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Urban Planning Special Committee Agenda
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PlanningandEnvironmentAct1987
PanelReport
BoroondaraPlanningSchemeAmendmentC178
HeritageOverlay
18May2015
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
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PlanningandEnvironmentAct1987
PanelReportpursuanttoSection25oftheAct
HeritageOverlay
1818May2015
GayeMcKenzie,Chair
HelenMartin,Member
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City of Boroondara
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BoroondaraPlanningSchemeAmendmentC178_PanelReport_18May2015
Contents
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ExecutiveSummary..............................................................................................................i
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Introduction................................................................................................................1
1.1 TheAmendment...................................................................................................... 1
1.2 ThePanel................................................................................................................. 1
1.3 Thesubjectlandandsurrounds.............................................................................. 2
1.4 Backgroundtotheproposal.................................................................................... 2
1.5 Issuesdealtwithinthisreport................................................................................ 3
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StrategicPlanningContext..........................................................................................4
2.1 Legislativeframework............................................................................................. 4
2.2 Policyframework..................................................................................................... 4
2.3 Planningschemeprovisions.................................................................................... 6
2.4 Otherstudies........................................................................................................... 9
2.5 MinisterialDirectionsandPracticeNotes.............................................................10
2.6 Discussion.............................................................................................................. 11
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IdentificationandAssessmentProcesses..................................................................12
3.1 TheIssue................................................................................................................ 12
3.2 EvidenceonbehalfofCouncil–MsNSchmeder..................................................12
3.3 Submissions........................................................................................................... 14
3.4 Discussionandconclusions................................................................................... 15
3.5 Recommendation.................................................................................................. 16
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HeritagePrecinct......................................................................................................17
4.1 HO590–GrangeAvenueHeritagePrecinct..........................................................17
4.2 DescriptionofPrecinct.......................................................................................... 17
4.3 StatementofSignificance(extract)....................................................................... 17
4.4 Evidenceandsubmissions..................................................................................... 18
4.5 Discussionandconclusions................................................................................... 19
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IndividualHeritagePlaces.........................................................................................20
5.1 HO594–59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn................................................................... 20
5.2 HO603–415–417HighStreet,Kew.................................................................... 22
5.3 HO591–13–15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury.........................................................25
5.4 HO593–165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene..........................................................28
5.5 HO600–4AMontroseStreet,Hawthorn..............................................................33
5.6 HO20–1045BurkeRoad,HawthornEast............................................................42
AppendixA ListofSubmitters
AppendixB
DocumentList
AppendixC
HERCONHeritageCriteria
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ListofTables
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Table1
PartiestothePanelHearing.................................................................................... 2
Table2
Source of identification of places as having potential heritage
significance............................................................................................................ 14
ListofAbbreviations
C1Z
Commercial1Zone
DELWP
DepartmentofEnvironment,Land,WaterandPlanning
DTPLI
DepartmentofTransport,PlanningandLocalInfrastructure(former)
GRZ
GeneralResidentialZone
HO
HeritageOverlay
LPPF
LocalPlanningPolicyFramework
MSS
MunicipalStrategicStatement
NRZ
NeighbourhoodResidentialZone
NTR
NationalTrustRegister
RNE
RegisteroftheNationalEstate
SPPF
StatePlanningPolicyFramework
VPP
VictoriaPlanningProvisions
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Overview
AmendmentSummary
TheAmendment
CommonName
HeritageOverlay
SubjectSite
Various
TheProponent
BoroondaraCityCouncil
PlanningAuthority
BoroondaraCityCouncil
Authorisation
Notrequired
Exhibition
16Octoberto21November2014
Submissions
Elevensubmissionsreceivedwhichincludednineobjecting
submissions
PanelProcess
ThePanel
GayeMcKenzie(Chair)andHelenMartin
DirectionsHearing
CityofBoroondaraofficeson26March2015
PanelHearing
21,22,23and28April2015
SiteInspections
Unaccompaniedinspectionson26Marchand28April2015
Appearances
SeeTable1
DateofthisReport
18May2015
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ExecutiveSummary
(i)
Summary
Amendment C178, as exhibited, proposes to apply the Heritage Overlay on a permanent
basisto17individualpropertiesandonesmallprecinctoffiveproperties.ItamendsClause
22.05toincludethePrecinct’sStatementofSignificanceandmakesitsCitationaReference
DocumentinthePlanningScheme.ItalsoamendstheScheduletotheHeritageOverlaythat
currentlyappliesto1045BurkeRoadtotriggerthepermitrequirementsoftheSchedulefor
treesandfencesandoutbuildings.
ElevensubmissionswerereceivedtotheAmendment,withnineopposingtheapplicationof
the heritage overlay to their properties. Two of the submitters also queried the
thoroughnessofthecomparativeassessmentsundertakenforparticularproperties.
Onthe21April2015,atitsHearing,thePanelwasprovidedwithadvicethat,actingunder
delegation from the Minister for Planning, the Executive Director Ͳ Statutory Planning and
Heritage had determined to prepare, adopt and approve Amendment C211 to the
BoroondaraPlanningSchemetoapplyinterimcontrolsoverallbuttwopropertiescontained
inAmendmentC178.
Thereasonsforexcludingthetwopropertiesrelatedtobuildingworksproposedononeand
thelocationoftheotherinanActivityCentre.
ThePanelhasconsideredthewrittensubmissionsaswellasthesubmissionsandevidence
presentedtoitattheHearing.
With one exception, the Panel supports the application of the Heritage Overlay to the
propertiescontainedintheAmendment.Italsosupportstheminorchangesmadetosome
oftheCitations,postͲexhibition,toreflectadditionalinformationprovidedbysubmittersfor
theirproperties.Inparticular,theserelateto59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn,415–417High
Street,Kew,11–13IrilbarraRoad,Canterburyand1045BurkeRoad,Camberwell.
ThePanelnotedthatwhiletheCitationfortheheritageprecincthasbeenmadeaReference
Document in the Scheme, those for the individual properties have not. The Panel has
recommended that the Citations for these individual properties also be made a Reference
DocumentintheScheme.
ThePaneldoesnotsupporttheapplicationoftheHeritageOverlayto165WhitehorseRoad
Deepdeneforthereasonssetoutinthebodyofthisreport.
ThePanelhasalsorecommendedthattheSchedulebeamendedtoallowconsiderationof
prohibited uses at 415Ͳ417 High Street, Kew. The Panel supports the Council decision to
removetreecontrolsfrom59AuburnRoad,Hawthornand1045BurkeRoad,HawthornEast.
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(ii)
Recommendation
BasedonthereasonssetoutinthisReport,thePanelrecommendsthat:
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BoroondaraPlanningSchemeAmendmentC178beadoptedasexhibited,subjectto
thefollowingchanges:
a) Addthestatementsofsignificanceforindividualplacesrecommendedforlistingon
the Heritage Overlay through Amendment C178 (collected together into a single
document, titled ‘Individually Significant Heritage Places – Amendment C178’ or
similar)tothepolicyreferencesinsubͲclause22.05Ͳ7.
b) Substitute the word ‘No’ for ‘Yes, two Norfolk Island Pines’ in the column ‘Tree
ControlsApply?’intheentryforHO594,‘FormerAstolatLadiesCollege’,59Auburn
Road,HawthornEast.
c) Amend the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay to include the word ‘Yes’ under the
Column‘Prohibitedusesmaybepermitted?’forHO603,415–417HighStreet,Kew.
d) Deletethepropertyat165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene(HO593)fromtheHeritage
Overlay.
e) Substitute the word ‘No’ for ‘Yes (Specimens of Privet, Crab Apple, and plants
comprisingTapestryHedgeonBurkeandRathminesRoadfrontages)’inthecolumn
‘Tree Controls Apply’ in the entry for HO20, ‘Arden’, 1045 Burke Road, Hawthorn
East.
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1
Introduction
1.1
TheAmendment
Boroondara Planning Scheme Amendment C178 (the Amendment) was prepared by the
BoroondaraCouncilasPlanningAuthority.Asexhibited,theAmendmentproposesto:
x Amend the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay at Clause 43.01 of the Boroondara
PlanningSchemeandthePlanningSchemeMapsbyapplyingtheHeritageOverlay
(HO)onapermanentbasisto:
- HO588 27CanterburyRoad,Camberwell(Lot1TP613803&Lot1TP399716)
- HO589 1395ToorakRoad,Camberwell(formerStateSavingsBank)
- HO590 2,4,6,8and10GrangeAvenue,Canterbury(GrangeAvenueResidential
Precinct)
- HO591 13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury
- HO592 52, 54, 56 and 58 Rochester Road, Canterbury (former Canterbury
BrickworksHousing)
- HO593 165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene(formerDeepdenePostOffice)
- HO594 59 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn (external paint controls and tree controls
proposed;prohibitedusesmaybepermitted)
- HO595 277AuburnRoad,Hawthorn(RiversdaleHotel)
- HO596 287Ͳ289AuburnRoad,Hawthorn(formerCarr'sButcherShop)
- HO597 23MorangRoad,Hawthorn
- HO598 45MorangRoad,Hawthorn
- HO599 686Ͳ690BurwoodRoad,HawthornEast(TowerHotel)
- HO600 4AMontroseStreet,HawthornEast
- HO601 88PleasantRoad,HawthornEast(externalpaintcontrolsproposed)
- HO602 5EamonCourt,Kew
- HO603 415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kew
- HO604 8OrfordAvenue,Kew
- HO607 1363BurkeRoad,KewEast
x Amend Clause 22.05 Heritage Policy to include a Statement of Significance for
HO590 Ͳ Grange Avenue Residential Precinct and the citation as a reference
document.
x Amend Schedule 20 to the Heritage Overlay (HO20) at Clause 43.01 of the
Boroondara Planning Scheme by applying ‘tree controls’ as well as ‘fence and
outbuilding notice requirements’ to the existing heritage overlay HO20 affecting
1045BurkeRoad,HawthornEast.
Council was advised on 5 September 2014 by the then Department of Transport, Planning
andLocalInfrastructurethattheAmendmentcouldbepreparedwithoutauthorisation.
1.2
ThePanel
Atitsmeetingof16February2015,followingexhibitionoftheAmendment,Councilresolved
to refer the opposing submissions to a Panel. As a result, a Panel to consider the
Amendment was appointed under delegation from the Minister for Planning on 11 March
2015andcomprisedGayeMcKenzie(Chair)andHelenMartin.
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ThePanelmetintheofficesoftheBoroondaraCouncil(CamberwellLibrary)on21,22and
28 April and at Planning Panels Victoria on 23 April 2015 to hear submissions about the
Amendment.ThoseinattendanceatthePanelhearingarelistedinTable1.
Table1
PartiestothePanelHearing
Submitter
Representedby
BoroondaraCityCouncil MsJoLiu,StrategicPlanner,assistedbyMsShiranthiWidan,whocalled
thefollowingexpertwitnesses:
Ͳ MsNaticaSchmeder,ArchitecturalHistorian,ContextPtyLtd
Ͳ MrSimonReeves,ArchitecturalHistorian,BuiltHeritagePtyLtd
MrBasilHedges
MrAleksKaya
DrTonySobol
BolaloPtyLtd
MrPanosNickas,Lawyer,BestHooper,whocalledthefollowingexpert
witnesses:
Ͳ MrBryceRaworth,Heritage,ConservationConsultantand
ArchitecturalHistorian
Ͳ MrPeterBarrett,ArchitecturalHistorian
MrKennethEdmonds
MsJoanneLardner,Barristerwhocalledthefollowingexpertwitness:
Ͳ MrPeterBarrett,ArchitecturalHistorian
MinterEllison,onbehalfof1045BurkeRoadPtyLtd,originallyrequestedtobeheardatthe
Hearing but advised subsequently that they would not appear. They requested the Panel
take into account an opinion from Mr Bryce Raworth, conservation consultant and
architectural historian, which was presented to and accepted by the Victorian Civil and
AdministrativeTribunal(VCAT).Acopyofthisevidencewasappendedtotheirlettertothe
Panel.
DocumentstabledatthehearingareshowninAppendixB.
1.3
Thesubjectlandandsurrounds
ThelandaffectedbytheAmendmentconsistsofanumberofparcels(listedinsection1.1
above).Mostplacesarelocatedwithinresidentialareasbutfourarecommercialproperties
inactivitycentres.
Opposing submissions referred to six individual places and one proposed precinct. The
planningcontrolsapplyingtothesesitesaresummarisedinChapter2.
1.4
Backgroundtotheproposal
Council,initssubmissiontotheHearing,describedtheprocessesleadinguptoexhibitionof
AmendmentC178.
TheBoroondaraHeritageActionPlan,adoptedin2012,listedthefollowingactionsas‘very
highpriority’:
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x Employafull/parttimeheritageconsultanttoprovideheritageservicesand
advicetotheStrategicPlanningDepartment.
x Develop an annual program of proactive individual heritage assessments
prioritising:
properties graded B or C in former heritage studies which are not in a
heritageoverlayandhavenotbeenreviewedsincetheirinitialgrading
places listed in the Boroondara Thematic Environmental History,
particularlypostwararchitectdesignedbuildings,churchesandhotels
placesontheRegisteroftheNationalEstate.
Itidentifiedafurtheractiontobecarriedoutonanongoingbasis,orasrequired:
Continue to implementa referral process toensure sites ofpossible heritage
significanceareassessedbyaheritageconsultantpriortoissuingreportand
consenttodemolitionunderSection29AoftheBuildingAct1993.
Context Pty Ltd, the firm engaged to provide the services described above, identified 18
individual places and one small precinct for HO listing. These included places assessed in
earlierstudiesbutnotactioned,placesmentionedintheThematicEnvironmentHistoryand
places on the Register of the National Estate. Consultants from Context assessed the
proposed precinct and 17 of the individual places. Context also reviewed the citation for
1045BurkeRoad,HawthornEast(HO20),whichhadbeenreferredasaresultofaplanning
permit process for the property, and recommended the application of tree controls and
activationof‘fenceandoutbuilding’noticerequirementsintheHOschedule.BuiltHeritage
PtyLtdassessedtheremainingindividualplace,4AMontroseStreet,HawthornEast.
1.5
Issuesdealtwithinthisreport
ThePanelconsideredallwrittensubmissions,aswellasevidenceandsubmissionspresented
toitduringthehearing.Inaddressingtheissuesraisedinthosesubmissions,thePanelhas
beenassistedbytheinformationprovidedtoitaswellasitsobservationsfrominspections
ofspecificsites.
Thisreportdealswiththeissuesunderthefollowingheadings:
x StrategicPlanningContext
x IdentificationandAssessmentProcesses
x HeritagePrecinct
x IndividualHeritageProperties.
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StrategicPlanningContext
Council provided a response to the Strategic Assessment Guidelines as part of the
ExplanatoryReport.
ThePanelhasreviewedthepolicycontextoftheAmendmentandmadeabriefappraisalof
therelevantzoneandoverlaycontrolsandotherrelevantplanningstrategies.
2.1
Legislativeframework
ThePlanningandEnvironmentAct1987containsanobjectiveat4[1][b]:
Toconserveandenhancethosebuildings,areasandotherplaceswhichareof
scientific,aesthetic,architecturalorhistoricalinterest,orotherwiseofspecial
culturalvalue.
TheBuildingAct1993,atSection29A,providesthatanyapplicationfordemolition(tothe
extent defined in the section) can only be approved after the report and consent of the
responsible authority has been obtained. Section 29B provides that if the responsible
authoritydoesnotwishtoconsentitcanapplytotheMinisterforPlanningforanexemption
fromadvertisingandproceduralmatterstoprepareanamendmenttotherelevantplanning
scheme,orcanrequesttheMinstertopreparesuchanamendment.Considerationofthe
demolitionpermitmustthenbesuspendedwhiletheAmendmentisprocessed.
2.2
Policyframework
2.2.1 PlanMelbourne–MetropolitanPlanningStrategy,2014
CouncilsubmittedthatPlanMelbournerecognisestheimportanceofMelbourne’sheritage.
It includes Direction 4.7 – Respect our heritage as webuild for the future. It also includes
Initiative4.7.1–ValueHeritagewhenmanaginggrowthandchange,whichstates:
Plan Melbourne aims to protect the city’s heritage and improve heritage
managementprocesseswithintheVictorianplanningsystem.
Council submitted that Amendment C178 supported Plan Melbourne’s Direction 4.7 and
Initiative 4.7.1, as it seeks to protect buildings of local heritage significance in the City of
Boroondara.
2.2.2 StatePlanningPolicyFramework
CouncilsubmittedthattheAmendmentissupportedbythefollowingclauseintheSPPF:
x Clause15.03Ͳ1–Heritageconservation.
This clause seeks to: Ensure the conservation of places of heritage significance. Strategies
identifiedtoachievethisobjectiveinclude:
Identify, assess and document places of natural and cultural heritage
significanceasabasisfortheirinclusionintheplanningscheme.
Provide for the conservation and enhancement of those places which are of
aesthetic, archaeological, architectural, cultural, scientific, or social
significance,orotherwiseofspecialculturalvalue.
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2.2.3 LocalPlanningPolicyFramework
MunicipalStrategicStatement
Council submitted that the Amendment is consistent with the vision and direction for the
municipality,identifiedinClause21.04Ͳ2Mission.ThisstatesthatCouncilwillpreserveand
enhance the amenity of Boroondara’s urban environments and facilitate appropriate
development.
TheAmendment,inCouncil’sview,supportsthefollowinglocalplanningobjective:
x Clause21.05–Heritage,LandscapeandCharacter,inparticularsubͲclause21.05Ͳ3,
whichincludesanobjective:
Toidentifyandprotectallindividualplaces,objectsandprecinctsofcultural
heritage,aboriginal,townscapeandlandscapesignificance.
Oneofthestrategiesidentifiedtoachievethisobjectiveis:
Conserve and enhance individual heritage places and heritage precincts and
aboriginalorculturalfeatureswithinthecity.
Therelevantimplementationactionis:
ApplyingtheHeritageOverlaytoprotectallidentifiedheritageprecinctsand
individual heritage places of cultural, natural and aboriginal heritage
significance.
Furtherstrategicworklistedincludes:
Undertakingstudytofurtheridentifyplacesofcultural,naturalandaboriginal
heritagevalue,andpreparestrategiesfortheirprotection.
LocalPlanningPolicy
CounciladvisedthattherelevantLocalPolicyisClause22.05–HeritagePolicy,which:
…isdirectedattheprotection,conservationandenhancementofallheritage
places.
While the principal role of the heritage policy is to guide the exercise of discretion when
assessing permit applications under the HO, it is relevant to Amendment C178 in that it
includes Statements of Significance for all precincts covered by the Heritage Overlay.
Amendment C178 proposes to add the statement of significance for the Grange Avenue
ResidentialPrecinct(HO590)tothepolicyandtoincludethefullcitationinthelistofpolicy
references.
Theheritagepolicyadvises(at22.05Ͳ4)that:
Whereprepared,statementsofsignificanceforindividualheritageplacescan
befoundintheheritagestudiesreferencedinthisSchemeatClause22.05Ͳ7.
AmendmentC178doesnotproposetoaddthecitationsfortheindividualsignificantplaces
tothepolicyreferences.
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2.3
Planningschemeprovisions
2.3.1 Zones
PlacesproposedforinclusionundertheHOinAmendmentC178arecoveredbythreezones:
Clause32.09–NeighbourhoodResidentialZone–Schedule3(NRZ3);Clause32.08–General
Residential Zone – Schedules 1 and 3 (GRZ1 and GRZ3); and Clause 34.01 – Commercial 1
Zone(C1Z).ThosepropertiesreferredtothePanelanddealtwithinthisreportarezonedas
follows:
x HO590(2,4,6,8&10GrangeAvenue,Canterbury)–NRZ3
x HO591(13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury)–NRZ3
x HO593(165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene)–C1Z
x HO594(59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn)–GRZ3
x HO600(4AMontroseStreet,HawthornEast)–C1Z
x HO603(415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kew)–GRZ3
x HO20(1045BurkeRoad,HawthornEast)–NRZ3.
ThespecificpurposesoftheNRZare:
To recognise areas of predominantly single and double storey residential
development.
Tolimitopportunitiesforincreasedresidentialdevelopment.
To manage and ensure that development respects the identified
neighbourhood character, heritage, environmental or landscape
characteristics.
To implement neighbourhood character policy and adopted neighbourhood
characterguidelines.
To allow educational, recreational, religious, community and a limited range
of other nonͲresidential uses to serve local community needs in appropriate
locations.
TheZoneprovidesthat,unlessadifferentnumberisspecifiedinaschedule,themaximum
numberofdwellingsonalotistwo.Similarly,thebuildingheightofadwellingorresidential
buildingmustnotexceedeightmetres,orninemetresonaslopingsite,unlessthisisvaried
byaschedule.
Schedule3totheNRZintheBoroondaraPlanningSchemeappliestoallareasofthatZonein
Boroondara.Itrequiresapermittoconstructorextendadwellingonalotsmallerthan500
squaremetres.Itdoesnotvaryany‘ResCode’provisionsinClauses54and55,orspecifya
maximum number of dwellings on a lot or a maximum building height for a dwelling or
residentialbuilding.ThismeansthatthedensityandheightprovisionsinClause32.09apply.
ThespecificpurposesoftheGRZare:
Toencouragedevelopmentthatrespectstheneighbourhoodcharacterofthe
area.
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To implement neighbourhood character policy and adopted neighbourhood
characterguidelines.
To provide a diversity of housing types and moderate housing growth in
locationsofferinggoodaccesstoservicesandtransport.
To allow educational, recreational, religious, community and a limited range
of other nonͲresidential uses to serve local community needs in appropriate
locations.
Schedule3totheGRZintheBoroondaraPlanningSchemeistitledEclecticInnerUrbanand
EclecticSuburbanPrecincts.Itrequiresapermittoconstructorextendadwellingonalot
smallerthan500squaremetres.Itdoesnotvaryany‘ResCode’provisionsinClauses54and
55.Itprovidesthatthemaximumbuildingheightofadwellingorresidentialbuildingmust
notexceed10.5metres,or11.5metresonaslopingsite.
ThespecificpurposesoftheC1Zare:
To create vibrant mixed use commercial centres for retail, office, business,
entertainmentandcommunityuses.
To provide for residential uses at densities complementary to the role and
scaleofthecommercialcentre.
2.3.2 Overlays
(i)
OverlaycontrolsatthetimeofexhibitionofAmendmentC178
AtthetimeAmendmentC178wasexhibited,nooverlaysappliedtothepropertiesat
x 13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury
x 59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn
x 415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kew.
‘Arden’ at 1045 Burke Road, Hawthorn East had an existing HO but no additional controls
appliedintheschedule.
Thecommercialpropertiesat4AMontroseStreet,HawthornEastand165WhitehorseRoad,
Deepdene were both covered by a Design and Development Overlay – Schedule 16 and a
ParkingOverlay–Precinct1.TheMontroseStreetsitewasalsosubjecttoanEnvironmental
AuditOverlay.
(ii)
AmendmentC211–Interimheritagecontrols
CouncilhadrequestedtheMinisterforPlanningtoprepareanamendmenttoapplyinterim
HO controls to those properties included in Amendment C178. The Panel was advised on
day2oftheHearingthataletterhadbeenreceivedfromtheDepartmentofEnvironment,
Land, Water and Planning advising that the Minister’s delegate had decided to prepare,
adoptandapproveAmendmentC211totheBoroondaraPlanningScheme.Thisappliesthe
HO (with additional controls where relevant) to all but two of the places covered by
AmendmentC178.
Theplacesthatwerenotgiveninterimprotectionwere13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterburyand
4AMontroseStreet,Hawthorn.Thedelegate’slettersaid:
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The Department has been made aware that there are two properties that
havesoughtdemolitionpermits.
Inregardto13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury,itisconsideredthatuseofthe
Minister’spowersofinterventionwouldnotbeanappropriateresponsetothe
scaleofthedevelopmentthatisproposedinthisparticularinstance.
Asfor,4AMontroseStreet,Hawthorn,theintroductionofaninterimHeritage
Overlay is not consistent with sound, coͲordinated and integrated planning
giventhatthesiteisinanActivityCentrethatforeshadowsnewdevelopment
opportunities.
TheeffectofAmendmentC211istoapplytheHOonaninterimbasistothefollowingsites
thatarethesubjectsofthisreport:
x HO590–2,4,6,8&10GrangeAvenue,Canterbury
x HO593–165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene
x HO594–59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn
x HO603–415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kew
(iii)
HeritageOverlay
The HO aims to conserve and enhance heritage places of natural and cultural heritage
significance, including those elements that contribute to the significance of the place. It
seeks to ensure that development does not adversely affect the significance of heritage
places.Additionalcontrolsmaybeappliedtorequireapermittopaintexternalsurfacesor
toloporremoveatree.Notificationandreviewmayberequiredforsignificantfencesand
outbuildings. Uses that would otherwise be prohibited may be allowed if this would
demonstrablyassistintheconservationofthesignificanceoftheheritageplace.
A permit is required to subdivide land, demolish or remove a building, or to construct or
carryoutworks,exceptforrepairsandmaintenancethatusethesamematerialsanddonot
changetheappearanceoftheheritageplace(andotherminorexemptionsspecifiedinthe
clause).
(iv)
DesignandDevelopmentOverlay–Schedule16
Schedule16totheDesignandDevelopmentOverlay(Clause43.02)istitledNeighbourhood
CentresandCommercialCorridors.Itsdesignobjectivesare:
Toensuretheheightandsetbacksofdevelopmentmaintainandenhance:
x theestablishedstreetscapeandtraditional,lowͲrise,highstreetcharacter
ofneighbourhoodcentres.
x the established streetscape and commercial character of the commercial
corridors.
To achieve innovative, high quality architectural design that makes efficient
useoflandwhilstenhancingtheappearanceandstrengtheningtheidentityof
theneighbourhoodcentresandcommercialcorridors.
To ensure appropriate development that is complementary to the existing
neighbourhoodcharacterandhasregardtoadjoiningresidentialamenity.
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To ensure development respects and enhances identified heritage buildings
andprecincts.
Permitsarerequiredforsubdivisionandformostbuildingsandworks.Theschedulesetsa
mandatory maximum building height and prescribes setbacks from the street, public open
spaceandpubliccarͲparks.
Table 32 provides height and setback requirements for the Burwood/Camberwell Road
CommercialCorridor,includingbuildingsfrontingontoMontroseStreet,HawthornEast.
Onedecisionguidelinerefersspecificallytoheritage:
Whether the design of the proposed development supports the provisions of
thisplanningschemeandinparticular:
x Clause22.05HeritagePolicy.
(v)
ParkingOverlay–Precinct1
Schedule1totheParkingOverlay(Clause45.09)identifiesappropriatecarparkingratesfor
landusesinvariousactivitycentresthroughoutthemunicipality.
(vi)
EnvironmentalAuditOverlay
TheEnvironmentalAuditOverlay(Clause45.03)seeks:
Toensurethatpotentiallycontaminatedlandissuitableforausewhichcould
besignificantlyadverselyaffectedbyanycontamination.
The Overlay requires an environmental audit to be carried out before a sensitive use –
residential use, child care centre, preͲschool centre or primary school – commences or
beforetheconstructionorcarryingoutofbuildingsandworksinassociationwithsuchuse
begins.
2.4
Otherstudies
2.4.1 Heritagestudiesforpredecessormunicipalities
TheCityofBoroondaraismadeupofthepreviousCitiesofCamberwell,HawthornandKew.
Previousheritagestudiescarriedoutfortheseareasinclude:
x KewHeritageStudy1988
x CamberwellUrbanConservationStudy1991
x HawthornHeritageStudy1993.
In each case, some places that were recommended for heritage protection have not been
addedtheHO.
2.4.2 CityofBoroondaraThematicEnvironmentalHistory2012
Heritage Victoria’s standard brief for local heritage studies requires the preparation of a
thematicenvironmentalhistoryforeachmunicipality.
The City of Boroondara’s Thematic Environmental History was produced by Built Heritage
PtyLtdandadoptedbyCouncil2012.
TheThematicEnvironmentalHistorywaspreparedto:
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…document and illustrate how various themes (and the many aspects of
humaninterventionassociatedwiththem)havemanifestedthemselvesinthe
city of Boroondara since the first postͲcontact European settlement, and,
consequently,howthesethemeshaveshapedthemunicipalityasitistoday.
InthiswaytheTEHprovidesacontextforheritageplacesandareasthathave
been identified (and will continue to be identified) across the entire City of
Boroondara.
The Thematic Environmental History represents a consolidation of the historical overviews
that formed part of the heritage studies for the former Cities of Hawthorn, Kew and
Camberwell,supplementedbyadditionalresearchintothemesthatwereunderͲrepresented
or unrepresented in the earlier summaries. The themes were derived from Victoria’s
FrameworkofHistoricThemes,publishedbyHeritageCouncilofVictoriain2010.
The Thematic Environmental History includes a Statement of Significance for the City of
Boroondara and detailed discussions of the themes and subͲthemes relevant to the
developmentofthemunicipality.‘Relatedplaces’arelistedforeachsubͲthemediscussed.
Some of these placeswere identified as already being covered by the HO, but many were
not.
2.5
MinisterialDirectionsandPracticeNotes
2.5.1 MinisterialDirections
Council submitted that the Amendment is consistent with the Ministerial Direction on the
FormandContentofPlanningSchemesandcomplieswithMinister’sDirectionsNo9onthe
MetropolitanStrategyandwillnotcompromisetheimplementationofPlanMelbourne.In
addition, Council put the view that it is consistent with a Minister’s Direction No 11 on
StrategicAssessmentofAmendments.
2.5.2 PracticeNotes
Council pointed to the advice of the Victoria Planning Provisions Practice Note No 1 –
ApplyingtheHeritageOverlay,concerningthetypesofplacesthatshouldbeincludedinthe
HO, and the requirements relating to thresholds for listing and documentation required,
includingthatallplaces:
…shouldbedocumentedinamannerthatclearlysubstantiatestheirscientific,
aesthetic,architecturalorhistoricalinterestorotherspecialculturalornatural
values
and
…thedocumentationforeachplaceshouldincludeastatementofsignificance
thatclearlyestablishestheimportanceoftheplace.
Councilsubmittedthatthecitationspreparedforthe26propertiesaffectedbyAmendment
C178complywiththepracticenoterequirementsforwritingstatementsofsignificance.
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2.6
Discussion
The Panel notes the legislative basis for identification and protection of places of local
heritage significance through planning schemes and the support provided in the SPPF and
theLPPF.Italsonotesthatthenewresidentialzonesincludeobjectivesthatseektoensure
development is compatible with neighbourhood character, including heritage. Even
Schedule 16 to the Design and Development Overlay, applying to commercial areas,
encourages development that is complementary to the established streetscape and
traditional,lowͲrise,highstreetcharacterofneighbourhoodcentres.
In this context, application of an HO to places of demonstrated heritage significance is
clearlycompatiblewiththeplanningprovisionsapplyingtotherelevantsites.
The Panel concludes that the Amendment is supported by, and implements, the relevant
sectionsoftheStateandLocalPlanningPolicyFramework.
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3
IdentificationandAssessmentProcesses
3.1
TheIssue
The Panel has to be confident that the way in which places were identified as having
potentialheritagesignificanceisappropriate,andtheprocessusedfortheirassessmentand
proposed addition to the HO was robust and meets therequirements of Planning Practice
NoteNo1–ApplyingtheHeritageOverlay.
Theidentificationofplacesandthemethodologyusedintheassessmentsissetoutbelow
forplacesdealtwithbyContextPtyLtd.Mattersrelatingto4AMontroseStreetarecovered
inChapter5.5.
3.2
EvidenceonbehalfofCouncil–MsNSchmeder
MsSchmeder’sexpertwitnessstatementonbehalfofCouncilstated:
The place and precinct citations whose recommendations comprise
Amendment C178 were prepared individually, and not as part of a formal
heritage study. For this reason, nobackground report hasbeen prepared to
explain the assessment methodology and to summarise the findings and
recommendations.
Instead, this background and methodology are set out in this report, which
should be taken as the strategic basis of Amendment C178 along with the
placeandprecinctcitations.
MsSchmederpointedtotheadviceofthePracticeNoteonapplyingtheHOthatplacesto
beincludedundertheHOshouldinclude,butnotbelimitedto,thoselistedontheRegister
of the National Estate (RNE) or the National Trust Register (NTR) or identified in a local
heritage study, provided, in the latter two cases, that the significance of the place can be
showntojustifytheapplicationoftheoverlay.ThePracticeNotealsorecommendstheuse
ofwhatareknownasthe‘HERCON’heritagecriteria(AppendixC).
MsSchmederwentontooutlinetherequirementforaThematicEnvironmentalHistoryto
bepreparedforamunicipality,aspartofalocalheritagestudyandthe wayinwhichitis
thenusedtoidentifyplacesofpotentialheritagevalue,assistinassessingtheirsignificance
and provide comparative examples representing the same theme(s). Given that the
predecessors to the City of Boroondara had already undertaken heritage studies, Ms
Schmeder described the Thematic Environmental History as a tool to better understand
whatgapstheremightbeinexistingHOsandtosupporttheassessmentofnewplaces.
In line with the priority identified in the Heritage Action Plan, Council’s Strategic Planning
Departmentpreparedalistofpotentialheritageplacesthatrequiredfurtherinvestigation.
These included, in addition to RNE and NT places and those identified in the Thematic
EnvironmentalHistory,placesfromtheearlierstudiesthathadnotbeenaddedtotheHOor
reassessed. Additionalsources of nominations were a survey of postͲwar built heritage in
Victoria (prepared for Heritage Victoria), the Royal Australian Institute of Architects 20th
CenturyRegisterandnominationsfromthecommunity.
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Ms Schmeder said she and another Context consultant assessed a total of 56 individual
placesandonepotentialprecinct.Ofthoseassessed,33individualplaceswerefoundtofall
belowthethresholdoflocalsignificance.Theremainingindividualplacesandtheprecinct
were recommended for protection. Citations, including statements of significance, were
preparedforthem(orupgraded,wheretheyalreadyexisted).Theseincludedallbutoneof
theplacesproposedforapplicationofanHOinAmendmentC178.Anadditionalplacewas
identifiedthroughareferralunderSection29AoftheBuildingAct,1978andalsoproposed
forheritagecontrols.
The process undertaken by Context to assess places, Ms Schmeder said, used the Burra
Charter1 and its guidelines and was consistent with the Practice Note on applying the HO.
The methodology also took into account comments on thresholds in the 2007 Advisory
Committee report on Heritage Provisions in Planning Schemes and the tests in the recent
Victorian Heritage Register Criteria and Thresholds Guidelines (2012) endorsed by the
HeritageCouncilofVictoria,withappropriateadjustmentsforthelocallevelofsignificance.
Theassessmentprocessincluded:siteinspections;historicalresearch;comparativeanalysis;
assessment against the HERCON criteria; and statutory recommendations, including HO
mapping, application of additional controls (external painting, trees) and identification of
fencesoroutbuildingsforwhichpermitapplicationsshouldnotbeexemptfromnotification
andreview.
After the citations were prepared, Council undertook a round of preliminary consultations
withowners,priortoformalexhibitionofAmendmentC178,toenablethemtocommenton
informationpresented.Insomecases,correctionsandadditionsweremadetocitationson
thebasisofnewmaterialsuppliedbyowners.
Additional controls were initially recommended for several properties forming part of
Amendment C178, including external painting and tree controls for 59 Auburn Road,
Hawthorn and tree controls and fence and outbuilding notification requirements for 1045
Burke Road, Hawthorn East. By the time of the hearing, on the basis of new information
provided, Ms Schmeder had recommended that the tree controls for both properties be
omitted.Councilhadacceptedthisadvice.
Ms Schmeder also provided a matrix recording the source of the original identification of
each place and precinct included in Amendment C178 as a place of potential heritage
significance.ThoserelevanttothisPanelreportareshowninTable2.
1
AustraliaICOMOS(1999,revised2013)CharterforPlacesofCulturalHeritageSignificance
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Table2
Sourceofidentificationofplacesashavingpotentialheritagesignificance
Placename
Address
Nominationsource
GrangeAvenue
ResidentialPrecinct
2,4,6,8&10GrangeAvenue,
Canterbury
CamberwellConservationStudy1991
Murradoc
13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury NationalTrustRegister&Camberwell
ConservationStudy1991
DeepdenePost
Office(former)
165WhitehorseRoad,
Deepdene
BoroondaraThematicEnvironment
History2012
AstolatLadies
College(former)
59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn
CityofBoroondara’sHeritageAdvisor&
HawthornHeritageStudy1993
Arden
1045BurkeRoad,Hawthorn
East
HawthornHeritageStudy1993
Timbershop
415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kew
KewHistoricalSociety&Kew
ConservationStudy1987.
Ms Schmeder considered that the places proposed for HO protection had been assessed
througharigorousprocess.ShesaidthatthethresholdforsignificanceinBoroondarawas
very high, particularly for architectural/aesthetic significance, due to the fine architectural
qualityofthebuiltforminthemunicipality.
In response to a question from the Panel, Ms Schmeder said that some of the places not
recommended for addition to the HO had derived from the Thematic Environmental
History’slistsof‘relatedplaces’.AlthoughtheywereconnectedwithimportantsubͲthemes,
thiswasmoreatthelevelof‘interest’ratherthansignificance,forexample,awellͲknown
author had lived there, but only for a few years. Other places had been demolished or
undergonerecentalterationsthatreducedtheirsignificance.AproposedpostͲwarprecinct
in the vicinity of an existing precinct in Raheen Drive, Kew (suggested by community
members)wasassessedashavinglessconsistentbuiltformthatwasnotofsimilarquality.
SomepostͲwararchitectͲdesignedhouseswerealsofoundtobeoflowerqualitythatthose
proposedforlisting.
MsSchmeder’sevidencerelatingtotheproposedprecinctandtoindividualpropertieswill
bediscussedinChapters4and5.
3.3
Submissions
Twosubmissionsqueriedthethoroughnessofthecomparativeassessmentsundertakenfor
particularproperties.Onenotedthatacomparativeexampleincludedinthecitationwasa
place assessed as contributory within a precinct, which it said proved that the property in
questionwasnotoflocalsignificanceinitsownright.Theotherprovidedphotographsof
buildingsnearbyorelsewhereinthemunicipality,whichthesubmitterheldtobesimilarbut
superiortothesubjectproperty.
CouncilandMsSchmederpointedoutthattheaddressesofthebuildingsillustratedinthe
lattersubmissionwerenotprovided,soitwasnotpossibletodeterminewhethertheywere
alreadyincludedundertheHO.
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Mr Nickas, for Bolalo Pty Ltd, stressed the need for rigour in the assessment of places
proposedforanHO,particularlyonethatistobeappliedonasiteͲspecificbasis.Heputthe
view that the reason the shop at 165 Whitehorse Road, Deepdene was not graded in
previousheritagestudies,anddidnotformpartofanyprecinctidentifiedinthem,wasthat
itdidnotwarrantaheritagecontrol.Henotedthat,inthepresentcase,thebuildingwas
notidentifiedthroughanyheritagestudybuthadbeenassessedonanindividualbasis.
Mr Nickas also claimed that because Ms Schmeder of Context Pty Ltd was contracted by
Council to assess high priority places, she was not a ‘truly independent’ expert and her
evidenceshouldthereforebegivenlessweight.HesuggestedthatCouncilcouldhavecalled
forapeerreviewofthecitationsforplacesincludedinAmendmentC178.
The evidence of experts called by owners of individual properties will be considered in
Chapter5.
3.4
Discussionandconclusions
ThePanelnotesthattheplacesproposedforlistingundertheHOthroughAmendmentC178
fallintothecategoriesofplacesidentifiedinCouncil’sHeritageActionPlanashavinghigh
priorityforassessment,thatis:propertiesgradedBorC*informerheritagestudieswhich
arenotinanHOandhavenotbeenreviewedsincetheirinitialgrading;andplaceslistedin
the Boroondara Thematic Environmental History, particularly post war architect designed
buildings.TwowereontheNTR,inadditiontohavingbeenidentifiedinpreviousstudies.
In the Panel’s opinion, the Heritage Action Plan provides sufficient strategic context to
support the addition of relevant places to the HO, providing they are found to be of local
heritage significance. The fact that a building had been overlooked in previous heritage
studiesdoesnotimplythatithasno,ormarginal,heritagesignificance.Studies,especially
olderstudies,mayhavehadaparticularfocus,intermsofadevelopmentperiodorheritage
values(particularlypreͲWorldWarIandarchitectural/aestheticvalues).Astimepassesand
the concept of heritage broadens, more recently built properties or those representing
differentthemesorvalues,suchassocialsignificance,maybeidentifiedasimportant.This
is, in fact, one of the reasons why thematic environmental histories are now required, to
ensure that all potential heritage values and relevant themes are identified and places
associatedwiththemevaluated.ThePaneldoesnotbelievethatthewayinwhichaplace
came to the attention of Council is of any relevance, as against the robustness of the
assessmentofitsheritagesignificance.
The Panel considers that the assessment process described by Ms Schmeder is consistent
withtheBurraCharterandthepracticenoteonapplyingtheHO.Itusedtherecommended
criteria,preparedadetailedcitationandastatementofsignificance(inthestandardformat)
foreachplace,involvedcomparativeanalysis,andappliedathresholdoflocalsignificance.
Places that the consultants found did not meet the threshold were excluded from the
amendment.
Inendorsingthemethodology,thePaneldoesnotsaythatthereisnoroomfordebateover
the heritage merits of particular properties, particularly where additional information has
beensupplied.However,subsequentrecommendationsonwhetherspecificplacesshould
beomittedfromtheAmendmentshouldnotbetakentoinvalidatetheoverallmethodology.
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With regard to the claimed lack of independence of Ms Schmeder, the Panel rejects this
outright.ItisnormalpracticeforPanelstohearexpertevidencefromtheconsultantsthat
have carried out local heritage studies. Peer reviews areseldom called for, except in rare
casessuchaswherethestudiesreliedonareoldand/orwherethepeoplewhoundertook
thestudyareunavailable.Inthiscase,wheremostofthesubjectpropertieswereidentified
and documented in earlier studies, the process undertaken by Context Pty Ltd, mainly Ms
Schmeder,iseffectivelyareͲevaluationoftheoriginalfindingsandcitations.
In conclusion, the Panel notes that, whereas the heritage policy (at Clause 22.05) advises
thatthestatementsofsignificanceforotherindividuallysignificantplacesinBoroondaracan
befoundintheheritagestudiesincludedinthepolicyreferences(22.05Ͳ7),Councilhasnot
putforwardanyproposalaboutwherethestatementsofsignificancefortheplacesincluded
in this Amendment are to be housed. The Panel has concluded that these should also be
included,asagroup,asapolicyreference.
3.5
Recommendation
ThePanelrecommends:
Addthestatementsofsignificanceforindividualplacesrecommendedforlisting
on the Heritage Overlay through Amendment C178 (collected together into a
single document, titled ‘Individually Significant Heritage Places – Amendment
C178’orsimilar)tothepolicyreferencesinsubͲclause22.05Ͳ7.
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4
HeritagePrecinct
4.1
HO590 GrangeAvenueHeritagePrecinct
4.2
DescriptionofPrecinct
The Grange Avenue Precinct comprises five interͲwar dwellings on the north side of the
street, west of Balwyn Road in Canterbury. An avenue of mature Plane trees lines the
naturestripadjoiningtheseproperties.
4.3
StatementofSignificance(extract)
Howisitsignificant?
The Grange Avenue Precinct, at 2Ͳ10 Grange Avenue, Canterbury is of local
historicalandaestheticsignificancetotheCityofBoroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
TheGrangeAvenuePrecinctisofhistoricsignificanceasasubdivisionthatis
representative of smallͲscale interwar subdivisions in the former City of
Camberwell, which saw the breakup of large estates, such as ‘The Grange’,
intomiddleͲclassresidentialareasincludingGrangeAvenueandViewStreet.
The substantial nature and high quality of the design of the houses at 2Ͳ10
Grange Avenue exemplify the quintessential middleͲclass interwar character
for which suburbs in the former City of Camberwell are celebrated (Criterion
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The Grange Avenue Residential Precinct is of aesthetic significance for the
strong and visually cohesive streetscape created by the row of houses which
share a common style, setback, scale, major roof forms, materials and
decorative details. Paired with their overall visual unity, the houses are
individually and skilfully designed variations on a theme, expressed by
different combinations of secondary roof gables and dormers, verandah
supportsandleadlightwindows.Theyarealsohighqualityinterwarhouses,
atleastoneofarchitectdesign,whicharesubstantialforthearea,andgood
examplesoftheArts&CraftsatticͲstylebungalow.Theyaregenerallyhighly
intact to their period of construction, and have been well maintained. They
are enhanced by the mature Plane street trees on the wide nature strip
(CriteriaD&E).
No2GrangeAvenueisparticularlydistinguishedbyitssuperiorlevelofdetail
andfinishes,particularlyseeninthecomplexmassingofthefrontgable,the
gabled'roof'abovethefrontbaywindow,andthefinebrickworkofthearched
brick porch entry. It helps demonstrates the evolution of architect Arthur
Bidgway'shighͲqualitymiddleͲclasshousesfromtheVictorianandEdwardian
villas found in Port Melbourne, to this very upͲtoͲdate interpretation of the
ArtsandCraftsstylewithCaliforniaBungalowelementsin1921(CriteriaE&
H).
The Amendment proposes that the Planning Scheme Map and Schedule to the HO be
amended to include the precinct as HO590 and that Clause 22.05 – Heritage Policy be
amendedtoinsert‘HO590GrangeAvenueResidentialHeritagePrecinct’withthecitationfor
thePrecinctincludedasaReferencedocument.
4.4
Evidenceandsubmissions
AwrittensubmissionobjectingtotheapplicationoftheHOto2GrangeAvenue,Canterbury
wasreceivedfromtheownerofthatproperty.
It was the owner’s submission that the property was contributory only being an
undistinguishedexampleofitstype.Furthermoreitwasstatedthattheheritagesignificance
of the street had beendegraded because of the redevelopment of properties onits south
sideandtheheritageoverlaywasbothinappropriateandunfaironowners.
ThisownerdidnotappearattheHearingtomakeasubmissiontothePanel.
InresponsetothiswrittensubmissionitwasMsSchmeder’sevidencethat2GrangeAvenue
is a fine and intact example of an interwar house compared to others of its type and
warrantsitsgradingasasignificantpropertyintheGrangeAvenueResidentialPrecinct.Ms
Schmeder reiterated the information in the statement of significance that the house was
designed by a recognised architect. She stated that it compared well when benchmarked
against other late Federation and Interwar Arts and Crafts bungalows on the Boroondara
HeritageOverlay.
Inresponsetotheviewthatdevelopmentonthesouthsideofthestreethaddegradedthe
significance of this precinct, Ms Schmeder stated that the more recent dwellings opposite
werenotintrusiveintheirscaleanddidnothaveanegativeeffectonthestreet.Shealso
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referred to other examples where properties on one side of a street formed a heritage
precinct.
4.5
Discussionandconclusions
ThePanelhasconsideredthewrittensubmissionofthepropertyowner,however,basedon
its inspection of Grange Avenue and the evidence of Ms Schmeder, it supports the
applicationofHO590to2,4,68and10GrangeAvenue,Canterbury.
ItalsosupportstheinclusionofitsstatementofsignificanceinClause22.05ͲHeritagePolicy
andthereferencingofthecitationintheScheme.
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IndividualHeritagePlaces
5.1
HO594 59AuburnRoad,Hawthorn
5.1.1 SiteDescription
59AuburnRoad,HawthornisanatticͲstylebrickhousethatwasbuiltinthelate19thcentury
foroccupationasaprivateschool. Thedomesticscaleanddetailofthebuildingmeansit
complementeditsresidentialsettingatthetime.
5.1.2 RevisedStatementofSignificance(extract)
Howisitsignificant?
The former Astolat Ladies College is of local historical and aesthetic
significancetotheCityofBoroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
Historically,theformerAstolatisatangibleillustrationoftheerainthelate
19thandearly20thcenturywhensecondaryeducationwasexpectedtolead
to university for young women. Aesthetically, it is an unusual bijoux Queen
Annebuildingofthedomestictype.Despiteitsdiminutivescale,itdisplaysa
wealthofhighͲqualitydetailsinanintegratedwhole.Theseincludethelarge
arched window with a scrolled hood mould, diagonal boarding to the front
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door and sidelight, a range of cladding materials including biͲchrome brick,
roughcast render, timber shingles and halfͲtimbering, a gable with halfͲ
timbering to its apex above a bay window, casement windows with small
multiͲcolouredhighlights,bull’seyewindowbeneaththenorthchimney,anda
steeptransversegableroofwithterracottaridgecappingandacrowͲstepped
gabletothesouthside.
5.1.3 Evidenceandsubmissions
Three written submissions, including one from the property owner, objected to the
application of the HO to this property. The other submissions were from the owner of a
neighbouringpropertyandapersonhavingapotentialinterestintheland.
The owner made a verbal submission to the Panel, referring to its derelictcondition, both
externallyandinternally,andtheconsiderableexpensethatwouldberequiredtorestoreit
toitsoriginalcondition.ThesubmitteradvisedthePanelthataprospectivepurchaserhad
lostinterestwhenmadeawareoftheproposedHOandthat,astheowner,hewasnotina
positionfinanciallytoundertaketheworkrequiredtorepairthebuilding.
It was Ms Schmeder’s evidence that although maintenance of the building has been
neglecteditappearedstructurallysound.Shereferredtotheacceleratedrateofdecayof
the mortar caused by painting part of the façade of the building. She believed the paint
shouldbecarefullyremovedandthemortarrepaired.
MsSchmederadvisedthatthecomparativeanalysisundertakenofthispropertyfoundthat
it was one of a small number of buildings in Boroondara with a strong Scottish Baronial
architecturalinfluence.Also,ithasaqualityandquantityofexternaldetailcomparableto
that of much larger and grander architectͲdesigned Queen Anne houses. As such it is
termeda‘bijoux’style.
TheexhibitedAmendmentincludedthetriggerstocontrolexternalpaintingandremovalof
trees, however, following receipt of the owner’s submission the statement of significance
wasamendedtorecognisethelaterplantingofthetwoNorfolkPines.The‘TreeControls
Apply?’columnintheScheduletotheHOwasalsoamendedsoasnottoapplytotheland.
5.1.4 Discussionandconclusions
Oninspectingthispropertyfromthestreet,thePanelwasabletodiscernthedamagethe
painting of the brick façade has done to the mortar. It also observed the damage to
gutteringanddownpipesandmissingslatesandtileswhichpointtolikelywaterdamageto
the interior of the building. Given the existing condition of the building the Panel
appreciatesthecostthatwouldbeassociatedinrestoringthebuildingtoitsoriginalstate.
This said the Panel believes the building is significant historically because it was purposeͲ
builtasasmallprivateschool.Italsobelievesitisaestheticallysignificant.
The Panel notes that that the HO Schedule will allow prohibited uses to occupy the site
(subject to permit) and an extension to the building for such purposes might also be
approved.Itbelievesthismayprovideanincentivetorestoretheexistingbuilding.
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5.1.5 Recommendation
ThePanelrecommends:
Substitute the word ‘No’ for ‘Yes, two Norfolk Island Pines’ in the column ‘Tree
Controls Apply?’ in the entry for HO594, ‘Former Astolat Ladies College’, 59
AuburnRoad,HawthornEast.
5.2
HO603 415–417HighStreet,Kew
5.2.1 Sitedescription
415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kewisoccupiedbyasinglestoreytimberbuilding,builtandoccupied
asashopanddwelling.ThelandwasoriginallypartoftheHydeParkCompany’ssubdivision,
whichbeganin1882.Changeshavebeenmadetothefaçade(newwindowsanddoors)and
thebuildinghasbeenextendedatitseasternandwesternends.TheshophasalsobeenreͲ
roofed,howeveritseavebracketshavebeenretained.
Howisitsignificant?
The shop is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of
Boroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
Historically,theshopisatangibleillustrationofthetouristtradethatgrewup
aroundBoroondarainthe19thcentury.Inthe19thandearly20thcentury,
the cemetery attracted large numbers of leisure day trippers from around
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Melbourne and beyond, who came to view its impressive monuments. The
tram, opened in 1887 Ͳ the same year as the shop was built, was the main
mode of transport to the cemetery from Richmond and Melbourne until the
midͲ20th century, and made this leisure traffic possible. The position of the
cemeterygatesandthetramterminusattheintersectionofHighStreetand
ParkHillRoadmadethisanideallocationtocatertothistouristtraffic,witha
confectioner’sandlateratearoom(CriterionA).
Architecturally,theshopexhibitstypicaltraitsofsuburban19thͲcenturyshops
includingtheintegrationofrearlivingquarterswiththeshop(s)atthefront.
Itssimpleformandlackoffrontsetbackarealsotypicalofitstype,asarethe
modestͲsizedshopwindowswhichallowforareasofsolidwalltothefaçade.
Thedetailingofthefaçade,particularlythedoorswithdiagonalboardingand
simple angle window glazing bars to the shop windows is typical of the
Edwardianperiod.Timbershopswerethefirsttobebuiltinnewsuburbsand
shopping areas in the 19th century, but were gradually replaced by brick
buildings,leavingfewofthistypeinthemetropolitanarea.Itistheearliest
knowntimbershopinKewandoneofaverysmallgroupofsurvivingVictorian
andEdwardiantimbershopsintheCityofBoroondara(CriteriaD&B).
A review of this property was carried out by Mr Ian Coleman, architect and heritage
consultant,fortheownerwhothenlodgeditwithCouncil.Theownerthenappearedatthe
Hearing in opposing the HO over his property. Mr Coleman’s review of the property
includedahistoryofhowthesitehaddevelopedandasketchplanshowedthechangesthat
hadbeenmadetoit.InundertakinghisreviewMrColemanconcludedthatwhilethecore
of the shop dates from and reflects the form of the 1887 building, as existing, it does not
haveahighlevelofintegrityinrelationtothatstructureandthereforeitssignificancehas
beenseriouslycompromised.ItwasthereforeMrColeman’sopinionthattheexistingfabric
of the building does not exhibit sufficient physical integrity to warrant the significance
initiallyattachedtoit.Whileheagreedthatthesurvivingelementsprovidesomecontextto
the assessment provided against Criterion A (historical significance) he believed those
againstCriteriaB(rarity)andD(representativeness)weresignificantlydegradedbythelack
ofintegrityofthesurvivingbuildingandthereforeitwouldbeunreasonabletoimposethe
heritageoverlay.
The owner appeared at the Hearing to speak to Mr Coleman’s review in opposing the HO
over his property. Mr Coleman did not appear at the Hearing and was therefore not
availabletoelaborateonhisrevieworansweranyquestionsthePanelmayhavehad.
ThecontributionMrColeman’sreviewofthispropertymadeinprovidingadditionaldetails
relatingtoitshistorywasacknowledgedbyCouncil.Inrelationtotheadditionontheeast
sideintheearlypartofthe20thcentury,MsSchmederstatedthesecouldbeconsideredpart
of the early fabric of the building. The addition on the west side of the shop and rear
residencewascarriedoutlater(c.1978)andthereforeisnotpartoftheoriginalorsignificant
fabric.Shenotedthatthebuildinghadbeengraded‘B’intheKewHeritageStudy1988,but
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hadsomehowbeenmissedinthemorerecentreviewof‘B’and‘C’gradedplacesfromthat
study.
The owneradvised thePanel that he wanted to undertakechanges tothe property in the
futureandwasconcernedthatthiswouldnotbepermittediftheHOappliedtotheland.
In relation to comparative analysis, Ms Schmeder said that there were not many timber
shopsofequivalentageinmetropolitanMelbourne,letaloneinBoroondara.Shereferred
to a row of timber shops at 351 Ͳ 361 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, where all but the
facadesof351and353arenowconcealed.Sheconsideredthelefthandoneofthatpairto
besuperiortotheHighStreetbuilding,becauseitretaineditsresidentialscalewindow,and
the right hand shop to be equivalent to the subject property, as it was less intact than its
neighbour. Neither of these shops has been assessed for an HO. The other property
referredtowasaninterwarshopat11–13PeelStreet,whichhadbeenextensivelyaltered
andthereforefellbelowthethresholdoflocalsignificance.Otherexamplescitedincludeda
twostoreytimberbuildingat458HighStreet,Prahran.
ThePanelfoundthereportpreparedbyMrColemanmostinformative,inprovidingdetails
of the changes that had been made to the shop building on the property. The Panel,
however,believesthatinspiteofthesechangestheshopretainssufficientintegritytojustify
protectionundertheHO.
ThebuildingiswithintheGRZ3andthereforeiftheshopsectionofthepropertyisvacantfor
anylengthoftimeitcouldloseitsexistinguserights.Asthesignificanceofthebuilding,in
part, relates to its construction for occupation as a shop, the Panel believes it would be
appropriate to permit the consideration of prohibited uses. The Panel is usually wary of
including additional provisions in the HO schedule as a result of postͲexhibition processes,
but in this case it has concluded that the addition of a ‘prohibited uses’ trigger will be a
benefittotheownerandwillnotdisadvantageotherparties.
ThePanelrecommends:
AmendtheScheduletotheHeritageOverlaytoincludetheword‘Yes’underthe
Column ‘Prohibited uses may be permitted?’ for HO603, 415–417 High Street,
Kew.
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HO591 13–15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury
13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoadCanterburyislocatedonthewestsideofthestreetandisoccupiedby
asinglestoreyresidenceknownas‘Murradoc’wellsetbackfromitsfrontage.
Howisitsignificant?
TheformerMurradocisoflocalarchitecturalandaestheticsignificancetothe
CityofBoroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
The former Murradoc is of architectural and aesthetic significance as a fine
and externally intact example of a symmetrical rendered Victorian Italianate
villa. It is distinguished by the highͲquality and extensive cementͲrender
ornamentation which includes incised stencil decorations, quoining,
vermiculated window sills and acanthusͲleaf capitals, yielded panels and
fluting to the chimneys, and interlocking circle balustrade and orbs to the
tower element. Also by its very intact verandah with paired castͲiron posts
andanunusualcastͲironfriezepattern(CriteriaD&E).
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TheownerlodgedawrittensubmissiontotheAmendmentandappearedattheHearingin
opposingtheHOoverhisproperty.InhissubmissiontoCounciltheownerreferredtowhat
he believed were a number of errors in the citation for the property. This led to it being
revisedtoreflecthistoricalinformationprovidedbythesubmitter.IntheabsenceofanonͲ
siteinspectionbeingabletobearrangedbyCouncilofficerswiththeownersmattersraised
inrelationtowhatthecitationdescribesasthe‘towerelement’andverandahcouldnotbe
verified.
InpresentinghisdetailedsubmissiontothePaneltheownerraisedthesesamemattersand
relied upon an historic photograph in stating that the tiles, floor and lacework of the
verandah were not original. The owner also referred to the ‘tower feature’ on the south
sideofthedwelling,whichhesaidwasamuchlateraddition.Healsosaidthattheverandah
postbaseshadbeenshortenedatsomestage.
The owner referred to photographs he had taken of other dwellings, including some in
proximitytohisproperty.Addressesofthesepropertieswerenotprovided.
Ms Schmeder advised the Panel that the citation for the property had been amended to
reflect historical material supplied by the owner, however, in the absence of a site
inspection which the owners were unwilling to agree to, the issue of the originality of the
verandahandthelaterconstructionofthe‘towerelement’couldnotbeverified.
InrelationtothehistoricalphotographprovidedbythesubmitterwhichshowedacastͲiron
friezeinatimberframe,MsSchmederstatedthatthepoorqualityofthephotographmeant
it was not possible to confirm it was of 13 – 15 Irilbarra Road. In her response to the
submission she advised that the submitter had been requested to provide contact details
regarding the source of the photograph, however, no response had been received. A
requesttoinspectthehousemorecloselyhadalsobeenrejected.
ItwasMsSchmeder’sevidencethat‘towerelements’werecommontoItalianatehousesof
the1870’sand1880’s.ShepointedoutthatitwasshownontheMMBWplanfrom1905,so
thatevenifitwasbuiltsomewhatlaterthantherestofthehouse,sheconsidereditwasstill
partofthesignificantfabric.
Inrelationtothephotographsofotherhousesprovidedbytheowner,withoutaddressesit
wasnotpossibletocheckiftheywereprotectedundertheHO.Inthecaseoftheproperty
onthecornerofProspectHillRoadandTrafalgarRoad,MsSchmederadvisedthatthiswas
withinaprecinctheritageoverlay.
Insummary,itwasMsSchmeder’sopinionthatthearchitecturalandaestheticsignificance
of the dwelling at 11 – 13 Irilbarra Road had been established and that it should be
protected by the HO. Ms Schmeder, however, advised the Panel that the decision not to
apply interim heritage control over the property, and the fact that the Council has now
provideditsconsent,totheissueofabuildingpermittodemolishpartofthewalltotheside
verandah to enable a second ‘tower element’ to be built, that the significance of the
dwellingwillbediminished.Intheeventthatthisworkproceeds,MsSchmederadvisedthat
shewouldnotbeabletosupportapplyingtheHOtotheproperty.
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Based on its view of this property from the street, and in the absence of an accompanied
inspectiontoverifymaterialprovidedbytheowner,thePanelbelievesitisnotinaposition
toignoretheevidenceofMsSchmederinrelationtothisproperty.ThePanelbelievesitwas
unfortunatethattheownerchosenottoagreetoanaccompaniedinspectionofthedwelling
which would possibly have verified matters he raised at the Hearing. In relation to the
historicphotographtheownerreliedoninsubmittingthatchangeshadbeenmadetothe
verandah, without professional evidence in the matter the Panel is not in a position to
acceptthatthephotographisof‘Murradoc’.
ThePanelnotesthedecisionmadebytheMinister’sdelegatenottoapplyinterimheritage
controlsto13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterburyonthebasis‘thatuseoftheMinister’spowersof
intervention would notbe an appropriateresponse to the scale of thedevelopment that is
proposedinthisparticularinstance’.
ThePanelbelievesthatthedecisionnottoprovideinterimheritageprotection,andthefact
thatapermitcannowbeissuedtoproceedwithalterationstothedwelling,doesnotmean
that due process, including the Panel process, should not be completed to ascertain apply
theHOshouldbeappliedtotheproperty.
The Panel does, however, understand that, based on Ms Schmeder’s advice to it at the
Hearing, if the proposed demolition and building work proceeds this will diminish the
significanceofthedwellingtothepointthatshewillnotsupportheritageprotectionofthe
property.
However,untilthisconstructionworkoccursandtheheritagesignificanceofthepropertyis
reviewed, the Panel supports the HO being applied as proposed by the Amendment and
subjecttotherevisedcitation,preparedpostexhibition,beingmadeareferencedocument.
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5.4
HO593 165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene
165 Whitehorse Road is occupied by a singlestorey shop located on the north side of the
street between Leopold and Terry Streets. Adjoining properties are occupied by single
storeybuildingsbuiltinthepostͲwarperiod.
5.4.2 StatementofSignificance(extract)
Howisitsignificant?
The former Deepdene Post Office is of local historical and aesthetic
significancetotheCityofBoroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
TheformerDeepdenePostOfficeisofhistoricalsignificanceasararesurvivor
of the earliest phase of commercial development in Deepdene, prior to the
rush of development that followed the replacement of the old horseͲdrawn
tram line down Whitehorse road with an electric service in 1916. It also
illustrates the provision of 'agency' postal services from private commercial
premises, which was seen in the early development of localities, such as the
HawthornPostOfficeofthe1860s,andinsmallercommercialcentres(Criteria
A&B).
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TheformerDeepdenePostOfficeisgood,representative,andexternallyintact
FederationFreestylecommercialbuilding.Featuresofnoteincludethefront
parapet with two undulating curves which meet in the middle and are
mirroredonthebottomhalfoftheparapetinraisedrender.Asistypicalof
the style, the parapet sits between two raised piers, here with scrolled
wroughtͲironplatesfixedtothefaceandpyramidalcapsatthetop.Theshop
also retains its original shopfront by Duff shopfitters, with metalͲframed
windows,recessedentryandabatteredandtiledstallboard(CriterionD).
AwrittensubmissionwaslodgedwithCouncilbyBestHooperSolicitors,fortheownerofthe
subjectproperty,objectingtoitsinclusionintheHO.Thissubmissionincludedaletterfrom
Bryce Raworth, conservation architect commenting on the Amendment and the citation
preparedforthesitebyContextPtyLtd.
MrNickasofBestHooperappearedatthePanelandcalledevidencefromMrRaworthand
MrBarrett.MrNickasadvisedthePanelthatthesubjectsiteispartofalargerlandholding
at159to171WhitehorseRoad,ownedbyhisclient.ItwasMrNickas’submissionthatin
thiscasethere hadbeeninsufficientrigorandjustificationtowarranttheinclusionof 165
WhitehorseRoadinanindividualHO.InrelationtosocialandeconomiceffectsMrNickas
accepted that, at the amendment stage, these relate to broader community effects. This
said, he submitted that as part of a larger land holding, from a community perspective, it
represents a significant opportunity to deliver a development that advances strategic
objectivesforlandintheC1Z.
It was the Ms Liu’s submission for Council that the subject building is ‘a highly intact
Federation Free Style commercial building in Boroondara that warrants inclusion in the
HeritageOverlay’.Inrelationtosocialandeconomiceffects,MsLiustatednoproposalto
redevelopthelandhadbeenlodgedwithCouncil.Itwasalsohersubmissionthattherewas
no evidence to suggest that the inclusion of the land in the HO would prevent a
development in accordance with the zone and overlay objectives which would result in a
communitybenefit.
InrelationtotheformeruseofthisbuildingasapostofficeagencyitwasMsSchmeder’s
evidence that apart from this example, the earliest one noted in the municipality was the
1949formertemporaryAshburtonPostOfficeat285BHighStreet,Ashburton.
ThecitationpreparedbyContextPtyLtdforthissitereferstothefactthatatthetimethe
Commonwealth was created in 1901 there were over 7,000 post offices in Australia and
morethan6,000staffservinginanonͲofficialcapacityaspostͲmastersandpostͲmistresses.
FollowingFederation,theCommonwealthassumedcontrolforthedesignofpostoffices.
TheCitationstatesthat‘provisional’and‘nonͲofficial’postofficesfirstopenedinthe1850s
and prior to the first purposeͲbuilt post office opening in Hawthorn in 1871Ͳ2, a draper in
thatareaoperatedanagencyfromhisshop.Itwasalsostatedthatinthe1950stherewas
apparently a significant increase in the number of agencies or nonͲofficial post offices
operating in conjunction with other businesses. In the case of the subject land, the 1915
streetdirectorynotesahousebeingbuiltat165andpartof163WhitehorseRoadandthe
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following year the ‘Deepdene Post Office and confectionary’ was recorded on the site,
operated by Mrs E M Davenport, post mistress. Other sources referring to the Deepdene
PostOfficein1913suggestitmayhaveinitiallyoperatedfromanotherlocation.
Between1929and1938thepostofficeisnotlistedforthepropertyandthereforeitisnot
known whetheritceasedorwassimplynotlistedinthedirectoriesforthatperiod.From
1930 it was again listed, continuing until 1970. The Panel was advised that the current
Deepdene Post Office is located nearby in a two storey interwar shop at 65 Whitehorse
Road.
ItwasMsSchmeder’sevidencethatthisearlyexampleofaprivatelybuiltandoperatedpost
office at 165 Whitehorse Road is of local historical significance even though there is no
evidenceoftheuseremaininginthephysicalfabricofthebuilding.
Inrelationtoitsrarityshesaidthat,asasurvivingexampleofanearlycommercialbuilding,
itmeetsthecriterionforsignificanceatalocallevel.MsSchmederreferredtoitsreasonably
intactfacade,andthefactthatalmostallofthealterationsthathavebeenmadetoitare
reversible.Bywayofcomparativeanalysis,MsSchmederidentifiedthetwostoreybuilding
at 877 Burke Road Camberwell as most closely comparing to this building as both are
modest,butattractivelydetailedbuildings.WithintheDeepdeneprecincttheshopat137
WhitehorseRoadwasalsoidentifiedaspossiblydatingfromthepreͲ1916periodalthoughit
issimplerinstyleandlessintactthantheshopat165WhitehorseRoad.
Both Mr Raworth and Mr Barrett gave evidence for the owner of the property. Both
referredtothefactthattheshopwasoriginallypartofalargerbuildingandtheremovalof
the dwelling had impacted on any heritage value it may have once had. Mr Barrett
describedtheresultingroofformas‘peculiar’and‘truncated’.MrBarrettalsoreferredto
the existing verandah, which was not original, and therefore cannot be considered to add
anyappreciableheritagevaluetothebuilding.Hestatedthatthesteelplatesfixedtothe
parapetarecontemporaneoustothecurrentverandah,andnotpartoftheoriginaltimber
postverandah.
ItwasMrBarrett’sevidencethatitwasunlikelythattheshopwaspurposeͲbuiltasaPost
Office. In his opinion it was more likely that it was established as a sideͲline to the
Davenport’s confectionary and grocery business operating from the shop. He stated that
locating post office agencies in shops was relatively common in metropolitan Melbourne,
particularly in smaller shopping centres, and he and Mr Raworth referred to a number of
examples where this had occurred in the past. Mr Raworth also referred to a number of
currentͲday examples where post office agencies occupied floor space in shops in
Boroondara.MrRaworthnotedthatitwasnotapparentastowhatattempthadbeenmade
toidentifyotherexamplesofwherethishadoccurred,forcomparativeanalysis.
ItwasMrRaworth’sevidencethat,whilethebuilding’sroleasapostofficeagencyandearly
shopinDeepdenemaybeofsomelocalhistoricalinterestthatdidnotmakeithistorically
significantatthelocallevel.Furthermore,hestatedthatpostofficeagencieswerenomore
importantoressentialtodailylifethanotherbusinessesprovidingbasicgoodsandservices.
MrRaworthreferredthePaneltoAmendmentC116whichproposedtoapplytheHOto629
Canterbury Road, Surrey Hills. Mr Raworth believed that, as an example of an Edwardian
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commercialbuilding,itwassuperiorto165WhitehorseRoad,althoughinhisopinionitwas
also not worthy of individual heritage protection. The C116 Panel accepted Mr Raworth’s
evidence in relation to that building. Mr Raworth also stated the former use of 629
Canterbury Road as a butcher shop was not evident in its fabric, which presented in a
representativeretailmanner.Hesaidthesamecouldbesaidfor165WhitehorseRoad.
ItwasMrRaworth’sopinionthatwhileacommercialbuildingofthisrelativelyminorlevelof
individual interest may be considered to have contributory value, if within a precinct
containing buildings of a similar era and character, it is not of individual significance. Mr
Raworthbelieveditwas‘instructive’thatthebuildingat877BurkeRoadCamberwell,that
was found to be most comparable with 165 Whitehorse Road, is listed as a ‘contributory’
placewithinaprecinct,notasanindividuallysignificantbuildingatthelocallevel.
Inrelationtotheshopat137WhitehorseRoad,whichalsopossiblydatesfromthepreͲ1916
period Mr Raworth believed that although it has a plainer parapet, it ‘is enhanced by it
formingagroupoffourearlytwentiethcenturyshopsinthisshoppingcentre’.
The Panel has inspected the site and local area and has considered the submissions and
evidencepresentedtoitinformingitsviewsastothesignificanceofthisproperty.
Inrelationtotheoccupationofthebuildingasapostoffice,thePanelbelievesthat,based
on the historical material in the citation and evidence provided to it, it is not possible to
determinewhetherthepostofficeagency,ortheconfectionery/grocerybusiness,wasthe
primary use operating in the shop premises. The Panel, however, believes it is clear from
thecitationandevidencethatprivatelyrunpostofficeagencieswereoperatedfromshops
thatwerenotbuiltspecificallyforthatpurpose.Thisapparentlywasnotuncommoninthe
earlytwentiethcentury.
InrelationtothisparticularagencythePanelacceptsthat,whileitwouldhaveprovidedan
important service to its local community the same could probably be said for the grocery
businessoccupyingtheshopandalsoothernearbybusinesses.ThePanelalsobelievesthat
theusewouldhavebeennomoreimportantherethanthoseoperatinginothershopping
