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Duke and Hornby Street Precinct
Hornby Street WINDSOR, Stonnington City

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Statement of Significance

The Hornby-Mary Streets Urban Conservation Area has significance as a nineteenth century residential locality retaining workers' housing, a former hotel and corner shop and set within an early street pattern. The character of the Area is created by the relatively intact sequence of small Victorian brick and timber cottages, combined with later Edwardian housing, which demonstrate the development sequence within the Area. The continuity in the use of asphalt and bluestone as traditional street construction materials are important streetscape attributes.

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    • Physical Description 1

      Duke and Hornby Street Precinct - Physical Description 1

      This Hornby-Mary Streets Urban Conservation Area comprises small, semi-detached and attached terraces and cottages set within a narrow street pattern. In Hornby Street their development is predominantly Victorian in period, comprising attached terraces to the north and detached timber cottages to the south. North of Mary Street there is a pair of fine Edwardian cottages, one with a dairy (still operating) at the rear. This pair of Edwardian cottages is elaborate and well detailed. Along Duke Street the houses are predominantly Edwardian on both sides of the street. At the north western end of the area is the Red Lion Hotel a two storey red brick building which forms one of two important focal points within this area. The other focal point is the two storey former shop building on the corner of Duke and Hornby Street, also in red brick.

      This Urban Conservation Area is set within a larger area which also contains housing of this form and period, but is separated by newer developments and a large park on the corner of Anne and Hornby Street. This park has resulted from the demolition of houses on this site at some time in the past.

      The precinct has an integrity which is created by the period of development, the Edwardian houses, and the two important focal buildings

      Local Historical Themes

      Duke and Hornby Street Precinct - Local Historical Themes

      8.5.1 'Struggletown' - working-class housing in the nineteenth and early twentieth century

      3.3.5 Recovery and infill 1900-40

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Stonnington - Conservation Review City of Prahran Volume 3: Urban Conservation Areas

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 1993
      Grading: Various

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