Arden Macaulay Heritage Review, Consultants Report 2012

615 Pages·2012·21.59 MB·English

by  Graeme Butler

Arden Macaulay Heritage Review

For the City of Melbourne

`Melbourne and Its Suburbs' compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown.
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Table of Contents

Introduction.............................................................................................................................................. 3
Heritage assessment methodology ......................................................................................................... 4
Study findings .......................................................................................................................................... 6
Summary table of assessed places ........................................................................................................ 7
Study recommendations ....................................................................................................................... 24
Appendix 1: Heritage Assessments: contributory and non contributory places 26
Appendix 2: Detailed heritage assessments of individually significant places 145
Appendix 3 Heritage Overlay Area Statements of Significance, historical themes and
thematic chronology 564
Existing Heritage Overlay Area Statements of Significance within the project area........................... 564
Historical Themes ............................................................................................................................... 569
Thematic Chronology .......................................................................................................................... 574
Appendix 4: Heritage definitions used by Melbourne City Council 601
Appendix 5: Assessment criteria used in this report 603
Appendix 6: General sources used in this report 604

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carried out by Meredith Gould Architects
Introduction (MGA), in 2010, the Heritage Assessment
Arden Macaulay Structure Plan Area. The
Allom Lovell and Associates City of Melbourne
Background to this report
Heritage Review 1999 had also assessed or
In 2011 the City of Melbourne commissioned documented some places within the study
Graeme Butler & Associates to provide area.
heritage assessments of existing and potential The aim of the project was to examine these
heritage places in the Arden Macaulay reviews and any subsequent data found on the
Structure Plan area, straddling parts of North selected places and make recommendations
and West Melbourne and Kensington. Some of for inclusion or otherwise in the schedule to
these places had been identified in the 1983-4 clause 43.01 of the Melbourne Planning
Graeme Butler North & West Melbourne and Scheme on the basis of local heritage or State
Flemington & Kensington urban conservation significance.
studies but others were highlighted by a review

Figure 1 Arden Macaulay Precinct study area (project brief)