centresinthegeneralBalwynareaatthattime.
The Panel acknowledges the advice of the Heritage Council’s criteria and threshold
guidelines that historical significance may be based on documentation rather than
necessarilybeingvisibleinfabric.Inthiscase,however,thePanelbelievesthattheabsence
of any evidence in the building fabric that a post office agency once occupied the site
diminishes the significance of the place, which in its view was neither a unique or
remarkableoccupancyinthissmallcommercialcentre.
Asthereisnophysicalevidenceoftheformerpostofficeinthesubjectbuildingthequestion
iswhethertheshop,asoneofthefewearlycommercialbuildingsremaininginDeepdeneor,
asstatedintheCitation,a‘raresurvivoroftheearliestphaseofdevelopmentinDeepdene’,
is historically significant at the local level (underlining added). The Panel accepts that
Deepdeneisnowrecognisedasaseparatelocalitywithitsownpostcode,buthasconcluded
that it is not a sufficiently significant geographical component of Boroondara (or even the
formermunicipalityofCamberwell)forlocalsignificancetobeattributedtoitonthisbasis.
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Turningtothearchitecturalsignificanceattributedtothebuilding,itisoneofperhapstwo
remaining examples of buildings representative of the Federation (or Classical) Free style
built in Deepdene, the other being the more modest building occupying 137 Whitehorse
Road. The Panel accepts that the subject building is reasonably intact and the alterations
that have been made to it are possibly reversible. The Panel, however, also accepts Mr
Raworth’s evidence that it is not a particularlyrare style in the municipality and therefore
thequestioniswhetheritshouldbegivenindividualheritageprotection.
The Panel believes the findings of the C116 Panel, in relation to 629 Canterbury Road are
instructive,where it was found that while that building had some historic significance and
couldhavebeenconsideredacontributorybuildinginaprecinct,itdidnothavesufficient
individuallocalsignificancetowarrantapplyinganindividualHO.
ThePanelbelievesthatthesamecanbesaidforthesubjectsite.Thatis,whilethebuilding
mayqualifyasacontributorybuildingiflocatedinaheritageprecinct,itdoesnothavethe
levelofsignificancerequiredtoqualifyasanindividuallysignificantbuilding.ThePanelalso
believesthatwhiletheinclusionofapostofficeagencyinthebuildingwaspartoftheearly
developmentofDeepdene,theuseitselfwasnotparticularlyrareinsmallercentres.
ThePanelrecommends:
Delete the property at 165 Whitehorse Road, Deepdene (HO593) from the Heritage
Overlay.
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5.5
HO600 4AMontroseStreet,Hawthorn
4A Montrose Street is located on the west side of the street, north of Burwood Road,
Hawthorn.Anofficeoccupiestheexistingtwostoreybuildingwhichisboundedoneither
sidebymultiͲlevelbuildings.
5.5.2 StatementofSignificance(extract)
Howisitsignificant?
Thefactoryisoflocalaesthetic,architecturalandhistoricalsignificancetothe
CityofBoroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
Historically, the factory is significant for its associations with the early
development of the Australian contact lens industry. The first purposeͲbuilt
contactlensfactoryinMelbourne,thepremiseswaserectedbywith(sic)the
companythatpioneeredtheindustryinVictoriain1951,whenitbecameonly
the third such manufacturer in Australia. More broadly, the factory is
significant for its ability to demonstrate the ongoing theme of industrial
developmentalongandaroundBurwoodRoad,whichhadbeenanimportant
regionalepicentreforsuchactivitysincethe1850s.
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Aesthetically,thefactoryissignificantasanoutstandingandintactexampleof
apostͲwarbuildingdesignedintheunmistakableorganicstyleofFrankLloyd
Wright.WhilethisstylewaspopularfornewhousesinMelbournefromthe
midͲ1950stotheearly1970s,itsapplicationtononͲresidentialbuildingswas
considerably rarer, and still more so for industrial buildings such as this.
NeitheradirectcopynorapasticheofanyknownWrightbuildings,thedesign
of the factory skilfully references many themes, forms and details that recur
throughout the American architect's work. These include the use of a
cruciform plan expressed in a bold angular geometry, projecting prowͲlike
bays with matching canted roof eaves, horizontal redwood timber cladding
and, most notably, the use of speciallyͲmade coloured triangular concrete
blocks with incised ornament. Set well back from the street between two
much larger and more utilitarian buildings, this small jewelͲlike structure
remainsasahighlyunusualelementinthestreetscape.
Architecturally,thefactoryissignificantasanunusualexampleofitstype.As
a1960sindustrialcomplex,itisatypicalforitstinyscale(appropriatetothe
precision and small output of the specialised field of contact lenses
manufacture), its centralised planning and its provision of an integrated
residentialflatforcompanymanager.Thebuildingalsoderivesarchitectural
significance from its association with David Godsell, one of Melbourne's
leadingexponentsoftheWrightianstyle.
ItstandsoutinGodsell'sbodyofworkasthefinestandmostintactexampleof
his nonͲresidential work, and, apparently, the only recorded example of his
workinwhatisnowtheCityofBoroondara.
A submission was received from the owner and occupier of the office building at 4A
MontroseStreet,HawthornEast.ItputtheviewthattheinclusionofthebuildingintheHO
wasunjustified,because:
x Nophysicalevidenceremainedofitsprevioususeasaworkshop.
x The importance of the Montrose Street area in the industrial development of
Hawthornhadbeenoverstatedand,inanycase,previousheritagestudieshadnot
considered postͲwar factories along or near Burwood Road to be of heritage
significance.
x The architect David Godsell had built very little during his career and had no
profoundorongoingimpactonthearchitectureofBoroondara.
x Reference to design elements being derived from the Prairie School of architects
associatedwithFrankLloydWrightwasinaccurate.
x The building did not demonstrate a high degree of creative or technical
achievement,becausecolouredconcreteblockswerecommonplaceatthetimeof
itsconstruction.
x incorporationofaresidenceforacaretakerisnotgroundsforconcludingthatthe
buildinghasheritagesignificance.
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Thesubmissionalsopointedoutthat,duetotheredevelopmentofthesitesoneitherside,
the subject building would be surrounded by multiͲstorey residential towers. This would
meanthat,inthefuture,anyarchitecturaloraestheticvaluesoftheexistingbuildingwould
bediminishedandrenderedeffectivelynonͲexistent.
The submission enclosed a copy of advice from architectural conservation consultant, Mr
PeterBarrett,tosupportthisview.MrBarrettstatedthatinhisopinionthebuildingwasnot
ofsufficientaesthetic,architecturalorhistoricalsignificancetowarrantheritageprotection.
Inaddition,heritagecontrolswouldplaceunnecessaryconstraintsonthelandintermsofits
futureuseanddevelopment.
Council, in its presentation to the Hearing, advised that, following the preliminary
consultation on the heritage citation for the property, a planning permit application had
beenlodgedforredevelopmentofthelandforamultiͲstoreyresidentialbuilding.Council
determined to refuse the application and issued a Notice of Refusal. An application for
reviewwasmadetoVCATinMarch2015buthasnotyetbeenheard.
Council submitted that the development proposal for the site was not a relevant
considerationforthisPanel.Italsopointedoutthatthatthechangingurbancontextofthe
propertywasnotanissue,becausethebuildingwasproposedforanindividualHO,rather
thanbeingincludedaspartofaprecinct.
MrSimonReeves,whogaveexpertevidenceonbehalfofCouncil,advisedthathe(through
his firm, Built Heritage Pty Ltd) had prepared the Boroondara Thematic Environmental
History.Inthecourseofresearchforthatpublication,hehadidentifiedtheMontroseStreet
building–theformerNisselcontactlensfactory–asa‘relatedplace’underthethemeof
postͲwar industrial expansion. He was subsequently engaged by Council to prepare an
individual citation for the property, in line with the action identified in Boroondara’s
HeritageActionPlan(seesection2.1.2above).
Mr Reeves’ expert witness statement outlined his methodology as including: historical
researchonGodsellandhisdesignsandoncontactlensmanufactureinAustralia,aswellas
information on the development of the site and the broader area; inspection from the
street; and comparative analysis. He also prepared a detailed citation that recorded the
resultsofhisresearchandincludedanassessmentagainsttheHERCONheritagecriteria.
InresponsetothesubmissionfromtheowneroftheMontroseStreetpropertyhemadethe
followingpoints:
x The citation does not claim there is anything in the fabric of the building that
demonstrates its former use for manufacture of contact lens, but this is not
necessaryinordertosupportitshistoricalsignificance.Historicalresearchindicates
thatthiswasthefirstpurposeͲbuiltcontactlensfactoryinVictoriaandthecompany
wasonlythethirdsuchbusinessestablishedinAustralia(aftertwoinSydney).
x The citation does not assert that Montrose Street itself was an ‘epicentre’ of
industrialactivity,butthatitwasoneoffanumberofsmallerstreetsoffBurwood
Roadthatwereassociatedwiththebroaderthemeofindustrialdevelopmentinthis
partofHawthornafterWorldWarII.
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x Cultural significance can be ascribed to a building because it was designed by a
particulararchitect,whetherornotthepersonwasinfluentialintheareainwhich
thebuildingislocated.
x Godsell was an architect whose work was wellͲknown and publicised during his
lifetime. The fact that he completed only a relatively small number of projects
duringhiscareercannotbecitedasevidencethathisbuildingsaredevoidofmerit,
unworthyofscholarlyattentionornotappropriatecandidatesforheritagelisting.
x The purported lack of relationship between the designs of the Prairie School and
the subject building overlooks the later evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs,
whichincludedasignificantinterestinpolygonalgeometry.InMrReeves’view,the
description ‘Prairie School’ could be fairly applied to Wright and the architects
associated with him throughout his career, rather than being restricted to the
earlierdesignsthathadgivenrisetothenameappliedtothegroup.
x The claim that the use of coloured concrete blocks was not a ‘technical
achievement’ because such blocks were commonly used in the 1960s is not
consistentwiththecitation,whichstatedthatbecausetheconcreteblocksonthe
subjectbuildingwereunusualintheirform,finishesandcolouring,theyconstituted
a‘creativeachievement’.
x Because cultural heritage significance is an evolving and cyclical phenomenon,
hitherto overlooked buildings would inevitably be ‘rediscovered’ as places of
heritagesignificanceinthefuture.
x A number of recent heritage studies have shown interest in postͲWorld War II
industrialplaces.InBoroondara,anumberofnotableexamplesofsuchplaceshave
beendemolishedinrecentyears.
x Theprovisionofaresidentialflatontheupperlevelofasmallfactoryforanowner
ormanagerisahighlyunusualphenomenonfortheperiod.
MrBarrett,inhisstatementofevidence,puttheviewthattheNissel&Companybuildingat
4AMontroseStreetisnotsignificanttoBoroondarabecause:
x Themanufactureofcontactlenseswasestablishedinthe1940sinAustraliaanda
company commencing manufacture a decade later cannot be considered to be
pioneering.
x Thisisthethirdpremisesoccupiedbythecompany,sotoclaimimportanceforitas
‘purposebuilt’istoonarrowabasisonwhichtoclaimsignificance.
x The building provides no evidence in its current fabric of its original use as a
workshopmanufacturingopticallenses.
x The residential scale and character of the building provides little to demonstrate
that it was part of Hawthorn East’s industrial history. In any case, this part of
Hawthornwasoneofseveralareasinthedistrictwhereindustrycouldbefound;it
wasnotaregional‘epicentre’ofindustry,particularlywhenlargerareasofindustry
existedelsewhereinHawthorn.
x Aesthetically,thesubjectbuildingisanexampleofModernistarchitecturethathas
elementsfoundonthebuildingsofFrankLloydWright,butthisisnotunusual,given
theimportanceofWrightandhisinfluenceontwentiethcenturyarchitecture.
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x While the building has some Prairie School elements, it cannot be claimed to be
evocative of the PrairieͲstyle per se, as it is not detached, has no open landscape
settinganddoesnothaveapitchedroof.
x ThebuildingisanexampleoftheworkofDavidGodsell,whohadaprolificcareerin
Melbournefromtheearly1960sandisstronglyassociatedwiththesouthͲeastern
suburbs.ThefactthatthisbuildingistheonlyworkofGodsell’sinBoroondaradoes
notraiseitssignificancetoanyappreciablelevel.
MrBarrettalsonotedchangestotheexteriorandinteriorofthebuildingsinceitsusebythe
Nisselcompany.Theoriginalfactory/workshopentrancehasbeenreplacedwithglazing,the
central fireplace on the upper level has been removed and the original workbenches and
manufacturingequipmenthavebeenreplacedwithanofficefitͲout.
MrBarrettprovidedexamplesofPrairieStyleresidencesintheUnitedStatesandintheCity
ofBoroondara,includingonedesignedbyWalterBurleyGriffinandMarianMahoneyGriffin,
who were close associates of Wright, to demonstrate his claim that they were not
comparablewiththesubjectbuilding.
InresponsetoquestionsfromMsLardner,MrReevesreiteratedandexpandedonanumber
ofmattersinthecitationandhisevidence.Inadditiontothepointsalreadynoted,hesaid
that:
x Decorated,colouredconcreteblocksspeciallymadebyacommercialmanufacturer
were unusual in the 1960s, although adding colour to concrete render was
introducedinthe1930sandplainconcreteblockswerewidelyusedinpostͲWorld
WarIIbuildings.
x The assessment of heritage significance relates to valuesrecognisedat the timea
place is identified and assessed; it is not important that previous studies did not
identifyaparticularplace.
x Interesting, architectͲdesigned factories of 1950s and 1960s are becoming
increasinglyrareinBoroondara.
x Thecruciformplanofthebuildingmaynotbeimmediatelyevidentfromthestreet
butisshownclearlyintheplans.
x ThefactthatthebuildingwaspurposeͲbuiltforaparticularuseelevatesitabovea
placethatwasoccupiedbyorconvertedforthesamepurpose.
x AlthoughthefitͲoutcouldbedescribedasa‘workshop’ratherthanafactory,the
buildingwasstillusedformanufacturing.
x Despiteitssmallscale,thebuildingwouldnotbemistakenforahouse;ithadmore
of a commercial character, but there was not always a clear distinction between
commercialandsmallscaleindustrialpremises.
x The property would be an ‘outstanding building’ wherever it was located and a
goodexampleofGodsell’swork.
x ThebuildingisinfluencedbyFrankLloydWright’slaterdesigns,asopposedtothe
strictcharacteristicsofthe‘Prairie’styleuptoabout1910.
x Thechangedcontextstillallowsthebuildingtobeappreciated.
x The fact that two other examples were tabled of residences combined with
commercial properties of approximately the same era as the subject building did
notchangehisviewthatsuchacombinationwasunusual.
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Mr Barrett’s presentation to the Hearing identified other areas in Boroondara that he
considered had a more significance concentration of industry, particularly large scale
premises.Inresponsetoquestions,hestressedthedifferencebetween‘PrairieSchool’(or
PrairieͲstyle) designs and later ‘Wrightian’ designs after 1910Ͳ1920. He agreed that the
subjectbuildinghadsome‘Wrightian’elements,asdidthecomparativeexamplesidentified
by Mr Reeves, but said that it was not unusual to find references to Wright’s designs on
buildingsanywhereintheworld.Heputtheviewthatthebuildingshouldbeassessedasa
work of Godsell, rather than for any link withWright. Godsell, he said, was a modest but
reasonablysuccessfulsolepractitioner,butnotreallyanimportantarchitect.
Ms Lardner, through her questions and in her written submission tabled at the Hearing,
raisedanumberofadditionalpointsincluding:
x The site is located within the Auburn Village Neighbourhood Centre and the
Burwood/CamberwellRoadCommercialCorridorandtheobjectivesoftheplanning
scheme include for this area include ‘encouraging high density residential
development’.
x DDO16 ‘makes clear it is targeted for the areas adjacent to Auburn Station,
includingMontroseStreet’.
x The Minister’s refusal to apply interim HO controls to the site is a relevant
considerationforthePaneland‘oughtbeascribedconsiderableweight’.
x The Burra Charter requires the retention of an appropriate visual setting for a
heritageplace,butthesettingof4AMontroseStreethasbeensubstantiallyaltered
byadjoiningdevelopment.
MsLardneralsocommentedontheassessmentagainstcriteria(inthecitation),reiteratinga
number of points that had been made in the owner’s submission and accompanying
documentsorinhercrossexaminationofMrReeves.
MsLardnerquestionedtheindependenceofMrReeves,onthebasisthathehadprepared
both the Thematic Environmental History and the citation for the building, and these had
notbeenpeerreviewed.Furthermore,shesuggestedthatMrReeves’statusasaspecialist
in postͲWorld War II built heritage was overstated and his enthusiasm for the period was
inclinedtooverridehisjudgement.Shepointedoutthathelackedformal(postͲgraduate)
qualificationsinarchitecturalhistoryorarchitecturalconservation.
Ms Lardner requested that the Panel recommend that the subject site be deleted from
AmendmentC178.
ThePanelhasinspectedthesiteandareaandhasconsideredthesubmissionsandevidence
presentedtoitinformingitsviewsastothesignificanceofthisproperty.
The Panel agrees with Council that the development application relating to the subject
propertyisnotrelevanttotheassessmentofitsheritagesignificance.Similarly,thechanged
urban context is not a matter that needs to be taken into account at this stage, as in the
Panel’s view it does not impact on the place to such an extent that its heritage values (if
established)couldnolongerbeappreciated.WithregardtoMsLardner’sreferencetothe
BurraCharter,thePanelconsidersthattheprovisionquotedreferstodecisionsbeingmade
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about changes to the environs of a listed or recognised heritage place, rather than
suggestingthataplacecannotberecognisedifitislocatedinunsympatheticsurroundings.
The Panel acknowledges the advice from the Minister’s delegate that the application of
interim heritage controls to the property ‘is not consistent with sound, coͲordinated and
integrated planning given that the site is in an Activity Centre that foreshadows new
developmentopportunities’buttakesthistomeanthatanHOshouldonlybeappliedtosuch
a place after proper consideration through a Panel process, rather than as a preͲemptive
Ministerialaction.
ThePanelacknowledgesthat,aspointedoutbyMsLardner,theplanningschemeobjectives
for neighbourhood centres and commercial corridors include ‘encouraging high density
residentialdevelopment’butbelievesitgoeswithoutsayingthatnoteverysitewithinthese
centresisexpectedtoberedevelopedforthatpurpose.
The Design and Development Overlay Schedule 16, which applies to the land, requires
development to maintain and enhance the traditional, lowͲrise, high street character of
neighbourhood centres and to have regard to adjoining residential amenity. It is
acknowledgedthatTable32oftheOverlayidentifiesMontroseStreetasanareasuitablefor
higher buildings and smaller upper storey setbacks, but again, the Panel does not believe
that this requires all the buildings in the precinct to be replaced by higher density
development.
As noted in section 1.3.2 (iv) above, Schedule 16 includes a decision guideline requiring
considerationofwhetherthedesignofaproposeddevelopmentsupportstheprovisionsof
the Heritage Policy at Clause 22.05. The Panel believes this shows that Council envisages
that the local heritage significance of places within activity centres should be taken into
accountinplanning.Therefore,thePaneldoesnotconsiderthatapplicationofanHOtoa
buildingwithinanactivitycentrewouldbeinconsistentwiththeseprovisions,providingthe
placemeetsthethresholdoflocalsignificance.
With regard to the heritage significance of the property at 4A Montrose Street, Hawthorn
East, the Panel notes that the statement of significance identifies the place as being of
aesthetic, architectural and historical significance to the City of Boroondara. These values
havebeentakentorepresentCriterionE(aesthetic/architectural)andCriterionA(historical)
significance.
However, it is noteworthy that the citation contains an assessment against the HERCON
heritagecriteriathatalsomakesclaimsfortheimportanceofthebuildingagainst:
x Criterion B (rarity) as an rare and endangered survivor of postͲWorld War II
factoriesinthatpartofBoroondara,asararebuildingtypethatcombinesindustrial
andresidentialprovisionandastheonlyexampleofGodsell’sworkinBoroondara.
x CriterionF(creative/technicalachievement)foritshighlydistinctivegeometricform
and planning and particularly though the unusual use of coloured triangular
concreteblockswithincisedornament,thatwereespeciallymanufacturedforthis
project.
x Criterion H (association with a person or group of persons of importance in
Boroondara’shistory)foritsassociationswithVictorLowe,managerofGNissel&
CompanyandapioneerofcontactlensmanufactureinAustralia.
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ThePanelhasdeterminedtoconsiderthepropertyinrelationtothevaluesidentifiedinthe
statementofsignificanceratherthanthebroaderassessmentagainstcriteria,whichappears
tocontainmaterialthatisofheritage‘interest’ratherthannecessarilyclaimingtomeetthe
thresholdforlocalsignificanceagainsteachcriterion.
With regard to historical significance, the Panel notes that the siteͲspecific claim for the
propertyrelatestoitsassociationswiththeearlydevelopmentoftheAustraliancontactlens
industry. The firm of G Nissel & Company was the first to manufacture contact lenses in
VictoriaandonlythethirdinAustralia.Thefactory/workshopandassociatedresidencewas
designedandbuiltspecificallyforthecompany.Thefactoryisalsoclaimedtobesignificant
foritsabilitytodemonstratetheongoingthemeofindustrialdevelopmentalongandaround
BurwoodRoadfromthe1850sonwards.
ThePaneldoesnotacceptthatthe‘abilitytodemonstratetheongoingthemeofindustrial
developmentalongandaroundBurwoodRoad’forover150yearsisa sufficientreasonto
singleoutthisproperty(thoughacasemighthavebeenmadeiftheperiodhadbeenshorter
andthetypeofindustrialdevelopmentspecifiedmoreclearly).
Incontrast,aftersomeconsideration,thePanelbelievesthattheproperty’sconnectionwith
theearlydevelopmentoftheAustraliancontactlensindustryisavalidcausetoidentifythe
placeasbeingofhistoricalsignificanceatthelocallevel.Theinventionofthecontactlens
was a major scientific advance and the G Nissel & Company was the first to undertake its
manufactureinVictoria.ThepremisesitoccupiedbeforemovingtoMontroseStreetwere
notpurposeͲbuiltandmay,therefore,beregardedaslesssignificant.
InrelationtoMrBarrett’sadviceregardinginternalchangesmadetothebuilding,thePanel
notesthatnointernalcontrolsareproposedbytheAmendment.
Withregardtothepotentialarchitectural/aestheticvalueof4AMontroseStreet,thePanel
didnotfindanarrowconcentrationonwhatareclaimedtobe‘PrairieSchool’(or‘PrairieͲ
style’) designs and characteristics to be particularly useful in its assessment. Whatever
terminology is used at different points in the citation or in Mr Reeves’s evidence, the
statementofsignificancefortheplaceclearlyreferstotheongoinginfluenceofFrankLloyd
Wright’sdesigns(notjustthosethatcouldbeclassifiedas‘PrairieͲstyle’)andtherecognition
ofDavidGodsellasanexponentofthebroader‘Wrightian’style.ThePanelissatisfied,from
theevidenceofMrReeves,thatmanyoftheelementsofthedesignreflectthemes,forms
anddetailsfromWright’slaterwork.Theseincludethecruciformplan,theprojectingbays
withcantedroofeaves,thehorizontalcladdingandthedecorativeconcreteblockwork.
Thekeyquestion,alludedtobyMrBarrett,is:Howimportantarethedesignreferencesto
Wrightinassessingthearchitectural/aestheticvalueofthepropertyasafactory/workshop
designedbyDavidGodsell?
The Panel agrees with Mr Reeves that the building is an unusual and skilful design for an
industrial building and associated residence. Its small sizereflects thescale and nature of
the manufacturing that went on within it and would have fitted well with the residential
usesthatexistedinthestreetatthetime.
WhileDavidGodsellisnotahouseholdname,thePanelacceptsthathewasanarchitectof
noteintheperiodafterWorldWarIIandthathisworkwaspublicisedinmajornewspapers
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duringhisworkinglife.ItalsonotesthattheNationalTrusthasclassifiedtwoofGodsell’s
designs(hisownhouseandanotherinGlenWaverley)andassessedthemasbeingofstate
significance.ItisofinterestthatbothcitationsrecogniseFrankLloydWright,particularlyhis
laterdesigns,asamajorinfluenceonGodsell.
WithregardtotheclaimedlackofindependenceofMrReeves,thePanelhasalreadydealt
withthisissueinrelationtosimilarclaimsaboutMsSchmeder(seesection3.1)andrejects
thissuggestionoutright.ItisnormalpracticeforPanelstohearexpertevidencefromthe
consultantsthathavecarriedoutlocalheritagestudiesandpreparedcitationsforproperties
proposedforHOlisting.Peerreviewsareseldomcalledfor,exceptwherethestudiesrelied
onareoldand/orwherethepeoplewhoundertookthestudyareunavailable.
Overall,inrelationtoarchitecturalandhistoricalvalues,thePanelpreferstheevidenceof
MrReevestothatofMrBarrett.MrReevesisrecognisedasaspecialist(eveniflargelyselfͲ
taught)inpostͲWorldWarIIbuiltheritageinmetropolitanMelbourneandtheinfluenceof
international, particularly North American, trends on it. The Panel notes that Mr Barrett
acknowledged that he has not previously assessed any ‘Wrightian’ or ’Prairie School’
buildingsordoneanyresearchonthemovement.
ThePanelfindsthatthepropertyat4AMontroseStreetisoflocalsignificancetotheCityof
Boroondaraforitshistoricandarchitectural/aestheticvalues.
As noted above, the citation for this property includes an assessment against heritage
criteria that records values against more criteria than those identified in the statement of
significance. The Panel has concluded that these refer to heritage ‘interest’ rather than
significanceandsuggeststhatthecitationshouldbeamendedtorecognisethis.
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5.6
HO20
1045BurkeRoad,HawthornEast
ThissiteislocatedonthenorthwestcornerofBurkeRoadandRathminesRoad,Hawthorn.
It is currently occupied by a Queen Anne residence known as ‘Arden’ and is listed in the
ScheduletotheHeritageOverlay(HO20)intheBoroondaraPlanningScheme.
The significance of the property was reviewed in 2012 when it was discovered that the
gardenhadbeenredesignedbyEdnaWallingin1928.Arevisedcitationwaspreparedwhich
addedinformationinrelationtothegardenandthefencealongBurkeRoadandRathmines
Road.
TheexhibitedAmendmentappliesthe‘treecontrols’forspecificplantsandthe‘fenceand
outbuilding notice requirements’ for the fence along the Burke and Rathmines Roads
frontages,totheexistingheritageoverlay.
Howisitsignificant?
ArdenisoflocalhistoricalandaestheticsignificancetotheCityofBoroondara.
Whyisitsignificant?
Architecturallyandaestheticallysignificantfor:itsadaptationofQueenAnne
to a tight site; the complexity of its elevation and planning; the use of the
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unusual splayed corner on a Queen Anne design; and for the outstanding
fence, rare on Queen Anne houses throughout metropolitan Melbourne.
(CriteriaB,EandF)
AwrittensubmissionwaslodgedwithCouncilopposingtheinclusionofthecontrolsrelating
tothegardenandfencesintheHOSchedule.
ThesubmitterstatedthatplantsintheoriginalEdnaWallinggardenhadbeenremovedand
changesmadethataffectedanyheritagesignificanceitmayhaveoncehad.Inrelationto
thenotificationprovisionsforthefence,thesubmitteradvisedthatitsremovalformspartof
thepermit,issuedatthedirectionofVCAT,toredeveloptheproperty.
Onconsideringthissubmissionandreceivingexpertadvice,Councilresolvednottoproceed
withthetriggeringofthetreecontrolsintheHO.
Minter Ellison, for the property owner/submitter, wrote to the Panel to advise they no
longer wished to appear at the hearing but requested that the contents of their letter be
takenintoconsideration.Theletterreferredtothepermitissuedtodemolishthedwelling
and fence along Burke Road and Rathmines Road and to the advice that Council had
resolvednottotriggerthetreecontrolsoftheHO.Theletteralsostatedthatdemolitionof
Ardenandthefence‘wasproposedtocommenceintheshortterm’.MsLiuadvisedthata
twoyearsextension,inwhichtocommencedevelopmenthadbeengrantedbyCouncil.
TheletterreceivedfromMinterEllisonalsosubmittedthatthenotificationrequirementsfor
thefencewerenotwarrantedonheritagegroundsanditreferredthePaneltoMrRaworth’s
evidenceattheVCAThearingthatstatedthefence‘isnotarareorsignificantexampleofits
kind’.
MsSchmeder’sevidencewasthatthefenceisoffinedesignandunusualform.Itislargely
intact, apart from the insertion of ripple iron panels behind it (reversible), rebuilding of a
gatepierandreplacementofthecornergate.Shesaidthatoriginalfencesarerecognisedas
valuable elements of original residential designs and fences from the Victorian and
Edwardianperiodsareparticularlyrareandworthyofheritageprotection.
AttheHearing,CouncilconfirmedthattheHOhadbeenamendedpostͲexhibitiontoremove
thetreecontrolstrigger.Ithoweverwishedtoretainthenotification/reviewtriggerforthe
fence.
5.6.4 Discussionandconclusion
The Panel is well aware of the permit that has issued to demolish the dwelling and front
fenceandtoredeveloptheproperty.
Basedonitsviewoftheproperty,andMsSchmeder’sevidence,thePanelbelievesthatthe
fence along Burke Road and Rathmines Road does contribute to the significance of the
property.ThePanelnotesMrRaworth’swrittenevidencetoVCATstatedthat‘thecastiron
and brick front fence is a handsome streetscape element but is not especially rare or
outstanding’.BasedonthephotographsincludedinMrRaworth’sVCATevidencethePanel
accepts the fence may not be particularly rare. It however believes that, as stated in Mr
Raworth’sVCATevidence,thefenceisanelementthatcontributestothestreetscapeand
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the existing dwelling. As Mr Raworth was not called to provide evidence to the Panel he
couldnotbeaskedquestionsinrelationtothismatter.
The Panel believes that until the issued permit is acted on, it is appropriate to include
reference to the fence along the Burke Road and Rathmines Road frontages in the
‘OutbuildingsorfenceswhicharenotexemptunderClause43.01Ͳ3’ColumnoftheHO.
In view of the changes made to the garden, the Panel supports the removal of trigger for
treecontrols.
ThePanelrecommends:
Substitute the word ‘No’ for ‘Yes (Specimens of Privet, Crab Apple, and plants
comprising Tapestry Hedge on Burke and Rathmines Road frontages)’ in the
column ‘Tree Controls Apply’ in the entry for HO20, ‘Arden’, 1045 Burke Road,
HawthornEast.
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AppendixA ListofSubmitters
No
Submitter
1
BrodieTreloar
2
TeresaDiSisto
3
BasilHedges
4
DrFrancescoBarbagallo
5
BolaloPtyLtd
6
DeanBustin
7
1045BurkeRoadPtyLtd
8
DrTonySobol
9
KennethEdmonds
10
AleksKaya
11
C&SAlexander
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AppendixB DocumentList
No
1
Date
Description
Presentedby
21/4/15 Councilsubmission
MsLiuBoroondaraCC
1a
“
ExhibitedHOSchedule–C178
BoroondaraCC
1b
“
BoroondaraHeritageActionPlan2012
BoroondaraCC
2
“
Aerialphoto,GrangeAvenuePrecinct(HO590)
BoroondaraCC
3
“
Mapshowinglocationofsubmitters
BoroondaraCC
4
22/4/15 LetterfromDELWPreapprovalofC211interimcontrols
BoroondaraCC
5
“
Aerialphotoof415Ͳ417HighStreet,Kew(HO603)
BoroondaraCC
6
“
Aerialphotoof13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury(HO591)
BoroondaraCC
7
“
Submissionre13Ͳ15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury(HO591)–
linkviaDropbox
DrSobol
8
“
PlansrerequestunderSection29A,BuildingAct,for13Ͳ
15IrilbarraRoad,Canterbury
BoroondaraCC
9
23/4/15 Cadastralplan,165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene(HO593)
BestHooper
10
“
BoroondaraThematicEnvironmentalHistory
BestHooper
11
“
Submissionre165WhitehorseRoad,Deepdene(HO593)
BestHooper
12
“
BoroondaraC116PanelReport
BestHooper
13
28/4/15 PlanningPermit(1995)re4AMontroseStreet,East
Hawthorn
JLardner
14
“
1903MMBWplanofMontroseStreet
JLardner
15
“
Photosoftheinternalspacesof4AMontroseStreetprior
to1995alterations,showingworkshop/factor
JLardner
16
“
PhotosofBoomerHouse,Arizona–acomparative
examplecitedbySReeves
JLardner
17
“
Photosofotherexamplesofcombineddwellings/factories JLardner
ordwellings/commercialpremises
18
“
ArticlereinfluenceofFrankLloydWright–Architecture5
1969,Vol3:5
JLardner
19
“
PhotosofCapitolHouse,ES&ABankandIOOFBuilding
(comparativeexamples)
JLardner
20
“
Photosofthefireplaceat4AMontroseStreetin1995,
priortoremoval
JLardner
21
“
Submissionre4AMontroseStreet
JLardner
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22
“
Bundleofadditionalinformationincluding:
JLardner
22a
“
Ͳ relevantprovisionsoftheBoroondaraPlanningScheme JLardner
22b
“
Ͳ plansforapplicationcurrentlybeforeVCATfor4A
MontroseStreet
JLardner
22c&d
“
Ͳ perspectivedrawingslookingdownMontroseStreet
fromdifferentdirectionsshowingbuildingsunder
constructionorproposed
JLardner
22e
“
Ͳ SitePlan–MontroseStreet,HawthornEast
DevelopmentPrecinct
JLardner
22f
“
Ͳ chainofemailsrelatingtoproposedapplicationof
interimheritagecontrolson4AMontroseStreet
JLardner
22g
“
Ͳ backgroundmaterialonFrankLloydWright
JLardner
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AppendixC HERCONHeritageCriteria
CriterionA:Importancetothecourseorpatternofourculturalornaturalhistory(historical
significance).
CriterionB:Possessionofuncommonrareorendangeredaspectsofourculturalornatural
history(rarity).
Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our
culturalornaturalhistory(researchpotential).
CriterionD:Importanceindemonstratingtheprincipalcharacteristicsofaclassofculturalor
naturalplacesorenvironments(representativeness).
Criterion E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics (aesthetic
significance).
CriterionF:Importanceindemonstratingahighdegreeofcreativeortechnicalachievement
ataparticularperiod(technicalsignificance).
CriterionG:Strongorspecialassociationwithaparticularcommunityorculturalgroupfor
social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous
peoplesaspartoftheircontinuinganddevelopingculturaltraditions(socialsignificance).
Criterion H: Special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons of
importanceinourhistory(associativesignificance).
Source:PracticeNoteNo1–ApplyingtheHeritageOverlay(revisedSeptember2012).
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HO594 - 59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East
b)
Substitute the word ‘No’ for ‘Yes, two Norfolk
Island Pines’ in the column ‘Tree Controls Apply?’
in the entry for HO594, ‘Former Astolat Ladies
College’, 59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East.
Add the statements of significance for individual
places recommended for listing on the Heritage
Overlay through Amendment C178 (collected
together into a single document, titled ‘Individually
Significant Heritage Places – Amendment C178’
or similar) to the policy references in sub-clause
22.05-7.
a)
Officers will seek Council’s resolution to
amend this existing reference document
following the Minister’s approval to include
the individual heritage citations.
It is not necessary to create a single
reference document which consolidates
C178 heritage citations as the existing
reference document has been used for the
same purpose.
Officers note that there is an existing
reference document at Clause 22.05
(Heritage Policy) of the Boroondara Planning
Scheme for this purpose - Boroondara
Heritage Property Database.
Officers’ Response
No further change is required.
The Panel supports the Council’s decision to remove tree Officers note that this recommendation from
controls from 59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn.
the Panel supports the Urban Planning
Special Committee’s (UPSC) resolution on
16 February 2015 to no longer pursue “tree
controls” at the subject site. The UPSC
resolved to adopt the revised heritage citation
to reflect the change.
As per Panel’s recommendation.
Boroondara Planning Scheme Amendment C178 be adopted as exhibited, subject to the following changes:
1
Relevant comments from the Panel
Panel Recommendations
No.
Response to recommendations from the Panel
Officers’ consideration and response to recommendations and comments of the Panel - Boroondara Planning Scheme
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d)
HO603, 415–417 High Street, Kew
c)
Amendment C178
Delete the property at 165 Whitehorse Road,
Deepdene (HO593) from the Heritage Overlay.
165 Whitehorse Road, Deepdene
Amend the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay to
include the word ‘Yes’ under the Column
‘Prohibited uses may be permitted?’ for HO603,
415–417 High Street, Kew.
No.
The Panel considers that this particular agency and the grocery
business occupying the shop, as well as other nearby
businesses, would have provided equally important services to
its local community. The Panel also believes that the use would
have been no more important here than those operating in other
The Panel believes that it is not possible to determine whether
the post office agency was the primary use operating on this
premise. It was common in the early twentieth century to have
privately run post office agencies operating from shops that were
not built specifically for that purpose.
However, officers and Council’s heritage
consultant have reviewed the Panel’s
recommendations and consider it appropriate
Amendment C178 identifies the building as
an individually significant heritage place as a
“rare survivor of the earliest phase of
commercial development in Deepdene… and
illustrates the provision of agency postal
services from private commercial
premises…”
Officers recommend that the exhibited
Schedule to the Heritage Overlay be
amended to reflect the change.
The Panel believes that the shop retains sufficient integrity to Officers and Council’s heritage consultant
agree with the Panel that part of the heritage
justify protection under the HO.
significance of the shop is the commercial
The building is within the General Residential Zone 3 and
use which was what the shop was
therefore if the shop section of the property is vacant for any
constructed for in the 1880s and 1900s.
length of time it could lose its existing use rights. As the
Allowing ‘Prohibited Uses’ subject to a
significance of the building, in part, relates to its construction for
planning permit will allow a continuation of
occupation as a shop, the Panel believes it would be appropriate
the historical uses of the building such as a
to permit the consideration of prohibited uses. The Panel
retail shop.
concludes that the addition of a ‘prohibited uses’ trigger will be a
Officers consider that activating this control
benefit to the owner and will not disadvantage other parties.
provides flexibility for uses to occupy the
existing building and may provide an
incentive to preserve the building, particularly
if conversion to residential occupation may
require significant alterations to the building
which could potentially compromise its
heritage significance.
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e)
No.
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Substitute the word ‘No’ for ‘Yes (Specimens of
Privet, Crab Apple, and plants comprising
Tapestry Hedge on Burke and Rathmines Road
frontages)’ in the column ‘Tree Controls Apply’ in
the entry for HO20, ‘Arden’, 1045 Burke Road,
Hawthorn East.
HO20, 1045 Burke Road, Hawthorn East.
The Panel believes that the fence along Burke Road and
Rathmines Road contribute to the significance of the property.
Therefore, until the issued permit is acted on, it is appropriate to
include reference to the fence along the Burke Road and
Rathmines Road frontages in the ‘Outbuildings or fences which
are not exempt under Clause 43.01-3’ Column of the HO.
The Panel is aware that a permit has been issued to demolish
the dwelling and front fence and to redevelop the property.
The Panel believes that while the building may qualify as a
contributory building if located in a heritage precinct, it does not
have the level of significance required to qualify as an
individually significant building. The Panel also believes that
while the inclusion of a post office agency in the building was
part of the early development of Deepdene, the use itself was
not particularly rare in smaller centres.
The Panel accepts that Deepdene is now recognised as a
separate locality with its own postcode, but has concluded that it
is not a sufficiently significant geographical component of
Boroondara (or even the former municipality of Camberwell) for
local significance to be attributed to it on this basis.
The UPSC also resolved to adopt the revised
heritage citation to reflect the change. No
further change to the citation is required.
Officers note that this recommendation from
Panel supports Council’s resolution to no
longer pursue “tree controls” at the subject
site. The resolution was made by the Urban
Planning Special Committee (UPSC) on 16
February 2015 prior to referring the
amendment to the Panel.
The Panel’s determination on the Deepdene
post office’s historical significance and
comparative analysis will be taken into
account by Council’s heritage consultant
when assessing similar buildings in the
future. Officers also agree that the interim
HO593 affecting the property should be
deleted.
Officers note the Panel has compared the
subject building with other buildings of the
Edwardian era in the municipality, which
differs from Council’s heritage consultant’s
comparative analysis, which focused on post
office agencies.
to no longer pursue the proposed HO at 165
Whitehorse Rd, Deepdene.
shopping centres in the general Balwyn area at that time.
The Panel believes that the absence of any evidence in the
building fabric that a post office agency once occupied the site
diminishes the significance of the place, which in its view was
neither a unique or remarkable occupancy in this small
commercial centre.
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Grange Avenue
Heritage
Precinct (2-10
Grange Ave,
Canterbury)
It also supports the inclusion of its statement of significance in Clause
22.05 - Heritage Policy and the referencing of the citation in the
Scheme.
The Panel supports the application of HO590 to 2, 4, 6 8 and 10
Grange Avenue, Canterbury.
The Panel also suggests some minor wording changes in the citation
in the “Assessment against Criteria” section..
The Panel finds that the property is of local significance to the City of
Boroondara for its historic and architectural/aesthetic values.
The Panel does not consider the decision by the Minister for
Planning’s delegate not to approve the interim HO should impact on
the consideration of the permanent HO through Amendment C178.
The Panel considers that the HO could be applied after proper
consideration through a Panel process, rather than as a pre-emptive
Ministerial action.
Noted.
Officers agree with the Panel’s suggestion. The heritage citation has been revised
accordingly for Council’s adoption.
Although the final decorative details were not fully completed at the time of
inspection, based on the plans submitted with the demolition permit application and
advice from Council’s heritage consultant, the building will no longer be of
architectural significance at a local level, as it will present a confusing and incorrect
illustration of the Italianate Villa style. Hence, the reasons for which the HO was
proposed for the property would be lost. Therefore, it is recommended that 13-15
Irilbarra Rd, Canterbury be deleted form the amendment.
However, the Panel believes that until this demolition and other
construction work occur and the heritage significance of the property
is subsequently reviewed, the Panel supports the HO being applied
as proposed by the Amendment.
4A Montrose St,
Hawthorn East
Officers were advised by the property owner in June 2015 that the demolition and
extension works had commenced. Subsequent site visits further confirmed that the
partial demolition approved under S29A of the Building Act had completed and the
alteration of the partial facade was well underway.
The Panel understands that, Council was required to issue consent
under S29A of the Building Act 1993 to allow partial demolition of the
building as the Minister for Planning’s delegate did not approve the
interim HO at the property.
13-15 Irilbarra
Rd, Canterbury
Response
Panel Comments
Address
Response to other comments from the Panel
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TIMBER SHOP
Prepared by: Context Pty Ltd
Address: 415-417 High Street, Kew
Name: Timber shop
Survey Date: 30 Aug. 2013
Place Type: Commercial
Architect:
Grading: Individually Significant
Builder:
Extent of Overlay: To title boundaries
Construction Date: 1887 &
c1906
Historical Context
Boroondara Cemetery
The Boroondara Cemetery, at the corner of High Street and Park Hill Road, Kew, was
first set aside as a cemetery reserve in 1855 and has been in continual use for over 140
years. The grand entrance to the cemetery, including the large iron gates and iron
palisade fence were erected in 1889 and the landmark clock tower was built in 1899
(Heritage Alliance, 2007, section 3.1). The cemetery was long associated with a horsedrawn tram line that terminated at the cemetery gates (Turnbull 2008:13).
The Tramways Trust announced its intention to immediately begin construction of a
horse-drawn tram line from the Victoria Street Bridge to Boroondara Cemetery in
November 1886 (Argus, 12/11/1886:4). The line opened on 28 December 1887 (Barnard
1910). The tram shed was located south-west of the shop, on High Street (then
numbered 305) just west of Disraeli Street (MMBW detail plan No.1586, dated 1904).
The tram was the main mode of transport to the cemetery and people began to travel
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great distances to view the impressive monuments (Rogers 1972:54-5). It is noted in
1910 that ‘on Sundays the traffic to the cemetery [was] extremely heavy on a fine day’
(Barnard 1910).
In 1910, Barnard (1910:60-1) states that the cemetery was frequented for its ‘beautifully
kept flower borders and the many striking memorials erected to the memory of the dead’.
He continues:
Among these may be mentioned the splendid Grecian temple and statuary erected
by Dr. J. W. Springthorpe in memory of his wife, reliably the finest work of the kind in
Australia, which has been visited by thousands of sightseers from all parts of the
States. Not quite so elaborate is the memorial in the form of an Egyptian temple
recently erected to the memory of the late David Syme, proprietor of the "Age."
There are many other notable monuments to leading citizens of Melbourne and its
suburbs. The views from the cemetery are very fine, and greatly add to its
attractions. The cemetery, originally intended for the use of the inhabitants of
Boroondara, has of recent years become so popular as a burying ground for
residents of other districts, that it is rapidly filling up, and ere long will be closed
except to those possessing the right of burial. At the Cemetery gates is the terminus
of the horse tram from Victoria Bridge, distant nearly a mile and three-quarters.
Local businesses often opened at tram terminuses and the same occurred at Kew. These
shops complemented the larger shopping strips whose locations were also influenced by
transport networks, such as the one further south on High Street at the Cotham Road
junction. This location also benefited from the Boroondara cemetery visitors. Frederick
Bosse purchased property and built a shop opposite the Boroondara Cemetery in 1887,
which coincided with the arrival of the tram terminus. Bosse tenanted his shop which was
a confectioners, and for a short period between 1907 and 1912, also a tearoom (Rogers
1972:55).
History
The shop at 415-17 High Street is located opposite the main entrance to the Boroondara
Cemetery. This land was originally part of The Hyde Park Company’s subdivision, which
began in 1882. In January 1885, Frederick Bosse, miner of Beechworth, bought the lot
that consisted of the current 415-419 High Street (excluding the far western strip of 415,
which was added later) from the company (LV:V1393/F443).
Frederick Bosse held shares in the Charleston Amalgamated Goldmining Company,
Matlock in 1866 (Argus, 27 Apr 1866:3). He is also known to have owned property in
Heathcote in the 1860s (LV: OLN/Application No.8051/884).
The first building to be erected by Bosse on his High Street property was the shop, in
1887, the same year the horse-drawn tram service began. In 1888, the Sands &
McDougall street directory listed an occupant, William Rennison, in this block for the first
time. The following year, the entry is for Mrs Anne Rennison (presumably William's wife),
confectioner, occupying a building between Disraeli Street and the residence of Frederick
Bosse. This indicates that Bosse had erected the house next door, at No 419, in 1888. It
is noted in a photo from the Bosse family album as the 'original residence of Frederick
and Jane Bosse' (Kew HS).
The shop was listed as a confectionary shop from 1889 (early confectioners including
Anne Rennison and ET Kewley). Between 1907 and 1912, the shop was listed in the
directory as a tearoom and confectionary, reflecting dual tenancies. The house at No.419
was occupied by Frederick senior and his wife Jane until 1931, followed solely by Jane,
until 1934 (Judith Vimpani, pers. comm., 11 Sep 2013). Frederick Bosse died on 14
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November 1931, and was listed as a former gardener in his will and probate (PROV
VPRS 28/P3, Unit 2271).
The MMBW plan (Detail Plan No.1586) dating to 1904 shows the shop (then numbered
309) and house (then numbered 311) on two separate lots. The south-west side
elevation of the shop is shown angled, tapering in to the north, following the property
boundary. A photo dating to 1903 shows a tram passing between the cemetery gates and
the shop, with visitors congregating around the cemetery entrance (Kew HS). The photo
shows that the south side elevation was originally clad in timber. The shop also had a
timber verandah extending over the footpath, enclosed at the end with round-edged
palings. This verandah is not shown on the 1904 detail plan (although the Boroondara
building permit files indicate that the verandah was not demolished until 1961).
Figure 1. Detail of the MMBW plan, showing the shop (No 309) and adjacent Bossefamily home (No 311) as they were in 1903. Note the jog in the facade of the shop,
which was filled in shortly afterward, possibly to provide room for the tea room. Note
also the angled south-west elevation, which was extended and straightened in 1978.
(MMBW Detail Plan No 1586, 1904)
The 1904 MMBW plan also shows that the shop does not extend completely to the east
boundary as it does today, indicating a later addition to the east end of the façade; at this
date the façade of the shop did not include the current northern bay of windows. It is
likely that the entrance to the shopkeeper's dwelling in the rear half of the building
(indicated on the MMBW plan by the bath) was accessed via this setback (MMBW Detail
Plan No.1586). The shop may have been extended to the north-east, infilling this
setback, around 1906 to allow for the creation of two tenancies (confectioners and the
tea room which opened at that time). This would correspond with the physical evidence:
The two eastern timber shop windows to the façade are identical and have angular
glazing bar profiles common during the Edwardian period. It is also possible that the
extension of the façade and replacement of existing shop windows took place c1917
when Frederick Bosse Junior constructed a brick house next door (at No 409) to
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accommodate the shopkeeper, making the recessed entry to the dwelling redundant, but
details such as the diagonal boards to the shop doors favour the earlier date.
Figure 2. Detail of a photo of High Street, 1903. The shop at No 417 is at far left. Note its
timber posted verandah and weatherboard-clad side wall with bargeboards to the gable
ends. To the right are horse-drawn trams and the entrance to Boroondara Cemetery.
(Source: Kew Historical Society)
Frederick Bosse (not known if this was senior or junior) also owned the lot on the corner
of High and Disraeli streets (No.409) in the early twentieth century. Frederick Junior built
the existing house c1917. The house was initially occupied by the confectioners who
were tenanting the shop, first Charles Brookshaw. Later, from c1923 to the mid-1970s,
the house was occupied by the Frederick Bosse Junior and his family (Lovell Chen 2011;
Rogers 1971:55).
Following Frederick Bosse senior’s death in 1931, No 415-419 was subdivided. In
November 1935, the shop was transferred to his sons, Frederick William Bosse (Junior),
who lived at 409 High Street. He was a grave decorator and monumental mason,
drawing his trade from the adjacent cemetery. The house at No. 419 was transferred to
his daughter Lucy S White, who remained the owner until her death in 1966
(LV:V1653/F517; LV:V6008/F546; Rogers 1971:55; Argus, 12 May 1934:13). Both
Frederick and Jane Bosse were buried in Boroondara Cemetery.
In May 1944, the shop was sold to Rose EM Wensley, married woman, who sold it three
years later to Frank G Storey, of Burnley, a ‘radio and cycle dealer’ in March 1947. In
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1951, under the new ownership of Frederick and Arthur Humby, a strip of land to the
west was added, expanding the lot to its current extent (LV:V6008/F547; V7966/F056).
In 1957, the Humbys had a garage (or car shelter) built on the north boundary, accessed
via the rear lane. In 1961, the shop's timber-posted verandah was demolished (BP file,
Approvals Nos 775 & 202).
The shop was sold to William Nankervis, antiques dealer, and his wife Pamela, in
December 1969, who operated their business from it (Judith Vimpani, pers. comm., 11
Sep 2013). In 1973 William built a timber fence, extended the garage at the rear and
hung an 'antiques' sign on the shop (BP file, Approvals Nos 4314 & 4328).
A building permit was granted to the Nakervises' builders Aylward & Stone in January
1978, for 'Additions & alterations' (BP file, Approval No 7158). The plans have not
survived, but these works may have included the enlargement of the rear residential
section to the south-west. They also included a reconfiguration of the south-western third
of the façade. Photos from 1969, provided by former owner Pamela Nankervis, show that
this part of the façade had a residential-scale sash window at its centre, which has since
been replaced with a timber shop window with matching detailing to the two c1906 shop
windows beside it. Also at this time, the south-west end of the shop was extended
slightly, turning the acute angle of the plan (as seen on the MMBW) into a right angle and
a cream-brick end wall was added to this end of the building. This changed the roof form
from a hip to a gable. It was built in the same vergeless form with corbelled eaves as the
c1906 red-brick wall at the other end. In both cases, extending the shop to the property
boundary required the construction of a new wall in a fire-proof material such as brick.
Figure 3. Aerial view of the shop (Nos 415-417) and the house (No 419), 2013.
Comparing the plan of the shop to the 1904 MMBW plan, the straightening out of the
south-west end of the shop is visible, as is the extension of the wing behind it
(indicated by the new roofing). (Source: Google Maps)
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Description & Integrity
The building at 415-417 High Street currently comprises two tenancies with an attached
(former) residential wing at the rear. The shop section is built to the front boundary, and
has a transverse gable roof, clad in light grey Colorbond. The front wall is clad with
ashlar-boards, while the gable ends are later brick parapet walls with corbelling to the
eaves. The south-west wall is of cream brick and the north-east wall is of red brick,
though both have been overpainted.
The shop elevation is asymmetric, with a blank wall to the south-west end, while the
remainder of the facade is taken up by openings. There are three large, fixed timber shop
windows, each with eight lights. They all have simple, angled glazing bars. While the two
at the north-east end appear to date from c1906, the third is a c1978 reproduction that
replaced a residential-scale sash window in this location.
Between them are two shop entrances, a single door to the south-east side (where the
original entrance would have been) and double-doors to the north-east side. This second
entrance fits within the original extent of the facade of the shop, but may have been
added when the shop was extended. The window beside it (north-east side) corresponds
with the early extension of the shopfront, whose original extent is indicated by a break in
the fascia above the cornice. The cornice comprises paired timber brackets flanked by
square and long rectangular fielded panels. The two shop doors differ in size - the southwest one is both shorter and narrower - but have similar details with diagonal boarding to
their bottom panels typical of the Edwardian era, set below glazing.
It appears that the shop was given a facelift at the same time it was extended (c1906),
with two new shop windows and doors installed.
The residential wing sits beneath two parallel hip roofs with a skillion at the rear. The
original extent is timber, and weatherboards are just visible at the north-east end, as is a
very simple brick chimney with round chimney pots. As noted in the history, the front hip
roof has been extended to the south-west, and its brick wall is just visible from the
footpath.
There is cracking to the front corner of the north-east brick end wall of the shop where
the steel plate supporting the corbelling has rusted and expanded. A number of the
turned timber drops to the cornice brackets are missing, particularly at the north-east end
of the facade. When viewed in August 2013, the building also required painting and minor
patching to the timberwork.
Comparative Analysis
Surviving timber shops are rare in the City of Boroondara, and more generally in
metropolitan Melbourne. They were typically the first kind of commercial building in a
newly settled area, being successively replaced with brick buildings once the area was
more established. The recent assessment of the Kew Junction Commercial Precinct did
not identify any timber shop buildings in the area around the five-ways junction (Lovell
Chen, 2011, p 33).
The only early (Victorian and Edwardian) timber shops that have been identified in
Boroondara are the following:
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Shops, 351-361 Canterbury Road, Canterbury (1888) – a rare surviving row of
early timber shops (Built Heritage, Thematic Environmental History, 2012, p 99).
The row is visible on a 1909 MMBW plan (Detail Plan No. 2222). The timber
construction is only clearly visible in the pair of shops Nos 351-353, which each
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have a stepped parapet clad in horizontal boards, concealing the gable-fronted
roof. Of the two, No. 351 is the most intact. It retains a timber shopfront with
recessed entry, which appears to date from the late 19th century on the west side
of the façade. On the east side is a double-hung sash window set into a wall clad
in ashlar boards. This window appears to have been for the shopkeeper’s
residence.
The timber-framed shopfront (and wall) of No. 353 and of other shops (Nos. 355,
357 and 359) appear to have been replaced c1910-20s. The shopfronts now
cover the entire elevations (below the parapet), so all weatherboard or ashlar
cladding has been removed. No. 359 retains its stepped parapet, while the others
appear to have been altered in the interwar period (No. 361) or in recent years
(Nos. 355-357).
Shops and residence, 11-13 Peel Street, Kew - this site comprises a timber
Victorian house of c1882, a small timber shop in front of it of c1911, and a small
interwar brick shop beside it. All three elements have been substantially altered,
and for this reason it was not recommended for the Heritage Overlay by Lovell
Chen in their Review of B-Graded Buildings (2007). The c1911 timber shop
retains original ashlar-board cladding, but the front door has been replaced and
the shop window replaced with a much smaller opening.
In comparison, the shop at 351 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, while thought to be of the
same age, appears to be more intact to its original appearance than 415-417 High Street,
retaining a typical (but now rare) Victorian timber shopfront. This shop appears to be the
most intact Victorian timber shop in Boroondara.
While first constructed in 1887, the physical fabric of the shop at 415-417 High Street is
perhaps best compared to timber shops of the Edwardian era, as it was extended and
remodelled c1906, for example to the c1911 shop at 11-13 Peel Street. It is by far more
intact than this shop. Moreover, it appears to be the earliest surviving timber shop
(Victorian or Edwardian) in Kew.
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Assessment Against Criteria
Criteria referred to in Practice Note 1: Applying the Heritage Overlay, Department of
Planning and Community Development, September 2012, modified for the local context.
CRITERION A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of the City of Boroondara's cultural
or natural history (historical significance).
In 1887 Frederick Bosse built a shop located directly across from the entrance to the
Boroondara Cemetery, which was a leisure destination for Melbournians in the 19th
century. Construction of the shop would have begun shortly after the Tramway Trust’s
announcement of the new tram line, linking the site with Richmond and Melbourne. The
location at the tram terminus and across from the cemetery gates proved a profitable
one, and Bosse expanded the building to house two tenancies around 1906. The shop
illustrates the influence of both Boroondara Cemetery and the tram line and terminus in
stimulating commercial development around it to cater to both mourners and day trippers.
Its early uses as a confectioners and tea rooms indicate that the ‘tourist’ trade was in fact
the most important of the two.
CRITERION B: Possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the City of
Boroondara's cultural or natural history (rarity).
The shop at 415-417 High Street is the oldest identified timber shop in the suburb of
Kew, and one of the two oldest identified in the City of Boroondara. Timber shops were
the first to be built in new suburbs and shopping areas in the 19th century, but were
gradually replaced by brick buildings, leaving few of this type in the metropolitan area.
CRITERION C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of
the City of Boroondara's cultural or natural history (research potential).
NA
CRITERION D: Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of
cultural or natural places or environments (representativeness).
The shop exhibits typical traits of suburban 19th-century shops including the integration of
rear living quarters with the shop(s) at the front. Its simple form and lack of front setback
are also typical of its type, as are the modest-sized shop windows which allow for areas
of solid wall to the façade. Detailing of the shop doors such as the diagonal boarding and
simple angle window glazing bars are typical of the Edwardian period.
CRITERION E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics (aesthetic
significance).
NA
CRITERION F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical
achievement at a particular period (technical significance).
NA
CRITERION G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural
group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to
Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions (social
significance).
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CRITERION H: Special association with the life or works of a person, or group of
persons, of importance in the City of Boroondara's history (associative significance).
NA
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The timber shop at 415-417 High Street, Kew. It is a timber building built to the front
boundary. The front wall is clad with ashlar-boards, while the gable ends are later brick
parapet walls with corbelling to the eaves. An attached residence is located to the rear.
The shop was built in 1887 for Frederick Bosse, who had previously been a miner on
Victoria’s gold fields, but worked as a gardener once he had moved to Kew. Bosse
rented the shop to confectioners, and from 1907 to 1912 it also housed a tea room. It is
likely that the north-east end of the shop was enlarged by one bay c1906 to
accommodate two commercial tenancies. It appears that the two timber shop windows at
this end and shop doors were replaced at this time. This Edwardian-era extension and
remodelling is considered part of the significant fabric of the building.
The 1970s extension to the rear residence is not significant, nor is the 1970s
reproduction shop window at the south-west end of the façade (which replaced an earlier
sash window).
How is it significant?
The shop is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of Boroondara.
Why is it significant?
Historically, the shop is a tangible illustration of the tourist trade that grew up around
Boroondara in the 19th century. In the 19th and early 20th century, the cemetery attracted
large numbers of leisure day trippers from around Melbourne and beyond, who came to
view its impressive monuments. The tram, opened in 1887 - the same year as the shop
was built, was the main mode of transport to the cemetery from Richmond and
Melbourne until the mid-20th century, and made this leisure traffic possible. The position
of the cemetery gates and the tram terminus at the intersection of High Street and Park
Hill Road made this an ideal location to cater to this tourist traffic, with a confectioner’s
and later a tea room. (Criterion A)
Architecturally, the shop exhibits typical traits of suburban 19th-century shops including
the integration of rear living quarters with the shop(s) at the front. Its simple form and lack
of front setback are also typical of its type, as are the modest-sized shop windows which
allow for areas of solid wall to the façade. The detailing of the façade, particularly the
doors with diagonal boarding and simple angle window glazing bars to the shop windows,
is typical of the Edwardian period. Timber shops were the first to be built in new suburbs
and shopping areas in the 19th century, but were gradually replaced by brick buildings,
leaving few of this type in the metropolitan area. It is the earliest known timber shop in
Kew, and one of a very small group of surviving Victorian and Edwardian timber shops in
the City of Boroondara. (Criteria D & B)
Grading and Recommendations
Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay of the Boroondara
Planning Scheme as an Individually Significant place.
Recommendations for the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay (Clause 43.01) in the
Boroondara Planning Scheme:
External Paint Colours
Is a permit required to paint an already painted surface?
Internal Alteration Controls
Is a permit required for internal alterations?
No
No
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Tree Controls
Is a permit required to remove a tree?
Victorian Heritage Register
Is the place included on the Victorian Heritage Register?
Incorporated Plan
Does an Incorporated Plan apply to the site?
Outbuildings and fences exemptions
Are there outbuildings and fences which are not exempt from
notice and review?
Prohibited uses may be permitted
Can a permit be granted to use the place for a use which would
otherwise be prohibited?
Aboriginal Heritage Place
Is the place an Aboriginal heritage place which is subject to the
requirements of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006?
No
No
No
No
YesNo
No
Identified By
Pru Sanderson, Kew Conservation Study, 1987.
References
Barnard, FGA 1910, ‘The Jubilee History of Kew, Victoria, its original & progress 18031910’, Kew.
Boroondara Building Permit (BP) for No.417 High Street, Kew.
Coleman Architects Pty Ltd, ‘Former Shop, 415-417 High Street, Kew, Heritage Report’,
Nov. 2014, prepared for the owner. Contains photos provided by Pamela Nankervis.
Heritage Alliance, ‘Boroondara Cemetery Conservation Management Plan’, July 2007.
Judith Vimpani, Secretary of the Kew Historical Society, personal communication of her
research, 11 September 2013.
Kew Historical Society (Kew HS), includes photos and information provided by the Bosse
family, viewed 2013.
Land Victoria (LV), Certificates of Title, as cited above.
Land Victoria (LV), Old Law Notes (OLN), Application No.8051/844, as cited in the
Greater City of Bendigo’s place citation for ‘House, 150 High Street, Heathcote’, Hermes
No.32791.
Lovell Chen 2011, ‘Boroondara Heritage Investigations: 409 High Street, Kew’.
National Trust citation for ‘Boroondara Cemetery’, accessed via Hermes No.64888.
Rogers, Dorothy 1972, A History of Kew, Kew.
MMBW detail plans, accessed online at State Library of Victoria.
The Argus.
Turnbull, Glen (ed) (2008), Triangle of tranquillity: 150 years of the Boroondara (Kew)
Cemetery 1859-2009, Riddells Creek [Vic].
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BOROONDARA PLANNING SCHEME
22.05
HERITAGE POLICY
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This policy applies to all permit applications required by the Heritage Overlay.
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Policy Basis
The City of Boroondara Municipal Strategic Statement recognises the extensive and
significant range of heritage assets in the City which provide benefits to both the local
community, and the broader metropolitan and statewide communities.
Boroondara’s heritage assets include, but are not limited to, indigenous heritage sites,
mansion and worker cottage developments from the last part of the 19th century, inter-war
and post-war subdivisions from the 20th century, both individually significant and groups
of Victorian, Federation, Inter-War and Post-War residences, former industrial sites,
commercial buildings, public utilities including bridges, government buildings, railway
stations, and parks and gardens. These places are of aesthetic, social, historic, technical or
spiritual significance to the municipality.
This policy is directed at the protection, conservation and enhancement of all heritage
places. This policy only encourages development that recognises and is sensitive to the
cultural heritage significance of heritage places.
Definitions of words used in this policy and an explanation of heritage place gradings used
in the City of Boroondara are included in clause 22.05-5 of this policy.
The policy:
applies the SPPF provisions relating to heritage in clause 15.11 to local circumstances;
and
builds on the MSS objectives and strategies identified in clause 21.05-3.
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Objectives
To encourage the retention and conservation of all ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’
heritage places in the Heritage Overlay.
To consider the cultural heritage significance described in the statement of significance
for any heritage place as part of the design process of any proposal and when making
decisions about proposed buildings and works associated with that place.
To ensure that works, including conservation, alterations, additions and new
development, respect the cultural heritage significance of the heritage place.
To ensure that subdivision respects the cultural heritage significance of the heritage
place.
To ensure that, when determining or when considering issues of bulk, form and
appearance of additions or new development, the evaluation is based on the
characteristics of the significant or contributory components of the fabric of the heritage
place, rather than any non-contributory elements that may exist in the area.
To promote urban and architectural design which clearly and positively supports the
ongoing significance of heritage places.
To retain original fabric that contributes to the cultural heritage significance of the
heritage place.
To ensure that development within activity centres respects, protects and enhances the
cultural heritage significance of identified heritage places.
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The following policies apply when considering planning permit applications under the
Heritage Overlay or any application for the amendment of plans.
The provisions of this policy apply in the place of the various guidelines contained within
the heritage studies referenced at the end of this policy.
Statements of Significance
It is policy to:
Take into account the statement of significance for a heritage place when making
decisions about proposed buildings and works associated with that place;
Where more than one statement of significance exists in relation to a heritage place,
only the more recent statement of significance should be considered.
Where an individual heritage place is located within a heritage study, any proposal must
have regard to both the most recent statement of significance for the individual place
(where available) as well as the most recent statement of significance for the heritage
precinct in which it is located.
Subdivision
It is policy to:
Ensure that the subdivision of a heritage place does not adversely affect the cultural
heritage significance of the place.
Ensure that the lot layout and possible future development on a proposed lot does not
adversely affect the cultural heritage significance of the place.
Ensure that the subdivision of heritage places results in a pattern of development that
retains the existing pattern of development where such pattern contributes to the
significance of the heritage place.
Ensure that appropriate settings and contexts, including gardens and landscaping, for
‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places are maintained.
Require that where new undeveloped lots are proposed that are not accompanied by a
development proposal, the planning application for that subdivision should be
accompanied by building envelopes for the subdivided lots.
Demolition
It is policy to:
Retain ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places and not normally allow their total
demolition.
Permit partial demolition of ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places for the
purpose of additions and alterations if the additions and alterations will not adversely
affect the cultural heritage significance of the place and the proposed addition or
alteration is in accordance with the provisions of this policy.
Permit partial demolition to remove non-original and non-contributory additions to
heritage places in line with the conservation provisions of this policy.
Consider the following, as appropriate, before determining an application for
demolition of ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places or parts of ‘significant’ or
‘contributory’ heritage places:

