Citation No:
City of Port Phillip Heritage Review House
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Identifier
993
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Heritage Precinct Overlay HO3 Heritage Overlay(s)
Address
34 Ferrars Place SOUTH MELBOURNE
Constructed 1877
Category Residential:detached Designer unknown
Amendment C 29 Comment Significance (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.) 34 Ferrars Place is of significance as a substantial house built for one of south Melbourne’s leading professionals in the mid-Victorian period. While of a building form common to areas such as East Melbourne, this house is not of a common scale or form to South Melbourne and it represents one of the larger developments associated with the St Vincent Place area.
Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987
Other Studies Description Original Use: Residence Date of Construction: 1877 (1) Dr Charles Duret was the owner of fifty-three by ninety-nine feet of vacant land in Crown Section 37B from as early as 1875 (2). By 1877 he had erected his fifteen-roomed brick mansion, given a first N.A.V. of £130 (3). Duret started his practice in Emerald Hill quite early in the area’s development (4) and on his retirement Dr Marcel Crivelli, of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, carried on the work. Crivelli became the owner and occupier of Duret’s mansion in 1899 and the property remained in his ownership until the turn of the century (5) when the Crivelli family built new premises at No. 40 Ferrars Place (q.v.) (6). The house has a simple rendered façade marked with ruling to represent ashlar blocks and is decorated with bold architrave mouldings to the opening. The arched moulding and the six panelled front door are intact and particularly fine. The verandah is decorated with cast iron (although the original nature of all the iron required verification), and has slate flagging to its floor. The eave is decorated with sparsely set brackets and the moulded render chimneys and cast iron fence are intact.