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Project study team
Scope of project
Graeme Butler (of Graeme Butler &
Review of existing and potential heritage Associates), Heritage architect and
places in the Arden Macaulay Structure Plan social historian: study coordinator,
Area. evaluation, management, assessment
report, survey, and research;
Project Objectives from the brief Lesley Butler (of Graeme Butler &
Associates), horticulture, project
Prepare a Project Management Plan
management and assistant.
for approval by Project Manager;
Meet with relevant Council officers as
Heritage assessment
required;
Inspect, photograph, assess, review methodology
and document supplied list of places
including the Moonee Ponds Creek for Methodology for each place
the heritage overlay;
assessment
Inspect, assess and document any
place of potential significance that is The following work was undertaken to
not on the list, with the agreement of document the subject places to a minimum
the Project Manager; standard, using the following primary sources,
Rank each place using heritage as required:
gradings consistent with those Place recording with 12 and 21 mega
currently used outside the Capital City pixel digital images, 24 bit colour;
Zone, with cross-reference to those Assessment for further work based on
used in previous studies of the area; physical and known historical
Assess the cultural significance of the evidence;
identified heritage places, following Municipal rates search to establish
Australian Heritage Commission first or major owners and/or occupiers;
Criteria;1 Melbourne City Council building
Enter this information into the Heritage permits to verify construction dates,
Places Database; owners, designers and builders;
Map all identified places of cultural Sands & McDougall Directory of
significance; Victoria to discover occupiers;
Make recommendations for the MMBW Detail and Record Plans of
conservation of these places; and Melbourne typically from around 1895;
provide all necessary information, Reference to: Meredith Gould
including Statements of Significance, Architects (MGA), 2010 Heritage
and photographs of the places; Assessment Arden Macaulay
Assessment to be prepared in Structure Plan Area; Allom Lovell and
accordance with the Australia Associates City of Melbourne Heritage
ICOMOS Burra Charter, 1999 and its Review 1999; and Context 2011, City
Guidelines; of Melbourne Thematic Environmental
A report on the above findings with History (final).
recommended statutory planning
controls and a draft Schedule to the Place report, mapping and management for
Heritage Overlay; and each place
Project completion by 1 March 2012 Each place report and Statement of
(as varied by the Project Management Significance is based on the Heritage
Plan). Victoria standard format and as
specified by the brief, with
City of Melbourne representatives management deriving from the
Robyn Hellman Coordinator Local Policy Applying the heritage overlay VPP
Strategic Planning Branch. practice note;
Comparative analysis and background
Debbie Payne Strategic Planner, Local Policy,
draws from the North & West
Strategic Planning Branch.
Melbourne and Flemington &
Kensington conservation studies,
subsequent reviews, Melbourne City
1 HERCON criteria taken from the Heritage Victoria Model Council data bases;
Consultants Brief for Heritage Studies (January 2010)
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Places are assessed individually and Methodology details
as a group, within the area context;
Criteria and thresholds
Heritage gradings are consistent with
those currently used in the area as (For more details see Appendix 5: Assessment
described in the policy reference, criteria used in this report)
Urban Conservation in the City of
The places have been assessed under the
Melbourne 19852 and the incorporated
broad categories of aesthetic, historic, social
document Heritage Places Inventory
and scientific significance. The comparative
July 2008, and assessment of the
geographic base used is that of the `locality’
cultural significance of each heritage
(all or part of the project area being parts of
place, using criteria from Applying the
North & West Melbourne and Kensington) and
Heritage Overlay Practice Note 01 (as
the State of Victoria. A place must be at least
revised September 2012);
of local significance to be included in the
Recommended planning controls are
Melbourne Planning Scheme (MPS) Heritage
provided for places and buildings Overlay4.
worthy of conservation;
Draft Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Heritage criteria summary
for places recommended for a
The Victorian Planning Provisions (VPP)
Heritage Overlay is provided (see
Practice Note, Applying the heritage overlay
table under Summary of findings);
2012 cites the following criteria as briefly
All identified places of individual
described below:
cultural significance are marked on a
Planning Scheme base map or A place may have:
Melbourne City Council base map as
A importance to the course or pattern of
supplied within each place
our cultural or natural history (historical
assessment3;
signifcance);
Covering report for each place
assessed individually is provided (see B uncommon rare or endangered aspects
Appendix 2: Detailed heritage of our cultural or natural history (rarity);
assessments of individually significant
C potential to yield information that will
places),
contribute to an understanding of our cultural
All reporting is in Adobe Portable
or natural history (research potential);
Document Format (PDF) and
Microsoft Word form as required; D importance in demonstrating the
A database of the project which principal characteristics of a class of cultural or
includes all the listed buildings and natural places or environments
which can be used by the Council for (representativeness);
future studies has been supplied as
E importance in exhibiting particular
CSV delimited text. aesthetic characteristics (aesthetic
signifcance);
The schedule of place assessments in
Appendix 1: Heritage Assessments is based in F Importance in demonstrating a high
part on the following with added footnotes and degree of creative or technical achievement at
updated information as required: a particular period (technical signifcance);
Graeme Butler 1984, Flemington & G. Strong or special association with a
Kensington Conservation Study, particular community or cultural group for
Graeme Butler 1983 North and West social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This
Melbourne Conservation Study, and includes the signifcance of a place to
Allom Lovell and Associates 1999 City Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing
of Melbourne Heritage Review. and developing cultural traditions (social
signifcance);
H Special association with the life or works
of a person, or group of persons, of
importance in our history (associative
signifcance).