The cultural heritage significance of the heritage place, and, when located in a
heritage precinct, the contribution of the place to the significance of the precinct;

Whether the demolition or removal of the entire heritage place or any part of the
place will adversely affect cultural heritage significance;
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Whether the demolition or removal contributes to the long-term conservation of the
heritage place; and

Whether the heritage place is structurally unsound. The poor condition of a heritage
place should not in itself, be a reason for permitting demolition of ‘significant’ or
‘contributory’ heritage places.
Require an application for a new building or works to accompany a demolition
application. The demolition or removal of any heritage place or part of a heritage place
will not normally be approved until a replacement building or development is approved.
Require a visual record of the important or original fabric of any ‘significant’ heritage
place which is to be demolished or removed to the satisfaction of the responsible
authority prior to demolition being approved.
Normally permit the demolition of ‘non-contributory’ places. However, the demolition
or removal of ‘non-contributory’ places will not generally be approved until a
replacement building or development is approved. An application for a new building or
works should accompany a demolition application.
Conservation of ‘Significant’ or ‘Contributory’ Heritage Places
For all ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places it is policy to:
Encourage the conservation of significant external fabric, particularly fabric seen from
the street.
Encourage the restoration and/or reconstruction of a known original or earlier
appearance, particularly as viewed from the street. Restoration and/or reconstruction
works should be based on historical evidence. For reconstruction works, in cases where
no evidence is available, a simple and understated contemporary design incorporating a
traditional form and bulk may be acceptable.
Ensure that restoration and reconstruction is undertaken using appropriate replacement
materials.
Encourage the removal of alterations and additions that detract from the significance of
a heritage place.
Discourage the painting of previously unpainted surfaces.
Discourage sandblasting of render, masonry or timber surfaces.
In the case of commercial buildings, encourage the retention, restoration or
reconstruction of original or early shopfronts and/or verandahs.
In the case of commercial buildings, where historical evidence of an early street
verandah exists, it may be appropriate to reinstate a timber or cast iron verandah based
on historical models. In cases where no evidence is available, a simple and understated
contemporary design incorporating a traditional form and scale may be acceptable.
Discourage the introduction of architectural features, where it is known that these
features were not originally present, with the exception of street verandahs to
commercial buildings, as outlined in teh above point.
Alterations to ‘Significant’ or ‘Contributory’ Heritage Places
It is policy that:
All alterations which are not restoration or reconstruction works should be directed at
maintaining the cultural heritage significance and integrity of the place.
New openings in the principal façade(s) or principal visible roof forms of ‘significant’
or ‘contributory’ heritage places will not normally be permitted.
Any new signage on a heritage building should minimise visual clutter and should not
obscure or destroy any architectural features of cultural heritage significance.
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Any Internally Illuminated Signs should not have an area greater than 1.5 square metres
The following sign types are discouraged:

Above verandah signs

Sky Signs

Animated signs

Reflective signs

Electronic Signs
Any alterations should not obscure or remove existing signage that is deemed to have
heritage value.
Additions to ‘Significant’ or ‘Contributory’ Heritage Places
It is policy that all additions to ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places:
Should not change the principal façade or principal visible roof forms of the heritage
place.
Should not alter or obscure fabric that contributes to the cultural heritage significance of
any part of a ‘significant’ heritage place.
Should be designed in a manner that responds to, is respectful of, and is compatible
with the built form and architectural treatment of the heritage place.
Should make use of materials and surface finishes that are complementary to the
original fabric of the heritage place but should be discernible as new. Details
(including, but not limited to the type and form of windows, doors, architectural
features and verandahs) should be interpretive, that is, a simplified, modern
interpretation of the historic form rather than a direct reproduction.
That involve ground level additions, should preferably be located to the rear of the
building where they have less impact on any aesthetic and architectural contribution of
the building to the streetscape and/or heritage precinct. These additions should be
visually recessive and read as a secondary element to the heritage place. Where side
setbacks are an important feature in a heritage precinct, ground level additions should
have side setbacks that are the same or similar to those of the precinct.
That involve upper level additions to commercial, retail or industrial heritage buildings,
should be sufficiently set back from the front facade to appear as a secondary element
of the heritage place and provide a clear distinction between the original building and
the new addition.
That involve upper level additions to dwelling forms (as shown in Figure 1), should be
sited and massed behind the principal façade and principal visible roof forms so they
are not visible from the street. Upper-storey additions may be considered to be ‘not
visible from the street’ if:

they are sited within an “envelope” created by projecting a sight line from 1.6
metres above ground level (this being the eye level of an adult person of average
height) from a point where the footpath on the opposite side of the road meets the
property line directly opposite the site to the top of the front parapet or the ridge of
the principal roof form (see Figure 1), and
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Figure 1

they are centrally sited or are sited to ensure that where visible to oblique views, the
additions are visually recessive and read as secondary elements to the heritage place
and that those views are minimised. Particular regard is to be given to the roof form
of the existing building and the location of any driveway on the site as the driveway
side setback generally allows for greater visibility of the addition.
For corner sites, the sight line is taken from the primary street frontage. All additions
visible from other street frontages should be distinct from, and read as a secondary element
to, the heritage place.
Applications for upper-storey additions should be accompanied by oblique view diagrams
from each side of the property boundary, taken from the point where the footpath meets the
side edge of the property boundary on the opposite side of the road and looking towards the
proposed addition.
Vegetation and fences are not considered to be permanent screening and will not be taken
into account when determining if a proposed addition is visible from the street.
New Buildings and Additions and Alterations to Non-Contributory Places in a
Heritage Overlay
For new buildings and additions and alterations to non-contributory places in a Heritage
Overlay, it is policy to:
Take account of the statement of significance for the heritage precinct when
considering designs for new buildings or additions/alterations to non-contributory
places.
Ensure proposals are respectful of the existing scale, massing, form and siting of
‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ places in the heritage precinct, as these places are viewed
from the street.
Ensure proposals are respectful of the context of adjacent ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’
places, the immediate streetscape and the heritage precinct as a whole.
Encourage good quality contemporary design and discourage the replication of historic
forms and detailing.
Require proposals to conform with the following guidelines:
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Siting
New buildings and additions/alterations to non-contributory places should be oriented in a
similar manner to the siting of adjacent ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places and to
the heritage precinct as a whole.
Façade height and setbacks
The position of a new building and its façade height or an addition/alteration to the façade
of a non-contributory place should not dominate adjoining ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’
heritage places. Generally, this means that the façade of a new building or an
addition/alteration to the façade of a non-contributory building should neither exceed in
height, nor be positioned forward of, the adjoining heritage place(s). Conversely, the
height of the façade should not be significantly lower than prevailing heights of
‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places in the precinct, especially where the precinct
has a consistent façade height. The façade should also not be substantially set back behind
prevailing façade setbacks of ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places in the heritage
precinct, especially where the heritage precinct has a consistent front setback.
Where side setbacks are an important feature of the heritage precinct, proposals should
have side setbacks that reflect those of adjacent places, particularly those of adjacent
‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places.
Building height and form
The height and form of a new building or an addition/alteration to a non-contributory place
should respect the height and form of adjacent and surrounding ‘significant’ or
‘contributory’ heritage places, as these places are viewed from the street. This design
characteristic may be achieved:
If located in a heritage precinct or part of a heritage precinct that has a consistent
building height and form, the completed height of the new building or
addition/alteration to a non contributory place should be no higher than the roof
ridgeline of the adjacent buildings when viewed from the street, but may include a
higher, unobtrusive component to the rear, or
If located in a heritage precinct or part of a heritage precinct with a diverse building
height and form, and adjacent to a ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage place, the new
building or addition/alteration to a non-contributory place should be of a height and
form that respects both the adjacent ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places and
the prevailing height and form of ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ places in the precinct,
but may include a higher, unobtrusive component to the rear, or
If located in a heritage precinct or part of a heritage precinct with a diverse building
height and form, but not adjacent to a ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage place, the
new building or addition/alteration to a non-contributory place should be of a height
and form that respects the prevailing height and form of ‘significant’ and ‘contributory’
heritage places in the precinct.
Roof form and window and door proportions
The roof form and the window and door proportions of new buildings and
additions/alterations to non-contributory places should be similar too or sit well with the
prevailing forms in the heritage precinct.
Materials, surface finishes and details
New buildings and additions/alterations to non-contributory places should display the
following design characteristics:
Wall elevations are to be articulated in a manner that is complementary to the heritage
precinct through their massing and form and the use of materials and finishes.
Materials, textures and finishes are to complement materials evident in the heritage
precinct.
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Colour schemes are to complement the appearance and significance of the heritage
precinct.
Vehicle Accommodation, Outbuildings and Services
Vehicle accommodation and other outbuildings and services should not dominate heritage
places.
It is policy to:
Ensure that vehicle accommodation and other services do not dominate heritage places,
by encouraging adoption of the following design guidelines:

Minimising new vehicle cross-overs in the case of ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’
heritage places or in a heritage precinct with narrow street frontage or where few or
no crossovers exist or where rear laneway access is available.

