86 Kent Street
86 KENT STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
Gardner Street Precinct
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Statement of Significance
The house, constructed c.1894 or earlier for John Thomas, at 86 Kent Street, Richmond is significant. It is a single-storey symmetrical late Victorian rendered brick villa. The front elevation has a central door with side- and highlights flanked by single timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house is relatively wide in plan, and has a transverse Dutch-gabled roof, clad in corrugated iron. The verandah has a hipped, skillion corrugated iron roof with bracketed eaves, turned timber posts, and a decorative cast iron frieze. There are two tall, unpainted rendered chimneys, each with moulded tops and incised decoration on their shafts.
The timber picket fence is not original.
How is it significant?The house at 86 Kent Street, Richmond, is of local architectural significance to the City of Yarra.
Why is it significant?It is architecturally significant as a relatively intact example of an unusually composed late Victorian villa, which exhibits several unusual characteristics, including the wide plan with symmetrical facade, Dutch gable roof and highly detailed chimneys. (Criterion D)
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86 Kent Street - Physical Description 2
MMBW Detail Plan Detail Plan shows; see Building Identification Form; French doors added? verandah detail altered?
86 Kent Street - Integrity
Good
86 Kent Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 86 Kent Street, Richmond, is a single-storey symmetrical late Victorian rendered brick villa. The front elevation has a central door with side- and highlights flanked by single timber-framed double-hung sash windows. The house is relatively wide in plan, and has a transverse Dutch-gabled roof, clad in corrugated iron. The verandah has a hipped, skillion corrugated iron roof with bracketed eaves, turned timber posts, and a decorative cast iron frieze. There are two tall, unpainted rendered chimneys, each with moulded tops and incised decoration on their shafts.
The timber picket fence is not original.
- Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Heritage Gaps Study: Review of remaining 17 heritage precincts from the 2009 Gaps report
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2013
Grading:Yarra - Richmond Conservation Study
Author: John & Thurley O'Connor, Ros Coleman & Heather Wright
Year: 1985
Grading: C3Yarra - City of Yarra Heritage Review
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates
Year: 1998
Grading: LocalYarra - City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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