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| 21 TO 25 BOUVERIE STREET CARLTON 3053 |
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| Heritage Gradings |
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| Building Grading | Streetscape Level | Laneway Level |
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| D | 3 |
| Conservation Study Details |
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| Precinct | Conservation Mgt Plan |
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| Carlton Heritage Precinct | |
| Conservation Study | Study Date | Status |
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| City of Melbourne Heritage Review 1999 - Allom Lovell and Associates 1999 | | Adopted |
| Building and History Information |
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| Architectural Style | Inter War |
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| Period | 1926-39 - Inter War |
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| Architect | |
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| Builder | Not Assessed |
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| Integrity | Good |
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| Condition | Good |
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| Original Building Type | Warehouse |
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| History | The records of the Melbourne City Council indicate that a building permit application was made on 17 May 1928 for the erection of a factory at 21 - 25 Bouverie Street, Carlton, to cost 9,813 (pounds). This building replaced a smaller brick factory that had been erected on the site only four years earlier. The present building first appears in the Sands & McDougall directory for 1930, designated as 'storage' for the Modern Printing Company. This firm, styled as 'printers and manufacturing stationers', had their head office nearby at 18 Leicester Street. Subsequent directories reveal that the company continued to use the Bouverie Street building until the early 1970's. |
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| Description/Notable Features | The Modern Printing Company building is a three storey brick inter-War warehouse with an approximately symmetrical facade. The two upper storeys are separated from the ground floor level by a moulded rendered frieze, and the roof is concealed behind a parapet. The ground level, of red face brick, comprises a central recessed entry with a rendered architrave, flanked by a pair of secondary doorways and two small windows. The upper section, of clinker brick, is divided by pilaster strips into three wide bays, each of which contains three narrow windows at each level. The windows are steel framed sashes with hopper vents. At the centre of the low parapet is a rendered cartouche bearing the date 1928. |
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| Statement of Significance | This building is of local historical and aesthetic interest. Continuously occupied by its original owners. The Modern Printing Company, for over four decades, the building demonstrates the type of commercial development that has characterised this part of Carlton for most of the twentieth century. Aesthetically, the building is a good and particularly intact example of an inter-War commercial building in a conservative style, distinguished by its sparse Classical detailing and bold brickwork. |
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Information is derived from the relevant Conservation Study. To check if the property is subject to statutory heritage protection, refer to the Heritage Overlay (Clause 43.01) of the http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/planningschemes/melbourne/home.html">Melbourne Planning Scheme and the http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/">Victorian Heritage Register. |
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