Allowing the relocation of existing vehicle crossovers only where this does not
negatively impact on the significance a heritage place.

Generally discouraging the widening of vehicle crossovers, except in the interests of
traffic safety, or the construction of large areas of paving or other hard surfaces in
the front setback.

Encouraging the location of new carports, garages and outbuildings to the rear of
the main building, where the character of the heritage place supports that location,
or at the side of the building behind the main front building line (excluding
verandahs, porches, bay windows or similar projecting features).

Encouraging the location of replacement carports, garages or outbuildings to follow
the same principles as for new ones, even if the structure being replaced is located
in the front setback.

Encouraging new carports, garages and outbuildings that are visible from the street
to use wall openings, roof forms and materials used should complement, but not
replicate the main building or the characteristics of the heritage precinct.

Discouraing the location of swimming pools in the front setback.

Allowing the location of rain water tanks, hot water systems, air-conditioning units
and other equipment in areas visible from the street only when it can be shown that
they will not detract from the heritage significance of the place.

Where there is no reasonable alternative location, ancillaries and services, including
those that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions or water consumption such as solar
panels, solar hot water services or water storage tanks, may be visible from the
street, but should be sensitively located to minimise their visibility/visual impact.
Visual roof fixtures, such as solar panels, should align with the profile of the roof
and should not be mounted on protruding frames.
Fences
It is policy to:
Retain original or early fences of ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places.
Encourage the reconstruction of original fences where historical evidence exists of their
form, or encourage the construction of new front fences in sympathy to the period and
design of the ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage place. The National Trust of
Australia (Victoria) Technical Bulletin 8.1 Fences & Gates (1988) provides guidance
on fencing styles.
In the case of new buildings or alterations and additions to non-contributory places,
encourage the construction of front fences that are sympathetic to the cultural heritage
significance and character of the heritage precinct.
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Discourage the construction of high fences that block the view of the main façade of a
‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ place from the street or, in the case of non-contributory
places, detract from the streetscape of the heritage area.
Roads and Laneways
It is policy to:
Ensure buildings and works to roads and laneways maintain the heritage significance of
the road or laneway through the use of sympathetic materials where feasible.
Archaeological Sites
Where sites are known to contain archaeological material or have been identified as likely
to contain archaeological material, a report prepared by an archaeologist is to be submitted
by the applicant with any application for a planning permit. Proposed development must
not adversely impact on aboriginal cultural heritage values as indicated in an
archaeologist’s report.
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Where prepared, statements of significance for individual heritage places can be found in
the heritage studies referenced in this Scheme at Clause 22.05-7.
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Heritage Precincts – Statements of Significance
The following statements of significance provide a summary of the significance and key
attributes of each of Boroondara’s Heritage Overlay precincts. Unless otherwise
referenced, the statements have been identified in the Review of Heritage Overlay Precinct
Citations (2006) prepared by Lovell Chen Pty Ltd.
HO1 Golf Links Estate, Camberwell
The Golf Links Estate, which occupies the former Riversdale Golf Club, was subdivided in
1927 and lots were offered for sale later that year. The first houses on the estate were built
in 1928 with the majority of the allotments built and occupied by 1938.
The Golf Links Estate, Camberwell, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place is a particularly intact and notable collection of vernacular housing styles of
the late 1920s to the early 1940s, including interwar Mediterranean, Old English and
Californian Bungalow. It contains a significant number of Art-Deco and Moderneflavoured houses that read as prototypes for the suburban vernacular that spread around
Australia after WWII.
The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads,
landscaped medians with concrete lamp standards and mature street trees.
The place demonstrates the successful influence of building controls during the interwar
and post-WWII period in terms of prescribed set backs and uniform material usage to
ensure a consistent visual quality.
The housing types and styles physically demonstrate the appeal of Camberwell as one
of Melbourne’s most fashionable new suburbs of the 1920s and into the 1930s and
1940s.
The Estate is conspicuously predicated on a commuter-based city workforce, being
bounded by a tram route on one side and a railway on the other.
HO142 Barrington Avenue Precinct, Kew
Barrington Avenue Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
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There is a concentration of graded buildings of high quality design in the area.
The area features predominantly Federation and interwar building stock, reflecting the
strength of Kew’s development in these years, and has a high level of integrity. It
stands as the leading concentration of Kew housing from these combined periods.
The area features generally well preserved basalt kerbing, grading and bitumen footpath
surfacing in the streets, on their original pattern, and a large number of mature street
trees and private gardens.
The area complements the historical and architectural significance of the Boroondara
Cemetery adjacent to it, and the design of Victoria Park adjoining it.
HO143 Barry Street Precinct, Kew
Barry Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:
The place has an unusual concentration of highly graded buildings, many of which were
designed by prominent Melbourne architects.
The area is one of Melbourne’s best concentrations of large late Victorian and
Federation house designs, in varied materials and often ably utilising the topography of
the area. The precinct also has a number of distinctive designs of the interwar period.
The eastern area of the precinct has some more modest dwellings on smaller blocks,
including substantially intact development from the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
Many of the streets are marked by original basalt kerbing and grading, and the area
features mature gardens and street trees.
HO144 Burke Road Precinct, Camberwell/Hawthorn East
The Burke Road Precinct, Camberwell/Hawthorn East, is an area of heritage significance
for the following reason:
The stretch of residential development on Burke Road hill (south of Camberwell
Junction) combines small numbers of Victorian and Federation houses with a series of
interwar residences and flat blocks. These are interspersed with later development
including undistinguished buildings of post-WWII period.
The area has retained a consistent residential scale, despite being adjacent to a major retail
and business centre and on a major road.
HO145 Maling Road Shopping Centre and Residential Environs, Canterbury
Maling Road Shopping Centre and Residential Environs, Canterbury, is an area of heritage
significance for the following reasons:
The precinct is a comprehensive and architecturally notable illustration of the effect of
the railway’s arrival in the Victorian era and the railway’s further development around
WWI. This is expressed, in part, in the distinctive street pattern that runs axially from
the Canterbury Railway Station. It is also expressed in the well preserved residential
and commercial development which was largely complete by WWII.
The Maling Road and Canterbury Road commercial strips demonstrate a high level of
architectural excellence, strong Victorian, Federation and interwar-era expression and a
high degree of visual cohesion. The Maling Road strip also contains individually
notable buildings that have a high degree of integrity and landmark value; the Post
Office (1908), the Canterbury Theatre (1912), Malone’s Hotel (1889) and the former
Station Masters Quarters at 83 Maling Road (c1987).
The place is a highly representative Victorian and Federation-era residential precinct
with individually notable houses. The precinct is interspersed with strong and well
preserved interwar elements that offer an historic and architectural contrast and create
streetscapes of high aesthetic interest.
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The precinct contains well preserved residential and commercial examples from the
1920s-30s, which reflects the premier status of Camberwell as an urban growth area
during that period.
The precinct has an historic association with Terry & Oakden, the designers of the
original Claremont Park Estate and one of Victoria’s most important architectural firms,
and other important architects of the time such as Ward and Carleton and Ussher and
Kemp.
The precinct includes public landscaping elements such as asphalt paving, basalt
pitching, kerbs, channels and mature trees and garden plantings, some of which date
from the beginnings of the Claremont Park and Highfield Estates.
HO146 Central Gardens Precinct, Hawthorn
The Central Gardens Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place is characterised by modest Victorian brick and timber workers’ houses (either
attached or detached), most dating from the 1880s and 1890s, some of which were
constructed to accommodate employees working at the newly constructed railway
terminal adjacent to Auburn Road. Later housing within the area includes interesting
examples of small scale and duplex Bungalow variants.
The place includes the Central Gardens parkland, demonstrating the practice of
providing municipal facilities in areas of workers’ housing.
HO147 Corsewall Close Precinct, Hawthorn East
Corsewall Close Precinct, Hawthorn East, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place clearly illustrates the changing pattern of subdivision within Hawthorn over
time from the mansion development era of the 1850s to the smaller re-subdivisions
evident now.
The place is unusual for its consistent flat-type development over the entire street,
which has been cleverly designed to make multi-unit dwellings appear as single
buildings.
The place clearly demonstrates the application of the garden villa concept to multi-unit
dwellings. In Hawthorn it invites comparison with the mews flat developments in
Riversdale Road and the apartments at Clovelly Court, both contemporary with
Corsewall Close.
HO148 Fairview Park Precinct, Hawthorn
Fairview Park Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place contains the most intact and notable collection of high density luxury flats
(Riversdale Road) built from the 1920s to the 1950s within the City of Boroondara.
The place illustrates the changing pattern of development from the 1920s through to the
1950s, when high quality flat construction around public transport nodes and within
close proximity to the CBD was pursued.
The place demonstrates the changing attitudes to river usage from the 1930s to the
1950s with the development of the Yarra River’s eastern bank for passive and active
recreation.
The place contains Wallen Road Reserve, which was an early teagardens development
from the Victorian period prior to its redevelopment in the period 1920s-1950s.
HO149 Glenferrie Hill Precinct, Hawthorn
Glenferrie Hill Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
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The place contains a number of outstanding examples of Victorian and early
Federation-style villas, combined with a series of well-designed and visually striking
interwar houses and flats.
Anchored by the visually prominent boulevard-like stretch of Glenferrie Road climbing
past Scotch College, the place is representative of the changing patterns of development
from the second half of the nineteenth century through to the interwar period.
The southern edges of the precinct are reinforced by the Callantina Road housing, and
Scotch College and the HA Smith Reserve which border the precinct.
HO150 Glenferrie Road Precinct, Kew
The Glenferrie Road Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The western parts of this precinct are marked by mansion development of the Victorian
period, and though some are surrounded by unsympathetic later development, a
significant number of individually significant early Kew mansions survive here, albeit
in some cases converted to institutional uses. This is one of three notable mansion
precincts in Kew, the others being HO158 (Walmer Street) and HO162 (Sackville
Street).
More modest but still valued late Victorian residential development, such as singlefronted cottages and terrace rows, is also located in the western areas of the precinct.
The eastern section of the precinct is significant for its mixture of small and medium
scale Victorian housing, much of which relates to two important 1880s estates:
Edgevale and Doona Hill.
The area has a strong visual connection with several fine assemblages of school
buildings: either in its midst (Ruyton) or at its borders (Trinity, Xavier, Methodist
Ladies’ College).
The area includes the former Kew civic buildings and the Sacred Heart Church and
School, both in Cotham Road, the latter important to the considerable Roman Catholic
heritage in the area.
The area also includes the entire Glenferrie Road streetscape north of Barkers Road up
to Wellington Street, including two of MLC’s most important buildings and a mixed
1880s to interwar streetscape.
The area includes a number of individually significant architectural designs, the
majority of which are Victorian mansions.
HO151 Harcourt Street Precinct, Hawthorn
The Harcourt Street Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Harcourt Street features a concentration of nineteenth century mansions of a high level
of design, a number of which retain expansive grounds.
The mansion houses are interspersed with series of distinctive and substantial
Federation designs, and interwar houses in Tudor and related modes.
The southern part of the precinct is notable for smaller middle class houses on
Rathmines Road, Auburn Road, some with miniature arched tower-form porches of a
type occasionally seen in Canterbury and Kew. These are accompanied by broad
single-fronted, single-storey verandahed Italianate middle-class housing in Bayview
Avenue and Molesworth Street. This stock is largely intact, usually with stonepatterned timber facades or polychrome brickwork, often with mature gardens and
sometimes with original fencing.
The mansion designs by the noted architect John Beswicke, in an Italianate mode that
complemented his designs for Hawthorn and Camberwell Town Halls and the
Glenferrie and Auburn shopping centres. The south and west end has similarly
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vigorous and distinctive designs by a later generation of architects, as well as the
Auburn Primary School at 51 Rathmines Road, built in stages from 1890.
The character of the area is enhanced and rendered distinctive by broad kerbside lawns
and mature street trees, arching over Harcourt Street and Higham Road within the
precinct boundaries. The William Angliss Reserve, adjacent to the precinct at its east
end, visibly separates the precinct from neighbouring areas and reinforces its garden
character.
HO152 Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove Precincts, Hawthorn
The Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove Precincts, Hawthorn, are of heritage significance for
the following reasons:
The place is a concentrated and relatively intact precinct of generally high quality
residential buildings of the later Victorian and Federation periods.
Hilda Crescent has an unbroken set of highly distinctive Federation house designs, and
the mode continues in the adjacent streets.
The area is characterised by mature gardens and street trees, filtering the light in the
more southern streets, south of Kinkora Road, and giving the area a distinctive shaded
character.
The diagonal house compositions and curving streets in the Grace Park Precinct
combine to create an informal and picturesque character.
The northern section - Kinkora Road and Hawthorn Grove - has a large concentration
of 1880s housing in tighter patterns that are similarly characteristic of that earlier era,
and is relatively intact. These streets were the first typically-scaled suburban
development in Hawthorn, in contrast to the St James Park area which began as a
mansion group.
The Barkers Road section is more heterogeneous, but does incorporate several notable
Federation and Bungalow designs. Clovelly Court is an impressive apartment group
utilising garden villa forms, comparing with both the courtyard flats in the Fairview
Park Precinct (HO148) and the more similar Corsewall Close (HO149).
Located at the southern end of the precinct, the Michael Tuck Stand at the Glenferrie
Oval is striking both for the way it draws on its red-brick domestic surroundings as it is
for its 1938 modernity.
The precinct is visually unified by the shared, curving park based around the former
Kew Railway line, that runs though the entire precinct from south to north and reads as
a reminder of the precinct’s early popularity as a commuter suburb.
HO154 Lower Burke Road Precinct, Glen Iris
The Lower Burke Road Precinct, Glen Iris, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place contains Hawthorn’s most intact group of interwar houses, adopting a variety
of styles, many of which retain associated fences and gardens.
The place is of interest for the prominent and slightly elevated siting of the houses.
HO155 Lyndhurst Crescent Precinct, Hawthorn
Lyndhurst Crescent Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a garden suburb from 18561900, particularly through the siting of middle-class, Victorian-style villas of varied
size and materials in garden settings.
The development of the place capitalized on the fashionable status of nearby Harcourt
Street and consolidated this area as a highly desirable garden suburb for the both the
wealthy and relatively wealthy.
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The place contains a number of significant examples of the Victorian architectural style.
HO156 Morang Road Precinct, Hawthorn
The Morang Road Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place centres on the historically significant Hawthorn Railway Station, developed
and in continuous use since 1861 (present building commenced in 1890).
The place comprises a consistent and relatively intact group of later nineteenth-century
housing, in both terraced and detached form.
HO157 Oswin Street Precinct, Kew
The Oswin Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The area is one of the more intact concentrations of 1920s and 1930s housing in
Melbourne. It compares directly with the ‘Urquhart Estate’ (located within the Leslie
Street Precinct, Hawthorn HO164), but differs in being composed largely of State Bank
and Burridge Leith designs. The State Bank housing scheme played an important role
in the development of the north-eastern part of Kew prior to WWII. Other State Bank
concentrations (Mont Albert and Wandsworth Roads, Surrey Hills for example) have
been eroded by redevelopment in recent years.
The area is marked by a number of highly skilled and pioneering suburban house
designs, including several prototypes for the Australian post-war suburban vernacular.
The area is marked by a high concentration of original fences and outbuildings, and by
its mature gardens. It retains the lightly treed character of pre-war Melbourne suburban
landscapes when most have become more heavily treed.
HO158 Walmer Street Precinct, Kew
The Walmer Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place contains a series of individually significant mansion houses which all
represent different but accomplished facets of nineteenth and early twentieth century
architectural design.
Studley Park Road, Walmer and Nolan Streets are all dominated by these mansions,
though Walmer Street in particular has a line of Victorian and Federation houses that
were developed alongside the mansions and which play an important supporting role in
the precinct.
Generally, the streets within the area adjoin either parkland or large school garden
spaces, providing a distinctive parkland character to the area.
HO159 Prospect Hill Road Precinct, Camberwell
The Prospect Hill Road Precinct, Camberwell, is of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The areas north of the railway line comprise a generally intact collection of late
Victorian and Federation houses, all very well designed and with a high level of
integrity to their gardens and street appearance. The precinct is one of the most intact
and homogenous estates of this type in Melbourne, rivalling the Central Park-Stanhope
Street region in Malvern and the other leading Boroondara concentrations of this
period, the Grace Park Estate in Hawthorn (HO152) and the Barry Street Precinct in
Kew (HO143). It is the foremost precinct of combined late Victorian-Federation
building stock in the former Camberwell municipality.
Many late Victorian and Federation houses in this area have been custom-designed,
giving the precinct a distinct identity (this is particularly true for areas north of Prospect
Hill Road). The area as a whole is marked by a general cohesion in scale, address of
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the streets, property dimensions, materials and detailing and fence height. Though there
are variations, the streets have a general uniformity in their mature street tree coverage,
basalt kerbs and pitching, asphalt foot paving, and driveway width. Within the general
precinct heavy traffic volumes have been kept to four streets in three axes: Stanhope
Grove-Trafalgar Road, Prospect Hill Road, and Broadway west. The Read Gardens, a
small but mature park, is a central focal point.
The north-western section of the Prospect Hill Precinct, the former Tara Estate
(bounded by the south side of Canterbury Road, the east side of Loch Street, the south
side of the Broadway and the western edge of HO159), is Camberwell’s most intact and
distinguished concentration of Victorian and Edwardian building stock. It was
developed from 1890 following the subdivision of the land around John O’Shannessy’s
residence, Tara (1859, now 2 Berwick Street). The area has a high level of visual
cohesion and period expression, deriving from its consistency of scale, form, materials
and siting. Many buildings within the Estate are of individual distinction, having been
custom-designed in variations on the prevailing Italianate and Federation styles. This
area also features some interwar development.
The general late-Victorian and Federation character of the Prospect Hill Precinct is
modulated by the former Hollies Estate along Cookson Street, which comprises an
excellent and intact series of interwar designs spanning that entire period (1919-1940),
and including the Christian Science Church, winner of the Victorian Architecture
Medal in 1938. The interwar character of the group is enhanced by the survival of
original fences, mature gardens and street surfacing, and relates well to the existing
railway cutting landscape to the south.
To the east of the Tara Estate, the Russell Estate (bounded by Russell Street, the south
side of Canterbury Road, the Broadway and Sefton Place and the railway line) was
subdivided between 1888 and 1903 and was largely developed by the 1920s. Its
building stock is predominantly late Victorian and Federation but also features some
interwar development. At the north-eastern corner of the Prospect Hill Precinct,
Broadway and Sefton Place are generally Federation in character, and feature a number
of Queen Anne villas of individual distinction.
South of the railway line, development is predominantly late Victorian and Federation
in character and includes, in Royal Crescent/Craig Avenue, a particularly fine collection
of Queen Anne villas.
Also south of the railway line but north of Prospect Hill Road, the former Prospect Hill
Estate extends from the west side of Lorne Grove eastward. Building stock in this area
is generally consistent with the late Victorian and Federation theme of the place as a
whole, although there is also some interwar development.
The southern areas of the Prospect Hill Precinct (from the south side of Prospect Hill
Road to the southern edge of the precinct) were developed for the Riversdale, Kasouka
and Gladstone Park Estates from the late nineteenth century. As for the balance of the
precinct, these areas are predominantly late Victorian and Federation, with some streets
of particularly high integrity and with individually significant buildings. The southeastern corner of the precinct (Brinsley and Wandin Roads and part of Riversdale Road)
comprises a mix of Federation and interwar Bungalow houses, and is generally less
intact.
HO160 Rathmines Grove Precinct, Hawthorn East
Rathmines Grove Precinct, Hawthorn East, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place is a highly intact, single storey, Victorian timber precinct of generally singlefronted houses with timber block fronted front walls, and cast iron verandahs.
The place is associated with the large mansions along Harcourt Street and illustrates the
flow-on effect of early mansion house construction on the type of development in the
surrounding area. The dwellings along Rathmines Grove were originally developed as
small servicing quarters for these mansions.
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HO161 Ryeburne Avenue Precinct, Hawthorn East
Ryeburne Avenue Precinct, Hawthorn East, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place is a largely intact, predominantly late Victorian/Federation precinct
developed to capitalize on the prestigious image of the early mansion development in
the nearby Harcourt Street vicinity.
The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a garden suburb in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The garden qualities of the place are reinforced by the Angliss Reserve and Rathmines
Road Reserve, both located at the western end of the precinct.
Rathmines Road includes a mostly intact group of brick Federation duplexes, while
Ryeburne Avenue has a concentration of timber Federation houses which is relatively
unusual for the Hawthorn area.
HO162 Sackville Street Precinct, Kew
The Sackville Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place contains a number of individually significant mansions generally dating from
the late Victorian period, set on generous allotments. These are supported, visually, by
a series of smaller houses which range in date from the Victorian era to the Federation
and interwar periods. There are several pleasant houses from the post-WWII period.
As is the case for Harcourt Street Hawthorn (HO151), the area is important for its
ability to demonstrate a pattern of early mansion development supplemented by smaller
houses added from the Federation through to more recent periods.
The area is notable for its imposing envelope of street trees which arch over the street
for most of its length, and for its large and mature gardens.
HO163 St James Park Estate, Hawthorn
The St. James Park Estate, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place is a Victorian-era mansion estate, developed in the second half of the
nineteenth century as Melbourne’s wealthier residents sought accommodation away
from industry and the cramped living conditions of the inner-city, in a more physically
desirable location, but still close to the city. Several of the streets offer broad views of
Richmond and Hawthorn East.
The place contains an exceptional number of individual buildings of historical and
architectural merit including Victorian-era mansions as well as large Federation and
interwar-era dwellings. Individually significant buildings include Invergowrie and its
gate lodge, the Glucksburg trio, Hawthorn House and Zetland.
The place has important historical associations with Sir James Palmer who erected
Burwood (now Invergowrie), and George Coppin who subdivided and sold the area in
1871-1982.
The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a Victorian garden suburb
from the 1850s up until to the interwar period.
Development in the area also reflected its proximity to rail links (from the early 1860s)
and the development of the tram network (c. 1912-3).
HO164 Leslie Street Precinct, Hawthorn
The Leslie Street Precinct, Hawthorn, which includes both Leslie Street and the Urquart
Estate and Oxley Road precincts, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
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The place illustrates most of the significant development phases affecting Hawthorn
including the early years of settlement (1835-1855), the growth of Hawthorn as a
Victorian garden suburb, the Federation-era prosperity of 1901-1919; and interwar
concepts of the garden suburb.
The place contains a number of individually significant buildings exemplifying High
Victorian and Italianate design, the Federation style in its formative phase, and a series
of characteristic interwar designs.
Individually significant buildings in the Oxley Road precinct include institutional
buildings such as St Columbs Church, Auburn Uniting Church and its accompanying
buildings, and notable houses including Terrick Terricks and Auburn House.
The place has a particularly well-preserved and notable collection of the prevailing
house styles of the 1880s through to the 1930s, with homogeneous concentrations of
style in several streets. The interwar Old English and Mediterranean is particularly well
represented in Urquhart Street and Swinburne Avenue and homogeneous arrays of
1920s Bungalows are found in The Boulevard and Lyall Street. Oxley Road, Elmie and
Goodall Streets have a good variety of Victorian and Federation houses. Leslie Street
is a homogeneous run of 1880s workers’ cottages, and Minona Street has a relatively
intact group of small late interwar housing units.
Through the road layout, the footpaths transecting parts of the precinct, the broad street
lawns in the Urquhart Estate component, mature street trees and other landscape
features, and concrete road paving (Swinburne Avenue), the place clearly demonstrates
the application of the ‘garden suburb’ ideal as variously interpreted in the later
nineteenth century, Federation and inter-war periods. In Hawthorn the precinct
compares interestingly with its primarily Victorian and Federation predecessor, the
Grace Park Estate (HO 152). The Urquhart Estate component (Urquhart Street,
Swinburne Avenue, and The Boulevard) was the last substantial land holding in
Hawthorn to be subdivided for residential purposes (in 1919).
HO191 Hassett’s Estate, Canterbury/Camberwell
The Hassett’s Estate, Canterbury/Camberwell, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place was one of the outstanding subdivisions in Camberwell in the 1920s and
inspired much of the later built form, subdivision patterns and street design within the
former City of Camberwell.
The place is a particularly intact and notable collection of the prevailing house styles of
the period 1920s to early 1940s, with an emphasis on the interwar Mediterranean
architectural style, and containing also a series of advanced Moderne designs that read
as prototypes for general suburban development in post-war Australia.
The place retains a consistency gained through municipal by-laws on house siting, lot
sizes and materials.
The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads,
landscapes medians with concrete lamp standards and mature street trees.
The place is representative of the high quality estates developed in the Eastern suburbs
during the interwar period to cater for an influx of middle-class householders. The
estate is also conspicuously geared to commuting, fronting a tram line and located quite
close to a railway.
HO192 Reid Estate, Balwyn
The Reid Estate, Balwyn, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:
The large detached houses which adopt a range of interwar architectural styles and
demonstrate a high quality of architectural design (particularly those constructed during
the 1930s). This architectural quality is combined with the visually unifying factors of
lot and frontage size, materials, and uniform set backs to create a cohesive and notable
interwar heritage precinct.
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The place contains individually significant buildings in a range of interwar architectural
styles, which have highly publicised associations with successful building designers,
see, for example, Basil Hayler’s houses in Highton Grove.
The housing types and styles physically demonstrate the appeal of Balwyn as one of
Melbourne’s most fashionable new suburbs on the 1930s. This status was maintained
in the development of areas further north and to the immediate east after 1945.
The place is a generally intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads, mature
gardens and street trees, and some original fencing.
HO220 West Hawthorn Precinct, Hawthorn
The West Hawthorn Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The place is a large and varied concentration of brick and timber Victorian worker’s
cottages and modest residences. Connell and Mason Streets have a good proportion of
brick residences, while College, Fashoda, Spencer Streets have a higher concentration
of timber workers’ cottages.
The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a Victorian garden suburb
from 1856-1900, particularly the use of the garden suburb ideal through the
incorporation of parkland in order to improve the amenity of workers housing.
The precinct also includes a mix of late Federation and interwar houses and flats.
HO225 Fairview Avenue Precinct, Burwood
Fairview Avenue Precinct, Burwood, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place is a well preserved timber bungalow precinct, comparing well with similar
precincts in the metropolitan area and containing some unusual examples of hybrid
residential styles.
The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing mature street trees.
The place is strongly representative of development in Camberwell during the interwar
period. It is conspicuously predicated on a commuter workforce, being next to a
tramline, and with relatively uniform side driveway provision for the car.
Though it also contains some brick houses, overall, the extensive use of timber is in
strong contrast to the predominantly brick residential estates in the rest of the former
Camberwell municipality which arose from the widespread application of ‘brick area’
by-laws.
HO226 Goodwin Street and Somerset Road Precinct, Glen Iris
The Goodwin Street and Somerset Road Precinct, Glen Iris, is of heritage significance for
the following reasons:
The place is a notable example of an intact interwar precinct with good examples of
housing from the period, including the Old English and Mediterranean interwar
architectural styles.
The place epitomizes Camberwell’s renewed development in the years immediately
after the Depression and is substantially consistent in housing stock from this period.
The place has a large number of mature front gardens, some early or original fencing of
varied types, and original street kerbing and surfacing.
HO227 Great Glen Iris Railway Junction Estate, Ashburton
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The precinct contains diverse and generally intact housing from the 1920s-30s,
reflecting the dynamics and character of Camberwell as an urban growth area during
that period.
The place demonstrates the influence of the railways on the subdivision and
development of housing estates following WWI.
The place demonstrates the methods employed by developers of the time to create
housing estates with distinct character. Methods used in the Great Glen Iris Railway
Junction Estate include specific road surfacing treatments, street tree selection and
street name identification. These features remain predominantly intact.
The place comprises a highly intact interwar landscape with concrete roads and related
mature street trees.
HO228 Holyrood Estate and Environs, Camberwell
The Holyrood Estate and Environs, Camberwell, is named after the Riversdale Road
‘Holyrood’ mansion (by Reed, Smart and Tappin, 1890, now St Dominic’s Priory) from
which the land was taken to create the Estate. The estate is an area of heritage significance
for the following reasons:
The place features a highly intact collection of 1920s–30s housing.
The place strongly reflects the Camberwell municipal by-laws of the time which sought
to raise and maintain the level of amenity and consistency within the Camberwell area
through controlling the size of houses, front and side setbacks and materials.
The place contains the notable St Dominic’s Church, which was constructed at the time
the Estate was developed.
The place comprises a generally intact interwar landscape with concrete roads and
related mature street trees.
HO229 Ross Street Precinct, Surrey Hills
The Ross Street Precinct, Surrey Hills, is of heritage significance for the following reasons:
The place is a notable example of a generally intact interwar timber bungalow precinct,
albeit also containing some brick residences from the same period.
The place is strongly representative of development in Camberwell during the interwar
period. It is conspicuously predicated on a commuter workforce, being next to a
tramline, and relatively close to the electrified railway and with uniform driveway
provision for the car.
The place strongly reflects the Camberwell municipal by-laws of the time which
enforced consistency in lot size and house siting on the lot.
Its largely timber character is in strong contrast to the brick residential estates in the rest
of the former Camberwell municipality.
The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads and
footpath paving and mature street trees.
HO230 Toorak Estate & Environs, Glen Iris
Toorak Estate and Environs, Glen Iris, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place is a generally intact and notable estate that was largely developed in the postWW1 era from 1916 to 1925. Bungalows are the predominant architectural style.
The place is representative of the influence of electric railways and tramways on the
subdivision and development of housing estates following WWI.
The place demonstrates a high consistency of building form, siting and material, as
encouraged by municipal by-laws and (in this area) brick and tile covenants.
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The place is a relatively intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads and mature
street trees, and with some original fences.
HO231 Riverside Estate and Environs, Balwyn North
The Riverside Estate and Environs, Balywn North, precinct is an area of heritage
The large, detached houses built in various interwar architectural styles (particularly
those constructed during the 1930s building boom in Camberwell) demonstrate a high
quality of architectural design. This architectural quality is combined with the visually
unifying factors of lot size, materials and uniform set backs to create a cohesive and
notable interwar precinct.
The housing types and styles physically demonstrate the appeal of Balwyn as one of
Melbourne’s most fashionable new suburbs of the 1930s, a status which was
consolidated after 1945.
The precinct is distinguished by the scale and complexity of its building styles,
combined with its location on a slope commanding broad views of the Yarra Valley and
distant mountains.
The place contains individual aesthetically significant sites from the interwar period.
The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads and
mature gardens and street trees.
HO260 Auburn Village Precinct, Hawthorn
Reference - Auburn Village Heritage Study Heritage Guidelines (2005)
The Auburn Village Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of cultural heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The precinct is a representative example of a major commercial precinct of late 19th
and early 20th century.
The precinct demonstrates the important influence of railways by encouraging the
development of commercial centres around stations, and illustrates the speculative
development boom in Hawthorn during the late nineteenth century before the on-set of
the 1890s depression.
The scale and grandeur of a number of the shops, particularly the three storey shops at
132-142 and 144-148 Auburn Road, reflect the importance of Auburn Village (and the
middle class aspirations of Hawthorn at the time) as one of three major shopping
centres in Hawthorn during the nineteenth century, and illustrates the type of
development characterising a wealthy and dynamic city that led to the description
‘Marvellous Melbourne’.
The precinct is especially notable for the very intact late nineteenth century commercial
streetscape in Auburn Road, which includes a remarkable collection of often elaborate
and richly ornamented late Victorian shop rows that are complemented by a number of
landmark buildings including the Auburn Hotel, Auburn Railway Station, and the three
storey shop rows on the west side of the street.
Many of the early shops within the precinct were designed by the noted local architect
John Beswicke, who also designed the Hawthorn Town Hall.
Burwood Road, while less intact, includes groups of commercial shop rows with
common siting, scale, fenestration, and ornament that create relatively cohesive and
homogeneous streetscapes that provide an appropriate context.
HO264 Balwyn Road Residential Precinct, Canterbury
Reference – Balwyn Road Residential Precinct, Canterbury: Stage 2 Heritage Precinct
Review (August 2006)
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The Balwyn Road Residential Precinct is of historic significance because the pattern of
development reflects that of Boroondara generally. In much of Boroondara one or two
periods might be represented in any one precinct, however in the Balwyn Road Residential
Precinct all periods are nearly equally represented. As such, the precinct is a microcosm of
the broad sweep of development across the City. The relative consistency in the allotment
width and/or size across the different phases of development serves to unify the precinct.
There are historical associations with several eminent families (Danks, Goldings,
Marfleets, McAlpins, etc). Of further interest is the profile that some residents have had at
a broader level (either State, national or international) and the manifold connections
between various residents within the precinct and the City of Boroondara.
The Balwyn Road Residential Precinct is of aesthetic significance for the many high
quality buildings, some of which are of individual significance at the broader level, and
others that are generally good examples of their architectural style. The buildings are
remarkably intact to their period of construction and have been well maintained. There has
been limited change of building stock. A high proportion of the buildings have been
architect designed. Although there are a range of styles evident, there is a consistency in
scale and setbacks.
The extensive and well maintained landscaping both to the street (with trees and wide
reservations) and the private gardens provides a level of cohesion. One of the gardens (no.
17) is a rare example of a late nineteenth century intact suburban garden. In addition, some
of the early road and paving infrastructure is intact.
HO489 Burwood Road Precinct, Hawthorn
Reference – Assessment of the Burwood Road Heritage Precinct Hawthorn (August 2008,
updated March 2012)
What is significant?
The Burwood Road Heritage Precinct comprises, on the south side, the properties from 388
through to 444 Burwood Road and on the north side the properties from 481 to 497
Burwood Road. The Precinct comprises fine representative examples of good design and
the aesthetic characteristics of boom-style Victorian and Edwardian development providing
commercial and social institutional services, including the doctor’s residence, important in
the development of Hawthorn. The significant fabric of the buildings is that early or intact
fabric which is visible from the public domain of Burwood Road and the side streets. The
fabric of roof forms that are not visible from the public domain are not of themselves
significant. The perception of their integrity is however implied by the void above these
roofs to the extent of the understood, or expected, depth that the buildings extend beyond
their frontages. This perception of integrity of the principal form of the buildings makes an
important contribution to the heritage significance of the precinct and this perception of
integrity is a primary feature of the character and appearance of the buildings of which this
heritage place is comprised.
The Burwood Road Precinct is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the City of
Boroondara.
The Burwood Road Precinct is of local historical significance to the City of Boroondara as
a late 19th and early 20th century centre of commercial and social institutions important to
the development of Hawthorn. The Precinct demonstrates the pattern of development
influenced by the choice of location of key civic facilities starting in 1861 and by the
extension of the railway through the area in 1882. The Precinct contributes to the
appreciation and understanding of the development of Hawthorn as presented in
conjunction and comparison with adjacent heritage assets and heritage areas. The section of
Burwood Road included in the Precinct, although diminished by the loss of the 1889
Hawthorn Coffee Palace, demonstrates the juxtaposition of social institutional and
commercial development and links the Auburn Village and the Leslie Street Heritage
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Precinct with the former Municipal Centre and Glenferrie Road. The Precinct is important
in conveying a broad understanding of the historical development of Hawthorn (criterion
A) and nuance of setting and other influences as these have produced the boom-style
Victorian and Edwardian Streetscapes. (criterion D)
The proposed Burwood Road Precinct has aesthetic significance (criterion E)
demonstrating good design characteristics of boom-style Victorian and Edwardian for
commercial and social institutional development as well as a fine example of a doctor’s
residence, which probably included consulting rooms. The streetscapes present a generally
consistent form and scale, including substantial terrace rows of shop/dwellings, and
visually complement the streetscapes of the adjacent heritage areas and assets.
The terrace row from 424-444 Burwood Road derives heritage significance, particularly at
the local level, from its association with its designer, the noted Architect John Beswicke,
who was also responsible for the design of the Hawthorn Town Hall and many of the
buildings within the Auburn Village.
HO491 Glenferrie Road Commercial Precinct, Hawthorn
Reference – Hawthorn Heritage Precincts Study (April 2012)
The Glenferrie Road Commercial Precinct, Hawthorn, is of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Glenferrie Road is of historic significance as the centre of Hawthorn since the
establishment of the Town Hall in 1861. It demonstrates the influence firstly of the
railway (1882) in encouraging the development of commercial centres around railway
stations, and secondly of the tramway (1913) in supporting the growth of the
commercial area northwards. The precinct thus displays significant heritage elements
associated with the development of Hawthorn in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century, especially the land boom era following on the expansion of the railway and the
Federation era expansion of the public transport system through the tramways The
construction of the Don department store indicates the importance of Glenferrie Road
as a regional shopping centre. Glenferrie Road is significant as the major shopping
centre in Hawthorn. (RNE Criteria A.4, D.2)
Glenferrie Road commercial precinct is of aesthetic significance as a commercial, retail,
civic, services and residential precinct containing examples of buildings by a number of
prominent architects including a number of buildings from 1889 by architect John
Beswicke and from 1889-1891 by Augustus Fritsch. The key buildings are set in a
context of Victorian, Edwardian and Inter-war buildings that contribute to the
architectural character of the precinct. (RNE Criterion E.1)
Notable buildings of architectural merit include commercial buildings such as the NAB
(1917) and ANZ (c1920) banks at 637 and 687 Glenferrie Road, the former Melbourne
Savings Bank (c1900) at 365 Burwood Road and the prominent former CBA bank of
1889 on the corner of Burwood Road. There are also a number of fine architectdesigned retail buildings including the former Don department store of 1910, which is
the work of Ward and Carleton.
Glenferrie Road commercial precinct is significant for public buildings including the
Hawthorn Town Hall (designed by Leonard Terry in 1861, with extensions by John
Beswicke, 1889). Other public buildings include the Flemish/Romanesque Revival
styled Post Office at 378 Burwood Road, the former RSL at 605 & 607 Glenferrie
Road, and the Manresa kindergarten at 84 Lynch Street.
Glenferrie Road commercial precinct is significant for its substantial concentration of
significant places associated with the development of retailing, with a large number of
contributory items from the Victorian era and including a number of significant shops
constructed in the early twentieth century. Besides the former Don department store
mentioned above, these include the pair of Queen Anne two storey shops at 722 & 724
Glenferrie Road; the 2- storey Federation shop at 756-758 Glenferrie Road and a
number of brick and render shops at 760-764, at 768-772 Glenferrie Road, at 774 &
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776 Glenferrie Road., 2A Bowen Street is a relatively intact example of a rear
warehouse associated with a commercial building.
Glenferrie Road commercial precinct is significant for its nineteenth century
commercial and retail properties. These include the significant terrace of stuccoed
Victorian shops at 730-734 Glenferrie Road and the Commercial Bank of 1892 at 633635 Glenferrie Road.
Glenferrie Road commercial precinct Hawthorn is of social significance as a centre for
municipal, professional, retail and entertainment functions since the 1860s. (RNE
Criterion G.1)
HO492 Lisson Grove Precinct, Hawthorn
The Lisson Grove Precinct, Hawthorn, is of heritage significance for the following reasons:
Lisson Grove is of historic significance as an illustration of the development of middle
class suburbs in Hawthorn in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It
is significant for its associations with prominent members of Melbourne's business and
professional community of the later decades of the nineteenth century. (RNE Criteria
A.4, D.2)
Lisson Grove is of aesthetic significance for its high quality Victorian residences that
are set on large allotments. It demonstrates the style of housing built by the upper
middle classes in Hawthorn in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. There is
a wide range of Victorian styles represented in Lisson Grove, and whilst these are
generally of conservative styling, they represent the upper middle class ideal of a
spacious villa, large house or even small mansion. The high level of integrity of the
individual places is complemented by a low incidence of contemporary development.
(RNE Criterion D.2)
Lisson Grove demonstrates the garden suburb ideal in town planning by maintaining
large allotments, many with varying depths, frontage setbacks and fences that permit
views of gardens. Although many elements of front garden and fencing are not in
themselves of historic value as they have been replaced, they provide appropriate
settings for the houses. (RNE Criterion E.1)
HO493 Manningtree Road Precinct, Hawthorn
The Manningtree Road Precinct, Hawthorn, is of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
Manningtree Road provides one of the best examples of the provision of housing for the
rising numbers of the middle class in Hawthorn in the late nineteenth century. It was
one of the earliest speculative housing subdivisions in the area, though like much of
Melbourne was not filled until the Boom years of the 1880s. In the range of housing
provision which Hawthorn provided in the nineteenth century, it sits between the
wealthy homes of for instance, Hawthorn Grove and the smaller houses of the West
Hawthorn Area.
Manningtree Road was a stepping stone into a gentleman’s residence and clearly shows
the major theme in Hawthorn, of the development of the garden suburb especially for
the middle class, which was to become dominant throughout Melbourne in the
twentieth century (RNE Criterion A.4)
Manningtree Road displays a high level of cohesiveness of scale, architectural style and
period of development. While there are a number of houses demonstrating more
flamboyant or original or architectural features, they read as more elaborate versions of
the more numerous standard asymmetric Italianate houses which dominate the street. .
(RNE Criteria D.2, E.1)
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Manningtree Road has associations with Henry Box who was an influential figure in
municipal, political and civic affairs in Hawthorn. His house Manningtree at no.2 (now
altered) was an early mansion and lent its name to the street. No.4 Manningtree Road,
now called Boonoke, has associations with John Patterson, pastoralist and businessman.
(RNE Criterion H.1)
HO494 West Hawthorn Village Precinct
The West Hawthorn Village Precinct, Hawthorn, is of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
West Hawthorn village is of historic significance in representing the transformation of
Hawthorn from a rural village in the 1850s to a thriving Victorian town by the 1890s. It
represents a continuous land use as a commercial centre from the 1850s, and one that
predates the construction of the railway in 1861. Whilst the street now largely
comprises buildings from the 1880s and 1890s, the former tea warehouse of 1869 at
107 Burwood Road predates other buildings in the precinct. (RNE Criterion A.4)
West Hawthorn village is of historic significance as a commercial centre that
demonstrates the strategic location of Burwood Road as the earliest river crossing on
the Yarra, followed by urban consolidation as a result of the railway, and decline
following the railway extension to Glenferrie and the electric tram route into Power
Street. (RNE Criterion A.4)
West Hawthorn Village is of aesthetic significance as a representative example of a
Victorian commercial streetscape containing shops and hotels from the period 18811891. The comparatively narrow period that is represented by the present buildings is
unusual in the context of Boroondara where a mix of periods and styles is more usually
represented in commercial streetscapes. The groups of shop rows are relatively intact
and have common elements of siting, scale, fenestration and ornament. (RNE Criteria
D.2, E.1)
West Hawthorn Village has strong social values as a shopping centre serving the local
community since the 1850s. (RNE Criterion G.1)
HO505 Burke Road North Commercial and Transport Precinct, Camberwell
Reference- Camberwell Junction Heritage Review (2008, reviewed 2009)
The Burke Road North Commercial and Transport Precinct, Camberwell, is of heritage
The Burke Road North Commercial and Transport Precinct is of importance in
reflecting a initial phase in the commercial development of Burke Road, between 1880
and 1930, in vicinity of Camberwell Railway Station .
It is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of buildings retail and commercial with residential above - as presenting in a coherent group.
The precinct generally exhibits a strong streetscape cohesion and presentation with a
readily discernible aesthetic character.
Significant building fabric of this precinct is primarily shop fronts which present to Burke
road and side perpendicular streets and station building.
HO506 Camberwell Civic and Community Precinct, Camberwell
Reference- Camberwell Junction Heritage Review (2008, reviewed 2009)
The Camberwell Civic and Community Precinct, is of heritage significance for the
following reasons:
The Civic and Community Precinct is of major historical importance in the association
of the original reserved land and related buildings with the early development and late
growth of the former City of Camberwell.
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The precinct contains civic buildings, schools and churches all of which have been
important in the growth and development of Camberwell and continue to be so in the
new City of Boroondara.
The precinct is of social significance as the focus of contemporary local governance and
in continuing to play a significant role in the provision of places of education and
worship for the local community.
The civic centre in particular has been and continues to be a place used by the
