Jewell Railway Station, Signal Box and Gates
Union Street,Brunswick, Moreland City
Barkly Street West
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Statement of Significance
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Jewell Railway Station, Signal Box and Gates - Physical Description 1
Jewell Railway Station (east) is a single storey brick building. Walls are of face red brick with a bluestone base, with moulded string course and dressings to openings rendered. The building has a hipped corrugated iron roof with bracketed eaves. On the east elevation, a parapeted gable with rendered copings and delicate iron finial has a trefoil opening within a circular moulding above the main pointed arched doorway. The west (platform) elevation has a wide curved-profile verandah with cast iron columns, corrugated iron roof and latticed end panels. The timber-framed double-hung sash windows have been retained, but the openings have been covered with cyclone wire screens.
To the north of the building a single-storey skillion-roofed red brick wing incorporating a loading bay, has been added (c.1960s).
The Jewell signal box, on the north-east corner of the Union Street level crossing, is a simple one-and-a-half-storey building which has a red-painted gabled corrugated iron roof trimmed with timber king post finials. The walls are weatherboard and the simple timber-framed windows form a horizontal band along the south, west and north facades, allowing a view of the railway tracks. The windows are shaded by a narrow corrugated iron bracketed canopy.
The Jewell railway gates comprise two timber-framed gates, each of three panelstwo are cross-braced, the third has an additional central vertical member and timber corner bracing. Each gate has five horizontal iron rods, and is attached to cast iron gateposts. A longer member, probably of wrought iron, crosses the entire gate diagonally.
Key Architectural Elements: stationsymmetrical red brick building with rendered dressings
signal boxsimple timber structure with gabled corrugated iron roof and canopied windows
Conservation Guidelines: stationpreferably remove 20th century additions from north end of building
Comparative Examples: Brunswick Railway Station, Brunswick
Coburg Railway Station, Coburg
Moreland Railway Station and Signal Box, Coburg
Principal Historic Themes: significant phases in the development of towns and suburbs; 19th century speculative building activity
significant phases in the development of towns and suburbs (urban settlement); 19th century speculative subdivision patterns
association with 19th centuHeritage 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 - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading:
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LYNDHURST HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0964
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