Gwenroy House

163 Gordon Street MARIBYRNONG, Maribyrnong City

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Maribyrnong City

28267 163 Gordon Street

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Gwenroy House - Physical Description 1

    Double-fronted, hip-roofed and built of finely jointed quarry-face stone, this villa is an appropriate illustration of its rust owner's craft. Brickwork (fancy whites) built around openings and as three-course dog-toothing below the facade eaves, is the minority material. Added, in the form of ornament, is the convex-profile cast-iron verandah, with its stylized Corinthian order columns and palmette cast-iron frieze. The chimneys, with their near cornice-less profile, bely the expected chimney pattern of the house construction date and hark back to an earlier era. The door joinery is modest, with sidelights and 'cricket bat' mouldings to door panels.
    
    

    Integrity

    Gwenroy House - Integrity

    External Integrity

    Brick piers and balustrading occupy the lower half of the verandah, part of which has been built in. The brickwork has been painted, fence replaced and an intrusive garage added on the north.
    
    

    Physical Description 2

    Gwenroy House - Physical Description 2

    Streetscape
    Adjoins a row of similarly formed timber villas on the south and relates, at some distance, to a row to the north. Most have been altered and immediately to the north is an unrelated recently renovated motel building.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Maribyrnong - City of Footscray Urban Conservation Study

    Author: Graeme Butler
    Year: 1989
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  • Footscray Urban Conservation Study 1989 - Separate Citation
    
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