community for events, functions and related activities. Aesthetically, the precinct
contains buildings of a generally high level of individual significance, which both
individually and as a group are of particular distinction within the local context. Their
aesthetic significance is enhanced by their open setting and the associated landscape
and mature plantings
HO520 Kew Junction Commercial Heritage Precinct
Reference – Kew Junction Commercial Heritage Study (September 2013
The Kew Junction Commercial Heritage Precinct, is an area of historical, social and
architectural heritage significance for the following reasons:
The Precinct has a predominantly retail and commercial built form character, with the
majority of contributory buildings, as well as some individually significant buildings
dating from the Victorian and interwar eras, with some more limited Federation and
post-WWII development.
Focal points within the Precinct include the fiveways junction and the (former) public
buildings group (post office, police station and court house) on the landmark triangular
site at the junction of High Street and Cotham Road.
Significant and contributory buildings are principally two-storey terraces, with ground
floor shopfronts (many of which are not original); parapeted first floors which display
an overall high level of intactness; and zero setbacks to the main street frontages. There
are also some single storey and larger commercial buildings, some of which have strong
corner presentations. Historically and socially the Precinct has been a commercial
centre and a civic and social focus for residents of Kew since the mid-nineteenth
century, attracting many prominent public and commercial buildings as well as
numerous local businesses.
The precinct demonstrates several of the principal characteristics of historic retail
strips/shopping centres in inner and middle-ring suburbs of Melbourne. These include
the comparatively high level of intact and parapeted first floor façades; the generally
linear nature of the precinct whereby the valued built form presents as a ‘wall’ of
building frontages; and the concentration of architectural detailing in the streetscape
facades.
Architecturally, the Precinct retains many comparatively intact buildings constructed in
the second half of the nineteenth century through to the first half of the twentieth
century, including through to the immediate post-WWII period, some of which are
architecturally distinguished. Architectural styles evident in the precinct include
Italianate and Renaissance Revival, Commercial Gothic, Queen Anne, Baroque
influenced buildings of the early twentieth century, and a rich collection of interwar
buildings displaying Art Deco characteristics.
HO525 Clutha Estate Precinct, Kew
Reference - Assessment of Heritage Precincts in Kew (April 2013)
The Clutha Estate Precinct, Kew, is an area of cultural heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Historically, the Clutha Estate precinct is of significance as an example of the
continuing pattern of subdivision of the large Victorian estates fronting Studley Park
Road during the twentieth century. The subdivision of the nine acre Clutha estate in the
first years of WWII (1940), into 40 allotments, made it one of the last subdivisions of
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the interwar period in Kew. Building ceased after the government’s prohibition on
civilian building was enforced from 1942, with the remainder of the subdivision
generally developed in the 1950s. The subdivision is significant as a particularly intact
example of an economical later subdivision pattern within Kew, which utilised small
central courts to maximise the number and size of allotments. The Clutha Estate was
also among one of the first subdivisions in the municipality to fully integrate courts into
its initial subdivision plan.
Architecturally, the Clutha Estate precinct is significant as a compact microcosm of
architectural styles from the 1940s to the 1950s, which retains a comparatively high
level of intactness. Within the surrounding area, which was developed earlier, the
precinct is readily understood as a 1940s subdivision through its cohesive building
style, although development of the late 1950s and early 1960s is additionally of note.
The buildings are typically two-storey and constructed of cream or clinker brick with
stucco, brick and/or wrought iron detailing. The aesthetic significance of the precinct is
further enhanced by the uniformity of building setbacks, with some landscaped front
gardens, original low brick fences and garages remaining.
HO526 Denmark Street Precinct, Kew
The Denmark Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of cultural heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Historically, the Denmark Street precinct is significant as an example of the gradual
pattern of subdivision and development in this area of Kew from the mid-1870s until
the first decades of the twentieth century, for mostly modest residential allotments on
the fringes of the Kew retail area. The precinct demonstrates some of the principal
characteristics of residential subdivision spread over this period, including a variety of
building types and styles from the Victorian and Federation eras. Both single- and
double-fronted brick Victorian villas represent the first scattered ‘wave’ of
development, with weatherboard Federation villas to Foley Street and brick detached
and semi-detached Federation brick villas to Denmark Street being of the second
‘wave’, comprehensively infilling vacant land as economic times improved in the years
surrounding the turn of the century. The years leading up to World War I saw the rapid
infilling of vacant allotments, with those to Denmark Street capitalising on the railway
service and closeness to the city. The precinct is also of note in that the opening of the
Kew Railway Station in 1887 does not appear to have stimulated local residential
development in the immediate vicinity which, following the subsequent economic
‘bust’ of the 1890s did not gain new momentum until the more prosperous years of the
early twentieth century.
Architecturally, the Denmark Street precinct is significant for its variety of building
types and styles from the Victorian and Federation eras. Important characteristics
include the prevailing single storey nature of residential development, with some attic
storey dwellings; brick construction; semi-detached dwellings; prominent verandahs
and porches with decorative cast-iron lace or timber fretwork; and terracotta tiled
hipped and pitched roofs with visible chimneys. Brick buildings are interspersed with
weatherboard villas and cottages; diagonally planned Federation houses and bungalows,
with fretwork and timber arches, contrast with Victorian houses. A comparatively high
number of lively and varied asymmetrical pairs of semi-detached houses are located in
both Foley and Denmark Streets; those concentrated on the east side of Denmark Street
in particular, are a defining characteristic of the precinct. The aesthetic significance of
the precinct is further enhanced by the broad uniformity of building setbacks; feature
verandahs/porches and turret elements; front gardens; and where available, generally
low timber picket or brick fences.
HO527 High Street South Residential Precinct, Kew
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Historically, the High Street South Residential precinct is significant for demonstrating
the gradual pattern of subdivision and development of Kew from the mid-1870s
through to the first decades of the twentieth century. The development on High Street
followed a common pattern in the area, with initial development in the later Victorian
period, generally close to Kew Junction, followed by a downturn in the 1890s economic
‘bust’, and then new development in the improving years after the turn of the century.
Conversely, development to the west of High Street, including that of the former
Findon estate, more readily exemplifies the residential subdivision of large nineteenth
century estates in the early decades of the twentieth century. New streets (Miller Grove,
Bowen Street and Henry Street) and medium sized allotments were created from a
linear-form subdivision in 1913, which were subsequently developed during the late
1910s and 1920s. Despite the drawn out history of development, unifying
characteristics of the Victorian and Federation era dwellings, and the later interwar
development, include the generally consistent use of brick and overall uniformity of
allotment sizes. The generally free-standing houses on generous sized allotments also
reflect on the apparent affluence of the original residents and the desirability of the area.
Architecturally, the High Street South Residential precinct is significant for
incorporating a variety of building types and styles from the Victorian and Federation
eras, and interwar period. Dwellings of single and attic storeys, including doublefronted detached villas and some larger double-storey villas, are found in the precinct
together with terraces and semi-detached dwellings. Brick and roughcast render are
common materials, while double-fronted Federation-style villas stand out due to their
prominent, decorative verandahs/porches, including some with highly ornamented
timber fretwork, and pitched terracotta tiled roofs. The diagonal alignment of High
Street, with dwellings on sharply angled frontages, has encouraged construction of
vigorous diagonally-oriented designs with views of side elevations, and entrance and
verandah ornamentation. Conversely, the 1920s bungalows in the west of the precinct
display a comparatively high occurrence of juxtaposed front gables, rather than the
simpler transverse roof type more common elsewhere in Boroondara.
HO528 Howard Street Precinct, Kew
The Howard Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of cultural heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Historically, the Howard Street precinct is important for its demonstration of the
continuing pattern of subdivision of the formerly large estates on the south side of
Studley Park Road, Kew during the interwar years, and as a highly readable ‘essay’ in
the Old English domestic style of architecture. The latter style was much favoured in
this general period in affluent pockets of Boroondara. The houses in the precinct were
also constructed in unusually quick succession over a five year period, a concentrated
burst of building activity expressing this popular building style.
Architecturally, the Howard Street precinct is significant as an intact precinct in which
seven of the eight original property owners commissioned houses adopting the Old
English style, with individual dwellings providing evidence of differing but still related
architectural approaches. These range from the elaborate full-blown ‘Gingerbread
House’ attic style of 19 Howard Street; to variations employing decorative brickwork
and dramatic pitched roof forms, such as 21, 23 and 25 Howard Street; and also to those
with more traditional floor plans and forms but utilising half timbering, clinker
brickwork and decorative stone trim to imbue the residences with an Old English
flavour, such as with 11, 13 and 17 Howard Street. While the building at 15 Howard
Street adopts a Modern style in rendered brick, the siting and scale are consistent with
those in the Old English style.
The aesthetic significance of the precinct is further enhanced by the uniform property
street setbacks and large landscaped front gardens, several of which are original or of
long-standing planting and landscaping. The retention of original low brick and/or stone
front fences adds to this aspect of significance.
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HO529 Queen Street Precinct, Kew
The Queen Street Precinct, Kew, is an area of cultural heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Historically, the Queen Street precinct is of significance as an example of the gradual
pattern of subdivision and residential development in Kew from the late 1880s, within
the original Kew township area. The close proximity to the Kew Junction shopping
strip and the Kew Railway Station at Denmark Street, which was opened in 1887, aided
the subsequent development of the precinct and the desirability of the location into the
twentieth century. The precinct contains dwellings which represent a variety of building
types and styles, from the Victorian, Federation and late interwar periods, which are
generally intact to their original streetscape presentation. The precinct is further
distinguished through retaining largely intact late interwar development in Fenton
Avenue, which was associated with the subdivision, from c. 1937, of the former
Drayton estate. This attribute of the precinct is important for demonstrating the
continuing development of Kew into the middle years of the twentieth century.
Architecturally, the Queen Street precinct is of significance for exhibiting a varied
aesthetic character, which derives from its Victorian, Federation and later interwar
residential development. The precinct’s rich variety comes from the mix of building
types and styles, including generally single-, but also some double-storey buildings and
a mix of detached, semi-detached/duplex, and terrace houses. The buildings are brick or
weatherboard, with some render and part rough-cast dwellings interspersed, with
pitched or hipped roof forms. Front verandahs and porches set within a small front
garden are features of the dwellings. Fenton Avenue’s interwar character is also
consistent, with richly detailed polychrome brick and a variety of Art Deco elements.
The aesthetic significance of the precinct is further enhanced by the uniformity of
building setbacks and front gardens, with generally low timber picket or brick fences.
Garages, carports and off-street car parking are not prevalent in the precinct, except in
Fenton Avenue, where these features relate to the street’s era of development.
HO530 Yarra Boulevard Precinct, Kew
The Yarra Boulevard Precinct, Kew, is an area of cultural heritage significance for the
following reasons:
Historically, the precinct is significant for its association with a phase of Modernist and
architect designed residential development, which occurred largely between the 1940s
and 1960s complemented by some residential development dating from the earlier
interwar period and the late 1960s-1970s. During these years, the precinct was closely
developed with houses that adapted to the natural setting and hilly topography. The
move towards the simplified Modernist mode of dwelling, and in some cases
experimental approach, also represented a move away from the more conservative
house designs found elsewhere in the municipality. This aspect of the precinct’s history
reflected both the period of development, and also the willingness of property owners to
embrace new and innovative residential design, a trend which has continued into more
recent times. The precinct is accordingly also important for its association with many
prominent architects and architectural practices of the postwar era; these include, but
are not limited to, Theodore Berman, Chancellor and Patrick, Ernest Fooks, Anatol
Kagan, McGlashan and Everist, Romberg and Boyd, and Bernard Slawik.
A number of houses on the outer edges of the precinct which date from the interwar
period and precede the predominant postwar development are also significant in that
they help demonstrate the gradual subdivision of the area.
The precinct has historical significance for its association with the sustenance
employment schemes of the Great Depression, which resulted in the construction of the
Yarra Boulevard.
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Architecturally, the Yarra Boulevard precinct is significant for its high concentration,
richness and diversity of Modernist residential dwellings, complemented by examples
of interwar and late 1960s-1970s residential development, set within an irregular,
median-strip divided curvilinear street layout. The overall intactness of the more visible
components of the dwellings is comparatively high, and alterations generally adopt a
sympathetic approach. Many of the residences also display a high degree of sensitivity
to site and topography, and ingenuity in their architectural approach, including to the
design and orientation of buildings. This has created a distinctive aesthetic character for
residential development within this area of the municipality. The concentration of wellpreserved postwar Modernist houses is also arguably distinctive in the wider
metropolitan context.
The landscaped character of the precinct is significant. This is demonstrated in the
garden settings to many of the houses which were often sympathetic to the Modernist
architecture and reflected a contemporary response to the area’s topography and natural
setting, as well as site-sensitive planting schemes and approach. Noted landscape
designers, such as Ellis Stones, are also believed to have been involved in some of the
residential developments. The adaptation of street layout and house siting to the
unusually hilly Melbourne terrain is additionally significant, including the irregular,
median-strip divided curvilinear street layout.
HO532 Union Road Commercial Heritage Precinct, Surrey Hills
Reference - Union Road Commercial Precinct Citation (June 2011)
The Union Road Commercial Precinct is of local historical significance. It is a longstanding local commercial/retail shopping area in Surrey Hills which emerged in the 1880s
after the extension of the railway line to Lilydale and the construction of the railway station
in 1882. The diversity of local businesses was well established by the interwar era, by
which time the built form of the precinct had also consolidated. The diverse commercial
enterprises of the period met the typical needs of middle class suburban living, including
the growing number of railway commuters, with a ladies draper, boot shops, laundry,
painter, greengrocers, florist, chemist, butchers, delicatessen, cab proprietors and
newsagents. The precinct is also of historical significance for its pattern of development
which followed a similar pattern to that of residential development in Surrey Hills,
commencing in the 1880s and, after some fitful follow up development around the turn of
the nineteenth century, culminated in substantial consolidation in the 1920s.
In terms of social significance, the Union Road Commercial Precinct is locally significant
as a much valued commercial/retail shopping area in Surrey Hills, which has served the
community and railway commuter traffic for over 120 years. Although comparatively
modest in size, its ongoing commercial focus emphasises its importance to the community
of Surrey Hills.
Union Road Commercial Precinct is of local aesthetic/architectural significance. The
precinct has a comparatively high level of intactness, and streetscape diversity arising from
the variety of façade and parapet treatments. Earlier buildings in the precinct have typical
Classical Revival detailing, at least to their first floor facades, while later buildings of the
1910s and 1920s have simpler detailing. There is also some homogeneity to the shopping
strip, enhanced by pairs or multiple shop terraces that have remained unified, at least at
first floor or parapet level. The precinct also derives some aesthetic value from its
landscaping and street plantings.
Union Road Commercial Precinct is additionally significant for demonstrating some of the
principal characteristics of late nineteenth and early twentieth century shopping precincts.
These include a mix of single and double storey historic masonry commercial buildings
with zero setbacks to the street; shopfronts at ground floor level which retain their original
or early form and fabric; awnings of mostly simple form and detailing; and a
preponderance of intact first floor facades with solid walls, punched rectangular windows,
and often prominent parapets.
HO534 - Union Road Residential Precinct
Reference – Union Road Residential Precinct Citation (2011, Updated 2014)
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The Union Road Residential Precinct is of local historical significance, as a long-standing
residential area concentrated in Union Road, which demonstrates aspects of the growth and
consolidation of Surrey Hills from the latter decades of the nineteenth century through to
the interwar period.
Although not a large precinct, Union Road is also significant for reflecting the range of
development which could occur on principal or main roads in what was, historically, an
outer urban area. This includes a piecemeal pattern of development on earlier large
allotments, which were later re-subdivided for more intensive urban development; the
survival of earlier land uses until the interwar period, such as the market garden and dairy
on the west side of Union Road; the construction of larger dwellings, as is more common
on main roads; and the inclusion of buildings which were not strictly residential, such as
the doctor’s surgery and residence at 174 Union Road, the Anglican Church property at
175-177 Union Road, and the convalescent home at 257-59 Union Road.
Union Road Residential Precinct is also of local aesthetic/architectural significance. The
precinct, which predominantly comprises dwellings from the Federation and interwar
periods, has a comparatively high level of intactness in terms of its historical development.
Typical, and valued, Federation characteristics of dwellings include external wall materials
of weatherboard with either half-timbered and stucco panels, or continuously stuccoed
gabling; the return verandah and corner entry ‘diagonal’ form; tall chimneys; and some
houses with short verandahs placed between projecting wings. Double-hung sash windows
are common; there are also hinged casements, shallow box-frame and canted bay windows.
Interwar development is largely concentrated on the west side of Union Road. Its principal,
and valued, characteristics include bungalows marked by breakfront wings or projecting
brick porches, with a low horizontal emphasis and hipped roofs. Several have a full-size
gable, and porches integrated with rooms. Other characteristics include stucco-covered
brick walling, a stuccoed frieze to the upper face-brick walls, and extensive red or clinker
face-brick walling. Transverse-roof bungalows, with accentuated horizontal forms, are also
found.
Later interwar houses in the precinct generally avoid gables, replacing these with hipped
breakfronts; the later dwellings are also marked by the use of clinker or cream brick,
relieving tapestry brick, and again an emphatic horizontal emphasis.
HO535 - Surrey Hills North Residential Precinct
Reference – Surrey Hills North Residential Precinct Citation (2011, Updated 2014)
The Surrey Hills North Residential Precinct is of local historical significance as a longstanding residential area in the northern part of Surrey Hills, which demonstrates aspects of
the growth and consolidation of the suburb from the latter decades of the nineteenth
century through to the interwar period.
Surrey Hills North Residential Precinct is also of local aesthetic/architectural significance,
comprising housing with a comparatively high level of intactness from two main periods of
development, being the late Federation period of 1910-1915, and the interwar period of the
1920s and 1930s.
The Federation houses derive from a time in Australian architecture when a distinctive
national style was developing, influenced by the international Arts and Crafts movement,
Art Nouveau, and elements of the Queen Anne mode. Valued characteristics of Federation
houses in the precinct include simple L-shaped plans with a single projecting gable, often
half-timbered; hipped roofs played off against the projecting gables; diagonal components
such as angled corners or curved bays, sometimes coupled to an angled gablet or corner
tower; and hinged casement windows often grouped in threes and fours.
The 1920s houses in the precinct are generally Bungalow variants, in a style influenced by
contemporary American Bungalows, including those of California as well as ‘Craftsman’
Bungalows. Valued characteristics of these precinct dwellings include conspicuous
transverse roof forms with gable ends (typical of Melbourne Bungalows, and of the
Craftsman style), or two superimposed gables; forward-sloping roofs which emphasise the
horizontal massing, and often integrate with verandahs; and verandahs enclosed by
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medium-height walls usually in the same materials as the house walls, with paired squareplan timber posts or occasionally brick piers clad in stucco.
Distinguishing characteristics of the 1930s houses include porch areas (rather than
verandahs); hipped roofs with lower pitches; and more simply detailed chimneys. There are
also more references to ‘past’ styles, such as Tudor, often conveyed in clinker or tapestry
brick.
The Victorian houses, which are mostly in the Victorian Italianate style, display bracketed
and hipped roofing; some with block front detailing to resemble stone; broad double-hung
timber-framed sash windows; and chimneys which are corniced and either stuccoed or in
exposed red face brick.
Established gardens also contribute to the aesthetic values of the precinct, as do street or
median plantings.
HO536 - Canterbury Hill Estate
Reference - Canterbury Hill Estate Precinct Citation (2011)
Canterbury Hill Estate Precinct is of local historical significance, as a long-standing
residential area which demonstrates aspects of the growth and consolidation of Surrey Hills
in particular in the decades after 1900. The precinct name derives from that given to a
subdivision in the eastern area of the precinct in 1887, while the western area of the
precinct was formed from later subdivisions, including post-1919 development associated
with the Dunn family’s former market gardens in the (current) Compton Street area.
The precinct, as with other residential areas and estates in Surrey Hills, is also significant
for promoting an English character and English associations, as a means of attracting
middle-class residents and purchasers of properties. This chiefly occurred through the use
of street names such as Victoria (later renamed Bristol), Albert and Queen streets, and
through the use of names associated with English counties and localities.
Canterbury Hill Estate Precinct is of local aesthetic/architectural significance. The precinct,
which predominantly comprises dwellings dating from the early twentieth century through
to the 1930s, has a comparatively high level of intactness in terms of its Federation and
interwar development. A large number of these dwellings, including late Federation villas
as well as some Californian Bungalows, are constructed of timber, which is a building
material more commonly found in Surrey Hills than in other areas of Boroondara. The
significance of this aspect of development is enhanced by the fact that Council, in the late
1920s, passed by-laws restricting the construction of dwellings in timber.
Significant Federation development in the precinct includes a range of well-designed and
executed dwellings which demonstrate key Federation ideas in house design and detailing.
These include diagonal planning; gabled and pitched roof forms; projecting wings/bays
with half-timbered gables; timber-posted verandahs including return verandahs with timber
friezes and fretwork; tall brick chimney stacks and 1: 3 casement windows.
There are also substantial numbers of brick houses, the majority of which are brick and
rendered bungalows, as well as some Old English style clinker brick and render villas, and
dwellings displaying Mediterranean influences. This rich and varied interwar development
displays many of the elements and influences which typify Australian bungalow design
including Californian and Craftsman variants. These include half-timbered and shingled
gable-fronts; ground floor areas on a basic oblong footprint, albeit with curved and canted
bays and/or a porch-verandah to one façade side balanced by a projecting wing/bay;
facebrick surfaces with cement render and concrete; lead-light glass; and brick verandah
pedestals, or timber or cast concrete columns. The projecting bays and verandahs are
independently gabled or in some instances roofed through the continuation downwards of
the main roof pitch.
The aesthetic significance is also enhanced by the reasonably generous allotments,
including setbacks with gardens, lawns and landscaped settings; street plantings including
deciduous trees and native species; concrete footpaths and the grassed verge of Bristol
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Street; and also the concrete road surface of Compton Street, which in turn is typical of a
bungalow estate in Boroondara.
HO590 Grange Avenue Residential Precinct
Reference - Grange Avenue Residential Precinct Citation (August 2014)
The Grange Avenue Residential Precinct, Canterbury, is an area of cultural heritage
The Grange Avenue Precinct is of historic significance as a subdivision that is
representative of small-scale interwar subdivisions in the former City of Camberwell,
which saw the breakup of large estates, such as ‘The Grange’, into middle-class
residential areas including Grange Avenue and View Street. The substantial nature and
high quality of the design of the houses at 2-10 Grange Avenue exemplify the
quintessential middle-class interwar character for which suburbs in the former City of
Camberwell are celebrated.
The Grange Avenue Residential Precinct is of aesthetic significance for the strong and
visually cohesive streetscape created by the row of houses which share a common style,
setback, scale, major roof forms, materials and decorative details. Paired with their
overall visual unity, the houses are individually and skillfully designed variations on a
theme, expressed by different combinations of secondary roof gables and dormers,
verandah supports and leadlight windows. They are also high quality interwar houses,
at least one of architect design, which are substantial for the area, and good examples of
the Arts & Crafts attic-style bungalow. They are generally highly intact to their period
of construction, and have been well maintained. They are enhanced by the mature Plane
street trees on the wide nature strip.
No 2 Grange Avenue is particularly distinguished by its superior level of detail and
finishes, particularly seen in the complex massing of the front gable, the gabled 'roof'
above the front bay window, and the fine brickwork of the arched brick porch entry. It
demonstrates the evolution of architect Arthur Bidgway's high-quality middle-class
houses from the Victorian and Edwardian villas found in Port Melbourne, to this very
up-to-date interpretation of the Arts and Crafts style with California Bungalow
elements in 1921.
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C153
Definitions and Gradings
Policy Definitions
In this policy, unless the context admits otherwise, the following words and phrases have
the following meanings.
Alteration: Means to modify the existing fabric of a place without undertaking building
works in the form of an addition. This may include introducing new openings for windows
or doors.
Conservation: Means all the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural
heritage significance (see definition for cultural heritage significance below). This may
include maintenance, preservation, restoration, reconstruction and adaptation to
accommodate new uses.
Context: Means the setting of a place, the key natural (including landscaping and
established gardens) and built features of that setting, and the extent to which the setting
influences the scale of development and land use patterns.
Cultural heritage significance: Means the aesthetic, historic, scientific, social or spiritual
value for past, present or future generations. Cultural heritage significance is embodied in
the place itself, its fabric, setting, use, associations, meanings, records, related places and
related objects where appropriate.
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Fabric: Means all the physical material of the place including components and external
fixtures.
Heritage Place: Means a site, area, land, landscape, building or other work, or group of
buildings or other works with cultural heritage significance. Can indicate an individual site
or a heritage precinct. It may include components, spaces and views.
Heritage Precinct: Means a group of buildings and/or structures or other works and their
associated land which have cultural heritage significance when read together.
Interpretive: Means design and materials that honestly admit their modernity while
relating to the heritage character of their surroundings including form, proportions, colours,
detailing and decoration.
Massing: Means the arrangement of a buildings bulk and its articulation into parts.
Outbuildings: Means a structure that is not part of a main building but which supports the
function of the main building. Outbuildings can include carports, garden sheds, standalone conservatories, stables, cabanas and studios.
Principal façade: Means the external face of a building as viewed from the street.
Reconstruction: Means the process of returning a place to a known earlier state and is
distinguished from restoration (defined below) by the introduction of new material into the
fabric.
Restoration: Means the process of returning the existing fabric of a place to a known
earlier state by removing accretions or by reassembling existing components without the
introduction of new material.
Scale: Means relative size.
surroundings.
The term is used in planning to relate a place to its
Siting: Means the placement and/or position of a building within a lot of land.
Gradings and Grading Definitions
Over the years a number of grading systems have been employed to designate heritage
places within the former Cities of Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn and within the current
City of Boroondara.
The grading of places within precinct-based Heritage Overlays has been reviewed and are
shown in the Boroondara Schedule of Gradings Map which is a reference document to this
policy. These gradings supersede those contained within previous heritage studies.
‘Significant’ heritage places are places of State, municipal or local cultural heritage
significance that are individually important in their own right. When in a precinct, they
may also contribute to the cultural heritage significance of the precinct. 'Significant' graded
places within a precinct are of the same cultural heritage value as places listed individually
in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay.
‘Contributory’ heritage places are places that contribute to the cultural heritage
significance of a precinct. They are not considered to be individually important places of
State, municipal or local cultural heritage significance, however when combined with other
‘significant’ and/or ‘contributory’ heritage places, they play an integral role in
demonstrating the cultural heritage significance of a precinct.
Non-contributory places – ungraded places within heritage precincts.
‘Non-contributory’ places are places within a heritage precinct that have no identifiable
cultural heritage significance. They are included within a Heritage Overlay because any
development of the place may impact on the cultural heritage significance of the precinct or
adjacent ‘significant’ or ‘contributory’ heritage places.
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Reference Documents
16/10/2014
C153
proposed C178
Review of Heritage Overlay Precinct Citations (June 2006)
Boroondara Schedule of Gradings Map
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Technical Bulletin 8.1 Fences & Gates (1988)
City of Kew Urban Conservation Study (1988)
Camberwell Conservation Study (1991)
Hawthorn Heritage Study (1993)
Auburn Village Heritage Study (2005)
Review of B-graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn (January 2007, Revised
June 2007 and November 2009) Volumes 1, 2 and 3.
Review of C* Grade Buildings in the Former City of Hawthorn (September 2006, Revised
June 2007 and November 2009) Volumes 1 and 2.
Balwyn Road Residential Precinct, Canterbury: Stage 2 Heritage Precinct Review (August
2006)
Hawthorn Heritage Precincts Study (April 2012)
Union Road Commercial Precinct Citation (2011)
Assessment of Heritage Precincts in Kew (April 2013)
Camberwell Junction Heritage Review (2008, revised 2013)
Assessment of the Burwood Road Heritage Precinct, Hawthorn (August 2008, updated
March 2012)
Kew Junction Commercial Heritage Study (September 2013)
Union Road Residential Precinct Citation (2011, Updated 2014)
Surrey Hills North Residential Precinct Citation (2014, Updated 2014))
Canterbury Hill Estate Precinct Citation (2014)
Kew and Hawthorn Further Investigations - Assessment of Specific Sites (Febuaray 2014)
Boroondara Heritage Property Database
Grange Avenue Residential Precinct Citation (August 2014)
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Preshil Junior School
HO6
HERITAGE OVERLAY – SCHEDULE
* DENOTES INTERIM CONTROLS APPLY
#12, #16 & #17 – DO NOT APPLY AFTER 31 JULY 2015
#20 - DO NOT APPLY AFTER 30 JUNE 2016
#29 - DO NOT APPLY AFTER 1 DECEMBER 2016
House
492 Barkers Road, Hawthorn East
No
No
House
62 Barkers Road, Hawthorn
HO5
HO7
_
Xavier College
135 Barkers Road, Kew
HO4
Yes
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Ercildoune
424 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
19 Anderson Road, Hawthorn East
House
Includes Camberwell Rd (part),
Christowel St (part), Fairmont Ave
(part), Finsbury Way, Lansell Cr,
Lyric Gve, Maple Cr, Marlborough
Ave, Murdoch St (part), Orrong Cr,
Tyrone St (part).
Golf Links Estate, Camberwell
Heritage Place
No
-
No
_
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
-
No
_
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
-
No
_
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
The requirements of this overlay apply to both the heritage place and its associated land.
SCHEDULE TO THE HERITAGE OVERLAY
HO3
HO2
HO1
PS
Map
Ref
21/05/2015
C215propo
sed C178
No
No
Yes
Ref No H72
No
Yes
Ref
H893
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Yes
Turinville
53 Barnard Grove, Kew
HO10
Amendment C178
No
House
HO13
Broughton Hall (formerly Tara)
2 Berwick Street, Camberwell
_
No
House (formerly Wakato)
38 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn
HO16
HO17
No
No
Avondale
HO15
_
No
No
House
No
12 Beaconsfield Road, Hawthorn
East
HO14
No
Marathon
No
1 Beaconsfield Road, Hawthorn East
HO12
10 Beaconsfield Road, Hawthorn
East
No
D’estaville
7 Barry Street, Kew
_
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO11
_
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
St Ouen
Werona
Heritage Place
HO9
HO8
PS
Map
Ref
_
No
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
_
No
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
Yes
Ref
H1176
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H201
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
_
-
-
-
-
-
_
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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House
HO21
Amendment C178
No
Manresa Peoples Centre (Former _
ES&A Bank)
343 Burwood Road, Hawthorn
No
No
House
759 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East
Kardinia
HO24
HO25
HO26
No
_
_
Former Invergowrie Lodge
8 Palmer Place, Hawthorn
HO23
8 Calvin Street, Hawthorn
_
No
No
No
No
No
_
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
Ultima
1099 Burke Road, Hawthorn East
No
No
No
_
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
HO22
Arden
Nachemo
HO20
HO19
Former ES&A Bank
HO18
472-476 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn
East
Heritage Place
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
_
_
No
No
No
No
_
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
Yes
Ref
H534
No
No
_
_
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H516
Yes
Ref
H517
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No Yes - fence No
along Burke and
Rathmines
Road frontages
No
_
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
_
_
-
-
-
-
_
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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No
_
_
House
27 Constance Street, Hawthorn East
Second Church of Christ Scientist
41 Cookson Street, Camberwell
Invergowrie
21 Coppin Grove, Hawthorn
HO33
HO34
HO36
Yes
_
Former Bridge Hotel
155 Church Street, Hawthorn
HO32
Wimba
235 Cotham Road, Kew
Yes
Huntingtower
106 Church Street, Hawthorn
HO31
HO37
_
Grace Park House
19 Chrystobel Crescent, Hawthorn
HO30
_
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
_
_
No
_
No
_
_
126
Canterbury Mansions
208 Canterbury Road
Maling Road, Canterbury
HO29
and
_
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Camberwell Court House and Police _
Station
311-317
Camberwell
Road,
Camberwell
Heritage Place
HO28
PS
Map
Ref
No
_
_
No
_
No
_
_
_
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
_
_
No
-
No
_
_
_
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
Yes
Ref
H195
Yes
Ref
H1196
No
Yes
Ref
H449
No
Yes
Ref
H730
Yes
Ref
H869
Yes
Ref
H1194
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
_
_
-
-
-
_
_
_
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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No
No
Toxtern
4 Fordholm Road, Hawthorn
Konsley
HO44
HO45
House
568 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn
HO47
Glenferrie Railway Station Complex
No
_
No
House
10 Faircroft Avenue, Glen Iris
HO43
HO46
_
Hawthorn Railway Station Complex
HO42
7 Fordholm Road, Hawthorn
No
Riverton
22 Elm Street, Hawthorn
HO41
St No
_
_
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Mackillop House (Sisters of
Joseph)
13 Havelock Road, Hawthorn
5 Creswick Street, Hawthorn
The Hawthorns
Ross House (formerly Charleville)
Heritage Place
HO40
HO39
HO38
PS
Map
Ref
No
_
No
No
No
_
No
No
_
_
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
_
No
No
No
_
No
No
_
_
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
_
No
No
No
_
No
No
_
_
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
Yes
Ref
H1671
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1566
No
No
Yes
Ref
H457
Yes
Ref
H202
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
_
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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No
No
House
29 Havelock Road, Hawthorn East
House
HO57
HO58
29A Havelock Road, Hawthorn East
No
House
HO56
House
No
_
Rotha
HO54
HO55
No
House
15 Grattan Street, Hawthorn
HO53
29 Harcourt Street, Hawthorn
_
Alloarrno
5 Grattan Street, Hawthorn
No
No
No
No
_
No
_
No
Oxbridge House
Yes
12 Grandview Grove, Hawthorn East
HO51
HO52
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Cottingley
16 Glenroy Road, Hawthorn
580-582 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn
Hawthorn Presbyterian Church
Heritage Place
HO50
HO48
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
_
No
-
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
_
No
_
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H510
No
Yes
Ref
H552
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
_
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 6 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
No
House
HO63
Amendment C178
Police Station and former Court _
House
188 High Street, Kew
HO69
_
Former Kew Post Office
HO68
_
_
No
Yes
National Australia Bank
HO67
_
Boroondara General Cemetery &
_
Springthorpe Memorial & Cussen
Memorial
430-440 High Street, Kew
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO64
3 Henrietta Street, Hawthorn
No
House
No
House
HO61
HO62
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
House
Heritage Place
HO60
HO59
PS
Map
Ref
_
_
No
_
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
_
_
No
_
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
Yes
Ref
H944
Yes
Ref
H885
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ref No H49
& Ref No
H522 & Ref
No H2036
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 7 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
No
_
Wandara
5 Hollingsworth Avenue, Hawthorn
Oxford
HO73
HO74
Amendment C178
No
Shenton, also known as Immigration _
Reception Centre
41 Kinkora Road, Hawthorn
No
No
Talandoon
10-12 Kooyongkoot Road, Hawthorn
Crossakiel
HO77
HO78
HO79
26 Kooyongkoot Road, Hawthorn
_
No
Colinetta
9 Kildare Street, Hawthorn East
HO76
No
No
Yes
House
96 Kilby Road, Kew
No
_
No
HO75
21 Isabella Grove, Hawthorn
Yes
House
3/2 Hodgson Street, Kew
HO72
No
No
No
Waverley
7 Higham Road, Hawthorn East
HO71
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Holy Trinity Church and Vicarage Yes
Heritage Place
HO70
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
_
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
_
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
Yes
Ref
H788
No
No
Yes
Ref
H196
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
_
-
-
_
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 8 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
Cintra
34 Lisson Grove, Hawthorn
Formerly Austral
Kinvoir
Valetta
HO85
HO86
HO87
HO88
House
HO90
Formerly Roslyn
HO89
No
No
Yes
Maroondah
HO84
_
Glenferrie Oval Grandstand
34 Linda Crescent, Hawthorn
Yes
House
71 Liddiard Street, Hawthorn
HO82
HO83
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
House
Heritage Place
HO81
HO80
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H890
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
_
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 9 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
_
Glenferrie Primary School No. 1508
HO95
Amendment C178
No
_
_
Craignethorn
24-26 Mason Street, Hawthorn
Eyre Court
2 Molesworth Street, Canterbury
Frognall
54 Mont Albert Road, Canterbury
HO97
HO98
HO99
Yes
Carrigal
18-20 Mason Street, Hawthorn
HO96
78-98 Manningtree Road, Hawthorn
No
House
81 Manningtree Road, Hawthorn
No
House
11 Manningtree Road, Hawthorn
HO93
HO94
Yes
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Ivy Grange
3 Malmsbury Street, Kew
12 MacDonald Street, Glen Iris
House
Heritage Place
HO92
HO91
PS
Map
Ref
_
_
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
_
_
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
_
_
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
Yes
Ref
H707
Yes
Ref
H817
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1630
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
_
_
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 10 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Yes
_
Yes
No
Formerly Roseneath
62 Peel Street, Kew
Parlington
46 Parlington Street, Canterbury
Booroke
131 Power Street, Hawthorn
Manor Court Lodge
HO104
HO105
HO106
HO107
Yes
Formerly Ramornie
24 Pakington Street, Kew
HO103
Yes
Formerly Goldthorns
HO102
86 Normanby Road, Kew
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
No
Xavier Preparatory School (formerly _
Studley House, also known as Wren
House)
2 Nolan Avenue, Kew
2 Neave Street, Hawthorn East
The heritage place is the first 5
metres
from
Myrniong Grove,
including the facade of the former
dairy.
Former Dairy
Heritage Place
HO101
HO100
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
_
No
No
No
_
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
_
No
No
No
_
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
_
No
No
No
_
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
Yes
Ref
H731
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Ref No Yes
H789
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
-
-
_
_
-
-
_
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 11 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Amendment C178
No
House
HO115
Road,
Former Robyn Boyd House
664-666
Riversdale
Camberwell
_
No
House
82 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn
HO114
H0116
No
Summerlea
No
7 Summerlea Grove, Hawthorn
Also known as 76 Riversdale Road,
Hawthorn
HO113
No
No
House
HO112
_
No
No
No
No
_
Eyrecourt
_
Auburn Primary School No. 2948
51 Rathmines Road, Hawthorn East
HO110
_
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO111
_
No
Formerly Willsmere Hospital
1-258 Wiltshire Drive, Kew
House
Heritage Place
HO109
HO108
PS
Map
Ref
_
No
No
No
No
No
_
_
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
_
No
No
No
No
No
_
_
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
Yes
Ref
H879
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1707
Yes
Ref
H861
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
_
-
-
-
-
-
_
_
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 12 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
McCartney House
HO117
Amendment C178
No
No
'The Haven' homes for women
2A Station Street, Hawthorn East
HO121
HO122
No
Boatsheds and Boat House, Studley Yes
Park
Studley Park
Kanes footbridge, Studley Park
HO126
HO127
Yes
No
No
House
77 St Helens Road, Hawthorn East
HO125
114 Studley Park Road, Kew
No
No
4A Station Street, Hawthorn East
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO123
4 Station Street, Hawthorn East
No
2 Station Street, Hawthorn East
_
Cullymont
4 Selwyn Street , Canterbury
HO119
HO120
No
Ennis Mount
5 Rosslyn Street, Hawthorn East
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
HO118
19 Rockingham Close, Kew
Heritage Place
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
_
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H811
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
_
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 13 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
_
_
Former Hawthorn Tramways Trust _
Depot
8 Wallen Road, Hawthorn
_
Yes
_
Villa Alba
44 Walmer Street, Kew
Otira
73 Walpole Street, Kew
Jefferies House
HO133
HO134
HO135
HO136
_
No
_
_
Auburn Railway Station Complex
99 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East
No
_
HO132
7 Warwick Avenue, Surrey Hills
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
_
No
_
Yes
_
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
12 Tower Place, Hawthorn East
Kawarau
405 Tooronga Road, Hawthorn
23 Swinton Avenue, Kew
House Swinton
Raheen
Heritage Place
HO131
HO130
HO129
HO128
PS
Map
Ref
_
No
_
_
_
No
_
No
_
Tree
Controls
Apply?
_
No
_
_
_
No
_
No
_
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
Yes
Ref
H461
No
Yes
Ref
H605
Yes
Ref
H876
Yes
Ref
H1559
No
Yes
Ref
H489
No
Yes
Ref
H515
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
_
-
_
_
_
-
_
-
_
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 14 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Includes A’Beckett St (part), Barry St,
Cameron Crt, Fellows St (part),
Fernhurst Gve (part), Holroyd St
(part), Molesworth St (part), Princess
Street (part), Sir William St (part),
Stawell St (part), Studley Ave (part),
Wills St (part).
Barry Street Precinct, Kew
HO143
No
No
Barrington Avenue Precinct, Kew
HO142
No
No
_
_
Zetland
16 Yarra Street, Hawthorn
HO141
Includes
Adeney
Ave
(part),
Barrington Ave, Belmont Ave (part),
Glenferrie Rd (part), Hillcrest Ave
(part), Kent St, Marshall Ave, Park
Hill Rd (part), Ridgeway Ave,
Uvadale Gve.
No
No
House and stable
No
1 and 1A Wiseman Street, Hawthorn
East
Yes
Harelands
5 Willsmere Road, Kew
HO139
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO140
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
60 Wattle Road, Hawthorn
House
Heritage Place
HO138
HO137
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
Yes
Ref
H477
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
_
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 15 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
Fairview Park Precinct, Hawthorn
No
Includes
Fairview
St
(part),
Riversdale Crt (part), Riversdale Rd
(part), Wallen Rd (part).
HO148
No
No
No
Corsewall Close Precinct, Hawthorn No
East
Includes Corsewall Close.
Includes Allen St, Falmouth St, Henry
St (part), Selbourne St (part), William
St (part).
Central Gardens Precinct, Hawthorn
HO147
HO146
Includes Bryson St, Canterbury Rd
(part), Church St, Claremont Cres,
Cross St, Golding St, Highfield Rd
(part), Leeds St, Logan St, Maling Rd
(part), Margaret St, Matlock St (part),
McGregor St, Milton St (part),
Molesworth St, Prospect Hill Rd
(part), Scott St, Short St, Selwyn St,
Theatre Pl, Warburton Rd (part),
Wattle Valley Rd (part), Wilandra
Ave.
No
Maling Road Shopping Centre and No
Residential Environs, Canterbury
HO145
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Burke Road Precinct, Hawthorn East No
Includes Burke Rd (part).
Heritage Place
HO144
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
_
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 16 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove No
Precincts, Hawthorn
Includes Barkers Rd (part), Charles
St, Chrystobel Cr, Clovelly Crt,
Denham St (part), Elgin St (part), Eric
St, Grove Rd (part), Hawthorn Gve,
Hilda Cr, Lennox St (part), Kinkora
Rd, Linda Cres (part), Mary St,
Moore St, Power St (part), Ruby St.
Includes Auburn Rd (part), Barkers
Rd (part), Bayview Ave, Harcourt St
(part), Higham Rd (part), Kildare St
(part), Molesworth St, Rathmines Rd
(part).
Harcourt Street Precinct
Includes Barkers Rd (part), Byron St,
Charles St (part), Coleridge St,
College Pde, College Pl, Cotham Rd
(part), Doona Ave, Edgevale Rd,
Gordon Ave, Glenferrie Rd (part),
Highbury Gve, Lofts Ave (part),
Rossfield Ave (part), Scott St,
Selbourne Rd, St Johns Pde, Stirling
St, Union Street (part), Wellington St
(part).
Glenferrie Road Precinct, Kew
Includes Callantina Rd (part) and
Glenferrie Rd (part).
Glenferrie Hill Precinct, Hawthorn
Heritage Place
HO152
HO151
HO150
HO149
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
_
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 17 OF 58
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Walmer Street Precinct, Kew
No
Includes Ettrick St (part), Hodgson St
(part), Nolan Ave (part), Studley Park
Rd (part), Walmer St.
HO158
No
Oswin Street Precinct, Kew
HO157
Includes Glass St (part), Irymple Ave,
Namur St, Oswin St.
Morang Road Precinct, Hawthorn
No
Includes Evansdale Rd (part),
Morang Rd (part), Rosney Street
(part) Railway Place (part)
HO156
Includes Lyndhurst Cres (part).
Precinct, No
No
No
No
No
Crescent
Lyndhurst
Hawthorn
HO155
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Lower Burke Road Precinct, Glen Iris No
Includes Burke Road (part).
Heritage Place
HO154
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 18 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
Sackville Street Precinct, Kew
HO162
No
No
Ryburne Avenue Precinct, Hawthorn No
East
Includes Harcourt St (part), Kildare St
(part), Rathmines Rd (part), Ryburne
Ave.
HO161
Includes Sackville St (part), Wrixon
St (part).
No
Rathmines Grove Precinct, Hawthorn No
East
Includes Rathmines Gve (part),
Rathmines Rd (part).
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO160
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Prospect
Hill
Road
Precinct, No
Camberwell
Avoca St, Berwick St, Brinsley Rd,
Broadway, Cookson St (part), Craig
Ave, Derby St, Fermanagh Rd, Holly
St, Kasouka Rd, Kingsley St, Kintore
St, Loch St, Lorne Gve, Moorehouse
St, Palmerston St, Prospect Hill Rd
(part), Riversdale Rd (part), Royal
Cres, Russell St, Sefton Pl, Stanhope
Gve, Thorn St, Trafalgar Rd, Victoria
Rd, Wandin Rd, Waterloo St, East
Camberwell Railway Station.
Heritage Place
HO159
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
_
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 19 OF 58
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
House
27 Balwyn Road, Canterbury
HO168
39 Avenue Athol, Canterbury
House
HO166
Yes
Yes
Johns Yes
Wanganella (formerly St
Wood)
8 Aird Street, Camberwell
HO165
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Leslie Street Precinct, Hawthorn
No
Includes Leslie St.
Urquhart Estate, Hawthorn
Includes The Boulevard (part), Elmie
St (part), Goodall St (part), Lyall St
(part),
Swinburne
Ave
(part),
Urquhart St.
Oxley Road Precinct, Hawthorn
Includes Burwood Rd (part), Camden
Rd, Dean Ave, Edlington St (part),
Elmie St (part), Goodall St (part),
Hepburn St, Kent St, Launder St,
Lyall St (part), Minona St, Oxley Rd,
Paterson St, St Columbs St, Auburn
Road (part).
Includes Burwood Rd (part), Coppin
Gve, Isabella Gve, Shakespeare
Gve, Wyuna Ave, Yarra St (part).
St James Park Estate, Hawthorn
Heritage Place
HO164
HO163
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
_
Yes
Yes
Yes
-
-
-
No, except for the
vicarage
building of the
St.
Columbs
Church at 448
Burwood Road,
Hawthorn
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 20 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
Yes
House
31 Canterbury Road, Canterbury
House
Yes
10 Donna Buang Street, Camberwell
Wiora
21 Irilbarra Road, Canterbury
House
3 Kalonga Road, Balwyn North
HO172
HO174
HO175
HO176
No
Formerly Linda House
Yes
Strip of land width 15 metres, from
Canterbury Road to ‘Linda’ centred
on building, 2.5 metres setback from
north and west of building and 15
metres setback from east of building.
Yes
Yes
No
No
HO171
Yes
House
6 Bulleen Road, Balwyn North
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO170
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Fintona Girls School (formerly Yes
Tourmont)
79 Balwyn Road, Balwyn
Applies to front area to ‘Tourmont’,
i.e. driveway, 10 metres from
northern edge of the building, 3.5
metres setback west side of the
building, and 2 metres setback from
the south boundary of the building.
Heritage Place
HO169
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 21 OF 58
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Astolat
630 Riversdale Road, Camberwell
Flats
7 Rochester Road, Canterbury
House
9 Rochester Road, Canterbury
House
HO183
HO184
HO185
HO187
House
Yes
15 Walbundry Avenue, Balwyn North
HO189
Stargazer House
1/2 Taurus Street, Balwyn North
