House

54 Lincoln Street ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

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54 Lincoln Road Essendon

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  • Physical Description 1

    House - Physical Description 1

    54 Lincoln Road, Essendon, is a single-storey residence with pyramidal hipped roof and rendered brick walls in a restrained Moderne style, sits on a busy north-south road in the northern part of the suburb. The site is almost level and the house is set back at front and south to allow for a modest garden and side driveway. Lincoln Road retains a typical arrangement of footpath and nature strip, and in this vicinity has prominent views south to the imposing bulk of St Therese's Catholic Church (set diagonally on the block to address Lincoln Road and Florence Street).

    54 Lincoln Road, Essendon, has an asymmetrical plan with a principal room on the southern frontage projecting slightly and a porch linking this room to a recessed entry and the main building line of the house. The hipped roof of glazed terracotta tiles in shades of red and brown (with ridge tiles to match) provides a standard late interwar appearance to the house. The exterior walls have a base of dark brown bricks with lightly textured cement rendered walls above, punctuated by brown brick windowsills. The window openings are crisply detailed devoid of any decorative mouldings and the simple eaves detail and tall square chimney (unadorned save for a capping of brown bricks set on edge) contribute to the clean lines of the building envelope. The Moderne styling is emphasised by steel-framed windows, with a corner window on the main front room especially characteristic of modern detailing, and hinting (probably more than any other element) at functionalism. Moderne touches are also apparent in the front steps, porch, and recessed entry. The flat-roofed semi-circular porch roof, the edge crisply modelled in with a band of raised render, is supported on square columns decoratively bolstered by curved-top buttresses suggesting a ziggurat or skyscraper form. This cascade of Moderne styling is complemented by the mild steel balustrade, which extends to form a hand rail to the front steps. The gentle repetition geometric curves and interplay of orthogonal lines give a simple dynamism to this otherwise modest residence.

    54 Lincoln Road, Essendon, has a simple brick fence of capped piers and panels of uncertain date, though it is certainly sympathetic in appearance to the house. A concrete path curves from the driveway entrance to front porch. The front fence is backed by young plantings of cypress (Cupressus torulosa) and the front garden has lawn with simple garden beds containing predominantly roses and shrub plantings characteristic of the era (e.g. Camellia sp.), not necessarily original or even early, but appropriate to the house; a tiered fountain presumably of more recent date sits to the north of the front path. A plain concrete driveway runs south of house, broken only at the building setback by a simply detailed wrought iron gate of vertical rods with circular motifs contained in a panel along the top (matching the porch balustrade) - its date is uncertain and might be early or a sympathetic later addition. The motor garage has a brick lintel to the main door with materials, forms, and details repeated from the main residence, its modest size suggesting an early date, though it had not been constructed by 1946.

    54 Lincoln Road, Essendon, is of highintegrity with veryfewchanges visible to original or early elements of the place as viewed from the public domain. The building retains the predominant building form and tiled roof form of the original house, brick walls, semi-circular porch, and fenestration.

    The integrity of the building is enhanced by the highlevel of intactness of these main elements, which include details such the original chimney, tiled roof, metal-framed windows, porch detailing (including piers, balustrade, and steps), unpainted brickwork to base of walls as well as other details such as window sills.

    The integrity of the building is slightlydiminished by the rear extension of the house, although this has been done in a manner that respects the building envelope of the original house and is hardly visible from the street.

    The integrity of the place is enhanced by the retention of a fence with simplified details matching the residence, possibly an original or early feature.

    Comparative Analysis

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Moonee Valley - Moonee Valley 2017 Heritage Study

    Author: Context
    Year: 2019
    Grading: Local

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