40 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, 38 Eades Place was built as a brick shop of four rooms in
1884, next to his new residence at 36, 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. In 1893-4 he added the four room brick house at 40 Eades Place also converting 38 to a matching house. He was
residing at 40 Eades Place at his daughter’s death in 1894. Munn’s houses were leased to John Mountain (36) and Edwin
Buckley (38) in the 1890s. Munn died at Sandringham in 1912.

Contributory elements include:
• a two-storeyed stuccoed and brick parapeted row houses;
• simple parapet cornice;
• built to the street alignment, with consequent shuttering of the ground level windows;
• symmetrical fenestration and string-mould;
• double-hung sash windows;
• shutters and doorways with toplights; and
• contribution to a highly cohesive Victorian-era residential streetscape of similarly simply elevated buildings.

How is it significant?
Henry Munn’s row houses are significant historically and aesthetically to West Melbourne.

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