HO188
Yes
Yes
Travencore (formerly Stanmore)
HO182
23 Sunnyside Avenue, Camberwell
Yes
House
16 Muswell Hill, Glen Iris
HO180
Alzheimer Society of Victoria (House) Yes
HO179
-
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Residence, formerly Colinton
43 Kireep Road, Balwyn
House
Heritage Place
HO178
HO177
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1399
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 22 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Yes
House
1 Fellows Street, Kew and
Princess Street, Kew
HO195
99
Yes
Neville
46 Fellows Street, Kew
HO194
No
No
No
(formerly Yes
Campion
Dalswaith)
HO193
College
No
Reid Estate, Balwyn
No
Includes Barnsbury Rd (part),
Belmont Ave (part), Bowley Ave,
Chatfield Ave, Crest Ave, Highton
Gve, Lydia St (part), Maleela Ave
(part), Myambert Ave, Oakdale Ave,
Palm Gve, Parkside Ave (part),
Pelham Pl (part), Ruhbank Ave,
Salisbury St (part), Walsh St (part).
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO192
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Hassett’s Estate, Camberwell
No
Includes Alta St, Catherine St, Cooba
St, Dorothea St, Elphin Gve (part),
Hassett Ave, Griotte St, Quantock St,
Maysia St, Prospect Hill Rd (part),
Riversdale Rd (part).
42 Warrigal Road, Surrey Hills
Medlow
Heritage Place
HO191
HO190
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
_
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 23 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Yes
Formerly Melrose
HO202
Amendment C178
Yes
Yes
Formerly Tarring
12 Selbourne Road, Kew (part)
Evangeline
HO206
HO207
15 Hawthorn Grove, Hawthorn
Yes
Formerly Mount View
12 Selbourne Road, Kew (part)
HO205
No
No
No
No
Methodist Ladies College (Main Yes
Block, Assembly Hall, Resource
Centre)
HO204
No
Yes
Comaques
896 Glenferrie Road, Kew
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO203
Yes
Butleigh Wootton
Yes
RSL (formerly Wilton)
63 Cotham Road, Kew
HO200
HO201
Yes
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
33 Uvadale Grove, Kew
5 Molesworth Street, Kew
Mynda
Heritage Place
HO198
HO196
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 24 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
Yes
Yes
Monda
52 Prospect Hill Road, Canterbury
Fairholme
HO214
HO215
Baldene
10 Sefton Place, Camberwell
HO217
Beechfield
21 Trafalgar Road, Camberwell
HO216
Yes
Yes
-
Tay Creggan (Strathcona Baptist Girls School)
HO213
No
No
No
No
Former Augustine Congregational Yes
Church
492-500 Burwood Road, Hawthorn
HO212
35 Prospect Hill Road, Canterbury
No
Malling Yes
No
Auburn House (formerly
Grove)
4 Goodall Street, Hawthorn
Yes
Terrick Terricks
11 Paterson Street, Hawthorn
HO210
-
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO211
-
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Auburn Uniting Church Complex
79A-91 Oxley Road, Hawthorn
38 Hawthorn Grove, Hawthorn
House
Heritage Place
HO209
HO208
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
-
No
No
No
-
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
-
No
No
No
-
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H2210
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H2034
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 25 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Amendment C178
Coorinyah
Yes
Yes
Villa Maria
HO223
HO224
_
_
Former Hawthorn Fire Station
66-68 William Street, Hawthorn
HO222
No
No
No
Uniting Church and Uniting Church Yes
Hall
21-25 Highbury Grove, Kew
HO221
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
West Hawthorn Precinct
No
Includes Barkers Rd, Barton St,
Brook St (part), Burwood Rd (part),
Church St (part), College St, Colvin
Gve, Connell St, Creswick St (part),
Denham St (part), Edgerton St, Elgin
St (part), Fashoda St, Grove Rd
(part), Hill St, Honour Ave, Lennox St
(part), Lion St, Mason St (part),
Melville St, Simpson Pl, Smart St,
Spencer St, Randolph St, Wood St.
2 Nolan Avenue, Kew (part)
Xavier Preparatory School (formerly Yes
Waverley)
House
Heritage Place
HO220
HO219
HO218
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
_
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1327
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
_
-
-
_
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 26 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Amendment C178
Toorak Estate and Environs, Glen Iris No
Includes Burke Rd (part), Howitt St,
Nepean St (part), Turner St (part).
HO230
No
No
No
Ross Street Precinct, Surrey Hills
HO229
Ross Street, Surrey Hills
No
Holyrood Estate and Environs, No
Camberwell
Includes Dominic St, Highfield Rd
(part), Holyrood St, Hunter Rd (part),
Riversdale Rd (part), Wattle Valley
Rd (part).
No
HO228
Somerset
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
Great Glen Iris Railway Junction No
Estate and Environs, Ashburton
Includes Dent St (part), Highgate
Gve, Lexia St, Ward St.
Goodwin Street (part),
Road (part), Glen Iris.
Goodwin Street and Somerset Road No
Precinct, Glen Iris
Fairview Avenue
Fairview Avenue Precinct, Burwood
Heritage Place
HO227
HO226
HO225
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
_
-
_
_
_
_
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 27 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Yes
Yes
Yes
Formerly Pomeroy
43 Sackville Street, Kew
Carn Brae
5 Harcourt Street, Hawthorn East
Wembden
HO234
HO235
HO236
Yes
Yes
Ensignton
House
HO238
HO239
37 Mary Street, Hawthorn
Yes
House
HO237
Yes
Westella
39 Kinkora Road, Hawthorn
HO233
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
57 Cotham Road, Kew
House
HO232
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Riverside Estate and Environs, No
Balwyn North
Includes Bulleen Rd (part), Burke Rd
(part), Cascade St (part), Doncaster
Rd (part), Inverness Way, Kyora Pde,
Riverside Ave (part), The Boulevard
(part), Walbundry Ave.
Heritage Place
HO231
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 28 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
Yes
Glucksburg
Talana
Yes
(sometimes known as 27 Auburn
Road, Hawthorn)
Murtoa (formerly Lexinton)
HO246
HO247
HO248
No
Yes
House
31 Shakespeare Grove, Hawthorn
HO245
Yes
No
Yes
Avon Court
HO244
No
No
-
Hawthorn House (formerly Richmond Yes
House)
-
Cestria
HO242
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO243
Yes
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
8 Moore Street, Hawthorn
53-55 Mary Street, Hawthorn
Alverno
Heritage Place
HO241
HO240
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
-
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1924
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 29 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Shrublands Residence
16 Balwyn Road, Canterbury
Auburn Village Precinct, Hawthorn No
Includes 96-152 & 87-137 Auburn
Road, and 549-669 & 574-608
Burwood Road, Hawthorn
HO258
HO260
Amendment C178
-
No
Mountfield
4-6 Mont Albert Road,and
Parlington Street, Canterbury
HO257
35
No
168A Mont Albert Road, Canterbury
-
Genazzano FCJ College
285-315 Cotham Road, Kew
HO252
HO255
-
Yes
Clemson House
24 Milfay Avenue, Kew
186-190 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
Kyverdale
Heritage Place
HO251
HO249
PS
Map
Ref
No
-
No
No
-
-
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
-
Yes
Yes
-
-
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
-
No
No
-
-
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
Yes – Ref. Yes
No.
H2037
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1902
Yes
Ref
H2006
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
-
-
PAGE 30 OF 58
No
No
“Mountfield”
No
Estate
Incorporated
Plan,
March
2005 (updated
September
2011)
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Glenwood, No
Former Carn Brae,
Wrixon House
Eurobin
HO272
HO273
Former Kew Fire Station
35-37 Belford Road, Kew East
HO274
No
House
HO271
No
No
No
Balwyn Road Residential Precinct
HO264
No
Camberwell Railway Station
2R Cookson Street, Camberwell
H0263
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Hawthorn Catholic Parish Office; No
Roman Catholic Church of the
Immaculate Conception
345 Burwood Road, Hawthorn and
HO262
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Commercial
Building;
The No
Undertaker; Former Masonic Hall
319, 329 and 331 Burwood Road,
Hawthorn
Heritage Place
HO261
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
-
-
-
-
-
PAGE 31 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
Camberwell
No
Railway Station
Incorporated
Plan 2007
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
House
1205 Burke Road, Kew
Gosmont
Carbethon
E A Watts House
House
46 Clyde Street, East Kew
House
HO279
HO280
HO281
HO282
HO283
HO284
Tanfield Lee Flats
No
No
Sheringham Flats
HO287
HO288
No
House
HO285
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
1 Bradford Avenue, Kew
House
Heritage Place
HO278
HO277
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 32 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
House
HO298
No
No
House
2 Gellibrand Street, Kew
House
6 Gellibrand Street, Kew
House
HO303
HO304
HO307
No
No
House
20 Fernhurst Grove, Kew
HO300
77 Gladstone Street, Kew
No
Ashcapby
162 Eglinton Street, Kew
HO299
No
No
Former Mount Ephraim, Edgecombe, No
Mount Edgecombe
26 Edgecombe Street, Kew
HO297
9 Eglinton Street, Kew
No
No
House
2 Daracombe Avenue, Kew
HO293
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Cotham
HO291
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
El Paso
Elsfield
Heritage Place
HO290
HO289
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 33 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 155 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
House
2 Howard Street, Kew
House
House
Hermon
2 John Street, Kew
House
16 John Street, Kew
Lodge House
HO314
HO315
HO317
HO318
HO319
HO320
Former R Haughton James House
No
No
Townhouses
HO325
HO326
No
Darley
2 Merrion Grove, Kew
HO321
24 Lister Street, East Kew
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
53 Harp Road, East Kew
12 Grange Road, Kew
House
Heritage Place
HO309
HO308
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 34 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 156 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
Terrace Houses
66-68 Pakington Street, Kew
Glen Rose
Allathorn
Waverley
Itzehoe
72 Peel Street, Kew
Stawell and Princess
HO329
HO330
HO331
HO332
HO333
HO334
Church
of
England No
34 Rowland Street, Kew
St Hilary’s
Vicarage
No
Howard Pettigrew House
21 Redmond Street, Kew
HO337
HO338
No
Inverkelty, later Kiora and Baroona
11 Redmond Street, Kew
HO336
33-35 Princess Street, Kew
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Kloa, Formerly Castleman
17 O’Shaughnessy Street, Kew
House
Heritage Place
HO328
HO327
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 35 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 157 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
House
34 Stevenson Street, Kew
R G Lawrence House and Flats
13 Studley Avenue, Kew
Krongold House
House
House
House
HO341
HO342
HO343
HO344
HO345
HO346
House and Shop
1 Tennyson Street, Kew
No
No
House
12 Tara Avenue, Kew
HO348
HO349
No
House
HO347
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Monte Cristo, Charleton, Charlstan
12 Stevenson Street, Kew
3 Second Avenue, Kew
House
Heritage Place
HO340
HO339
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 36 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 158 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
Birralie
House
Alice Bale House
House
Braeside
House
HO352
HO353
HO354
HO355
HO356
HO357
Thule Croft
24 Albion Street, Surrey Hills
No
No
Rab-Nov-Jea
10 Wimba Avenue, Kew
HO363
HO364
No
Bramber
47 Wills Street, Kew
HO362
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Ormonde
14 Vista Avenue, Kew
Myrtle Hill
Heritage Place
HO351
HO350
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 37 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 159 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
House
33-35 Alma Road, Camberwell
Glenholm, Ngarwee
36-38 Alma Road, Camberwell
Rathmore, Rokeby
78 Athelstan Road, Camberwell
House
2 Beatrice Street, Glen Iris
House
87-87A Bowen Street, Camberwell
House
HO367
HO368
HO369
HO370
HO371
HO372
Ericstane
No
No
Coolattie
29 Canterbury Road, Camberwell
HO374
HO375
No
House
458 Camberwell Road, Camberwell
HO373
930-932 Burke Road, Deepdene
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Thomas Gaggin House
25 Alma Road, Camberwell
15 Alma Road, Camberwell
Elderslie
Heritage Place
HO366
HO365
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 38 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 160 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
Ospringe
24 Chaucer Crescent, Canterbury
House
44 Currajong Avenue, Camberwell
Mallow
33 Deepdene Road, Balwyn
Xanadu
119 Doncaster Road, North Balwyn
Ingoda
10 Fitzgerald Street, Balwyn
House
HO380
HO381
HO382
HO383
HO384
HO385
Westrailia
27 Inglesby Road, Camberwell
No
No
House
30 Howard Street, Glen Iris
HO387
HO388
No
House
32 Hortense Street, Glen Iris
HO386
177 Glen Iris Road, Glen Iris
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House and Surgery
House
Heritage Place
HO377
HO376
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 39 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 161 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
Shenley Croft
7-9 Mangarra Road, Canterbury
House
91 Maud Street, North Balwyn
House
1 Montana Street, Glen Iris
Roystead
Highton
Haselmere
HO391
HO392
HO393
HO394
HO395
HO396
House
No
No
House
7 Muriel Street, Glen Iris
HO398
HO400
No
House
HO397
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Colongulac
11 Luena Road, North Balwyn
6 Kitchener Street, Balwyn
House
Heritage Place
HO390
HO389
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 40 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 162 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
House
HO406
No
No
Kirklands
89 Union Road, Surrey Hills
Gooloowan
7 Victoria Avenue, Canterbury
Tarawara/Tarawera
HO409
HO411
HO412
No
No
House
1/1297 Toorak Road, Camberwell
HO408
No
House
1293 Toorak Road, Camberwell
HO407
No
House
HO405
No
House
HO404
No
Kinnoul
11-15 The Avenue, Surrey Hills
No
HO403
Road,
No
Riversdale
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
626-628
Camberwell
Warrawee
Heritage Place
HO402
HO401
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 41 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 163 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
Warranbine
HO418
Banff
150 Winmalee Road, Balwyn
No
No
No
House
127 Winmalee Road, Balwyn
HO421
HO422
No
Pontefract House
No
2
Hardwicke
Street,
Balwyn
(sometimes
known
as
199
Whitehorse Road, Balwyn)
HO420
No
No
No
House
136 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn
No
No
No
HO419
125 Wattle Valley Road, Camberwell
No
House
452 Warrigal Road, Ashburton
HO417
No
House
HO416
294 Warrigal Road, Glen Iris
No
The Knoll
50 Wandsworth Road, Surrey Hills
HO415
No
No
No
Guilford (Monserrat)
26A Wandsworth Road, Surrey Hills
HO414
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House (formerly Surrey College, No
Norton)
12 Vincent Street, Surrey Hills
Heritage Place
HO413
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 42 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
17/08/15
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Page 164 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
House
7 Elphin Grove, Hawthorn
Struan
Warrowitur
1 Neave Street, Hawthorn East
Rathgar
149 Victoria Road, Hawthorn East
Knottywood, Morley
Avenel, later Tower House
HO425
HO426
HO427
HO428
HO429
HO430
House
No
No
Norwood
14 Auburn Grove, Hawthorn East
HO432
HO433
No
House
4 Ardene Court, Hawthorn
HO431
27 Anderson Road, Hawthorn East
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Streamshall (or Stramshall)
41-45 Yarrbat Avenue, Balwyn
Idlewylde, Mary’s Mount
Heritage Place
HO424
HO423
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 43 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
17/08/15
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Page 165 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
House
Euroma
HO440
HO441
Springfield
HO444
No
No
No
No
The Gables
HO443
No
Victoria
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO442
No
Devonia
HO439
No
Houses
HO437
238, 240, 242 & 244 Barkers Road,
Hawthorn
No
No
Mount Gambier
Road,
HO436
Auburn
No
191B
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
191A &
Hawthorn
House
Heritage Place
HO435
HO434
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 44 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
17/08/15
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Page 166 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
Coolagong, Kimbolton
6 Brook Street, Hawthorn
Berwyn Flats
7 Glenroy Road, Hawthorn
House
15 Hastings Road, Hawthorn East
Frederick House
27 Illawarra Road, Hawthorn
Wexham, Inverary
Glenagh, Brockley
HO447
HO450
HO452
HO453
HO454
HO455
House
No
No
Lennox Court, Park Court
11 Lennox Street, Hawthorn
HO457
HO458
No
House
HO456
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
Berniston
Heritage Place
HO446
HO445
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 45 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
No
No
House
17 Mason Street, Hawthorn
White Lodge
27 Mason Street, Hawthorn
St Andrews, Edradour
37 Mayston Street, Hawthorn East
Alvah, Illawarra, Berwick
Essington House
Tasma
HO461
HO462
HO463
HO464
HO465
HO466
Hirschell, Ilfracombe, Cora Lynn
No
No
Rosedale, Fairmount Park
25 Oak Street, Hawthorn
HO468
HO469
No
Stanmore
19 Oak Street, Hawthorn
HO467
7 Muir Street, Hawthorn
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Hallbower
Prospect House
Heritage Place
HO460
HO459
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 46 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
No
Glendale, Cleverdon House
106 & 108 Riversdale
Hawthorn
Spreydon, Westley House
HO474
HO475
No
No
No
Noorat
534 Tooronga Road, Hawthorn East
Norrac
23 View Street, Hawthorn
Surrey and Loyola
73 & 75 Wattle Road, Hawthorn
HO477
HO478
HO479
No
House
6 Summerlea Grove, Hawthorn
HO476
No
No
Wanbuno
HO473
No
House
HO472
Road,
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Leongatha
20 Rae Street, Hawthorn
House
Heritage Place
HO471
HO470
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 47 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
_
_
Wallen Road Bridge
Wallen Road, Hawthorn
Dights Mill Site
HO487
HO488
Off Yarra Boulevard, Kew
_
Maternal and Child Health Centre
21 Strathalbyn Street, Kew East
HO486
Princess Street, Kew
Former
Kew
Cottages
Residential Services)
(Kew _
_
Tram Verandah Shelter
HO484
HO485
_
St Marks Anglican Church
HO483
Cotham Road, Kew
_
Rivoli Theatre
_
200 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn
East
HO482
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Hawthorn Bridge
Burwood Road, Hawthorn
Barkers Road, Kew
Victoria Bridge
Heritage Place
HO481
HO480
PS
Map
Ref
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
Tree
Controls
Apply?
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
_
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H1522
Yes
Ref
H380
No
No
Yes
Ref No H55
Yes
Ref
H2073
Yes
Ref
H173
Yes
Ref
H2158
Yes
Ref
H1524
Yes
Ref No H50
Yes
Ref
H374
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
_
_
-
_
_
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 48 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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Page 170 of 315
City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Precinct, No
No
Camberwell
Melbourne
& Yes
Metropolitan Tram Board (MMTB)
Depot
160-170 Camberwell Road and 1214 Council Street, Hawthorn East
HO497
No
No
West Hawthorn Village Precinct
Includes Burwood Road (part)
No
HO494
Includes Manningtree Road (part)
Road
Manningtree
Hawthorn
HO493
No
Lisson Grove Precinct, Hawthorn
Includes Lisson Grove (part)
HO492
No
No
Glenferrie
Road
Commercial No
Precinct, Hawthorn
Includes Glenferrie Road (part),
Burwood Road (part) and Lynch
Street (part), 1 Alfred Street, 2A
Bowen Street, 2 Liddiard Street,
Wakefield Street (part).
HO491
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Swinburne Technical College, former No
Administrative Building
John Street, Hawthorn
Includes Burwood Road (part)
Burwood Road Precinct, Hawthorn
Heritage Place
HO490
HO489
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 49 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Camberwell Civic and Community Yes
Precinct
HO506
No
No
Burke Road North Commercial and Yes
Transport Precinct, Camberwell
HO505
Includes Auburn Parade (part), Burke
Road (part) and Cookson Street
(part).
No
Dillon’s Building
Yes
493-503
Riversdale
Road,
Camberwell (also numbered 554-564
Burke Road, Camberwell)
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO503
432 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn East
Yes
Baptist Church
Yes
Yes
HO502
Road,
Road,
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Simpson’s Buildings
Yes
222-232
Camberwell
Road,
Hawthorn East (also numbered 481491 Riversdale Road Hawthorn East)
217-223
Camberwell
Hawthorn East
Pepperell’s Buildings
202-210
Camberwell
Hawthorn East
Charing Cross Buildings
Heritage Place
HO500
HO499
HO498
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 50 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Yes
No
14-16 Princess Street, Kew
Alexandra Gardens
HO522
HO523
Amendment C178
Denmark Street Precinct, Kew
No
Includes Barkers Road (part),
Denmark Street (part), Foley Street
(part), O’Shaughnessy Street (part)
HO526
Clutha Estate Precinct, Kew
No
Includes Edgecombe Steet (part),
Carson Street (part), Stevenson
Street (part), Studley Park Road
(part), Mackie Court, Younger Court
HO525
70 Cotham Road, Kew
Kew Junction Commercial Heritage No
Precinct
Includes properties (in part) with
frontages to High Street, Cotham
Road and Fenton Way.
HO520
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
420 Camberwell Road, Camberwell
(Camberwell Sports Ground,
including the 1920s and 1930s
grandstands)
Heritage Place
HO516
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 51 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Masonic Centre
12 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell
HO539
No
Union Road Commercial Heritage No
Precinct
HO532
Yes
No
Yarra Boulevard Precinct, Kew
No
Includes Belvedere, Cameron Court,
Carnsworth Avenue, Milfay Avenue,
White Lodge Court, Yarra Street,
Dunlop Avenue, Fenwick Street
(part),
Holroyd
Street
(part),
Molesworth Street (part), Stawell
Street (part), Studley Avenue (part),
Yarravale Road (part), of Hume
Street (part)
HO530
No
Queen Street Precinct, Kew
No
Includes Fenton Avenue (part),
Gellibrand Street (part), Queen
Street (part), Wellington Street (part)
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO529
No
Howard Street Precinct, Kew
Includes Howard Street (part)
HO528
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
High Street South Residential No
Precinct, Kew
Includes High Street (part), Barkers
Road (part), Bowen Street (part),
Henry Street, Miller Grove
Heritage Place
HO527
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
-
No
No
No
No
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 52 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
_
St Faiths Anglican Church
8 Charles Street Glen Iris
Kew War Memorial
High Street and Cotham Road Kew
HO571
HO572
Amendment C178
No
No
HO579* 17 Bristol Street, Surrey Hills
#17
Robert Cochrane Kindergarten
2A Minona Street, Hawthorn
Union Road Residential Precinct
Part of Union Road, Surrey Hills
HO580
HO534
No
HO578* 196 Union Road, Surrey Hills
#16
No
No
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
HO573* 233 Mont Albert Road, Surrey Hills
#12
_
_
_
Former Hawthorn Motor Garage
735 Glenferrie Road Hawthorn
3 Rochester Road Canterbury
Emulation Hall
Heritage Place
HO570
HO561
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
_
_
_
_
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
_
_
_
_
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
_
_
_
_
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
Yes Ref No No
H2309
No
No
No
Yes
Ref
H2035
Yes
Ref
H2254
Yes
Ref
H2296
Yes
Ref
H2298
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
-
-
-
No
-
-
-
-
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 53 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Former Hawthorn Returned Sailors Yes
and Soldiers Club
Shops
Dental Surgery
House
Kew Tram Depot
55-75 Barkers Road, Kew
HO542
HO543
HO544
HO546
HO547
Former Hawthorn Post Office
HO541
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Canterbury Hill Estate Precinct
No
Part of Albert, Bristol, Compton,
Hocknell and Queen streets; part of
Highfield, Prospect Hill, Riversdale
and Wattle Valley roads, in Surrey
Hills, Canterbury and Camberwell
HO536
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Surrey Hills North Residential No
Precinct
Part of Chatham, Croydon, Empress,
Guildford, Junction, Kingston, Mont
Albert, Sir Garnet and West roads;
part of Sunbury Crescent, in Surrey
Hills and Canterbury
Heritage Place
HO535
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 54 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
& No
House
House
110 Princess Street, Kew
House
52 Fellows Street, Kew
HO554
HO555
HO556
HO559
HO563
HO588* 27 Canterbury Road, Camberwell
#20
HO589* Former State Savings Bank
Residence
#20
1395 Toorak Rd, Camberwell
HO590* Grange Avenue Residential Precinct
2-10 Grange Avenue, Canterbury
#20
No
House
Kew Jewish Centre (Bet Nachman No
Synagogue)
Yes
House
50 High Street, Kew
HO553
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Shop
2 High Street, Kew
HO552
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Heritage Place
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 55 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
17/08/15
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City of Boroondara
Yes
HO594* Former Astolat Ladies’ College
59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn East
#20
Amendment C178
No
No
No
No
HO596* Former butcher's shop and residence No
#20
287-289 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
No
No
HO597* Gallery House
23 Morang Road, Hawthorn
#20
HO598* Makin House
45 Morang Road, Hawthorn
#20
No
HO599* Tower Hotel
686-690 Burwood Road, Hawthorn
#20
East
No
HO595* Riversdale Hotel
No
277 Auburn Road, Hawthorn (to the
#20
extent of the footprint of the threestorey hotel and the two-storey
addition to the east end of the
Riversdale Road frontage, i.e. the
1888 extent of the property)
No
No
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
HO593* Former Deepdene Post Office
#20
165 Whitehorse Road, Deepdene
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
No
Heritage Place
Canterbury
Brickworks No
HO592* Former
housing
#20
52-58 Rochester Road, Canterbury
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes,
two No
Norfolk Island
PinesNo
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 56 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
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City of Boroondara
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
Amendment C178
Yes
HO605
#29
House
46 Rowland Street, Kew
Yes
No
HO607* 1363 Burke Road, Kew
#20
HO613
#29
No
HO604* Austin Bramwell Smith House
8 Orford Avenue, Kew
#20
House
15 Deepdene Road, Deepdene
No
HO603* Timber Shop
#20
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
HO602* 5 Eamon Court, Kew
#20
No
Internal
Alteration
Controls
Apply?
Yes (due to No
retention
of
limewash;
when
repainting
limewash
should
be
used
on
cement/concr
ete surfaces)
Former G Nissel & Co (Aust) Pty Ltd Yes
factory
4A Montrose Street, Hawthorn East
Heritage Place
HO601* Herborn House
88 Pleasant Road, Hawthorn East
#20
HO600
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Tree
Controls
Apply?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Outbuildings
or fences
which are not
exempt under
Clause
43.01-3
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Included
on the
Victorian
Heritage
Register
under the
Heritage
Act 1995?
No
No
No
No
NoYes
No
No
No
Prohibited
uses may be
permitted?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Name of
Incorporated
Plan under
Clause
43.01-2
PAGE 57 OF 58
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal
heritage
place?
17/08/15
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City of Boroondara
Amendment C178
Houses
29 & 31 Parkhill Road, Kew
House
7 Leura Grove, Hawthorn East
HO619
#29
HO620
#29
House
No
23-25 and part of 27 (TP 129339)
Canterbury Road, Camberwell
HO617
#29
Yes
No
Yes
House
203 Doncaster Road, North Balywn
HO616
#29
Yes
External
Paint
Controls
Apply?
House
Heritage Place
HO614
#29
PS
Map
Ref
No
No
No
No
No
Internal
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A new building on the corner of Burke and Rathmines Roads was recorded in 1906, the
owner being C. Goodridge of Wattletree Road, Malvern. The designing architect is
unknown. A new owner, Henry C. Colville of 244 Burke Road was listed in 1931. 1
Since construction the building and front fence have undergone minor alterations. The
dwelling received a single storey extension to the east and west elevation in and around
1990.
Garden designer and writer, Edna Walling prepared a plan for the garden in 1928. A
1
MMBW House Service Cover No. 52311 (1905-1931), as cited in Gould, 1992
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copy of this plan ‘Proposed Design for Garden Doctor H. C Colville’ is held by the State
Library Victoria.2 Walling is widely regarded as the pre-eminent garden designer in
Australia in the early to mid-Twentieth Century, and is known to have designed between
300 and 400 gardens (although not all were implemented), of which many have been
lost.
The c.1928 Walling plan clearly shows the retention of the front brick and iron fence as
well as a number of pre-existing trees, suggesting that an earlier garden( probably
established c.1906) pre-dated the Walling design. The design prepared for Dr. Colville is
a good example of Walling’s designs for suburban residential gardens in the late 1920s
and 1930s. The design is well structured around a series of garden rooms with differing
characters (more and less formally arranged), linked by flag stepping stone paths.
Utilitarian structures and areas were integrated into the design at the rear of the
residence, and a large portion of garden was devoted to sweeping lawns and specimen
trees. The whole was enclosed with a tapestry hedge (comprising Shining and
Variegated Privet, Viburnum and Photinia) which utilised and built on the privacy afforded
by the existing brick fence.
Evidence of the garden layout and plantings stipulated in Walling’s 1928 design survived
in the front garden at the subject site until at least 2012. The original plan prepared by
Walling in 1928 provided a garden design for the whole site, although most of the design
at the rear of the site had been lost by 2012. By the end of 2014, works on site have
removed much of the original Walling garden at the front of the house. Surviving
elements include some of the original Photinia plantings from the tapestry hedge, some
bluestone pitcher garden edging, a specimen of Shining Privet on the corner of the
residence, and a Crabapple, located adjacent to the brick fence on the Rathmines Road
frontage.
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Arden is a very large Queen Anne house with substantial land coverage to the ground
floor and an extensive attic storey. The design addresses both Burke Road and
Rathmines Road with prominent gable end treatment, and, a strong corner emphasis via
a splayed gable to the corner verandah.
The strong Queen Anne character is overlaid by some Art Nouveau inspired
embellishment on the verandah valence, verandah balustrade and the cast iron to the
fence. The walls are the "regulation" red brick, embellished only by render string courses.
Gable ends are half timbered, the roof is terracotta tiled with particularly fancy ridge
capping. The property is enhanced by an original brick and cast iron fence.
The building presents in good condition, although some minor structural and damp issues
are noted.
The timber annex to the eastern extension was constructed between 1988 and 1991 and
adopts the Art Nouveau stylistic attributes of the building.3 The single storey western
elevation was constructed c1990s in a matching style to the original building. Other minor
alterations include: replacement of original glass with laminated glass (windows facing
Rathmines Road); insertion of modern roof lights (north and south roof slopes); insertion
of full length windows in lieu of doors (living accommodation); and the insertion of new
external doors (north elevation).
2
Edna Walling Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria, ‘Proposed garden design for Doctor H. C
Colville”
3
Yarra Valley Water. Plan No. 52311.
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Alterations to the front fence include the rippled iron to the back face of the boundary
treatment; rebuilt splayed corner gate pillar and replacement gate.
Gardens surround the residence on its north, east and south sides. To the west is a
large modern tennis court, and on the northern boundary there is a modern garage and
swimming pool. It is clear that the Walling design has been entirely lost at the rear (west)
of the residence, and to a large degree to the north of the site. The garden at the front
(east and south) of the residence fronting Rathmines Road and Burke Road retains only
limited elements of the original Walling design, including some of the original plantings of
the tapestry hedge, a portion of bluestone pitcher garden edging, one specimen of
Shining Privet on the corner of the residence, and a Crabapple, located adjacent to the
brick fence on the Rathmines Road frontage. The integrity of the c.1928 garden is
compromised, and the context of the remaining elements is lost.
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The house
Ussher and Kemp were at the forefront of the development of the domestic Queen Anne
in Melbourne and Australia. Early buildings such as Campion College (former Dalwraith)
of 1906 (Studley Park Road, Kew), and Woodlands of 1888 (Woodlands Street,
Essendon) were instrumental in the development of the style to suit the typical suburban
form which reached its peak in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Ussher's work falls into two categories, the gabled design - usually a two storey form, and
the hipped design where gables on two co-ordinate points project from an overall hip usually a single storey form. In general, Ussher's largest houses, e.g. Dalwraith in Kew of
1906, adopt the gabled designs. These houses fall into the mansion category. It is the
single storey designs, which usually apply to large houses rather than mansions, which
have developed into the distinctive Australian style, Queen Anne domestic, and which
were the most popular in the first decade of the twentieth century, e.g. Hedges
Residence, 1897 in Canterbury and Clarke's Residence in Toorak of 1897. Ussher joined
with Kemp and developed the style with the characteristic features of tiled hipped roofs,
timber verandah decorations, and a strongly three dimensional form with a corner
emphasis.
Several key practitioners worked within the style. Ussher and Kemp, WaIter Butler,
Christopher Cowper amongst others. The early development occurs in the last decade of
the nineteenth century culminating in the first decade of the twentieth century. The key
practitioners were widely copied by builders up to the First World War.
The Queen Anne style, combined with some of the principals of Australian homestead
planning and design, around the turn of the century, produced a new suburban style
continuing to the end of W. W. 1. Sometimes loosely referred to as "Edwardian" or
"Federation" it is more appropriately referred to as "Garden Bungalow", because it does
not relate just to the period around Federation at 1901, and because it is intimately
related to the garden suburb concept. What sets the "garden bungalow" and "Queen
Anne domestic" apart from the other red brick styles of the period is a purposeful and
close relationship with the garden as the dominant feature. A variety of decorative forms
are used within this framework. The "garden bungalow" eventually developed into the
ubiquitous Californian Bungalow of the 1920s and 1930s.
The "domestic Queen Anne" had an ongoing influence on vernacular designs which can
be seen up to the 1960s. The domestic Queen Anne buildings which survive from the
turn of the century had a vital role in the development of the urban form of metropolis.
The architect for the residence has not been determined. It shows some of Christopher
Cowper’s design traits, but the complexity of the roof suggests a different designer. This
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building is atypical for Queen Anne in its overwhelming emphasis of the corner. The
incorporation of the entry here is particularly unusual, as is the small verandah for a
hipped roof design type. These changes are a direct response to the prominent corner
site, and the unusually elaborate fence also reflects this siting. Despite the high site
coverage, the attention to a public address on both frontages, the use of a hedge and the
increased garden area achieved by cutting of the corner, have combined to retain a
strong sense of the house in a garden setting.
The garden
Although Edna Walling prepared a number of garden designs for places in Kew,
Hawthorn, Balwyn, Surrey Hills and Camberwell, none of these are included on the
Schedule to the Heritage Overlay of the Boroondara Planning Scheme.
Other gardens which are known to have been designed by Walling in Boroondara
include the Whale Garden in Camberwell (1937), ‘Silver Birches’ in Balwyn (1936), the
Craymer Garden, Winmallee Road, Balwyn (1932) and the Freiberg Garden, 26
Yarravale Road, Kew (1960) (Olsen, 2003). Of these, only the Freiberg Garden (an
example of Walling’s post World War Two work) is known to survive with any level of
integrity within the municipality. That garden represents Walling’s later style and interest
where her designs favoured predominately native plantings.
A keyword search in the HERMES database (administered by Heritage Victoria) for
‘Edna Walling’ in all places located in the City of Boroondara yielded one place (20 Yarra
St, Kew), which was not designed by Walling, but made reference to the Freiberg house
and garden as a comparative example.
There are several examples in inner Melbourne of Walling’s suburban residential gardens
from the interwar period which retain a high degree of integrity to the remnant garden
design, layout, and or planting. Some of the better examples (on the VHR) include Little
Milton, 26 Albany Road, Toorak (1927), Marshall Garden, Eaglemont (1936), and
Woodbine, Toorak (1939). (This assessment is based on information included in citations
in the HERMES database).
Little Milton’s garden (VHR H1378) was designed by Walling in 1927, and on a
substantially larger scale with more sophistication to the design than that prepare for the
garden at 1045 Burke Road. Little Milton’s garden features the extensive use of red brick
paving. Of the original design, only the dense perimeter planting, a portion of the original
timber pergola and some mature trees survive. The Marshall Garden at 40 Carlsberg
Rd, Eaglemont (VHR H1962), designed in 1936 is a highly intact example of Walling’s
work, and exhibits many of the original plantings and landscape architectural features
including terraces, pools, paving, stone walls, mature trees, under plantings, shrubberies
and other elements of the original design. Woodbine, 161-163 Kooyong Road, Toorak
(VHR H1955) is an intact early example of Edna Walling's landscape style for suburban
gardens, and is one of only a few that remains largely intact and respectful to its original
(1938) plan and vision. The garden design of Woodbine incorporates features typical of
Walling’s suburban designs, including the use of geometric layout and planting, tennis
court, both rectangular lawns and organic lawn space with informal planting, dense
perimeter planting, landscape ponds, separation of spaces ('rooms') for functional and
design purposes executed by the use of low walls, flagstones, steps, tea-tree and timber
fences and gates, a large Lilly Pilly hedge and smaller hedges, and planting to define
entrances to the next garden room, each with an individual character.
In 2012, the front garden of 1045 Burke Road was relatively intact, and therefore, a
number of Walling gardens across the City were considered as being comparable at the
local level as examples of Walling’s interwar gardens. These gardens had several
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similarities – generally they were proven Walling designed gardens, exhibited at least
some of the principal design characteristics typical of Walling’s style, and exhibited a
good representation of the garden or a portion of the garden as shown in the original
garden plan. These included Appledore, Eaglemont City of Banyule (HO130), Robin Hill
House and Garden, Chadstone (City of Monash, HO33), Churston House, Toorak (City of
Stonnington, HO211). Due to a significant loss of original fabric in the garden at 1045
Burke Road between November 2012 and December 2014, these are no longer
comparable examples. While this garden was undoubtedly designed by Walling, the
principal design characteristics of Walling’s style are no longer represented in the
physical fabric, nor does the site show the implementation of a significant proportion of
the original design, as most of this has been removed during the period 2012 -2014.
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Arden, including the house and fence (brick and cast iron) at 1045 Burke Road is
significant. The house, constructed in 1906 for owner C. Goodridge, is a very large
Queen Anne house with an attic storey constructed of red brick with Art Nouveauinspired details. An original brick and cast iron fence defines the site boundaries along
Burke and Rathmines roads.
The single storey c1990s extension to the west elevation, laminated window glass,
modern roof lights, alterations to some windows, ripple iron to the rear of the boundary
fence and gate, swimming pool, its associated paving and the garage are not significant.
Arden is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.
Architecturally and aesthetically significant for: its adaptation of Queen Anne to a tight
site; the complexity of its elevation and planning; the use of the unusual splayed corner
on a Queen Anne design; and for the outstanding fence, rare on Queen Anne houses
throughout metropolitan Melbourne. (Criteria B, E and F)
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Already included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay of the Boroondara Planning
Scheme as an Individually Significant place, it is recommended “fence and outbuilding
notification requirements” (that the column ‘Outbuildings and fences which are not
exempt under Clause 43.01-3’ is marked as ‘Yes – fence along Burke and Rathmines
Road frontages’) be added to the HO Schedule (as shown below) for this place.
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M Gould, Hawthorn Heritage Study, 1992.
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Allom Lovell & Associates, Place citation for Marshall Garden, prepared for Banyule
Heritage Study, 1999. HERMES Database ID31484
Context Pty. Ltd., Place citation for Appledore Garden, prepared for Banyule Heritage
Review, 2009. HERMES ID 123990
Edna Walling Collection, State Library of Victoria ‘Proposed Garden Design for Dr. H.C
Colville”, 1928.
Edna Walling Collection, State Library of Victoria, various drawings by Edna Walling c.a
1920-1965
Gould, M., Place citation for Arden in Hawthorn Heritage Study, 1992.
Heritage Council of Victoria, Place citation for Woodbine prepared by Heritage Victoria ,
2001. HERMES Database ID12399
Nigel Lewis and Richard Aitken Pty. Ltd., Place citation for Little Mitlon, prepared for
Stonington – City of Malvern Heritage Study, 1992. HERMES Database ID31521
Nigel Lewis and Richard Aitken Pty. Ltd., Place citation for Churston House, prepared for
Stonington – City of Malvern Heritage Study, 1992. HERMES Database ID31108
Olsen, K. (Heritage Victoria), Edna Walling Extant Gardens in Victoria : Desktop Survey,
Report prepared for Landscape Heritage Advisory Committee, Heritage Council of
Victoria, 2003.
Ward, A. (Gerner Consulting Group) Place citation for Robin Hill House and Garden,
prepared for Monash Heritage Study, 1998 HERMES Database, ID 111611
Yarra Valley Water. Plan No. 52311
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Prepared by: Context PL
Address: 27 Canterbury Road, Camberwell
Name: House
Survey Date: 7 Dec. 2012
Place Type: Residential
Architect:
Grading: Individually significant
Builder: Mr Stephenson
Extent of Overlay: Lot 1 TP613803 & Lot 1 TP399716
Construction Date: 1918
Historical Context
This area of Camberwell saw the construction of a series of large houses in the 1890s, in
part due to improved rail transport to the area. They include 'Coolattie' at 29 Canterbury
Road and 'Linda' at 19 Canterbury Road, both set on large blocks of land. Many of these
large estates were subdivided and developed during the first three decades of the 20th
century (Lovell Chen, 2005: Coolatie citation), and developed with single-family houses
for the middle classes.
History
Paul Thomas, a boot importer of Melbourne, purchased a block of land (measuring
140'x284') from Elgar's Crown Special Survey at the south-east corner of Canterbury
Road and the newly created Stanley Grove in 1886. After his death, Emilie Antoinette
Thomas, Spinster (most likely Paul Thomas' daughter or perhaps sister), took possession
of the property in 1893 (LV: V1840/F894). By 1903, nothing had been built on the land
(MMBW Detail Plan No 1865, 1904).
In 1914, Emilie Antoinette Wiseman (nee Thomas) began subdividing the land, selling
Nos 4 and 6 Stanley Grove. Emilie died in 1916, and her heir - Ernest Albert Wiseman -
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continued to sell off parcels; 2 Stanley Grove in 1916, 27 Canterbury Road (house site) in
1917, and the tennis courts of 27 Canterbury Road in 1919 (LV: V1840/F894).
In October 1917, Ethel Bertha Goss and Ernest (Dick) Alfred Goss, law clerk, bought the
eastern portion of 27 Canterbury Road, with the entrance off Stanley Grove. The lot to
the west - where the tennis courts are now - was sold to another person.
A building permit was obtained from the City of Camberwell on 4 December 1917, for an
attic-storey dwelling ('1+' storeys) with 8 rooms of brick with a tile roof. The owner was
recorded as EA Goss, and the builder was a Mr Stephenson (Permit No 3813). The
architect of the house has not been identified.
In the 1917-18 rate book, Bertha Goss is rated for land on Canterbury Road (no number
is recorded, but the listing is just before number 29) that had a net annual value of £18. In
the 1918-19 rate book, the Goss' are rated for a seven-roomed brick house, in which two
people lived, and the net annual value had jumped accordingly to £85 (RB). Bertha Goss
is listed as the owner and Ernest Alfred Goss, law clerk, is recorded as the occupier. At
the time of his death in 1955, Ernest Goss was the oldest active member of the
Camberwell Cricket Club, as noted by a memorial in the Argus (2 Sep 1955:13).
In October 1937 the house was sold to George J Grecian, who sold it to Arthur and Joan
Cozens in October 1955 (LV: V4073/554).
In 1966, additions were carried out by builders Dillingham Construction. These included
the creation of a laundry (by enclosing part of the original northern verandah) and the
construction of a tiny, two-room addition to the west elevation. The original billiard room
on the first floor was also reconfigured to create bedrooms at this date. The small gabled
structure at the north end of the site is shown on the drawings as 'existing garage'
(Council building file). This brick building with a tiled roof has half-timbering to the gable
end and appears to be an original outbuilding.
The tennis courts on the west side of the current extent of number 27 do not appear to
have been added until after 1979 (LV: V8777/F784).
This is a very fine Arts & Crafts attic-style bungalow of 1918, which is highly intact, with
an original garage at the rear. The property is situated at the north-west corner of
Canterbury Road and Stanley Grove, with the main entrance facing Stanley Grove. The
house has generous setbacks to both streetfronts, while the backyard comprises the
north part of the block. A small garage is located at the north-west corner of the block.
The front yard of the house is surrounded by a modern high brick fence which is
sympathetic in its use of red brick, but obscures views to the house.
The walls of the house are of red brick with black tuckpointing with a wide band of
roughcast render at the top. At the junction of the two materials is a stringcourse of
moulded brick. It is beautifully detailed and follows the curved head of windows and the
top of the entrance arch. There is a similar brick moulding beneath the bow windows. The
roof is covered in Marseille tiles with decorative ridge capping and ram's horn finials. The
three chimneys (two tall on the back slope of the roof, and one short on the front) all have
a red-brick shaft, and roughcast-rendered top between flat projecting mouldings. There
are vertical lines of brick headers to the tops of the chimneys, providing a decorative
touch.
The primary roof form is a high-pitch running north-south. While the north (rear) elevation
is gabled, with a projecting minor gable on the east side, the south end of the roof is
nominally hipped with a large 'floating gable' (a gable set at the end of the hip roof,
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making the gabled form the dominant one and reducing the hipped roof to a decorative
'skirt'). There is a projecting gable beneath it on the east side, over the verandah,
mirroring the north elevation. This same device of a 'floating gable' is repeated at the
centre of the east elevation, with a recessed balcony in it.
The multiple gables are filled with combinations of scalloped timber shingles with a bellcast profile and heavy half-timbering with roughcast render. The south major gable has a
decorative timber vent.
Figure 1. South-east corner of the house, showing the return verandah on Tuscan columns.
(Context PL, 2012)
The house addresses its corner site with a return verandah at the south-east corner of
the house, supported by pairs of Tuscan-order columns which sit on brick piers. The
verandah floor retains its tessellated tile floor. The minor gable that sits above it on the
south side has decorative curved and notched rafter ends beneath a band of shingles.
The north end of the verandah transitions to the front entry porch which is entered via a
striking round brick arch with buttressing to it. The front door has a single leaf, with a
segmentally arched leadlight window at the top and a highlight above it. Instead of the
usual sidelight(s) to provide additional light to the entry hall, there is a leadlight window
beside it.
There is a wide variety of window forms throughout the house, though most are
casement windows with highlights filled with leadlights of long, diamond-shaped panes
overlaid with floral motifs. There are bow (curved bay) windows on the south and east
elevations, as well as a projecting canted bay window at the south-east corner beneath
the verandah, and a shallower one in the south major gable. The one on the east
elevation, beside the entrance, sits beneath its own gabled roof. Another is segmentally
arched, while there is also a bank of three sash windows in a box frame at the north end
of the east elevation - all with the same sort of leadlights. There is a small dormer window
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on the east side of the central gable, south end, which has three casements with
diamond leadlights. There is a second dormer, on the north side of the central gable,
which has a similar form, but simple sash windows, and appears to be a later - though
sympathetic - alteration, related to the conversion of the old billiard room into a bedroom.
Overall the building is beautifully detailed, clearly architect designed, and highly intact.
The only external alterations visible from the public domain are a very small, red-brick
addition to the west elevation (visible from Canterbury Road), and the later dormer. The
infilling of the recessed verandah and the installation of sliding doors to the north
elevation are not visible from the public domain.
The small brick structure at the back of the garden appears to be the garage noted on
1966 building permit plans. It has similar details to the house, particularly half-timbering
to the gable, and may be original or an early addition. The brick walls have been
overpainted.
The house at 27 Canterbury Road of 1918 is a relatively early example of an early atticstyle bungalow - in which the upper storey is contained within a high-pitched gabled roof
with projecting dormers - for metropolitan Melbourne. It is among the earliest identified
examples of this type in the City of Boroondara, which include 19 The Ridge, Canterbury
of 1916; 6 Christowel Street, Camberwell of 1918; 54 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn, of
1918-19 (HO446); 127 Winmallee Road, Balwyn, of 1919-20 (HO421), 4, 6 & 8 Grange
Avenue, Canterbury, of 1919, and 2 Grange Avenue of 1920-21 (all in proposed Grange
Avenue Precinct). (NB: Reportedly earlier examples of the style - 17 Threadneedle
Street, Balwyn (thought to be 1907) and 1 Threadneedle St (thought to be 1915) cited in
the 2006 Review of C* Grade Buildings in the Former City of Hawthorn (place citation for
54 Berkeley St), have since been found to be inappropriate comparisons. 17
Threadneedle St was, in fact, built in 1924, and 1 Threadneedle St is a single-storey (not
attic) bungalow.)
The style, first paired with Federation and Arts & Crafts details, then transitioning to
California Bungalow forms, was very popular with the middle classes at the end of the
'teens and early 1920s and many fine examples are seen in Boroondara's suburbs.
Arts & Crafts Bungalows were British in inspiration and often had high-pitched roofs
(often with an attic storey), and a deep masonry arch or square piers (sometimes
buttressed) to the porch. There was less emphasis on highly detailed ornamentation, and
more of bold forms and an interplay of natural textures (roughcast render was particularly
popular in contrast with smooth materials (render, brick, etc.)). Many Arts & Crafts
houses have distinctive battered chimneys (sides sloping inwards) finished in roughcast
render.
The detailing of 27 Canterbury Road exhibits features seen in late Federation houses,
such as slender Tuscan columns, floral leadlights with a curvilinear Art Nouveau
influence, the slender chimneys with brick and render detailing, the use of decorative
ridge and crest tiles to the roof, tuckpointed red face brick, and the incorporation of a
diagonal axis as expressed in the corner bay window beneath the verandah. It also has
features of the Arts & Crafts Bungalow, including the high-pitched roof (simpler in form
than the Federation form), the use of heavy masonry elements such as round arches,
square pillars and buttressing, as well as contrasting textural building materials.
It shares this stylistic pedigree, as well as a similar scale, architectural quality and
intactness with:
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x 33 Broadway, Camberwell of 1919-20 (Individually significant to HO159). Also a
red brick house with a band of rough-cast render atop the walls and a brick
moulding between them. It shares many similar details such as paired Tuscan
columns to the corner verandah which sits beneath a minor gable, a bay window
beneath the vernadah set on a diagonal angle, a massive round brick arch with
buttresses to the entrance porch, and a recessed balcony to the major gable.
While this house has only a single street frontage, so the massing of the major
and two minor gables are to the facade, there are enough similarities to suggest
it may have been designed by the same architect as 27 Canterbury Road. (Note
that the identity of the architect has not been determined.)
x 2 Grange Avenue, Canterbury of 1920-21 (Recommended as individually
significant to Grange Avenue Precinct, 2012). This house is also of face brick
with a band of roughcast render above (without the brick moulding between). It
was also designed to be seen from two street frontages and has a return
verandah in response, but one with slender tapered pylons - showing a
California Bungalow influence. Details similar to 27 Canterbury Road include the
use of transverse gable roof, and a major 'floating' gable to the facade above a
hipped-roof breakfront. A bow window sits below, with its own gabled roof.
Beside it is a round brick arch with buttresses to either side.
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The house at 27 Canterbury Road illustrates the subdivision in the early 20 th-century of
the large 19th-century estates in this area of Camberwell, to allow for the development of
middle-class housing.
The house at 27 Canterbury Road is one of the first group of attic bungalows to be
constructed in the municipality. It was a style that became very popular in the area in the
early 1920s.
Not applicable.
The house at 27 Canterbury Road is a fine and well-preserved example of an attic
bungalow which exhibits an Arts & Crafts form and materials, with a remaining
Federation influence on the details.
significance).
The house at 27 Canterbury Road is a large and architecturally successful attic-style
