10 Eades Place

10 Eades Place

West Melbourne VIC 3003

photographer: Stephen Hatcher, 2025

Also known as
Previous Address	know as number 15 before 1889	Source: Sands & McDougall Directory 1888
Constructed	28/2/1868
Style	Victorian, Mid: 1860-1875
Architect
Builder	Cullen Brothers

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Land Details

1. Compiled Crown Record Plan Map

2. 1895 MMBW Map

3. John Huggins was the first land purchaser of Lot 7 Section K at the Crown Land Auction held around 1865. John Huggins was a Melbourne-based money lender and agent operating out of 41 Swanston Street. He advertised “ADVANCES, £10, £30, £60, £100, £200, on deposit of deeds” and cash loans on securities, acting as a financial agent during the boom period following the Victorian gold rush.
Business Address: 41 Swanston Street, Melbourne, which was a location for various financial and professional services at the time. Activity: He appears in 1863 newspapers and records (such as The Argus) advertising cash advances and mortgage-related services. Context: He is associated with early Melbourne property, with records indicating he was involved in land subdivision in the area prior to the 1850s and continued operating in the city into the 1860s. His advertisements often appeared alongside other financial agents of the era, such as William Gledhill of Lonsdale Street and Buchan of Little Collins Street.

Building Details

Notice of intent to build.

Street: Eades Place

Number: 2478

Date 28/2/1868

Owner & Builder: Cullen Brothers – of Eades Place

Fee: £2.0.0

Type: Four room house with a private back yard garden.

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Subsequent Building Alterations

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Architectural Features

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes
from the City of Melbourne’s West Melbourne Heritage Review conducted in 2016. Statement of Significance What is significant? Sam Cullen, successful West Melbourne builder-owner, and the Cullen brothers (Samuel and Henry) built most of Eades Place in the Victorian-era. Sam Cullen moved from 32 Eades Place (where Henry Cullen also lived) to this house after he rebuilt it in c1884 and remained the owner-occupier until his death in 1913 and his family for the following years. The first stage of the house was in the 1860s when it probably resembled the row to the south, also built by the Cullens. The Crown Grantees for this site, brothers Henry and Samuel Cullen, died rich men. Contributory elements include: • a two-storey parapeted and stuccoed brick house; • simple detail includes architraves to openings, sill brackets and a cornice with terminating vermiculated blocks; • one-level cast-iron verandah, with concave corrugated iron roof; • double-hung sash windows, three lights on the ground level; • four panel door entry with top and side lights; • iron picket fence on stone plinth; and • contribution to a significant highly cohesive and early residential streetscape, largely associated with the Cullens. The design is much in the style of the other Cullen two storey buildings in Eades Place. How is it significant? Sam Cullen’s house is significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne. Why is it significant? Sam Cullen’s house is significant • Aesthetically, as a simple evocation of the Victorian-era architecture of West Melbourne and an important contributory element in a significant Victorian-era residential streetscape; and • Historically, closely associated with Sam Cullen and his family, one of the brothers who virtually built the entire Eades Place streetscape and a successful owner-builder who lived much of his life in the area, typical of West Melbourne as seen within the City of Melbourne; as representative of a major growth period (Victorian-era) in West Melbourne ‘s development.

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

from the City of Melbourne’s West Melbourne Heritage Review conducted in 2016.

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Sam Cullen, successful West Melbourne builder-owner, and the Cullen brothers (Samuel and Henry) built most of Eades
Place in the Victorian-era. Sam Cullen moved from 32 Eades Place (where Henry Cullen also lived) to this house after he
rebuilt it in c1884 and remained the owner-occupier until his death in 1913 and his family for the following years. The first
stage of the house was in the 1860s when it probably resembled the row to the south, also built by the Cullens. The Crown
Grantees for this site, brothers Henry and Samuel Cullen, died rich men.
Contributory elements include:
• a two-storey parapeted and stuccoed brick house;
• simple detail includes architraves to openings, sill brackets and a cornice with terminating vermiculated blocks;
• one-level cast-iron verandah, with concave corrugated iron roof;
• double-hung sash windows, three lights on the ground level;
• four panel door entry with top and side lights;
• iron picket fence on stone plinth; and
• contribution to a significant highly cohesive and early residential streetscape, largely associated with the Cullens.

The design is much in the style of the other Cullen two storey buildings in Eades Place.

How is it significant?
Sam Cullen’s house is significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne.

Why is it significant?
Sam Cullen’s house is significant
• Aesthetically, as a simple evocation of the Victorian-era architecture of West Melbourne and an important contributory
element in a significant Victorian-era residential streetscape; and
• Historically, closely associated with Sam Cullen and his family, one of the brothers who virtually built the entire Eades
Place streetscape and a successful owner-builder who lived much of his life in the area, typical of West Melbourne
as seen within the City of Melbourne; as representative of a major growth period (Victorian-era) in West Melbourne ‘s
development.

Owners

From	To	Owner	More Info	Data Source
		Private		Hatcher Index
1867		Samuel and Henry Cullen brothers, builders		Hatcher Index
circa 1865		John Huggins first Crown Land purchaser		Hatcher Index
abt 40 thousand years earlier	1835	Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoria	Hatcher Index

Residents

From	To	Resident	Data Source
	to date	Private (house 10)	Hatcher Index
1965	1974	Bagala, Vincenzo [blacksmith] & Carmela (house 10)	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2024
1935	1960	Rogers, Stephen Francis [driver] & Mary Ann (house 10)	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2024
1925	1930	Bosworth, Henry William [commission agent] & Rose (house 10)	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1917	1924	Haines, Mrs Mary Ann nee Taylor (house 10)	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1916	1916	Moylan, John M. [football player]	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1889	1915	Cullen, Samuel & Mrs Sarah (house 10) new street number	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1885	1888	Cullen, Samuel & Mrs Sarah (house 15) old street number	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1884	1884	Smith, Charles H.	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1883	1883	Eastaway, George	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1882	1882	Mountain, John Strong junior	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1880	1881	Brown, Thomas	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1879	1879	Atkinson, Wilfred Bruce	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1877	1878	Smith, Marjory nee Fraser	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1876	1877	Reynolds, J. N. [seedsman & florest]	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1874	1875	Thom, Ellen	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1872	1872	Lewis, Arthur	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1868	1871	Strutt, James [draper] & Annie (house 15)	Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025
1867		house being built (Cullen brothers)

Social History

MACOURT—SMITH.— On the 6th inst., at 15 Eades-place, West Melbourne, by Rev. A. Davidson, William Allan Macourt to Mary Smith.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143272914

Context and Streetscape

Precinct
The property is within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. source: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/history-city-of-melbourne.pdf historical map source: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-format/maps/maps-melbourne-city-suburbs

Zoning
The controls listed below affect this property: Zones: GRZ1 General Residential Zone 1 Schedule Overlays: HO3 North & West Melbourne Precinct Schedule

Streetscape
The Eades Place is characterised by double-storey or double-fronted Victorian-era terraces (circa late 1850s to 1890s) row houses featuring cast-iron verandahs, stucco wall finishes, original handmade brickwork, some with brick or picket fences, some with concave corrugated verandah iron roofs; some with architraves to openings, sill brackets and detailed cornices.

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Timelapse Building Images

Land Details

Building Details

Subsequent Building Alterations

Architectural Features

Heritage Significance and Listings

Owners

Residents

Social History

Context and Streetscape

Zones: GRZ1 General Residential Zone 1

Overlays: HO3 North & West Melbourne Precinct

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