34 Eades Place

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

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
One of four similar houses in the row at 34-40 Eades Place, 34 Eades Place was built in 1879 and owned and occupied
by William Chambers and his wife for the next twenty years. Adjoining them, a boot and shoemaker, Henry Munn built 36
Eades Place in 1884 and c1894 he added 38-40, in which he was residing by 1895. Munn’s other houses being leased to
John Mountain and Edwin Buckley.

Contributory elements include:
• a two-storeyed stuccoed and brick parapeted row house
• simple parapet cornice,
• parapet entablatures, gabled and arched with scrolls and date;
• built to the street alignment, with consequent shuttering of the ground level window;
• symmetrical fenestration and string-mould;
• double-hung sash windows;
• shutters and doorway with toplight; and
• contribution to a highly cohesive Victorian-era residential streetscape of simply elevated buildings.
House being renovated at time of survey.

How is it significant?
William Chambers’ row house is significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne.

Why is it significant?
William Chambers’ row house is significant.
• Aesthetically, the house is near original, simply ornamented and fenestrated which is typical of the early construction
date of this house but not the later two of the row (36.40), indicating the desire for visual cohesion in the group’s
development; and
• Historically, evocative of a major growth period in West Melbourne.