bungalow. Its massing skilfully responds to its corner site with a progression of major and
minor gables, one sheltering a return verandah and a bay window on a diagonal axis.
The houses has the simplified, high-gabled roof form of the Arts & Crafts attic bungalow,
and an Arts & Crafts palette of 'honest' materials with contrasting textures, including red
brick, roughcast render, and timber shingles. The remaining influence of the Federation
style is seen in the use of Tuscan verandah columns, floral leadlight windows, chimneys
and roof finials. One of the most striking elements of the design is the impressive round
brick arch at the entrance. Overall the materials and detailing are of very high quality.
The house is enhanced by the retention of an early or original outbuilding.
Not applicable.
significance).
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Not applicable.
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The house at 27 Canterbury Road, Camberwell, built for Ernest A Goss, law clerk, and
his wife Ethel in 1918 by builder Mr Stephenson. It is an Arts & Crafts attic bungalow with
a Federation influence to the details. The house is significant to the extent of its original
fabric, with later additions and alterations of no significance.
The outbuilding at the rear, believed to be the former garage, with brick walls and halftimbering to the gable, is contributory.
The house is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.
The house at 27 Canterbury Road is a large and architecturally successful attic-style
bungalow. Within the City of Boroondara it is one of the first examples of this type to be
built; a house type that became very popular by the early 1920s. Its massing skilfully
responds to its corner site with a progression of major and minor gables, one sheltering a
return verandah and a bay window on a diagonal axis. The house has the simplified,
high-gabled roof form of the Arts & Crafts attic bungalow, and an Arts & Crafts palette of
'honest' materials with contrasting textures, including red brick, roughcast render, and
timber shingles. The remaining influence of the Federation style is seen in the use of
Tuscan verandah columns, floral leadlight windows, chimneys and roof finials. One of the
most striking elements of the design is the impressive round brick arch at the entrance.
Overall the materials and detailing are of very high quality, particularly the moulded brick
stringcourse, and the multiplicity of cladding materials and window types. (Criteria D and
E)
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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Context Pty Ltd
References
Boroondara City Council building files, 27 Canterbury Road.
Camberwell City Building Register, Permit No. 3813, 4 Dec. 1917.
Lovell Chen, Review of B-Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn, Vol. 3
Data Sheets for Camberwell and Hawthorn, prepared for the City of Boroondara, 2005-9.
Former City of Camberwell rate books (RB), accessed at PROV, VPRS 5903/P0/Unit 10
(1917-18), North Ward, entry 14; Unit 11 (1918-19), North Ward, entry 14).
The Argus.
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STATE SAVINGS BANK AND RESIDENCE, FORMER
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Address: 1395 Toorak Road, Camberwell
Name: State Savings Bank & Residence, former
Survey Date: 24 August 2012
Architect: GB Leith
Builder: RF Anderson
Photo
Historical Context
Banks in Boroondara
The following is an extract from the City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History
(Built Heritage 2012:104):
Notwithstanding the catastrophic impact of the 1890s financial crisis, a number of grand
mid-Victorian trading banks emerged triumphantly in the early twentieth century to restart
their programmes of branch expansion – typified by the ES&A Bank, which opened a
branch in Maling Road, Canterbury (demolished) in 1907. This same period, however,
saw the passing of two pieces of legislation that would have a profound impact on the
subsequent development of banking in Victoria. The first of these was the
Commonwealth Bank Act 1911, which brought about the creation of the new
Commonwealth Bank of Australia as the country's federally-regulated financial institution.
This was followed by the Savings Banks Act 1911, which drew together all existing banks
that operated under the earlier Savings Bank Act 1890, and united them as the State
Savings Bank of Victoria (SSB). During the intervening period of re-structure and
consolidation, the SSB had already begun to expand its network of branches throughout
suburban Melbourne; the study area was no exception, with new outlets opening in the
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established commercial strips of Burke Road, Hawthorn East (1907) and High Street,
Kew (1908) and Maling Road, Canterbury (c.1914). This phase of expansion continued
into the 1920s, when new branches of the SSB opened in some of the outlying parts of
the study area, including Glen Iris (c.1923), Balwyn (c.1925) and Kew East (1926). An old
rival, the ES&A Bank, also opened a new branch at Kew East that year, while still
maintaining its original Gothic-style premises in High Street.
The expansion of branch banking networks across the study area intensified towards the
end of the 1930s. During the years 1938-39, the SSB established new branches at
Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn North, and Toorak Road, Burwood, while the Bank of
Australasia built others at Cotham Road, Kew, and Burke Road, South Camberwell, and
the Commercial Bank of Australia opened another at High Street, Kew (one of several
local banks to be closed during the War). Notwithstanding their chronological proximity,
these banks contrasted in architectural style. The branches of the SSB – designed by the
bank's long-time in-house architect, George Burridge Leith – were in the Classical
Revival mode, while those erected by the Bank of Australasia (who used A & K
Henderson as their regular designers) were in the more progressive and fashionable
Moderne idiom. By 1940, the SSB had established itself as the most well-represented
banking institution in the study area, with no fewer than seventeen branches – nine in
Camberwell, six in Hawthorn, and two in Kew. At that time, the ES&A Bank had eight
branches across the entire study area, while the National Bank of Australasia had four,
and the Union Bank of Australia had just one. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia was
not represented at all until 1939, when a branch opened at 759 Burke Road, Camberwell
(since rebuilt); others subsequently opened at Hawthorn (c1947) and Kew (c1955).
State Savings Bank of Victoria
The State Bank of Victoria was established by 1912 when the Savings Banks Act
(No.2365) provided for all Banks then operating under the Savings Banks Acts to be
collectively named The State Savings Bank of Victoria. Services offered by the Bank
included savings bank facilities, special loans to discharged soldiers (from 1917), building
homes for people of small means (from 1920s), including the Garden City estate at
Fisherman's Bend and credit foncier facilities including mortgage loans and sale of
debentures. The credit foncier scheme was one of the first of many introduced in
Australia over the first decades of the twentieth century and became known colloquially
as the 'cheap money' scheme. By the 1920s the success of the credit foncier scheme led
to the Bank adding other loans on special conditions for lower income workers and
returned servicemen (Murray & White, 1992:207-17).
A history of the Bank notes that:
"One of the results of the new thrust into housing was that, to get the best combination of
low prices and high standards, the Bank effectively became a builder in its own right,
issuing standard designs and selecting building contractors for many of the houses it
financed. A 'Bank home' became an affordable goal, a symbol of achievement and
recognition that the house was solidly built. Such was the enthusiasm of Victorian
workers for Bank-financed and built homes that by the mid-1920s the Bank was the
largest home builder in Victoria." (Murray & White, 1992:207-17)
Credit foncier borrowers from the SSBV could choose one of the bank's own house
designs, or choose their own design. Whatever the design, the bank required a high
standard of construction/supervision, which seems to have been the basis for the very
high reputation of a 'State Bank house' for many years. Most State Bank homes were
built in the metropolitan area, and few were built in groups. It is thought that up to 7,500
were built, principally between 1921-30, then less until 1939. All except 300 were in
Melbourne and these mostly in the ring of suburbs: Brunswick, Coburg, Preston,
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Hawthorn, Kew, Ivanhoe, Heidelberg, Box Hill, Camberwell, Malvern, Oakleigh and
Brighton (Murray & White, 1992:207-17).
In 1991 the SSB merged with the Commonwealth Bank (Museum Victoria, nd).
History
The State Savings Bank of Victoria is located on the corner of Toorak Road and Melton
Avenue, Camberwell. In the early twentieth century, this portion of Toorak Road, between
Summerhill and Warrigal roads, was known as Norwood Road, Burwood and the
shopping strip was referred to as the Village of Norwood. The Village of Norwood was
formed around Thornecombe's Hotel, which opened at the corner of what is now Toorak
and Warrigal roads in 1858, but it did not begin to develop in earnest until the interwar
period (Built Heritage 2012:48; S&Mc).
The bank and integral residence were designed in 1937 by architect G Burridge Leith,
Chief Architect of the State Savings Bank. The banking chamber was on the ground floor,
with the bedrooms of the residence above it, and the rest of the residence in a mostly
single-storey wing at the rear. It was constructed in 1938 by builder RF Anderson at a
cost of 4,500 pounds (original drawings, dated 1937 in Council building file; Building
permit No 8282 dated 08/02/1938 & No 28445 dated 19/01/1961). There was a 180
square foot (17 sqm) addition made in 1961 (Building permit No 28445 dated
19/01/1961). This may have been the addition of the upper level above the residence
entry, which is not shown on the 1937 plans, though it has all the same detailing and
cladding as the rest of the residence so may in fact date from the original building
campaign.
G B Leith, Architect
George Burridge Leith (1888 - 1969) was an architect whose greatest legacy is his
designs for the State Savings Bank of Victoria.
In 1890, George Burridge Leith's father, George Brown Leith (1858-1937), established an
architectural practice at 408 Collins Street, Melbourne. It closed during World War I,
when George Burridge Leith served with the AIF. Upon his return, Leith joined his father
and they practiced under the name GB & G Burridge Leith, from 1918 (Uni of Melb
archives; Roser 2012:403; AIF project).
In 1920, George Burridge Leith accepted a position as the Chief Architect for the Housing
Department of the State Savings Bank of Victoria, upon which the practice with his father
lapsed (Roser 2012:403). There he was the Chief Architect of the Housing Department
of the State Savings Bank until his retirement in 1953 and became one of the most
influential men in the Bank (Murray & White 1992:204-17).
As Chief Architect, Leith designed a series of 'Bank homes' - plans for standard homes,
which sub-contractors built under the supervision of the Bank's Building Department. Up
to 30 bungalow designs were produced by the Department. He was also responsible for
the designs of the many new bank branches built throughout the state (Murray & White,
1992:207-17).
The former State Savings Bank at 1395 Toorak Road, Camberwell, is a two-storey Greek
Revival building with an attached residence at the rear. The bank sits on the north-east
corner of Toorak Road and Melton Avenue, with no setback from the footpath. The
residence is set back slightly from its frontage on Melton Avenue to allow for an entrance
porch and side yard. Both parts have varicoloured brown glazed face brick, and
terracotta tiles on the hip roofs.
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The imposing banking chambers are set on a high plinth of rock-faced bluestone, harking
back to 19th-century banks. The ground and first floors are articulated by giant-order
fluted Ionic pilasters on both frontages. Above them is a plain frieze, dentillated cornice
and a simplified Greek pediment (a form that was very popular in the interwar period for
commercial buildings) which conceals the roof. The ground-floor steel windows continue
with this influence with Greek cross motifs in the window highlights. The first floor
windows have a more typical late 1930s window type of two-over-two double-hung sash
windows with horizontal glazing bars. The ground and first-floor windows of each bay are
encompassed in a single moulded architrave, adding to the vertical emphasis. The
pilasters, cornice and pediment and mouldings around the windows are all of cement
render.
The residence is set behind the bank, with a separate entrance to Melton Avenue. The
entrance porch is located next to the junction with the bank. This single-bay section is
two-storeys - though lower in overall height than the bank - with a visible hip roof and
geometric corbelled cornice. The upper level is not shown on the 1937 plans, but is
seamlessly integrated into the building in the same glazed bricks and with the same type
of sash windows and corbelled cornice. It is either an early and sympathetic addition, or
an alteration to the 1937 plans and part of the original building campaign (there are other
changes to the 1937 design of the residence, such as the windows, that support this
theory). The entry is the most striking and detailed area of the residence. A flat-roof
portico rests on short fluted square columns, which in turn rest of brick piers. The low
entrance gate to the porch is of mild steel with Greek cross and circle motifs. The
residence door has the upper two-thirds glazed with 12 panes of bevelled glass. It has
two sidelight panels, each with another four bevelled panes. The windows to the
residence are simple one-over-one double-hung sashes, and the chimney at the rear is
unadorned and rectangular in form.
No external changes were noted to the banking chambers or residence, apart from the
removal of the eight-panelled door to the banking chamber seen on the 1937 plans. As
noted above, the upper level to the residence was executed in the same materials and
details as the rest of this section, so even if it is an alteration, it is a sympathetic one.
There is a modern brick carport at the rear of the site which replaced a small brick garage
shown in the 1937 plans.
All buildings identified as banks and former banks in Boroondara's planning scheme
which are of individual significance date from the 19th century. None from the interwar
period appear to have a significant grading.
The Thematic Environment History (Built Heritage, 2012), as cited above, lists a few
banks built at the same time (1938-9) as the former bank at 1395 Toorak Road. These
are:
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Former SSB at 822 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn North (Graded D in G Butler
Upper Hawthorn Study, 1983; contributory to precinct in Hawthorn Precincts
Study, 2008). A two-storey rendered corner building with a rock-faced bluestone
plinth, modillion cornice and simplified Greek pediment. It lacks the giant-order
pilasters and grandeur of the Toorak Road bank. The ground-floor windows have
been lengthened (destroying part of the plinth) and the original windows and door
have been lost. It is likely that this building was designed by GB Leith.
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Former Bank of Australasia, 109 Cotham Road, Kew, c1938-9 (Identified in Kew
Conservation Study, 1987). A Streamlined Moderne corner building of brown
brick with a curved corner and curved concrete hood over the entry.
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Unfortunately all horizontal steel windows to ground floor have been lengthened
and replaced with modern examples, greatly changing its original horizontal lines.
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Former Bank of Australasia, 676-8 Burke Road, South Camberwell (Identified as
SSB(?) c1940, graded C in Camberwell Heritage Study, 1991). A single-storey
corner building of overpainted brick in a very simplified Moderne style. The main
design features are delicate projecting bands above the windows and a raised
pavilion at the corner. Appears to have been extensively altered.
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Commercial Bank of Australia, High Street, Kew - it is unclear which building this
is, though there is a former National Bank at 657 High Street, Kew East graded B
in the City of Kew Conservation Study, 1987. It is a single-storey corner building
in the Greek Revival style. Walls are rendered, with a simple cornice and parapet.
The windows to the side elevation site between render pilasters and have Greekcross highlights. The original corner entrance has been bricked in since 1987,
and a new shopfront has been created on the High Street elevation.
Among this group of late-interwar bank buildings, many employed a simplified version of
the Greek Revival. Among all of them, the former SSB on Toorak Road stands out by
virtue of its very high intactness, its monumentality, and high-quality detailing and
cladding materials. The residence at the rear of the former SSB also contributes to its
architectural significance, with the beautifully designed entry. The other two-storey banks
may have had a manager's residence on the first floor, but this is not expressed in the
design.
A survey of Hermes place records makes it clear that Leith designed a number of Greek
Revival banks during his time with the SSB, both in suburban locations (such as 438
Centre Road, Benleigh, of 1927, HO98, Glen Eira; 600 Plenty Road, Preston, of c1928,
HO 243, Darebin), and a lesser number in country towns (5 Radovick Street,
Korumburra, of 1940). Among all of the designs with photos on Hermes, the SSB branch
at 1395 Toorak Road is one of the most polished and formal, with an unusually high level
of detail.
The former State Savings Bank illustrates the development of the (former) Village of
Norwood during the interwar period. While it was established in the late 1850s, its early
commercial development was all but subsumed by interwar and postwar development on
the Toorak Road shopping strip.
It also demonstrates the intensification of expanding bank branch networks in
Boroondara during the late 1930s, by the State Savings Bank, Bank of Australasia, and
Commercial Bank of Australia.
Not identified
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The former State Savings Bank is a representative example of the many new bank
branches that were constructed in Boroondara as part of the banks' expansion at the end
of the 1930s. It also visually illustrates the provision of a bank manager's residence on
site, which was a necessity in the pre-automobile era, and phased out in the post-war
era.
significance).
The former State Savings Bank building exhibits the aesthetic characteristics of the
Greek Revival used in a relatively free manner. These features include the giant-order
Ionic pilasters, dentillated cornice, and pediments in a simplified Greek temple form.
Both in comparison with other interwar banks in the City of Boroondara and GB Leith’s
Greek Revival State Savings Banks in other municipalities, the Toorak Road branch
stands out due to its monumentality, high quality detailing and cladding materials, and
high level of intactness.
significance).
Not identified
The former SSB has associations with GB Leith, the Chief Architect of the SSB from
1920 to 1953. This bank branch is one of his most accomplished designs of the interwar
period. Leith’s designs had an enormous impact on the face of interwar Victoria, both in
Boroondara and beyond, not only with his bank branch designs seen in many suburbs
and country towns, but in the thousands of bungalows built to his standard designs with
SSB finance.
The former State Savings Bank branch and residence at 1395 Toorak Road,
Camberwell, constructed in 1938 by builder RF Anderson to a design by George Burridge
Leith, the Chief Architect of the State Savings Bank of Victoria.
The small upper floor above the residence entry may be an early addition, as it is not
shown on the 1937 plans, but it was integrated seamlessly into the overall design in
detail and cladding materials, so is contributory to the whole.
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The modern carport at the rear is not contributory.
The bank and residence are of local aesthetic, architectural and historical significance to
the City of Boroondara.
Aesthetically, the bank is a very accomplished example of the interwar Greek Revival.
Typical features of this style include the giant-order Ionic pilasters, dentillated cornice,
and pediments in a simplified Greek temple form, which contrast with the modern glazed
bricks. In comparison with other banks built in Boroondara during this period, it is also
distinguished by its very high level of intactness. (Criteria E & F)
Architecturally, the bank is one of the most accomplished Greek Revival designs of
architect George Burridge Leith. GB Leith was the Chief Architect of the State Savings
Bank from 1920 to 1953. Leith’s designs had a major impact on Melbourne’s suburbs
during the interwar era – both through his design of bank branches such as this one and
the standardised timber and brick bungalow designs built with State Savings Bank
finance. Many of these houses still survive in Hawthorn, Kew, Camberwell and Glen Iris.
(Criterion H)
Historically, the bank and residence demonstrate the intensification of expanding bank
branch networks in Boroondara during the late 1930s, by the State Savings Bank, Bank
of Australasia, and Commercial Bank of Australia. The provision of an integral manager’s
residence also illustrates a common practice for all sorts of business (banks, shops, etc.)
prior to the postwar dominance of the car and commuting to work. (Criterion A)
Planning Scheme as an individually Significant place.
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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Identified By
G Butler, Camberwell Conservation Study, 1991.
References
Boroondara City Council building files notes, (former) '443 (later 1395) Toorak Road, cr.
Melton Avenue' includes original drawings.
Built Heritage (2012), 'City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History', prepared for
Hermes records, as cited above.
Murray R & K White (1992), A bank for the people: A history of the State Bank of Victoria,
North Melbourne.
Museum Victoria, 'The State Savings Bank of Victoria, Melbourne Victoria' webpage.
Retrieved from: http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/themes/2470/the-state-savingsbank-of-victoria-melbourne-victoria (accessed 22 Nov. 2012).
Sands & McDougal directories 1910-1940.
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GRANGE AVENUE RESIDENTIAL PRECINCT
Address: 2-10 Grange Avenue, Canterbury
Name: Grange Avenue Residential Precinct
Builder: Albert Vanselow
Property No:
Survey Date: 10/08/2012
Architect: Arthur E. Bidgway
Construction Date: 1919-1921
Historical Context
Settlement began in the Boroondara area in 1836, one year after Melbourne was founded,
when cattle were first driven through by John Gardiner, John Hepburn and Joseph Hawdon
(RBA 206:5-9; Built Heritage 2012:13-15).
People were able to obtain land in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (now Victoria)
at this early date via Crown grants and Special Surveys. The latter enabled English
purchasers to buy 8 square miles of land (5,120 acres) for £5,120 at £1 per acre. Within
Victoria there were only 8 or 9 surveys selected. One of the purchasers was Henry Elgar, a
merchant, whose Special Survey consisted of land in what is now Boroondara and
Nunawading (Hanslow, PPPG).
The first form of local government was established in the area in 1854, when the Boroondara
Road District was proclaimed. The Shire of Boroondara was formed in 1871 and by this date
the immediate area included Boroondara State School (1869) and was soon to have its first
church, St Barnabas on Balwyn Road (1872). Three early houses that existed on Balwyn
Road at this date were 'Heathfield' (formerly 21 Balwyn Road), 'Shrublands' (both owned by
Ernst Carter, the major land-holder in the area) and 'The Grange', a single storey villa
(demolished). The train line was extended to Canterbury in 1882, which ushered in a period of
subdivision, including in the Balwyn Road area. Development continued at a steady pace and
the shire changed names a number of times before it became the City of Camberwell in 1914
(RBA 206:5-9; Built Heritage 2012:13-15).
From 1915, 'The Grange' holdings, also known as the Grange Estate, began to be
subdivided. This included the land that would become Grange Avenue and View Street (RBA
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206:5-9). View Street was created by a separate subdivision. The Grange was surveyed by
local surveyor, Harry Parsons in 1915. Apparently, development was to begin at an earlier
date, but was delayed due to World War I (McConville, 1991, vol 3, precinct 22.05).
Prior to this period, there was little subdivision in what was then the Town of Camberwell.
Maps from the 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century show sparse development,
indicating that ‘much of the Town of Camberwell (as it was then) was still ripe for subdivision
and development at the turn of the century’ (Built Heritage 2012: 128). The Boroondara
Thematic Environmental History goes on to say that:
Ultimately, it was the twentieth century residential expansion across much of the City of
Camberwell (namely, the suburbs of Camberwell proper, Canterbury, Glen Iris and
Balwyn) that brought the municipality its reputation as the quintessential middle-class
inter-war residential area …
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McConville notes that the majority of homes constructed in the first two decades of the 20
century (1901-21) in the former City of Camberwell were of timber construction, with a few
'wonderful brick villas'. By 1920 the bungalow had appeared, as evident in 2-10 Grange
Avenue, Canterbury, followed by houses in Tudor and Spanish Mission styles. These styles
demonstrate a major growth period of the area during the interwar period (McConville 1991,
Vol 2:17-19, 116; vol 3: precinct 25.02).
By the end of the 1920s, Canterbury was dominated by large brick houses owned by whitecollar professionals. Canterbury has maintained its high social status, as exemplified by high
real estate prices and areas that were mainly developed after World War I, such as the
commercial precinct on Maling Road and the 'Golden Mile', consisting of Mont Albert Road
(west of Balwyn Road) and the avenues towards Canterbury Road, such as Monomeath and
Grange avenues (Canterbury History Group).
History
Francis Rennick, Chief Engineer, and later Commissioner of Victoria Railway, purchased 9.5
acres on the south-west corner of Balwyn and Mont Albert roads in 1865, upon which he had
built 'The Grange' at what is now 162-4 Mont Albert Road c1876 (since demolished) (Argus,
27 Mar 1915:16; Built Heritage 2012:127; RBA, 33 Balwyn Road place citation).
In January 1915, sisters Florence and Ida Rennick of 'The Grange', presumably his
daughters, became the owners of just over six acres (6 acres, 1 rood, 2 perches) bound by
Balwyn Road to the east, which was originally part of Elgar's Special Survey. The Rennick's
subdivided this land to create Grange Avenue, and a majority of the Grange Avenue lots
(excluding 12 & 14 and including the current 31-35 Balwyn Road) (Title 3860/971). The
subdivision plan dates to 1915 (below). In order of sale: in June 1916 number 6 Grange Ave
was sold to William James Fowles; 10 Grange Avenue was sold to Ada Victoria Vanselow in
March 1917, 2 Grange Ave was sold to Walton Scott Finlason in May 1919, 8 Grange Ave
was sold to Laura Margaret White in July 1919, and 4 Grange Ave was sold to Edna Vera
White in August 1919 (Title 3860/971).
Builder Albert Vanselow, the original owner and occupier of 10 Grange Avenue, is believed to
have constructed all five houses (Robin Kentley, pers. comm. 20 Aug 2012). As documentary
evidence confirms that Vanselow was the builder for to numbers 2, 4, 6 and 8 Grange Avenue
(PSPs and Buildng Permits), it is highly likely that he was also the builder for his own house,
which shares so many stylistic and material palette similarities with the others. Vanselow also
had connections to the Rennicks of The Grange, as the 1919 property sewerage plan (PSP)
notes that the agent was Albert Vanselow of 'The Grange', Mount Albert Road, Canterbury
(PSP 114228). The ‘agent’ for connecting a building to sewerage was usually the builder or
architect.
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within the extended family to the 21 century.
Subdivision plan of Grange Avenue, dated 1915.
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2 Grange Avenue, Canterbury
Property Sewerage Plan (1921)
Number 2 Grange Avenue, was purchased by Walton A Finalson, electrical engineer in May
1919, who sold it on to Margaret White in May 1920. The property sewerage plan (PSP
119692) for the property indicates that the house was built in 1921 for Mrs M. A. White (the
year is missing from the first plan, but the second plan shows the date 1921; neither shows
the agent). The identity of the builder, A Vanselow, is confirmed by the City of Camberwell
Building Register (held at the Camberwell Library), which records a building permit granted on
3 September 1920 for a 7-room brick and tile-roofed 1.5-storey house and a shed to be built
on the north side of Grange Road [sic] for a W White [name barely legible] at a cost of 1,500
pounds (Permit No 1139, 03/09/1920).
The original drawings for the house (provided by the current owner, Karen Limb) note that the
brick villa was built for Mr M. White, of Camperdown, and was designed by architect Arthur E.
Bidgway of Balwyn Road, Canterbury. The drawings are dated September 1921.
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Plans and elevations of 2 Grange Avenue by architect Arthur Bidgway, dated Sept. 1921
In 1947, upon the death of Margaret, probate was granted to Mathew White, Edna Vera
Faragher (of 2 Grange Avenue, widow) and Laura Margaret de Melnotte. In October 1956
Laura Margaret White (nee de Melnotte), teacher, and Edna Vera Faragher, who both lived in
the house, became the owners. In February 1961, Richard I Faragher, medical practitioner,
also appears on the titles. After Edna's death, the house passed to Richard I Faragher (who
now lived on Nicholson Street) and Brian S Faragher of 4 Grange Avenue. In September
1978, Laura Margaret White also became a part owner of the house at 2 Grange Avenue, yet
in November of the same year, Brian S Faragher became the sole owner. In November 1985,
owners in equal shares were Brian S Faragher, Glenys Faragher and Clair Faragher (all three
occupying the house), Lynn Smith and Richard Faragher. It passed out of the Faragher family
in 1991 (Title 4242/288).
The house is called 'Werona', believe to have been named by the Faragher family at 4
Grange Avenue, who were related by marriage to the first owners of 2 Grange Avenue (Karen
Limb, pers. comm., 20 Aug 2012).
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Number 4 Grange Avenue was owned by Edna Vera White, spinster, from August 1919. The
PSP (114771) indicates that the house was built for Mrs E.V. White in 1919 and the agent is
recorded as Albert Vanselow of Mont Albert Road, Canterbury, who would have been the
builder. Considering the dimensions of the block, the building permit appears to have been
granted to Miss White's fiancé, R Faragher, with the builder noted as A Vanselow. The permit
was for a 7-room, 1.5-storey brick and tile dwelling, on a 85' x 148' block, at a cost of 1,060
pounds (City of Camberwell Building Register, Permit No 315, 12/09/1919).
Edna married R Faragher, before being widowed by 1947. Also from this date, Edna became
part owner of number 2 Grange Avenue, as noted in the titles of that property (Title
4234/678).
The garage was constructed by builder RB Barnes in 1928, for R Faragher (Edna's husband)
(Building Permit Reg. 2460, 21/02/1928). In August 1969, a rumpus room was added to the
house (permit record), the PSP indicates that this was the single-storey wing on the east side
of the house (PSP 114771).
In October 1970 the house at 4 Grange Avenue passed to Brian S Faragher and Pamela
Faragher, both medical practitioners, who owned and lived at 4 Grange Avenue. The house
remained in the Faragher family until 2012 (Title 4234/678).
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Number 6 Grange Avenue was purchased by builder William James Fowler in June 1916. In
March 1919, the land was sold to Walton Neil McKellar, a manager of 513 Flinders Street,
Melbourne (business unknown). The house was built for McKellar in 1919. The agent was
Albert Vanselow, of 'The Grange', Mount Albert Road, Canterbury (PSP 114228), indicating
that he was the builder. This is confirmed by the City of Camberwell Building Register, in
which a building permit was granted to builder A Vanselow for owner McKellar to construct a
6-room, 1.5-storey dwelling of brick and tile for 1,100 pounds (Permit No 122, 08/04/1919)
McKellar remained in the house for a number of decades. Upon his death probate was
granted to Neil McKellar, 'manager' and Herbert J S Rayment, optical dispenser of 4 Grange
Avenue, in July 1957. Soon after, in October 1958, Elizabeth S McKellar, widow, who
occupied 5 Grange Avenue, became the owner. McKellar sold to Alexander Mitchell,
agricultural scientist, and his wife Joyce, in June 1959 (Title 8975/902). A fibro-cement garage
was constructed in 1938 by builder FC Johnson for WN McKeller (permit record).
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Number 8 Grange Avenue was sold to Laura Margaret White in July 1919. A building permit
was granted on 25 January 1921 for an 8-room brick and tile-roofed 1.5-storey house and a
shed to be constructed by A Vanselow for Miss L White at a cost of 1,300 pounds (City of
Camberwell Building Register, Permit No 1355, 25/01/1921).
Laura Margaret White was the headmistress at both Canterbury Girls Grammar and the
Brighton Campus of the Methodist Ladies' College. A commemorative pond is located at the
Brighton Campus in honour of White. It has also been suggested that White was instrumental
in saving the Dig Tree. The Dig Tree is a national icon and reminder of the country's pioneers.
It is a 200-250 year old Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtha) located on the Northern bank of
Coopers Creek, near Innamincka in north-east South Australia. The tree is related to early
explorers, Burke and Wills, whose exploratory south-north crossing expedition was sponsored
by the Government of Victoria. Provisions were left near the tree for the Burke and Wills team,
and instructions on where to dig for the stash was carved into the tree, hence the name (ABC
News; Bulloo Shire Council). In the early twentieth century, White periodically took school
children to visit the area, and upon one visit discovered that the tree was at risk of being
removed by the local pastoralists, due to a termite infestation. White returned to the Dig Tree
with a team of specialists to assess the tree, which resulted in its survival (Mark Williams,
pers. comm., 20 Aug 2012).
Upon White's death in 1922, the property was passed to Ada Victoria Vanselow, of 10 Grange
Avenue, who sold it to Harold A Fisher, Russell Street, Melbourne merchant, in July 1923.
Fisher lived there for a number of years. He commissioned 'attic additions' in 1930, which
were constructed by builder R. Barnes (Building Permit Reg. 1743, 16/06/1930). This is
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believed to be the large dormer on the front of the roof, which has matching details to the rest
of the house.
After Fisher's death in 1940, the land passed to his widow Hilda Fisher of 'Dalkuth', Grange
Avenue, in June 1941. In February 1953, Fisher sold the house to Walter L Steele, retailer,
and his wife Eileen, who erected the garage in 1963 (permit record); this may be the double
garage at the rear which imitates many features of the house. That same year a bathroom
was installed on the first floor (PSP 120255). Kevin G Walton, pharmaceutical chemist, and
his wife Beverley became the owners in July 1965 (Title 4234/679). The Waltons had a
single-storey extension constructed, set back on the east side of the house, in 1972 (PSP
120255).
Number 10 Grange Avenue was sold to Ada Victoria Vanselow in March 1917 and the
house was built in 1919 (PSP 112020). Ada Victoria nee Tyrell had married Albert Herman
Wills Vanselow in 1906 (BDM Reg. 7034/1906).
The current owner believes that Albert Vanselow built 10 Grange Avenue as his own
residence (Robin Kentley, pers. comm., 20 Aug 2012). The name of the ‘agent’ is missing
from the scanned Property Sewerage Plan for 10 Grange Avenue (PSP 112020).
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Vanselow appeared as the agent on the property sewerage files for numbers 4 and 6 Grange
Avenue when they were constructed, and the City of Camberwell Building Permit records
confirm that he also built numbers 2 and 6. The use of similar materials and details of number
10 suggest that the architect or builder of this house was the same as the rest of the row, and
it would follow the typical development pattern of a builder constructing his house first and
then the remainder in a row.
The only reference to Vanselow that was found in contemporary newspapers was in regard to
an A. H. Vanselow, builder and timber and hardware merchant, working in Camperdown in
the 1930s, who constructed St Paul's kindergarten school hall in 1937 (Camperdown
Chronicle, 23 Jan 1934:7; 4 Jan 1938:3; 17 Apr 1937:2; 20 Oct 1931:1).
The house remained in the Vanselow family until July 1971 (Title 3860/971; 4027/203). ). A
garage was constructed at the rear c1960s (certainly prior to 1978; Pers. Comm., Robin
Kentley, 12 Sept 2012). At some point the enclosed veranda in the front minor gable was infilled with windows. Further additions and alterations were also carried out in January 1989
(permit record), none of which are visible from the public domain.
Arthur E. Bidgway, architect
Considering the similarities in form of Nos 4-10, with the use of repeating elements such as
bow windows (bay windows with a curved plan), gable treatment and shaped timber shingles,
as well as the use of similar details with No 2 – the chimneys, front door and pattern of
verandah floor tessellated tiles – it would appear that all five houses were designed by the
same person. Arthur Bidgway is documented as having designed No 2, and as it was built
second to last in the row, it is likely that he designed all of them, and all were constructed to
his designs by Albert Vanselow. (It is also possible, but less probable, that Vanselow was the
craftsman-builder of the first three houses in 1919, and then Bidgway designed No 2 to blend
in with them.)
Bidgway lived and had his architectural office at 325 Nott Street, Port Melbourne, around the
turn of the century and carried out many residential commissions in Port Melbourne in the
1890s and first two decades of the twentieth century. In that suburb he was responsible for a
large number of the more substantial homes in this period. Examples of his Port Melbourne
designs include houses at 200 Graham Street (1899), 119 Clark Street (1899), 101 Spring
Street (c1899) and 336 Princes Street, Port Melbourne (1915-6). Bidgway also designed the
Jubilee Memorial Hall, Port Melbourne (1908) (Argus, 27 Feb 1908:8).
His early houses outside of Port Melbourne include those at 35 Victoria Road, Camberwell
(1898, contributory in HO159) and 20 Sandham, Elsternwick (1899) (Schmeder, 2005).
Bidgway’s houses of this period, which fall into the Italianate Victorian and Federation styles,
are characterised by decorative motifs that make them identifiable as his work. The most
common shared design element is the chimney, combining a smooth rendered base, a redbrick shaft and a top made of a combination of render mouldings, bands of roughcast and
fluted sections (straight or tapered). Other features that many houses had in common were
cast-cement cornice friezes with a sunflower motif (popularised by the Aesthetic Movement),
and coved and fluted render cornices on others, and an Islamic horseshoe verandah bracket
to his later houses.
In 1912 Bidgway moved to 7 Balwyn Road, Canterbury, just around the corner from Grange
Avenue. It was a timber house with a tiled roof, constructed by E Moller for him, presumably
to his design (RBA, 2006: place citation). He ran his architectural practice there in 1921, as
noted on the drawings for 2 Grange Avenue. The house at 7 Balwyn Road was demolished in
the 1970s.
While later in date and style than his Port Melbourne houses, the Grange Avenue houses also
exhibit his characteristic use of key repeating motifs on individually designed houses. This
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includes the use of very similar chimneys on Nos 4, 6 and 10, identical shaped timber
shingles above roughcast render to the gables of all houses in the row, and an identical
highwaisted door and sidelight to No 10.
The houses at 2-10 Grange Avenue occupy the majority of the north side of Grange Avenue,
which is located between Balwyn Road and Hopetoun Avenue. The street is entirely
residential and modest in width. Both sides are planted with mature Plane trees on the
generous nature strips. While the limbs of the trees on the south side have been lopped to
allow for power lines, those on the north side are intact.
The five houses sit on blocks of equal width that allow for generous front gardens and side
setbacks. The blocks at Nos. 2, 8 and 10 are slightly deeper than the middle two.
All of the houses are characterized by their complex gable roofs with an attic storey, and are
of a similar scale, materials and front setback. Nos 2, 8 and 10 retain their wide, curved front
paths, some with original brick edging (Pers. Comm., Robin Kentley, 21 Sept. 2012). All have
a steeply pitched transverse gable roof (parallel to the street) and dominant projecting front
gable, which often shelters the entry. Stylistically they can be called Arts & Crafts attic-style
bungalows, some with a California Bungalow influence. Arts & Crafts Bungalows were British
in inspiration and often had high-pitched roofs (often with an attic storey), and a deep
masonry arch or square piers (sometimes buttressed) to the porch. This contrasted with the
California Bungalow style which was characterised by low pitched roofs with spreading eaves,
pergola details and tapered piers as verandah supports. Typical of both these styles, the
houses have Art Nouveau decorative motifs seen in the leadlight windows.
All of the houses have high-pitched gabled roofs covered in terracotta Marseille tiles with
exposed rafter ends, red brick walls with render accents (particularly roughcast render in the
gables), leadlights to highlight windows and front doors, and distinctively shaped timber
shingles (with curved corners) at the apex of all of the gables (front and side). Other features
the houses share are bow windows (bay windows with a curved plan), often in pairs, and
slender red brick chimneys with a band of roughcast render at the top below a projecting cap.
The chimneys vary slightly among themselves, with projecting brick accents just below the
cap at Nos.2 and 4 (though the cap has been removed from No 2), or in the middle of the
rough cast band at No 6, and a taper to the roughcast section at No 10 (note that the front
chimney to No 8 was removed when the attic dormer was constructed in 1930). Front door
designs are also shared by some of the houses. Nos 2 and 10 have identical highwaisted
doors and matching sidelights and highlights with a segmentally arched window above a
decorative apron, and a ledged lower panel. Only the Art Nouveau leadlight designs differ.
Another pair of identical doors are seen at Nos. 4 and 8: a ledged and framed door with a
dramatic quarter-circle glazing, with very wide sidelights above ledging, and three highlights.
Again, the Art Nouveau glazing differs. The door to No 6 was not visible from the public
domain. Reportedly original tessellated tile floors, in identical patterns, survive on the front
verandahs of Nos 2, 4, 8 and 10 (Pers. Comm., Robin Kentley, 21 Sept. 2012).
While united by their shared features, materials, massing and front setback, each house has
an individually designed façade which can be described as a variation on a theme. Features
of note include:
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No 2 has a very wide, round-arched brick opening to the front verandah flanked by
stepped buttresses. The verandah wraps around the east side elevation, and is
supported on elongated brick piers with rendered pylons at the top (typical of the
California Bungalow style). There is a large gabled dormer window which sits above a
hipped breakfront. The attic gable is reflected in a smaller gable roof, filled with
shaped timber shingles, to a curved window bay. The window bay and other ground
floor windows to the façade are casements, most with highlights, filled with diamond
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and floral patterned leadlights. This house has a somewhat higher level of detail and
finishes than the others in the row, particularly seen in the complex massing of the
front gable, the gabled 'roof' above the front bay window, and the fine brickwork of the
arched brick porch entry.
The picket fence was noted as original in 1991 (McConville, 1991: Precinct 25.02),
but was replaced with an identical reproduction here and at No. 6 in 1993 (Alex
Mitchell, pers. comm., 20 June 2014). It has curved-top pickets in two sizes,
alternating between three large and three small. Apart from the addition of a
Federation-style window hood to the attic window on the west side and the removal of
the chimney caps, no external alterations are noted.
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No 4 has buttressed brick piers supporting the verandah gable, and a brick
balustrade with bullnose bricks along the top and a pierced diamond pattern. It has
two wide bow windows to the façade comprising four and five sash windows with
leadlight highlights. The roughcast render of the chimney has never been painted.
The 1928 garage at the rear is a modest weatherboard structure with a tiled roof. It
retains its ledged timber doors.
Alterations to the house include an extension to the east side of 1969. It is set well
back from the façade and designed in a sympathetic manner, with a tiled gable roof
and red brick walls. The flat roof carport in front of it is intrusive, but its installation has
not required any alterations to the building fabric (apart from fixing points for the roof),
so should be reversible.
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No 6 has a strong front attic gable which stretches across most of the façade and is
nearly as large as the main gable of the roof, giving the house a cruciform plan. The
entrance is tucked under the east side of the house, and the verandah area is
supported on high brick piers with tapered rendered pylons on top (typical of the
California Bungalow style, like those at No 2). The two bow windows of the facade sit
below a long tiled hood, and have double hung sashes with leadlights to the upper
sashes and the highlights.
There is a timber picket front fence which a reproduction of the original installed in
1993. It comprises curved-top pickets in two sizes, alternating between three large
and three small. The original pickets were made of jarrah and were 19 mm thick, with
the small pickets 44 mm wide and the large pickets 69 mm wide, with their respective
lengths approximately 1130 mm and 1180 mm. It is believed that all of the houses in
the row had this type of fence originally (Alex Mitchell, pers. comm., 20 June 2014).
No external alterations were noted.
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No 8 has a large, projecting front gable which shelters the front verandah and one of
two bow windows to the façade. The verandah supports are brick piers with rendered
flat arches above. The leadlights use diamond panes (as seen at No 2) with Art
Nouveau floral designs. Box windows are used to the attic level, as at Nos 2 and 10.
There is a large gabled dormer to the left of the verandah gable, whose construction
in 1930 required the removal of the front chimney. It appears to have been modeled
after the original dormer at No 4 in form and detail, though in a larger version.
A single-storey, gabled brick extension has been added at the rear of the house. It
projects out on the east side of the site and is visible from the street, but is recessive.
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No 10 has a cruciform plan of 1.5-storey gables, with another projecting gable set to
the left side of the façade. It shelters the front verandah, which rests on two larger
round arches (finished in smooth render with a keystone). There is a large bow
window beside the verandah with leadlight highlights, set below a tiled hood.
The only external alteration noted is the infilling of the former enclosed verandah in
the front gable with windows.
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Within the City of Boroondara, the Grange Avenue Precinct compares most closely to the
Lower Burke Road Precinct, Glen Iris (HO154). This precinct comprises a row of eight
interwar houses on the west side of Burke Road, between McDonald and Rix streets, with
Faircroft Avenue intersecting them. They number 395 to 417 Burke Road.
The row is part of a larger subdivision, presumably interwar in date, which extended to the
north and south sides of Faircroft Street, the south side of Rix Street, and Parkin Street
between Faircroft and Rix streets, about 65 house blocks in all.
The block at 395 Burke Road comprises the equivalent of three house blocks in the
subdivision, giving it a very generous setting, though the scale of the house is similar to the
rest in the precinct.
Research has not been carried out into the date or builder of the eight houses (Hawthorn
Heritage Study, 1993), but they were built with a consistent setback, scale and style in the
1930s (quite possibly by a single builder). The houses have generous front yards set behind
low rendered brick front fences. The houses are single-storey with dominant hip roofs, with
the exception of No 415, which has an attic storey and jerkin-head roof form. All have
rendered walls and tile-clad roofs. They are Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Mission in
style, both popular during the late 1920s and 1930s. They have an overall high level of
intactness.
The 1993 Study found the precinct to be of significance as being Hawthorn's most intact
group of interwar houses, adopting a variety of styles, many of which retain associated fences
and gardens. The prominent and slightly elevated siting of the houses was also considered of
interest.
The Grange Avenue Precinct is similar in comprising a compact and very consistent row of
interwar houses, which are highly intact and of high architectural quality. Like HO154, the
Grange Avenue houses have consistent setbacks, lot widths, scale, roof forms, style (Arts &
Crafts Attic bungalow), materials and details. They are more substantial and have more
accomplished massing and detailing (in keeping with the work of an architect or craftsmanbuilder).
Within the suburb of Canterbury, the Grange Avenue Precinct can be compared to Hassett's
Estate, Canterbury & Camberwell (HO191). This is a much larger precinct, comprising
Hassett Avenue, Catherine, Quantock, Cooba, Maysia and Alta streets. It is of heritage
significance as: 1) one of the outstanding subdivisions in the former City of Camberwell in the
1920s which inspired much of the later built form, subdivision patterns and street design
within the former City of Camberwell; and 2) a particularly intact and notable collection of the
prevailing house styles of the 1920s to early 1940s, with an emphasis on the interwar
Mediterranean architectural style, and containing also a series of advanced Moderne designs
(Camberwell Urban Conservation Study, 1991).
Land sales took place in 1924 and 1927, so the original housing stock is later in period and
thus style than the Grange Avenue houses. Styles represented in HO191 are Indian
Bungalow, California Bungalow, Mediterranean, Spanish Mission, Old English, Italian villas
and Moderne. As is suggested by the wide range of styles, the development in HO191 is quite
varied in appearance.
The Grange Avenue Precinct also has a highly intact group of interwar houses, but they
illustrate and earlier style (Arts & Crafts bungalow) and are distinguished by their architectural
consistency. The Grange Avenue houses are also more substantial than the houses in
HO191, and show more accomplished architectural design and detailing.
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In contrast, the Grange Avenue subdivision is not considered a model subdivision within the
area, rather a typical small-scale subdivision seen in the piecemeal break-up of the Victorian
mansion estates.
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Criteria adopted by the Heritage Council on 7 August 2008 pursuant to Sections 8(1)(c) and
8(2) of the Heritage Act 1995, modified for the local context.
CRITERION A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of the City of Boroondara's
cultural history.
The row of house at 2-10 Grange Avenue exemplifies the high-quality, middle-class
residential development that characterised the former City of Camberwell, and the suburb of
Canterbury, during the interwar period. This is illustrated by the occupations of the first house
owners which include a manager, headmistress, timber merchant. Quite often the houses
were retained within a family for long periods of time.
The row of houses exemplify the move from large, mansion estates to accelerating
subdivision for middle-class development in the interwar period, as seen with the piecemeal
subdivision of ‘The Grange’ from 1915, which created Grange Avenue and View Street.
Boroondara's cultural history.NA
the City of Boroondara's cultural history.
Not applicable.
cultural places and objects.
The five houses are intact and representative examples of Arts & Crafts attic-style bungalows.
This is seen in the use of complex, high-pitched gabled roofs and breakfronts, and major and
minor gables to some facades. The use of brick arches and heavy piers with buttressing to
the verandahs is also characteristic, as are the multiple cladding materials in the gables
(latticework vents, shaped timber shingles, smooth and roughcast render, half-timbering
strapwork). Two show the influence of the emerging California Bungalow style as well, with
tapered pylons to the side verandahs. Door types are also typical of their era: some ledged
and highwaisted, others with a dramatic quarter-circle window. Art Nouveau floral imagery,
which was popular from the turn of the century until the mid-1920s, is seen in the wide variety
of leadlight windows.
CRITERION E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics.
The five houses demonstrate many typical features of the Arts & Crafts attic-style bungalow
style, however, they are more substantial than most homes of this period, and show unusual
design coherence, suggesting that they were designed by a single person (most likely Arthur
Bidgway), though the level of design and detail of No. 2 is the highest. Their coherence also
strengthens their presentation as a whole. While similar motifs are repeated, each building
has a unique massing of gables and verandah supports, giving each an individual character
and aesthetic appeal. The mature Plane street trees contribute to the spacious and green
suburban feel of the row.
achievement at a particular period.
Not applicable.
group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place
to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions.
Not investigated.
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persons, of importance in the City of Boroondara's.
No 2, at minimum, has links to architect Arthur Bidgway. Bidgway practiced from Port
Melbourne in the 1890s until around 1915, and was responsible for the most substantial
houses in that suburb during the Federation period. He moved to 7 Balwyn Road in 1912, and
was practicing there where he designed 2 Grange Avenue. Little is known of his career after
he left Port Melbourne.
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The Grange Avenue Precinct comprises the interwar development on the north side of
Grange Avenue, at 2-10 Grange Avenue. Grange Avenue was created in a subdivision of the
Victorian estate called ‘The Grange’, by its owners the Rennicks, in 1915. They created
Grange Avenue and View Street, on the west side of Balwyn Road, and began selling off
residential blocks in 1916. The blocks comprising 2-10 Grange Avenue were all sold by 1919,
with house construction beginning that same year. One of the first buyers was Ada Vanselow.
She was the wife of Albert Vanselow, a builder and timber merchant with connections to the
Rennicks (‘The Grange’ was given as his address in 1919). Vanselow soon built a house for
himself at 10 Grange Avenue, and is documented as the builder for the four other houses as
