12 Eades Place

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Samuel and Henry Cullen, successful West Melbourne builder-owners, built most of Eades Place in the Victorian-era.

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 iron verandah, with straight corrugated iron roof;
• sash windows, one light on the ground level;
• four panel door entry with top light;
• brick fence; 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?
Cullen’s house is significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne.

Why is it significant?
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.