Historical themes
2 Heritage Places outside of the Capital City Zone, Clause
22.05
3 Varied to include Land Victoria Planning Maps Online 4 See MPS schedule to clause 43.01
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The historical themes that form the separate point or paragraph should be
background to place assessment derive from used for each criterion satisfied. The
Context 2011: City of Melbourne Thematic relevant criterion should be inserted in
Environmental History (final). The themes can brackets after each point or
be loosely associated with the Australian paragraph. Each point or paragraph
Historic Themes matrix and the Victoria may include the threshold for which
Framework of Historic Themes developed by the place is considered important.
Heritage Victoria.
Reporting sequence
Refer to Appendix 3 Heritage Overlay Area
Statements of Significance, historical themes Reporting in this project provided for a draft
and thematic chronology for details of themes final report with a number of management
and their links with the other thematic options. These options were considered by the
structures in the study area. City of Melbourne strategic planners who
provided their preferences. Based on these,
Statement of Significance format Graeme Butler & Associates then produced a
The Statement of Significance format used for final report: this has allowed for a realistic
the detailed assessments in Appendix 2 is outcome that provides a fast track to a
from Applying the Heritage Overlay Practice planning scheme amendment.
Note 01 (as revised September 2012). This
format is as follows: Study findings
What is significant? The following summary table of places in
location alphabetical order were assessed in
How is it significant?
this project with proposed and existing
Why is it significant? heritage gradings provided, as derived from
the incorporated document Heritage Places
Statement of Significance Inventory July 2008.
What is significant?
Summary of findings
This section should be brief, usually no Most places assessed in heritage overlays
more than one paragraph or a series of have changed little since identified in the
dot points. There should be no doubt 1983-4 conservation studies and hence
about the elements of the place that are the values identified then have remained,
under discussion. The paragraph should often with the addition of historical values
identify features or elements that are hitherto unknown (see MGA 2010 work).
significant about the place, for example, Comparable places to those assessed
house, outbuildings, garden, plantings, have been reduced in number and hence
ruins, archaeological sites, interiors as a this reduction has increased the relative
guide to future decision makers. Mention significance of some of the buildings.
could also be made of elements that are
Some places were identified outside of
not significant. existing Heritage Overlay Areas that
expressed similar historic themes to these
How is it significant?
areas but had a potentially contributory
A sentence should be included to the value only- these remain as options to
effect that the place is important because include as isolated fragments of the
of its historical signifcance, its rarity, its existing heritage overlay on the basis of
research potential, its representativeness, the revised practice note, Applying the
its aesthetic signifcance, its technical Heritage Overlay5.
signifcance and/or its associative The central role of North Melbourne and
signifcance. These descriptors are shown Kensington, within the industrial
in brackets at the end of the heritage development of the Colony, the State, and
criteria listed above. The sentence should Australia, has been recognised in the
indicate the threshold for which the place MGA work, as expressed by some of the
is considered important. assessed places in this report.
A number of 1850s gold-rush era buildings

remain in the area as included in this
Why is it significant? assessment.

This should elaborate on the criterion
that makes the place significant. A 5 See p2 of practice note: not proceeded with by MCC
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The information in the City’s i-heritage on- Some historical data provided in some of
line database is sometimes based on the past reviews of places within the
rudimentary or inaccurate research. This project area is incorrect- this has been
database should be reviewed and revised remedied in this review.
as required to assist management of The incorporated document, the Heritage
cultural assets in the City and provide the Place Inventory 2008 is, in part,
public and potential permit applicants with incomplete and/or incorrect and requires
accurate heritage place information. immediate review given its policy status.
Some of the individually listed places The significant collection of MCC building
within the heritage overlay and the study permit application drawings held at the
area had no Statement of Significance – Victorian Public Records Office are rolled
these have typically been provided in this up in tubes, with consequent access and
review. conservation issues, and some drawings
are in need of urgent conservation.
Summary table of assessed places
Refer to Appendix 4: Heritage definitions used by Melbourne City Council for A,B,C,D,E and 1, 2,3
building and streetscape grading definitions respectively. The table provides existing and proposed
heritage status but for more detail refer to Appendix 1: Heritage Assessments: contributory and non
contributory places and Appendix 2: Detailed heritage assessments of individually significant places.

Heritage
status, Existing Revised Existing Revised
Name Address Locality
existing or Grading Grading Streetscape Streetscape
proposed
Albermarle KENSINGTON
1 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
2 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
3 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
4 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
5 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
6 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
7 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
8 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
9 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031

Albermarle KENSINGTON
10 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
11 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
12 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
13 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
14 -16 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
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Heritage
status, Existing Revised Existing Revised
Name Address Locality
existing or Grading Grading Streetscape Streetscape
proposed
Albermarle KENSINGTON
15 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
17 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
18 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
19 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
20 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
21 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
22 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
23 HO9 D D 3 2
Street VIC 3031
Albermarle KENSINGTON
25 HO9 - D - 2
Street VIC 3031
MB Wragg & Albermarle KENSINGTON
43 HO251 - C - 2
Co Street VIC 3031
MB Wragg & Albermarle KENSINGTON
45 HO251 - C - 2
Co Street VIC 3031
MB Wragg & Albermarle KENSINGTON
47 HO251 - C - 2
Co Street VIC 3031

MB Wragg & Albermarle KENSINGTON
49 HO251 - C - 2
Co Street VIC 3031
MB Wragg & Albermarle KENSINGTON
51 HO251 - C - 2
Co Street VIC 3031
North
Melbourne NORTH
Housing Alfred Street 1 -33 MELBOURNE VIC - D-C?6 - -
Commission of 3051
Victoria Estate
NORTH
Farrell's - 101
Alfred Street 59 MELBOURNE VIC proposed - C - 3
stables, part part
3051
Henderson's
Federal Spring NORTH
- 101
Works site - Alfred Street 59 MELBOURNE VIC E - - -
now Vacant part 3051
site
City of
Melbourne NORTH
Proposed
Electric Alfred Street 60 MELBOURNE VIC - D - 3
Company sub- 3051 part HO3?
station
NORTH
Proposed
House Alfred Street 62 MELBOURNE VIC - D - 3
3051 part HO3?

