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52 Hedderwick Street ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

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52 Hedderwick Street Essendon

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    House - Physical Description 1

    52 Hedderwick Street, Essendon, is a large interwar bungalow, derivative of earlier Californian Bungalows but with a striking infusion of Art Deco elements alongside more simple Old English stylistic features in the dominant brick entry porch. The hipped roof form provides another dominant note, sweeping down over the verandah and unusually incorporating an original porte-cochere to the side. The residence is located in a modest suburban street in a residential area with generous nature strips, although 52 now abuts a large new dwelling to the north (which sits on the corner of Monica Street).

    52 Hedderwick Street, Essendon, has a typical bungalow form, with a central front door, projecting room to the (south) side beneath a jerkin-head roof, and the principal room facing onto and sheltered by a deep verandah. The roof is of unglazed orange terracotta tiles with the simple high-pitched form providing a short central ridge, a small hipped section over the rear wing, and the main front slope extends down over the verandah and porte-cochere, terminating in the north in a small gable. Elsewhere metal roofs and translucent sheeting cover the rear extensions of the carport and building, including more recent additions to the rear.

    A simply detailed brick chimney, with an economical arrangement of brick headers forming a capping, remains to the southern side of the residence. The projecting bay has a jerkin-headed gable with tile-clad window awning supported on simply detailed, curved timber brackets. The walls of the residence are of weatherboard with a half-timbered effect to the main projecting gable.

    The entry porch is of rendered brick, with dark red/brown bricks (formerly tuckpointed, with some pointing remaining) providing a striking contrast in lining to an unusual horseshoe arch (over the entry), simple implied quoins, and a central decorative pediment feature of toothed brick pattern (echoing the toothing effect of the horseshoe arch). The porch extends through the line of the verandah, again providing contrast by the introduction of a vertical element in a predominantly horizontal facade composition. The verandah has a solid balustrade of face brick incorporating a blue brick panel laid in herringbone pattern; the verandah terminates in simple brick piers that support precast concrete columns, square in section, fluted on the faces, and detailed with greatly simplified classical bases and capitals. The principal windows to the facade are double hung sashes, enlivened with simple leaded glass to the upper sashes.

    52 Hedderwick Street, Essendon, is of highintegrity with veryfewchanges visible to original or early elements of the place. The building retains its original building form, main tiled roof form extending over the porte-cochere and verandah, projecting jerkin-head front gable, face brick and cement rendered porches, weatherboard-clad walls, windows and front door.

    The integrity of the building is enhanced by the highlevel of intactness of these main elements, which include details such the original chimneys, tiled roof and window hood, unpainted face brick details (such as tapestry brick highlights), and leaded glass panels to principal window sashes.

    The integrity of the building is slightlydiminished by the extension to the rear of the porte-cochere, although the work is discreet and does not obscure any important original elements of the house.

    The integrity of the place is slightlydiminished by the eastern extension of the carport, covered rear alfresco area, discreet side verandah, and garage (which appears to be a larger replacement of the original one), although these elements are either screened by the original building form of the house or are hardly visible from the street.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Moonee Valley - Moonee Valley 2017 Heritage Study

    Author: Context
    Year: 2019
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