2 Eades Place

Statement of Significance

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

Contributory elements include:
• a double fronted single-storey stuccoed brick house;
• simple detail includes solid bluestone sills and red brickwork;
• one-level cast-iron verandah, with tiled roof;
• double-hung sash windows, two lights on the ground level;
• four panel door entry;
• timber picket 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 single 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 the Samuel and Henry Cullen and their extended family, brothers who virtually built the entire Eades
Place and shops on Victoria Street streetscape and a successful owner-builders who lived much of their lives 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.