36 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 built in the row at 34-40 Eades Place, 36 Eades Place was built in 1884 and owned and briefly
occupied by boot and shoemaker, Henry Munn. Munn had owned and occupied a brick and timber shop and residence
of three rooms on the site of 38-40 Eades Place since the 1870s and moved to this house after its erection. In 1893-4 he
added 40, in which he was residing at his daughter’s death in 1894. Munn’s other houses were leased to John Mountain
(36) and Edwin Buckley (38) in the 1890s. Munn died at Bay Road, Sandringham in 1912.

Contributory elements include:
• a two-storeyed stuccoed and brick parapeted row house
• simple parapet cornice,
• segmentally arched parapet entablatures, 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?
Henry Munn’s row house is significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne.

Why is it significant?
Henry Munn’s row house is significant.
• Aesthetically, the house is near original, simply ornamented and fenestrated which is atypical of the construction date of
this house, indicating the owner’s desire for visual cohesion in the group’s development; and
• Historically, evocative of a major growth period in West Melbourne.