlights above, all containing leadlight. The doorway contains a timber door with two elongated panels of leadlight.
The east elevation, which contains a second entrance at the end of the return verandah, has a roughcast gable-end containing a small rectangular window with tripartite timber-framed louvred sashes. At ground level is a segmental bow window, identical in detail to the front windows, but with a tiled skillion window-hood supported on fretted timber brackets.
The front fence, comprising a rendered dwarf wall and masonry piers, capped by orbs, with timber pickets between, is either not original, or has been much altered.
Key Architectural Elements: prominent balcony at roof level
bow and bay windows with leadlight glazing
unusual colonnaded verandah
Conservation Guidelines:
retain original unpainted finish to face brickwork.
retain original leadlight glazing to windows.
Comparative Examples: House, 49 Walsh Street, Coburg
Chaumont, 49 Heller Street, Brunswick West
House, 20 De Carle Street, Brunswick
Principal Historic Themes: association with 19th century brickmaking and clay industries
early 20th century suburban development and speculative activityHeritage 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: Local
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