GIRGAREE HOUSE (FORMER)
32 LORD STREET,, BRUNSWICK EAST VIC 3057 - Property No 3950
Methven Park
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Statement of Significance
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GIRGAREE HOUSE (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
The former Synagogue is a single storey brick building. The walls are of face red brick with rendered dressings to openings and roof is hipped. It has a grand front portico with a heavy entablature supported on paired fluted Composite columns which stand on stone pedestals. The south (front) facade is symmetrical, with a central front door flanked by single windows. Window openings are horseshoe or keyhole arches, with moulded heads supported on recessed columns on stone pedestals which flank stone sills. Windows are generally timber-framed sashes. Two polygonal window bays protrude from the east and west elevations.
The original front gates and fence-predominantly iron pickets on a bluestone base, but with a patterned bichrome brick panel-sits immediately in front of a neat hedge. The front paving is concrete.
Internally the buildings has elaborate joinery in the hall and principal rooms.
Key Architectural Elements: extremely unusual Ionic front portico
extremely unusual arched head windows
original bluestone and iron picket front fence
Conservation Guidelines: reinstate missing column to portico
reinstate missing volute to capital
Principal Historic Themes: association with stone quarrying industries
permanent places of worshipHeritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: LocalMoreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading:
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COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Register H0594
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BRUNSWICK FIRE STATION AND FLATSVictorian Heritage Register H0916
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FORMER CABLE TRAM ENGINE HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0718
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'NORWAY'Boroondara City
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1 Mitchell StreetYarra City
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