Abbotsford Median PriceThe House price is 9% lower than last year.
Surrounding suburbs| Clifton Hill | $1,569,200  | | Collingwood | $1,141,000 | | Fairfield | $1,663,400  | | Hawthorn | $2,302,000 | | Kew | $2,344,600 | | Richmond | $1,460,700 |
Abbotsford Median RentThe House rent is 9% higher than last year.
| | Map | Street view | Nearby property price | | Planning History: | | | Registered as Victorian heritage | What is significant?
The former hotel at no. 323-325 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, was constructed in the nineteenth century with facade alterations undertaken in the early 1930s. It has a series of hipped roof forms clad in corrugated galvanised steel, and a collection of chimneys. The Victoria Street facade returns around Nicholson Street on the east side in a smooth-stuccoed finish with a parapet rising in three rounded steps to the curved corner, with course line mouldings and a flagpole anchored in two of the mouldings. At first floor level there are steel-framed windows with fanlights and horizontally-proportioned panes to both the south and east elevations. The first floor corner is also set with steel-framed horizontally-proportioned windows that are faceted to fit the curve of the corner, and doors at either end of the corner window opening to a curved cantilevered balcony with steel tube balustrade. The ground floor has been altered externally.
How is it significant?
The former hotel at no. 323-325 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, is of local historical and aesthetic/architectural significance.
Why is it significant?
The former hotel at no. 323-325 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, is of local historical significance. The property has accommodated a hotel for approximately 130 years, beginning with Simpson's Hotel from at least the 1850s, when Victoria Street was known as Simpson's Road and the section of street between Hoddle and Nicholson streets was developing its retail and commercial character. The earlier hotel was replaced by the current two-storey brick building, possibly in the 1880s, when it was known as the Duke of Albany Hotel; and in the 1930s, the external appearance of the hotel was dramatically altered, in line with many hotel makeovers of the interwar years. The former hotel is also of local aesthetic/architectural significance, and is distinguished by the Streamlined Moderne remodeling of the early 1930s. The date of the early 1930s also places this particular stylistic makeover as a comparatively early example. Although altered in part, the Streamlined Moderne styling of the building still reads strongly, particularly the curved emphasis to the Victoria and Nicholson street corner. Elements of note include the three-stepped parapet with course line mouldings; flagpole anchored in two of the mouldings; steel-framed windows; faceted windows to the first floor corner; and the curved cantilevered balcony with steel tube balustrade. |
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