Footscray Residential Heritage Area

Moore, Newell, Nicholson, Lynch, Stirling, Donald, Railway Cowper, and Coward Streets FOOTSCRAY, MARIBYRNONG CITY

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Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Footscray Residential Heritage Area - Physical Description 1

    The general character of the Footscray Residential Precinct is one of small Victorian & Edwardian single-storey detached housing with mainly weatherboard wall cladding, corrugated iron roofing, front verandahs, similar front and side setbacks and generally narrow block frontages. The surviving rear right-of-ways are valuable elements associated with the 19th century night soil collection. Houses were originally with picket front fences and the streets had asphalt footpaths and stone kerb and channel, with some surviving. There was originally no provision for on-site vehicle parking for most of the identified housing. The major built form was of the typical Edwardian villa main hip and projecting gable roof form combination.
    
    Beyond the clear expression of two important periods in the City's history (Edwardian-era, Victorian-era), there is a visual cohesion which derives from simple, often conservative house design. Many houses have been altered in detail and whole former housing areas redeveloped for commercial uses around the fringe of the precinct. There are distinguishable physical boundaries, such as the railway, the river and its parkland, the Hopkins Street commercial strip and the irregular subdivision of the triangle west of Nicholson Street, which visually contain the generally similar housing stock. The housing is located near to the Footscray Railway Station and the associated commercial area, both of which also display the Edwardian and Victorian-era character seen in this precinct. The lot layout is typically set on a rectangular grid with essential rear lane access originally for collection of night soil.
    
    Although related in historical origin, the early housing stock has suffered from its proximity to the Hopkins Street commercial area and both Edwardian and more recent waves of renovation.
    Often visually unrelated and sometimes intrusive new development, together with alterations, lower the street expression of these two periods but, within the context of the city, few other areas are comparable. Architecturally Nicholson Street (east side) offers distinction.
    

    Physical Conditions

    Footscray Residential Heritage Area - Physical Conditions

    Physical Conditions: fair (disturbed, reasonably preserved)

    Integrity

    Footscray Residential Heritage Area - Integrity

    Integrity: partially intact/intrusions

    Historical Australian Themes

    Footscray Residential Heritage Area - Historical Australian Themes

    Thematic context
    Australian Principal Theme Making suburbs
    PAHT Subtheme Making suburbs
    Local Theme(s) Private subdivisions and villages in the nineteenth century
    

    Physical Description 2

    Footscray Residential Heritage Area - Physical Description 2

    Map (Melway) 42 DE3,4
    Boundary description Parts of Moore, Newell, Nicholson, Lynch, Stirling, Donald, and Cowper Streets and the railway, with emphasis on all original Edwardian-era and Victorian-era elements, including basalt pitched paving, asphalt footpaths, lot sizes and street patterns.
    Heritage Significance City
    Creation date(s) 1880s-1920s
    Local Government Area City of Maribyrnong
    Ownership Type Private & Public

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Maribyrnong - Maribyrnong Heritage Review

    Author: Jill Barnard, Graeme Butler, Francine Gilfedder & Gary Vines
    Year: 2000
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  • Maribyrnong Heritage Review Volume 5, 2000
    
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