Melville Road
9-233 & 8-248 MELVILLE ROAD, and 1-17 & 2-30 LOCHINVAR STREET, and 2-10 WOODLANDS AVENUE, PASCOE VALE SOUTH, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
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Melville Road - Physical Description 1
The Melville Road precinct comprises the following properties
- 1-17, 2-30 Lochinvar Street
- 9-233, 8-248 Melville Road
- 2-10 Woodlands Avenue
- West Coburg Gardens & Recreation Reserve (Shore Reserve), 223 Reynard Street & 20 Woodlands AvenueThe Melville Road Precinct is a primarily residential area with pockets of local shops. The housing stock in Melville Road itself comprises mainly single-storey late Inter-War bungalows and villas, interspersed with a small number of post-War houses. The bungalows, constructed of brick, rendered brick or timber, are typically asymmetrical in plan usually with hipped and/or gable tile roofs, and often with corner porches (e.g,, nos. 46-52 are typical brick examples whilst nos. 164-170 are typical timber types). Most have plain brick chimneys. Other Inter-War housing styles represented include English Domestic Revival (e.g., nos. 111, 171, 179, 190-194 & 216), and Spanish Mission/Mediterranean (e.g., nos. 22, 24, 101 & 120). Also represented are a small number of early post-War brick houses, usually constructed of cream brick house with steel framed corner windows (e.g., nos. 93, 107-09, 127). There is a small number of maisonettes or duplexes, (i.e., attached houses, see, for example, nos. 175-177, 196-198). Most of the houses have original or early side or rear garages and many retain original low brick or timber and cyclone or woven wire front fences, and some have original or traditional garden plantings and layouts including original paths and driveways.
The housing in Lochinvar Street comprises predominantly single-storey 1920s gable-fronted timber bungalows, some of which retain their original rear garages with timber doors. There are two basic types: those with a projecting gabled room and gabled porch supported on tapered render and brick piers and those with a projecting gabled roof with separate skillion verandah supported on timber posts. These are complemented by 1930s hipped roof bungalows in brick and weatherboard, and there is one house with a Mediterranean style arched porch with barley twist columns at no.13.
Woodlands Avenue contains a brick duplex at nos. 2-4 (this retains the original timber and wire front fences with privet hedges), a finely detailed and highly intact gable-fronted bungalow at no.6, and two 1930s timber bungalows with hipped tile roofs and Mediterranean-style arched porches at nos. 8 & 10.
There are two Inter-War retail clusters in Melville Road. One is the row of single-storey shops at Nos. 61-73A, north of the Woodlands Street intersection, which follow the curve of the street and retain original rendered parapets and some original shopfronts. Further north, near the intersection of Bell Street, there is a very intact shop and residence at no.219 (the shop retains the original shopfront, cantilevered awning and stepped rendered parapet), an altered two-storey shop at no.223 (the stepped parapet retains original Cordoba tiles), and a row of five two-storeyshops at Nos. 225-233, which have a shared hipped tile roof and some original or early shopfronts (e.g. 227, 229). Other Inter-War commercial buildings include the former bakery at no.146, which is a two storey building with a low triangular parapet framed by piers. The ground floor retains an early shopfront with a recessed entrance.
For the major north-south thoroughfare of Brunswick West, Melville Road's street planting of Eucalyptus and small exotic trees is somewhat informal. The footpaths, kerbs and gutters in all streets are of concrete.
The former West Coburg Gardens and Recreation Reserve (now known as the Shore Reserve) is an inter-War park and recreation reserve. The northern section is a semi-formal park that contains a central avenue of Elms (Ulmus sp.) leading off Reynard Street and other exotic trees including Elms (Ulmus sp.) Oaks (Quercus sp.) and Ash (Fraxinus sp.) planted as specimens within the lawned areas or along the east and west boundaries, and bordering the sports ovals that are contained in the southern part of the reserve. Other typical inter-War features include the lava rock walls around the entrance at the corner of Melville Road and Reynard Street and there is a gabled red brick substation set into the embankment facing Reynard Street. The bluestone retaining wall along Reynard Street may be a later addition. The southern section contains the sports oval and there are recent (late twentieth century) buildings, a car park and playground/BBQ area at the southern end adjacent to Woodlands Avenue.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
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