6 To be further assessed based on a typology developed across the State.
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Heritage
status, Existing Revised Existing Revised
Name Address Locality
existing or Grading Grading Streetscape Streetscape
proposed
Proposed
Anderson (3-
North & West Heritage
21) & Laurens
Melbourne WEST Overlay
(24-78)
Biscuit Making varies MELBOURNE VIC Area as B B 3 1
& Flour Milling Streets, 3003 extension of
Munster
precinct existing
Terrace (1-15)
HO455
Smith & Sons,
Proposed
later Brockhoff WEST
Anderson part of
& Co Victoria 3 -5 MELBOURNE VIC C 1
Steam Biscuit Street 3003 extended
HO455
Factory
Dovedale
WEST
Cottage or Anderson
6 -8 MELBOURNE VIC HO839 D C 3 2
Bentley's Street
3003
house
WEST
Bentley's row Anderson
10 MELBOURNE VIC HO839 D C 3 2
houses Street 3003
WEST
Bentley's row Anderson
12 MELBOURNE VIC HO839 D C 3 2
houses Street 3003
Gadsden P/L
WEST
warehouse, Anderson
14 -16 MELBOURNE VIC Proposed D C - 2
later City West Street
3003
Auto Wreckers
WEST
Harrison's Anderson
20 MELBOURNE VIC HO839 C C - 2
house Street 3003
Proposed
TB Guest Anderson WEST
part
biscuit factory Street and 7 -21, 22 MELBOURNE VIC B B 3 1
extended
complex, part Laurens Street 3003
HO455
NORTH
Arden Street 161 -167 MELBOURNE VIC HO3 - - - -
3051
Mature pepper NORTH
tree row, Arden Street 208 -290 MELBOURNE VIC Proposed - C - 3
CityWide site 3051
NORTH
Arden Street 243 MELBOURNE VIC - - - -
3051
HO814,
Moonee Ponds proposed
KENSINGTON
Creek Arden Arden Street 269 -273 part Heritage C C 3 3
VIC 3031
Street Bridge Overlay
Area
Kimpton &
Sons Barastoc
Proposed
Products
KENSINGTON part Heritage
Provender Mill, Arden Street 329 -351 - C - 2
VIC 3031 Overlay
later part
Area
Gaston Bros
P/L works site
Alfred
KENSINGTON
Lawrence & Barrett Street 13 -19 HO195 C C 3 3
VIC 3031
Co Ltd offices
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Heritage
status, Existing Revised Existing Revised
Name Address Locality
existing or Grading Grading Streetscape Streetscape
proposed
and
warehouse
(bulk & general
stores)
Limb Scurry &
Limb (part),
Alfred
-37 KENSINGTON
Lawrence Barrett Street 21 Proposed - C - 3
(35) VIC 3031
(main part)
Laboratories
and works
Railway
gravitation
east KENSINGTON
shunting yards Bellair Street Proposed - B - 2
retaining wall, side VIC 3031
and trees
Victorian
Railways KENSINGTON
Bellair Street 206 -214 Proposed B B 2 2
Kensington VIC 3031
signal box
Railway foot
Bellair Street KENSINGTON
bridge, Arden HO863 D C 3 2
Street at Arden St VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 1 HO9 D D 3 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 2 HO9 D D 3 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 3 HO9 D D 3 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 4 HO9 D D 3 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 5 HO9 D D 3 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 6 HO9 - D - 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 7 HO9 - - - 3
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 8 HO9 - - - 3
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 9 HO9 - D - 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 10 HO9 - D - 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 11 HO9 - D - 2
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 12 HO9 - - - 3
VIC 3031
KENSINGTON
Bent Street 13 HO9 - - - 2
VIC 3031
NORTH
Kensington Boundary
2 MELBOURNE VIC Proposed E C 3 3
Hotel, former Road 3051
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