This is a picturesque weatherboard Federation villa. It retains many of its original features including bay windows, front corner verandah with twin posts and fretwork, half-timbered gable ends and terracotta tile roof. The site is contributory in the Central Business Area Heritage Precinct HO166.
The works subject to the funding application involved proposed reinstatement of the front corner verandah timber balustrade and the front capped timber picket fence. The reinstatement works are based on evidence retained on the building of the verandah balustrade as well as a similar dwelling located in the same area of Ballarat that retains its original verandah balustrade and capped timber picket fence. In August 2016, the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $4,000 towards reinstatement of the balustrade and the capped timber picket front fence.
The works return the residence to an earlier, original appearance and enhance the contribution the property makes to the streetscape.
This property is one of a pair of two-storey, stuccoed brick terrace houses with two-level cast-iron verandahs. The ironwork and windows have been altered to No. 13 but No. 15 is intact in this regard.
In November 2018, the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $6,000 to remove the aluminium window and reinstate a timber Victorian window to match the adjacent terrace at 15 Chapman Street.
The works were completed in January 2020 and the reinstated Victorian window matches the adjacent terrace and greatly enhances the appearance of 13 Chapman Street.
Built in 1900 or earlier, Lumeah is of high local significance as an externally intact example of the modest weatherboard cottages that were once a feature of Berwick and helped give the township a rural character. The building is individually listed in the Casey Heritage Overlay (HO90)
In September 2022, the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $10,000 towards replacement of the existing roof cladding on the condition that it is replaced with traditional galvanised iron in short sheets to match the existing.
The works were completed in June 2023 and the roof cladding replacement works retain the original appearance of the dwelling and ensure its protection into the future.
This is an impressive Victorian brick residence with an unusual recessed arched entrance.
The proposed works for funding involved restoration of the two chimneys, which are prominent original features of the residence. The chimneys were in poor repair and required some mortar repair work and replacement as the mortar joints were visibly deteriorated and causing bricks to dislodge. A scaffold was required to restore the chimneys, making the project more expensive to undertake. The quotes provided for the chimney restoration works both outlined use of a lime based mortar for the joint repairs/repointing.
In September 2022, the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $3,000 towards restoration of the two front chimneys using a lime based mortar. The works were completed in 2022 and have stabilised the chimneys and improved the appearance of the building as viewed from the street.
This is the end house in a row of five Victorian style brick terrace houses constructed in 1887. The row is substantially intact and demonstrating key features of the Victorian style including bi-chrome brickwork, timber sash windows, hipped roofs, bracketed eaves and rendered chimneys. The funding application for the end terrace was for removal of previous bad mortar repairs and re-pointing of the façade. The previous repairs were unsightly and undertaken with cement rich mortar and much of the original tuckpointing had also been lost.
In 2021 the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $5,000 towards mortar repairs and re-tuckpointing the façade. The works were completed in 2022 and greatly improve the appearance of the façade in the streetscape and ensure that the brickwork is protected into the future.
This is one of a row of single storey attached terrace houses with varying detailing. This terrace is substantially intact and is single fronted with polychrome brickwork in a zig-zag pattern.
The application for funding was to reinstate a Victorian style fence to the front of the property. The existing fence dated from the 1960s and was in poor condition and detracting from the appearance of this property as viewed from the street. The design of the replacement fence was based on surviving original fences to similar buildings in the row of terraces and was therefore considered reinstatement of an original feature.
In November 2020, the VHRF Committee of Management agreed to offer a grant of $5,000 towards the reinstatement of a Victorian iron palisade fence. The reinstatement of the original fence, completed in 2021, greatly improves the contribution this property makes to the heritage streetscape and returns an important part of the property to its earlier appearance.
