Painsdale Place Precinct
860-864 Swanston Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B7264
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Statement of Significance
The Painsdale Place precinct includes six single storey houses, all dating from the1860s, surrounding Painsdale Place. To the south of Painsdale Place are three bluestone cottages, one with a large cellar, and two semi-detached and facing Swanston Street. A brick cottage opens directly onto Holmwood Place, adjacent to another brick cottage which was originally an 1860 timber cottage. The house at 864 Swanston Street is a symmetrical four-room timber house with an M-shaped gable roof. It has a central entrance and a verandah across the front behind a small front garden. The two small rooms attached to the rear were originally a kitchen and servant's room.
How is it significant? The Painsdale Place precinct is significant for historical and architectural reasons at a Regional level.
Why is it significant? The Painsdale Place precinct is historically significant as a reminder of the earliest history of the suburb of Carlton, and especially of the history of subdivision in the area. The houses surrounding Painsdale Place are historically significant as an unusual collection of houses dating from the earliest days of European settlement in Carlton and as rare surviving examples of the sort of house once relatively common in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, before the extension of the Melbourne Building Act to the suburbs. They are also important as the homes of some of Carlton's earliest settlers and of Italian immigrants, a most important part of Carlton's heritage, after the 1930s.
The houses in the Painsdale Place precinct are architecturally significant as surviving examples of the sort of timber and bluestone cottages once common in the area, but now less so. The house at 864 Swanston Street is architecturally significant as a rare surviving example in Carlton of an M-gable timber house. Although small timber worker's cottages were once common in gold-era Carlton, larger timber houses such as this have always been uncommon in the inner suburbs and today are extremely rare. The houses facing Swanston Street also make a significant contribution to the varied and impressive streetscape in this part of Swanson Street.
Classified: 28/02/2005
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Painsdale Place Precinct - Physical Description 1
The precinct contains six houses: three bluestone cottages on the south side of Painsdale Place, two brick cottages on Holmwood Place, and a timber house at 864 Swanston Street. The Swanston Street house has an M-gable roof, a verandah across the front and two small rooms attached at the rear. At the front it has a central front door with one window on each side. The windows were converted into bays, probably in the early twentieth century. The interiors of the houses have not been inspected.
Painsdale Place Precinct - Intactness
The bluestone cottages appear substantially intact externally but the interiors were not inspected. The original timber cottage on Holmwood Place has been rebuilt in brick, and it is not known how much of the original fabric survives.
At 864 Swanston Street alterations were made to the front verandah and the front windows in the early twentieth century, but apart from that it appears to be substantially intact. The house is now in poor condition. It has not been maintained in recent years, as the owners, the University of Melbourne, intended that the site would be redeveloped for student housing. Old weatherboards have not been replaced, and vandalism has occurred.
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DRUMMOND TERRACEVictorian Heritage Register H0872
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LOTHIAN BUILDINGSVictorian Heritage Register H0372
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SHOPS AND RESIDENCESVictorian Heritage Register H0043
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