22 Eades Place

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

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Edward Williams was the owner-builder of this six room brick house in 1883 on a site where previously he had owned a
smaller three room wooden house. After 1890 he leased it out.

Contributory elements include:
• dichrome brick and stuccoed, two-storey row house;
• austere segment-arched cemented entablature, at the parapet;
• flanking cement scrolls comprise, with the vermiculated side walls, the only stucco decoration;
• double-hung sash windows;
• four panel entry door with toplight;
• quoining achieved in contrasting brick colours (cream, brown);
• single level cast-iron verandah with frieze and brackets;
• double palisade front fence and gate on dressed stone plinth; and
• contributory role in a significant Victorian-era residential streetscape as contrasting in use of materials but matching the
other houses in form, siting and detail.

The house is currently secured with sheet metal to lower windows. Parapet urns are missing and part of the brickwork is
painted over.

How is it significant?
Edward Williams house is significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne.

Why is it significant?
Edward Williams house is significant.
• Aesthetically, a near original example of a common Victorian-era row house form, distinguished here by the use of
coloured brickwork, also contributory to a significant residential Victorian-era streetscape; and
• Historically, the house represents a major growth period (Victorian-era) in West Melbourne ‘s development.