well. The second to last house built in the row was No. 2, designed by Alfred Bidgway, an
architect of substantial middle-class homes in the Port Melbourne area in the late 1890s to
about 1915, who had relocated from Port Melbourne to 7 Balwyn Road, Canterbury, in 1912.
The street is planted with mature Plane trees, which have good form and intactness on the
north side of the street.
Most of the early owners of the houses, the Vanselow, White and Faragher families, were
linked by family or other ties, as evidenced by the pattern of inheritance, and their ownership
is characterised by very long tenure.
The houses are all situated on generous blocks with similar front and side setbacks. Two
have identical picket fences that reproduce the original form (Nos 2 and 6), and Nos 2, 8 and
10 retain wide curving front paths.
The houses are all substantial Arts & Crafts attic-style bungalows constructed of red brick with
roughcast render and timber shingles to the multiplicity of gables. The steeply-pitched roofs
are all clad in terracotta Marseille tiles and the chimneys all have a slender red brick shaft
with a band of roughcast near the top and a flat projecting cap above that (apart from No 8
where it has been removed). They all have strong similarities in massing, with a main
transverse gable roof, one or two bow windows (curved bay windows) to the façade often
below a tiled hood, and a variety of major and minor projecting gables to the front, often
sheltering the front verandah. No 10 has a particularly strong major front gable, making the
transverse gable secondary. Pleasing variation is provided both by the arrangement of front
gables and gabled dormers, and by the differing verandah supports, which range from roundheaded and flat arches and buttressed piers, to typical California Bungalow pylons resting on
brick piers. Each house also has an individual pattern of Art Nouveau floral leadlights to
highlights, door surrounds and some sashes. Two houses (Nos. 4 & 8) have front doors with
dramatic quarter-circle glazing. Nos. 2 and 10 have identical highwaisted ledged doors with
very wide sidelights. Nos 2, 4, 8 and 10 have identical tessellated tile floors on their front
verandahs.
The house at No 2, designed by Bidgway, and built after numbers 4, 6 and 10, differs in the
use of a timber-shingled gable above the front bow window, and the expression of the east
elevation – once visible from Balwyn Road – as a second façade.
The houses are generally highly intact, with later extensions at Nos. 4 and 8 set behind the
line of the main roof, though visible from the public domain. An attic dormer was also added to
No 8 in 1930, which is sympathetic in detail and form to the house, but which required the
removal of the front chimney.
The Grange Avenue Precinct, at 2-10 Grange Avenue, Canterbury, is of local historical and
aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.
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The Grange Avenue Precinct is of historic significance as a subdivision that is representative
of small-scale interwar subdivisions in the former City of Camberwell, which saw the breakup
of large estates, such as ‘The Grange’, into middle-class residential areas including Grange
Avenue and View Street. The substantial nature and high quality of the design of the houses
at 2-10 Grange Avenue exemplify the quintessential middle-class interwar character for which
suburbs in the former City of Camberwell are celebrated. (Criterion A)
The Grange Avenue Residential Precinct is of aesthetic significance for the strong and
visually cohesive streetscape created by the row of houses which share a common style,
setback, scale, major roof forms, materials and decorative details. Paired with their overall
visual unity, the houses are individually and skillfully designed variations on a theme,
expressed by different combinations of secondary roof gables and dormers, verandah
supports and leadlight windows. They are also high quality interwar houses, at least one of
architect design, which are substantial for the area, and good examples of the Arts & Crafts
attic-style bungalow. They are generally highly intact to their period of construction, and have
been well maintained. They are enhanced by the mature Plane street trees on the wide
nature strip. (Criteria D & E)
No 2 Grange Avenue is particularly distinguished by its superior level of detail and finishes,
particularly seen in the complex massing of the front gable, the gabled 'roof' above the front
bay window, and the fine brickwork of the arched brick porch entry. It helps demonstrates the
evolution of architect Arthur Bidgway's high-quality middle-class houses from the Victorian
and Edwardian villas found in Port Melbourne, to this very up-to-date interpretation of the Arts
and Crafts style with California Bungalow elements in 1921. (Criteria E & H)
Recommended heritage controls and heritage grading
Recommendations for the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay (Clause 43.01) in the Boroondara
Planning Scheme
Tree Controls
Incorporated plan
Internal Alterations Controls
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Schedule of Properties
No
2
4
6
8
10
Street
Grange Avenue
Grange Avenue
Grange Avenue
Grange Avenue
Grange Avenue
Suburb
Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury
Grading
Significant
Contributory
Contributory
Contributory
Contributory
Date
1920-21
1919
1919
1921
1919
Aboriginal heritage place
No
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Identified By:
McConville, Chris & Associates with Graeme Butler (1991), 'City of Camberwell's Urban
Conservation Study'.
References
ABC News, article by Erik Havnen, 'A wooden platform surrounds the 'Dig Tree'',
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-05-18/a-wooden-platform-surrounds-the-dig-tree/1684496,
accessed 28 August 2012.
Built Heritage (2012), 'City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History', prepared for City
of Boroondara.
Bulloo Shire Council, 'Burke and Wills', http://www.thargotourism.com.au/the-burke-and-willsdig-tree, accessed 28 August 2012.
Canterbury History Group, 'About Canterbury',
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~canthist/cantabout.htm, accessed 28 Aug 2012.
Certificates of Title, as cited above.
City of Camberwell's building permit records.
Drawings of 2 Grange Avenue, Canterbury, provided by Karen Limb, owner in 2012.
Hanslow, Jan, Port Phillip Pioneers Group Inc (PPPG), 'Early Melbourne Suburbs',
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pioneers/welcome.htm, accessed 28 August 2012.
Kentley, Robin, owner of 10 Grange Avenue, personal communication, 20 August 2012.
Limb, Karen, current owner of 2 Grange Avenue, personal communication, 20 August 2012.
Mitchell, Alex, current owner of 6 Grange Avenue (since 1958), personal communication, 20
June 2014.
Maling Road, Canterbury, 'Our history', http://www.malingroad.com.au/info/our-history,
accessed 28 August 2012.
McConville, Chris & Associates (1991), 'City of Camberwell's Urban Conservation Study', Vol
2, Environmental History; Vol 3, Precincts.
RBA Architects (2006), 'Balwyn Road Residential Precinct Canterbury, Stage 2 Heritage
Precinct Review'.
Schmeder, Natica (2005), ‘Physical Investigation of Clareville, 101 Spring Street South, Port
Melbourne’, report prepared for subject ‘Analysing Australian Buildings’, University of
Melbourne; and list of Bidgway designed houses, also compiled by N Schmeder.
The Argus, 27 Feb 1908, 27 Mar 1915.
Williams, Mark, son-in-law of current owner of 4 Grange Avenue, personal communication, 20
August 2012.
Yarra Valley Water, property sewerage plans (PSP), as cited above.
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The following is an extract from the City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History
(Built Heritage 2012:87-8):
Notwithstanding Hawthorn's dominance of the local industry, brickmaking also
emerged in the eastern half of the study area in the later nineteenth century. Richard
Werrett, an early Balwyn resident, was reported to be making bricks in 1881, when
he was chastised for “creating a widespread nuisance and damaging property by
burning bricks”. The 1880s residential boom spurred several other brickmaking
ventures in this vicinity. In 1885, Albert Mills established clay pits and brickworks on
land in Robinson Road, Surrey Hills, on what later became the site of the drill hall.
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Two others brickworks operated alongside claypits near Rochester Road,
Canterbury. The first of these, the Canterbury Brickworks, was established in 1883
by local pioneer Alfred Golding and subsequently taken over by W C Tyler [sic], who
built a row of cottages on Rochester Road for his employees. In 1891, Edward
Cornish acquired the adjacent site and opened a rival venture, the Mont Albert
Brickworks. But, as Blainey adds:
The shire's two brickworks employed over 40 men in 1891, but they were small
compared to the huge brickyards of the northern suburbs, and when the industry
crumbled in the Depression, Boroondara's brickworks were amongst the first to fail.
Tyler's [sic] brickworks succumbed to the 1890s Depression, while Cornish's folded
after his own death in 1896.
... the claypits near Rochester Road, Canterbury, were also shown on the [1907]
MMBW map, with adjacent buildings that were specially marked as "old brick works
- disused". The site was later reclaimed; today it is partly occupied by housing and
partly by the John August Reserve, on the north side of Mont Albert Road.
Housing for the working class
Boroondara is dominated by middle and upper class housing, and has little association
with housing for the working classes, excluding the humble houses of the early
settlement period. Where evident, working-class housing concentrated around industrial
sites such as quarries, clay-pits and brickworks, particularly in the cheaper land of
Hawthorn, where small rows of cottages were located in close vicinity. While most
evident in Hawthorn, these houses were rarely built in Kew and the former City of
Camberwell. One notable exception to this is the row of houses at 52-58 Rochester
Road, Canterbury, built for the nearby brickworks (Built Heritage 2012:143-4).
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In April 1879, Ernest Carter, Melbourne dentist, purchased 5,120 acres in the Parish of
Bundoora and Nunawading. He subdivided this land between 1882 and 1907, selling the
land that corresponds to what is now 52-58 Rochester Road, to Mary Ann Tayler, wife of
William Charles Tayler, accountant of 'Claremont Park', East Camberwell, in August 1889
(LV: V2175/F946).
Around 1889 Tayler purchased the Canterbury Brickworks from Alfred Golding, who had
established them in 1883. The brickworks were located on the north side of Mont Albert
Road, where the John August Reserve is located today (Built Heritage, 2012: 88).
In 1889, William Tayler is rated for land (lot 18, section 3) on Mont Albert Road, with a
Net Annual Value (NAV) of £20 (about 10% of their total value). In 1890, W C Tayler,
now known as a brickmaker, was rated for eight brick houses (located on lot 18) on
Rochester Road, with an NAV of £15 each. At this date, six of the houses are occupied
(RB). This indicates that the houses at 52-58 Rochester Road were built by Tayler in
1889. It is suggested that the houses were built by Tayler for employees of his brickworks
(Built Heritage 2012:87). This is confirmed by the rate books of the 1890s, which note
that that the occupants were often bricklayers, brickmakers and labourers. (Note that the
Sands & McDougall street directories only begin to list the houses from 1896, which
appears to be an oversight.)
J McCormick, labourer, is listed in the rate books as the one constant occupant between
1890 and 1897 (RB). The rate books confirm the almost annual change in occupancy of
each house, suggesting rapid turnover of staff at Tayler's brickworks. Between 1889 and
1896, occupancy of the eight houses varied between 1 and all 8 houses occupied (RB).
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In 1892, the Argus (8 Nov 1892:5) reported that William Charles Tayler was insolvent as
a result of losses in trade in the brick-making industry (LV: V2175/F946). In the 1891-2
rate books Tayler's name is crossed out and in the 1892-3 listing, the eight houses
(seven of which are unoccupied) on Rochester Road are owned by what appears to read
'Morgan, agent'. At this date, W C Tayler is still the rated the owner of 'Stabling' on part of
lot 18, Mount Albert Road.
By 1896, the St James Building Society is rated for the eight brick houses, three of which
are occupied by labourers; McCormick continues to occupy the one house. In 1897, eight
brick houses are listed (still under the ownership of St James Building Society), however
the four new occupants are listed against two houses each, suggesting that at this date
(1897-8), the eight houses were physically altered to become four houses. This is
confirmed the following year when only four houses are listed in the 1898-9 rate books.
At this date a new owner, Rowell is listed. The occupations of the occupants are not
noted in 1897-99 (RB).
This accords with the land title, which indicates that in July 1897, Thomas A Rowell,
gentleman of Surrey Hills, became the owner of 52-58 Rochester Road, purchasing the
houses from the St James Building Society (LV: V2175/F946). This suggests that the
building society held the title of the houses after Tayler's insolvency. The rate books
indicate that brickworkers continued to occupy some of the houses until 1897 (RB). This
change of ownership in 1897 may suggest that Tayler's brickworks closed at this date.
The 1906 MMBW map shows four identical terrace houses, each with a verandah
running the length of the facade. The name of each house was recorded on the plan: 52
was called 'Thelma', 54 was 'Cosimir', 56 was 'Edris', and 58 was 'Zara'. Each house had
a narrower rear wing, two small outbuildings and an outdoor water closet at the rear
boundary (MMBW 1906: Detail Plan No.2212).
From 1923, Rowell began to sell the four houses into separate ownership. Number 52
was sold to Emma Barr in February 1937; number 54 to Rose L Shaw in November
1924; number 56 to Mary A Haig in November 1923; and number 58 to William S
Webster in June 1924 (LV V1094/F730; V2175/F946).
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The houses at 52-58 Rochester Road, Canterbury, are a terrace of single-storey brick
houses with transverse gable roofs. They are set back behind modest front yards. The
walls are of tuckpointed polychrome brick ('Hawthorn', red and cream bricks and cream
cornice brackets), which presumably display the output of Tayler's brickworks. The
chimneys, which stand at the apex of the gable, in line with party walls between the
houses, are also of polychrome brick.
The houses have convex verandah roofs set between brick wing walls with chamfered
verandah beams. The roof of No 52 is of slate with a scalloped band at the middle, while
the others are clad in corrugated metal.
There are a number of visual clues that indicate that the four houses were originally eight
in number. Each of the current houses has a party wall at the centre of the roof, which
would have divided the two tiny cottages. Only one of the original doors has been
retained for each existing house, while the other one was converted with care to a blind
arch, leaving the red and cream brick flat arch of the former door intact just below the
verandah. Nos 52, 56 and 58 retain their original four-panel doors with cricket-bat
mouldings (the door at No 54 was not visible). On either side of the central door and blind
arch are pairs of very narrow double-hung windows.
External alterations to the houses, apart from their c1897 conversion from eight to four
units, include the following. No 52 has had its front verandah extended around the south
side with a return. At No 54 the blind arch where the second entry once was has been
filled in during recent tuckpointing works. The brickwork of No 58 has been damaged by
sandblasting, the convex verandah roof has been replaced with a straight one, the
verandah beam replaced, and the timber front windows replaced with identical. And all of
the houses appear to have reproduction timber verandah posts, some have reproduction
cast-iron lace friezes, and most have recessive rear additions.
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As noted in the contextual history, working-class housing was relatively rare in the City of
Boroondara. They were particularly rare in the area of the former City of Camberwell, and
the terrace on Rochester Road is cited as a 'notable exception' (Built Heritage,
2010:144).
Working-class housing was concentrated in the low-lying areas of Hawthorn, and
otherwise located adjacent to industrial sites, particularly quarries, clay-pits and
brickworks, for example (Built Heritage, 2012: 144):
-
The western side of Foley Street, Kew, which ran along the rear of a clay pit.
These houses, at Nos 7-11 and 25-27 Foley Street, as seen on the 1903 MMBW
Detail Plan No 1296, are single-fronted timber houses with hip roofs in varying
degrees of intactness. They are not particularly identifiable as a thematically
linked group, particularly as houses in the middle have been demolished to
provide access to Foley Reserve (the former claypit).
-
The eastern end of Hill Street, Hawthorn, adjacent to a quarry (part of HO220).
These houses, at Nos 37 to 49, as seen on the 1901 MMBW Detail Plan No
1081, back onto the former claypit (now a reserve). They are identical singlefronted timber houses with concave front verandahs and corbelled brick
chimneys on their hipped roofs.
-
The south side of Melville Street, backing onto the excavations for the Hawthorn
Main Drain. These houses, at Nos 6 to 48, as seen on the 1901 MMBW Detail
Plan No 1076, are all single-fronted timber houses. They appear to have been
built in several groups of identical houses, most of them freestanding and a few
are duplexes.
-
Roseberry Street, Hawthorn East and surrounding streets, adjoining the
Hawthorn Brickworks (now Fritsch Holzer Park). These are a mix of single-fronted
and double-fronted Victorian timber houses, some of which may have been built
in groups.
In comparison, the Canterbury Brickworks houses at 52-58 Rochester Road differ in that
they are brick houses built as a terrace - which is a compact form more commonly seen
in the inner suburbs. When first constructed, they would have also stood out because of
their exceptionally small size, even in comparison to other working-class housing in the
City of Boroondara.
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The row of houses at 52-58 Rochester Road illustrates the establishment of the brickmaking industry in the Camberwell area, which was secondary to the massive industry in
the Hawthorn area. The row demonstrates the modest lodgings offered to workers in this
industry, particularly in the original size of the houses, which is still legible thanks to the
redundant party walls and door lintels above the blind arches. It also demonstrates the
practice of establishing workers' housing immediately adjacent to their work site, in the
days before extensive public or private transportation.
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The row is a rare example of working-class housing in this part of Boroondara. While rare
throughout the city, apart from pockets adjacent to industrial sites and in the low-lying
areas of Hawthorn, the eastern part (the former City of Camberwell) has had a
particularly pronounced middle-class character since its establishment. The terrace form
of housing is also rare in the middle-ring suburbs.
Not applicable.
The houses are typical of inner-suburban late-Victorian housing, with a terrace form with
front verandahs between wing walls and narrower rear wings. They also employ
decorative polychrome brickwork which was popular from the 1870s to the early 1890s,
and could be seen as an advertisement for the wares of the adjacent Canterbury
Brickworks.
significance).
Not applicable.
Not applicable
significance).
Not applicable
The houses are associated with brickworks-owner WC Tayler, and with the brickmakers
who lived in them.
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The row of terrace houses at 52-58 Rochester Road, Canterbury, to the extent of their
19th-century fabric. What are now four houses were constructed in 1889 as eight tiny
units for workers at the Canterbury Brickworks, by the owner of the brickworks, William
Charles Tayler. The brickworks failed during the 1890s depression, and were converted
to four private dwellings by 1898.
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The houses are constructed of tuckpointed polychrome brick, with a transverse gable
roof and polychrome corbelled chimneys. They have convex front verandahs and
symmetrical block fronts. A panelled door and a blind arch (where the second front door
was originally) are at the centre of each facade, with a pair of narrow double-hung
windows on either side.
Modern rear additions to the houses are not significant.
The terrace houses are of local historic and architectural significance to the City of
Boroondara.
The terrace houses are of historic significance for illustrating the development of the
brick-making industry in the eastern part of the municipality, which has been
overshadowed by the Hawthorn brick industry. The row demonstrates the modest
lodgings offered to workers in this industry, particularly in the original size of the houses,
which is still legible thanks to the redundant party walls and door lintels above the blind
arches. It also demonstrates the practice of establishing workers' housing immediately
adjacent to their work site, in the days before extensive public or private transportation.
The houses are also a rare example of working-class housing in this part of Boroondara.
While rare throughout the city, apart from pockets adjacent to industrial sites and in the
low-lying areas of Hawthorn, the eastern part (the former City of Camberwell) has had a
particularly pronounced middle-class character since its establishment. (Criteria A & B)
The terrace houses are of architectural significance as a representative example of late
19th-century terrace housing that, while common in Melbourne's inner suburbs, is rare in
Boroondara. The houses also employ decorative polychrome brickwork which was
popular from the 1870s to the early 1890s, and could be seen as an advertisement for
the wares of the adjacent Canterbury Brickworks. (Criterion D)
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Built Heritage, Boroondara Thematic History, 2012.
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City of Boroondara Rate Books (RB), microfilm accessed at PROV, VPRS 5903/P0/
(North Riding): Unit 30 (1889-90), entry 684; Unit 33 (1890-91), entries 70-77; Unit 36
(1891-2), entries 1106-1113; Unit 39 (1892-3), entries 941-949; Unit 42 (1893-4), entries
792-800; Unit 51 (1896-7), entries 585-592; Unit 54 (1897-8), entries 552-559; Unit 57
(1898-9), entries 562-565.
MMBW plan, as cited above, viewed online on the State Library of Victoria catalogue.
Sands & McDougall directories, viewed at the State Library of Victoria.
The Argus.
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ASTOLAT LADIES’ COLLEGE, FORMER
Adopted: 16 February 2015
Address: 59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
Name: Astolat Ladies’ College (former)
Survey Date: 18 April 2013
Architect:
Builder:
Construction
1900 & 1932
Date:
1899-
Historical Context
Education in Boroondara
Prior to 1872, the main education providers in Victoria were private schools, secular
National Schools (funded by the government) and denominational schools run by
churches. In 1872, the Free, Compulsory and Secular Education Act was passed, which
ushered in a new era of State education in Victoria.
National schools opened in the Boroondara area from the early 1850s, which later
became Common Schools after 1862, following the implementation of the Common
Schools Act. Also in the 1850s, a number of denominational schools opened, established
by the newly-formed church congregations. A majority of the denominational schools built
in the 1850s and ‘60s closed as a result of the growth of secular schools, and were often
taken over to form a common school. Denominational Colleges however, retained a
strong and continuing presence in Boroondara, for example Xavier College (1872) and
Methodist Ladies College (1882), both in Kew (Built Heritage 2012:177-8).
Private schools operated in Boroondara from the 1850s and were not affiliated with the
church or state. They were run by individuals and operated out of domestic-scale
buildings, if not the house owned by the teacher. They are suggested to have operated in
Boroondara from the 1850s, while newspapers in the 1860s commonly advertised local
private grammar schools and ladies’ colleges (Built Heritage 2012:180-1).
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Private ladies’ colleges
For a majority of girls, the purpose of a secondary education prior to the 1920s was to be
groomed to assume the rightful place in the home as wife and mother; their true vocation.
As it was not socially acceptable for girls to travel by public transport, private girls’
schools were often local institutions or boarding schools. Classrooms were often
converted drawing and dining rooms. In addition to standard classes, visiting teachers
taught dancing, elocution, singing and other artistic accomplishments, all suitable for
young ladies. Although exams were held, few girls sat for them as few of them truly
contemplated earning their own livelihood (Peel et al, 1993:78-81).
Private ladies’ colleges in Boroondara included the Kew & Hawthorn College for Young
Ladies on Barkers Road, advertised in 1868 as a ‘select educational establishment’, run
by Mrs Young and her daughters. Others were Annesley Ladies’ College on Auburn
Road, run by Mrs Spooner and her daughters from 1888, and Astolat Ladies’ College on
Auburn Road, which was owned and run by the Misses Cards from 1889. Tintern Ladies’
College opened in a large house on Glenferrie Road in 1877, and grew to become one of
the largest and most successful secular private schools in Boroondara (Built Heritage
2012:180-1; Peel et al, 1993:78-81).
History
The block of land that is now 59 Auburn Road changed hands three times from 1886
before it was sold to David Card, jeweller of Bourke Street, in July 1890. The property
remained in the Card family until 1928, with owners including Mary Card, spinster, from
1896, and Harriet Card (Mary’s sister in-law), married woman, from 1900 (LV:
V1855/F952).
The Card sisters Mary and Rosina opened Astolat Ladies’ College in 1889 on Auburn
Road, Hawthorn (Peel et al. 1993:78; Jefferis 1982:122). One source indicates that the
school was held in a two-storey house built by David Card in 1886 (Jefferis 1982:122),
though this is disputed by Peel. Peel (1993:78) states that at first, the school was located
on the west side of Auburn Road, south of Liddiard Street, for a 'short time' before
moving to the east side, near Rathmines Road (the current 59 Auburn Road).
The school was named, reportedly by Mary, after a place of Arthurian legend. Other
members of the family also joined the school as teachers (Peel et al. 1993:78; Jefferis
1982:122-127). The property was listed for the first time in the Sands & McDougall
Directory in 1892 at the present location, as a ‘ladies’ school’, which accords with a move
to this location shortly after David Card purchased the property in 1890. It is noted in the
1892 rate book as a two-room brick building and the person rated was ‘Head Teacher’
Mary Card (RB). The Card family lived nearby at ‘Stratford’, 58 Shakespeare Grove in
Hawthorn.
In 1890, Astolat taught twenty-eight girls and nineteen boys (Peel et al. 1993:78). Astolat
Ladies' College and Kindergarten was advertised on Auburn Road in 1892 (Argus, 21
Jan 1892:10) and by this date had grown to seventy-four students. Harriet Card was in
charge of the kindergarten and Mary Card’s mother in charge of boarders (Jefferis
1982:123).
In 1900, the street directory lists Miss Mary Card’s Ladies’ School between Nos. 33 and
35 Auburn Road, which corresponds to its location as shown on the 1903 MMBW plan
(S&Mc). The schoolhouse was enlarged from the original two rooms (or more likely
entirely rebuilt) in 1899-1900 to eight rooms, as recorded in the rate books.
The footprint of the house shown in the 1903 MMBW detail plan (No. 1556) corresponds
to its present form and setback, with a few changes discussed below. The secondary
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front door, located at the south end of the facade, may have allowed the multiple uses of
the building as the school and a residence (of teachers or boarders).
Figure 1. Front elevation of 59 Auburn Road, prior to the 1932 alterations. (City of Hawthorn,
Notice of intention to build, dated 26/11/1932)
In 1903 the house was still noted as a ‘private school’ on the MMBW plan (No. 1556,
which would be based on data from c1902), although it closed that year, due to Mary’s
failing hearing (ADB). Mrs D Avery and Miss EMC Hall (who ran a small private school at
149 Victoria Grove) took over the name Astolat, and its students, and moved the school
across Auburn Road to Lyndhurst Crescent (Jefferis 1982:129). As early as 1901,
however, an advertisement listed Astolat's location at Lyndhurst Crescent, Hawthorn
(Argus, 22 Jul 1901:10).
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Figure 2. The 'Private School' at what is now 59 Auburn Road, as shown in the 1903 MMBW
plan (Detail Plan No. 1556)
Mary Card (1861-1940) was the daughter of jeweller, watchmaker and successful
businessman David Card. She is best known as a crochet pattern designer, having
studied at the National Gallery School of Design. Establishing the school, Mary had a
particular interest in speech training. When the school was relinquished in 1903 due to
her increasing deafness, she moved to Olinda, where she designed her own house
‘Carinya’ (ADB; Mary Cards Coach House website; Jefferis 1982:70).
Mary then combined her skills of writing, drawing and needlework and became a
‘professional designer and teacher of needlework’, repairing and designing Irish crochet.
Her increasingly popular designs were published in American and Australian journals.
Mary Card’s Crochet Book No. 1 was published in 1914, followed by four other
publications. By 1917, Mary was renowned for her work. In this year she visited New
York and The Mary Card Co. was set up to reprint her crochet books. Mary relocated to
Barkham, Berkshire, England, in the early 1920s and continued to produce designs for
over twenty years. She also became an authority on ecclesiastical architecture and
returned to live in Olinda, Australia in 1940 (ADB). Collections of Mary Card’s work are
held by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (NGA website) and Applied Arts and
Sciences Museum in Sydney (Powerhouse Museum) (D&AAO).
By 1905, No. 33A was occupied by Horace C Chalmer, and was known as ‘Arranmore’
(S&Mc). While the 1903 MMBW plan corresponds with the general footprint of the house
as it is today, the canted bay window on the north side of the facade is not shown, and
may have been added in the first decade of the 20th century as part of a general
remodelling of the facade. At the time, the central front door was sheltered by a small
entrance porch.
An auction notice appeared in 1908 for 33A Auburn Road, described as a 'two-story brick
residence, containing 9 rooms' on land measuring 48 x 120-130 feet (Argus 24 Oct
1908:3). A Mrs M Champlin was noted at 33A Auburn Road in 1910 in an advertisement
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for a head teacher in Hobart (Argus, 13 Aug 1910:11). In the same year the Sands &
McDougall Directory lists No.33A as vacant.
In 1920 the numbering system changed on Auburn Road, and No. 33A changed to its
present address of 59 Auburn Road, occupied by Mrs Amelia May (S&Mc).
Joseph Richard Le Pine, undertaker, bought the house in September 1928 from Harriet
Card’s executors (after her death in 1924) (LV:V1855/F952). Le Pine & Sons funeral
parlours (established in 1891) were first located on Camberwell Road, Hawthorn, and
they expanded their business in Camberwell and Kew in the 1950s and '60s (Built
Heritage 2012:208). There is no evidence that Le Pine ever resided in the house, as it
was occupied in 1930 by Miss M Earwaker and by Alfred Nunn in 1940 (S&Mc: 1930,
1940). He did, however, commission an upgrade to it in 1932, by Camberwell builder
Donald H Gunner.
Changes made at the time include the following. The small timber front porch was
replaced with a typical interwar verandah across the facade. While the building
application plans and specification call for paired timber posts set on brick piers for the
verandah, it was built with paired concrete Tuscan columns instead (which were also
typical of the period). French doors to a skillion-roofed dormer on the facade were
replaced with casement windows and the associated balcony removed. A small, timberframed addition was made to the rear, comprising a bathroom and internal porch.
Figure 3. The new verandah to 59 Auburn Road, 1932. (City of Hawthorn, Notice of intention to
build, dated 26/11/1932)
Reportedly, the current owner of the house planted the two Canary Island Pines in the
front garden. They have been judged by an arborist to be mature specimens of about 40
to 50 years old (C&R Ryder Consulting Pty Ltd, 2014).
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The former private school at 59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, is a bichrome brick, attic-storey
building in the English Medieval/Tudor domestic revival. It sits behind a small front
garden which is dominated by two mature Norfolk Island Pines. A front fence and gate of
small-gauge chain-mesh date to the interwar era.
It is fairly modest in size, with a transverse gable roof, clad in large slates with decorative
terracotta ridgecapping and exposed rafter ends. The gable end walls are parapeted with
corbelling at the eaves and constructed of soft red brick with simple cream brick
dressings. At the apex of the north elevation gable is an oculus window with a creambrick surround and above that is a massive chimney stack. The rectangular chimney is
constructed of brown Hawthorn brick with projecting lines of red brick indicating the
location of three flues. There are four round terracotta chimney pots at the top (the north
one a later addition). The south elevation gable does not have a chimney, but has
decorative crow stepping instead.
The facade is asymmetrical in composition. The front door is situated at the centre of the
facade, with a secondary entrance at the south end (which appears to be related to a
division between the school and the teacher's residence). To the north side of the front
door is a canted window bay, which continues upward to form a large canted dormer with
a gabled roof. On the south side of the front door is a large round-arched window below a
narrow hood mould with scrolled ends. Above it is a skillion-roof dormer.
The detail to the windows and dormers is typical of the Queen Anne style, in its profusion
of materials and textures. These include timber shingles and half-timbering to the gabled
dormer, as well as heavy profiled timber brackets to its eaves and a timber hood clad in
ripple iron above the central windows. There is a band of roughcast render across the
entire facade, just below the eaves. Windows at the ground and attic-storey levels are
casements with multi-paned highlights filled with coloured glass. The front door has a
lower panel of diagonal lining boards below a large window. This glazing is echoed by a
large sidelight on the right-hand side. The secondary front door is a simple four-panel
door, below a multi-paned highlight.
The original front porch was a small structure around the front door with a half-timbered
gable front, turned timber posts and simple timber fretwork. This was replaced in the
1932 works by the current verandah which stretches across the facade. It has a hipped
roof with exposed rafter ends and clad in Marseille terracotta tiles, and is supported on
paired Tuscan columns resting on low red brick piers - a typical interwar verandah type.
The verandah floor is of concrete. The verandah sits comfortably with the house, and can
be read as a sympathetic evolution to the building as opposed to an intrusive alteration.
Apart from the addition of the verandah in 1932, and additions and alterations to the rear
wing of the building, the other major change has been the overpainting of the bricks to
the facade. This, in combination with the concrete slab installed as the verandah floor,
has had a dramatic effect on the pointing of this wall, which is rapidly crumbling (though
the bricks themselves are unharmed). To stop further progression of this problem, the
bricks should be repointed with a lime mortar, then the paint removed by gentle means,
and finally a slot cut in the concrete slab where it abuts the wall to allow ground moisture
to escape. Apart from this, the glazing to the front door has been replaced, and the
glazing of the sidelight removed (and boarded over).
While the walls of the house appear to be structurally sound, with no cracking apparent
on the facade or north elevation, the slate roof and rainwater goods have suffered severe
neglect, which is hastening the deterioration of decorative details, particularly on the
gabled dormer.
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The former Astolat Ladies’ College at 59 Auburn Road is an example of the English
Domestic Revival style, at a relatively small scale. Its most striking features are the
parapeted gable-end walls, with a massive chimney at the north end and crow-stepping
at the other (showing a Scottish Baronial influence). The window bay/dormer is another
distinctive and well-detailed feature. The use of a transverse gable roof is also relatively
unusual for this period. Bichrome brickwork, typical of the Victorian era, is combined with
Edwardian-era features. These include the diagonal boarding to the front door, the round
arched window, the combination of casement windows with coloured-glass multi-light
highlights, the double-storey canted bay with half-timbering and decorative timber
brackets, and the use of contrasting materials and textures (smooth brick, roughcast,
scalloped timber shingles, timber). The overall design is basically symmetrical, with a
transverse gable roof fronting the street, central front door and one window bay on either
side, but any monotony is skilfully avoided (different gables ends; round-headed window
below skillion-roof dormer on south side of facade, and two-storey bay window on north
side).
The roof form (transverse gable with parapeted ends) of 59 Auburn Road is fairly unusual
for its time in the City of Boroondara. While parapeted gables were typically seen on
Gothic Revival institutional buildings, such as churches and school (e.g., Glenferrie
Primary School, VHR H1630), during the 19th and early 20th century, these buildings were
typically designed with the gable to the main facade. The bungalow style in the interwar
period popularised the use of the transverse gable roof, but this was with wide eaves,
and not parapeted ends. There are, of course, a handful of Victorian houses with
transverse gable roofs - most of them terraces - including the modest row at 22-26
Lilydale Grove, Hawthorn East.
The fine Queen Anne details of Astolat can be compared to a number of larger, architectdesigned buildings of the period. Note that while it was built primarily as a school - an
institutional building - Astolat is very domestic in its scale and detail, typical of the private
schools of the time that fit comfortably into their residential surroundings.
In its use of the Scottish baronial crow-stepped gable, the former Astolat can be
compared to there buildings in Boroondara:
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The Haven Homes for Women, 2-4A Station Street, Hawthorn, of 1901-02
(HO120) - Four small terraced houses of red brick that back onto the same
laneway as 59 Auburn Road. They share a similar chimney form, steep
transverse gable roofs with crow-stepped gable ends, slate with terracotta ridge
capping, turned timber details to the front porches, and casement windows with
multi-paned highlights.
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Former ES&A Bank, 705 Burke Road, Camberwell (HO18) - This two-storey
Scottish Gothic Hawthorn-brick bank was designed by architect William Wardell
in 1885. Its most striking features are the crow-stepped gables and pointed
windows.
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Another pair of houses with high transverse gable roofs with crow-stepped gable
ends is at 68-70 Lilydale Grove, Hawthorn East (not on HO) - the verandahs have
simple turned timber posts and fretwork typical of c1900. Windows are
casements.
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While the former Astolat shares the distinctive crow-stepped gable with the Station
Street and Lilydale Grove terraced houses. The remaining details of the terraced
houses - doors, windows, verandahs - are typical of speculative-built terraced houses
at the turn of the century, while Astolat is clearly in the class of the architect-designed
buildings of the time, such as the former ES&A bank.
In its Queen Anne style and detailing, it can be compared to architect-designed
houses of the same era in Boroondara. It shares features typical of this style with
houses already on the Heritage Overlay. For example, it shares a ribbed chimney
form, gables with half-timbering to their apex above bay windows with casements and
coloured-glass multi-pane highlights, and slates to the roof with terracotta ridge
capping with Shenley Croft of 1905-6 (HO 391, 7-9 Mangarra Road, Canterbury,
architect J Edmond Burke). It shares the transverse gable roof form and halftimbered gables supported on timber brackets set above a two-storey canted bay
window with the much grander Dalrwraith of 1906 (HO193, 99 Studley Park Road,
Kew, architects Ussher and Kemp).
In comparison with these house, Astolat is much smaller in scale, but without any
diminution in the amount or quality of decorative features. As such it can be
considered a ‘bijoux’ Queen Anne building.
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The former Astolat Ladies’ College illustrates the era in the late 19th and early 20th
century when secondary education was rarely expected to lead to university for young
women. As it was not socially acceptable for girls to travel by public transport, private
girls’ schools were often local institutions or boarding schools, many of them housed in
converted residences. While the current 1899-1900 building was purpose-built as a
school it is still quite domestic in its scale and detail, only the second front door
suggesting its multiple uses.
NA
NA
NA
significance).
The former Astolat Ladies’ College is an unusual bijoux Queen Anne building displaying
features seen in architect-designed domestic examples from the first decade of the
twentieth century. Despite its diminutive scale, it displays a wealth of high-quality details
in an integrated whole. These include the large arched window with a scrolled hood
mould, diagonal boarding to the front door and sidelight, a range of cladding materials
including bichrome brick, roughcast render, timber shingles and half-timbering, a gable
with half-timbering to its apex above a bay window, casement windows with small multicoloured highlights, bull’s eye window beneath the north chimney, and a steep transverse
gable roof with terracotta ridge capping and a crow-stepped gable to the south side.
NA
significance).
NA
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The former Astolat Ladies’ College has special association with the work of Mary Card
and her sisters, who founded the private school in 1889, and occupied the present site
from about 1891 to 1903, when head teacher Mary Card’s hearing began to significantly
fail. Mary Card went on to become internationally famous in her subsequent career, that
of a designer of crochet patterns published in Australia, England and the United States.
This, most significant, phase of her life is better represented by her house, Carinya, in
Olinda. The former Astolat schoolhouse of 1899-1900 is incidental to the reason for Mary
Card’s fame, so this aspect is only of historical interest.
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The former Astolat Ladies’ College, 59 Auburn Road, Hawthorn. Astolat was founded by
sisters Mary and Rosina Card in 1889 and shortly moved to this site, after it was
purchased by their father, David Card, in 1890. When it first opened its doors, the site at
59 Auburn Road contained a brick school building of two rooms, and had 74 students
(both female and male). Mary Card was the Head Teacher of the college, her sister
Harriet ran the kindergarten, and their mother was in charge of boarders.
The school building was enlarged, or more likely rebuilt, in 1899-1900 to its present size
of eight rooms. It is an attic-style bichrome brick building with a transverse gable roof and
a high level of mostly Queen Anne detailing. The school operated here until 1903, when
Mary Card retired due to her failing hearing. She went on to become famous for her
crochet patterns, published in Australia, England and the United States.
The current front porch, added in 1932 for owner Joseph Le Pine of Le Pine & Sones
funeral parlours, is sympathetic in its design.
While the two mature Norfolk Island Pines in the front yard provide an attractive setting,
due to their relatively young age (40-50 years), they are not considered to be of heritage
significance.
The former Astolat Ladies’ College is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the
City of Boroondara.
Historically, as a purpose-built private school, which is domestic in its scale and detail so
ask to fit comfortably into its residential setting, its original use signalled by its two front
doors. The former Astolat is a tangible illustration of the era in the late 19 th and early 20th
century when secondary education was rarely expected to lead to university for young
women. As it was not socially acceptable for girls to travel by public transport, private
girls’ schools were often local institutions or boarding schools, many of them in middleclass suburbs such as Hawthorn. (Criterion A)
Aesthetically, as an unusual bijoux Queen Anne building of the domestic type. Despite its
diminutive scale, it displays a wealth of high-quality details in an integrated whole. These
include the large arched window with a scrolled hood mould, diagonal boarding to the
front door and sidelight, a range of cladding materials including bichrome brick, roughcast
render, timber shingles and half-timbering, a gable with half-timbering to its apex above a
bay window, casement windows with small multi-coloured highlights, bull’s eye window
beneath the north chimney, and a steep transverse gable roof with terracotta ridge
capping and a crow-stepped gable to the south side. (Criterion E)
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Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Identified By
M. Gould, Hawthorn Heritage Study, 1993.
References
Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), Sally O’Neill, ‘Mary Card (1861-1940),
http://adb.anu.edu.au/, viewed July 2013.
BEMJ: Building, Engineering and Mining Journal, as cited.
Built Heritage (2012), ‘City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History’.
City of Boroondara Building Permit (BP) information, including ‘City of Hawthorn, Notice
of intention to build’, with plans, dated 26/11/1932.
Design
&
Art
Australia
Online
(D&AAO),
‘Mary
Card
biography’,
http://www.daao.org.au/bio/mary-card/biography/, accessed July 2013.
Jefferis, Barbara (1982), Sisters, Three of a Kind, Carlton South.
Lovell Chen, place citation for 'Shenley Croft' in 'Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew,
Camberwell and Hawthorn', 2006.
Mary Cards Coach House, ‘History’, http://www.marycards.com.au/, accessed July 2013.
McWilliams, Gwen, ‘Upper Hawthorn Walk’ pamphlet, via personal communication with
Hawthorn Historical Society, 2013.
MMBW detailed plan, accessed online via State Library of Victoria.
National Gallery of Australia (NGA), http://artsearch.nga.gov.a/, accessed July 2013.
Peel, Victoria, Deborah Zion & Jane Yule (1993), A History of Hawthorn, Melbourne.
RB: City of Hawthorn rate books: 1892, Rate No. 4886; 1899-1900, Rate No. 6252; 190001, Rate No. 6255.
Sands & McDougall Directory (S&Mc), accessed at the State Library of Victoria.
The Argus.
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RIVERSDALE HOTEL
Address: 277 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
Name: Riversdale Hotel
Survey Date: 24 August 2012
Architect: William Pitt
Builder:
Extent of Overlay: To the extent of the footprint of the
three-storey hotel and the two-storey addition to the east
end of the Riversdale Road frontage, i.e. the 1888 extent
of the property (refer to the proposed HO map below).
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Historical Context
Locality
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the expanding transport network (trains
and trams) had a major impact on commercial development. In the 1880s the extension
of the railway caused a boom of retail expansion in the existing commercial strips on
Glenferrie Road, Auburn Road and Burke Road, as well as the establishment of new
retail centre around Canterbury and Surrey Hill stations (Built Heritage 2012:98).
The first horse-drawn tram terminus was established in January 1890 at the corner of
Riversdale and Auburn roads. As a result, the intersection became the centre of a new
commercial precinct, which included the Riversdale Hotel (City of Boroondara Local
History Wiki). By this date the Auburn and Burwood roads intersection was a wellestablished retail centre (Peel et al., 1993:111; Gould 1993:54).
The name of the locality where the Riversdale Hotel, at the corner of Auburn and
Riversdale roads, has been variously referred to as Hawthorn (Argus, 2 Sep 1889:3) and
Auburn (Argus 9 Jan 1901:1; 11 Oct 1897:1; Argus, 12 Jul 1938:4; 25 Aug 1956:34).
Hotels
The first licensed premises within the City of Boroondara is said to have been the
Queen's Arms Hotel at the corner of Yarra Street and Burwood Road, Hawthorn,
established 1851. With the opening of the first road bridge across the Yarra River, the
area became more accessible and many hotels opened along Burwood Road, including
the Red Lion Hotel (1852) and the Hawthorn Hotel (1853), as well as the Bridge Hotel on
Church Street (1854). There was a concentration of hotels built in Hawthorn, with the
following built in 1855: the Beehive Hotel on Church Street, the Governor Hotham Hotel
on William Street, the Sir Robert Nickle Hotel on Burwood Road and Fletcher's Hotel on
the corner of Burwood and Glenferrie roads (Built Heritage 2012:105).
It was a tendency for hotels to be built on major intersections, as was the case with the
hotels that appeared through the more sparsely populated districts of the current City of
Boroondara. The early temperance movement in the City of Boroondara was evident in
1874, when the Council resolved to oppose most new licensed houses. Later, in 1920,
the City of Camberwell became a 'dry area' after a local option poll caused the closure of
all hotels and licensed premises in the City (Built Heritage 2012:15, 106).
Development during the 1880s Boom era, and the consequent residential subdivisions,
saw a new burst of hotel construction, particularly along the railway lines, as evident in
the Glenferrie Hotel (1889), the Palace Hotel, Camberwell (1890) and Allen's Auburn
Hotel (1887), to name a few (Built Heritage 2012:106).
In the twentieth century, many hotels received an upgrade as a result of an amendment
made to the Liquor Licensing Act (amended in 1920 after the local option poll), which
enabled the Liquor Licensing Court to approve or disapprove plans for new hotels and to
order improvements to existing ones where necessary. While this legislation closed some
hotels, many were remodelled or entirely rebuilt, as was the case with the Tower Hotel,
rebuilt in 1939 on the opposite corner at 686 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East, with the
original Tower Hotel later demolished. This remodelling continued in the post-war era.
Architects that were prominent in the redesign of hotels in the area during this period
include R H McIntyre and P J O'Connor (Built Heritage 2012:107; Grow 2009:40).
History
In 1853, Robert Cam sold land on (what is now) the corner of Auburn and Riversdale
roads to Edward Sayce (LV: Old Law Note no. 8715). In 1876, Sayce's land totalled just
over 6 acres. In 1883, the land was sold to Henry William Hackeet, accountant, who
proceeded to subdivide it. In August 1884, a portion including the current No 277 was
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sold to Anna Lamond, gentlewoman of 'St Romans', Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, who
further subdivided the land (LV: V823/F486; V1499/F773).
Anna Lamond sold the block that comprises number 277 to Margaret Ryan, widow, in
May 1888. In June of the same year the property was sold to John Joseph Rosney,
gentleman (LV: V1602/F306; V2025/898; V2499/606).
An 1888 building journal (Building Engineering and Mining Journal 25 Aug 1888: suppl.
5) notes that a tender was accepted by architect William Pitt in August 1888 for the
erection of a hotel in Auburn, for J Rosney, which accords with the Riversdale Hotel (Peel
et al., 1993:111).
John J Rosney, of Burwood Road, Hawthorn, gentleman applied to obtain a victualler's
license 'for a new house proposed to be built and situate at the corner of Riversdale and
Auburn roads' which is described to contain 'forty four rooms exclusive of those required
for the use of [Rosney's] family and servants, at least 30 of the said rooms being
bedrooms' (Argus, 3 Nov 1888:21). Rosney held the license from 1890-93 (City of
Boroondara Wiki).
Rosney is first listed in the Sands & McDougall directories on Auburn Road, near the
corner of Riversdale Road in 1889. It is not until 1890 that the Riversdale Hotel itself is
mentioned in the directories, operated by J Rosney.
Figure 1. Early view of Riversdale Hotel, nd. (Local History Photograph - Hawthorn 1387,
Boroondara Library Service)
The 1904 MMBW plan shows the hotel as having a U-shaped plan (the arms of the U
extending east) with toilets and a long stable block at the rear (the toilets are just visible
in the early views held by the Boroondara Library). This portion of the site is currently
occupied by a two-storey extension to the hotel.
Rosney's widow, Annie, held the license from 1894 to 1922 and became the owner of the
Riversdale Hotel in January 1898 (LV: V2692/F334; City of Boroondara Wiki). After Annie
Rosney's death in 1930, the hotel was passed to Ellen Corry, widow, and William Hoare,
solicitor, in March 1933. In January 1935, James Parsons, hotelkeeper, became the
owner and held the license for three years (LV: V2692/F334; City of Boroondara Wiki).
From 1938 to 1978, Riversdale Investments Pty Ltd are listed as the owner. An article in
the Argus in 1938 (12 Jul 1938:4) reports that James Stewart Parsons transferred the
hotel license of Riversdale Hotel, Auburn, to Harry Thom, who held it for one year.
Clarence Williams held the license for the hotel from 1939 to 1951 (City of Boroondara
Wiki). In 1978, VAR & G Zagame Pty Ltd became the registered owners. In 1991, one
third of ownership was transferred to Lou Nominees (LV: V5836/F013; V8921/F556).
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An early photo shows the north and west facades with urns on the parapet, and an
arched pediment to the corner of the parapet (Boroondara library collection, Riversdale
Hotel, no date). This detail was removed prior to 1967, and replaced with a modest
triangular pediment. In 1967 the rusticated render and quoins to openings at the ground
floor was hacked off and replaced with the present flat render finish. Also the arched
doorway to the Tabaret (on the north elevation) was created at this time. The architects
of the works were McIntyre, McIntyre & Associates with builders Moushall & Houston
(City of Boroondara Building Permit records, Permit 7058, 30/05/1967). It is not known
precisely when the two-storey addition was constructed to the Riversdale Road facade,
but it was prior to 1967, and could have been the 'alterations and additions' of 1955 (City
of Boroondara Building Permit records, Permit 794, 1955). A building permit was granted
in 1971 for the installation of a cantilevered verandah (City of Boroondara Building Permit
records, Permit 9638, 26/07/1971), but it is not known if this went ahead.
Figure 2. View of Riversdale Hotel, 1968, just after the ground-floor render detail had been
removed. (Wolfgang Sievers, National Library of Australia)
William Pitt, Architect
William Pitt (1855-1918) was born in Melbourne and was both a politician and an
architect. Designing mostly public buildings, his most prominent works became
exemplars of the Boom Style of 'Marvellous Melbourne' in the 1880s. Following his
studies, he served his articles with architect George Brown and began to practice in
1879. In his first year he won first prize for his design of the Melbourne Coffee Palace on
Bourke Street, one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne at the time with its five storeys,
and the city's first temperance hotel (Goad 2012:542).
Pitt's early works, commissioned through competitions, include the Falls' (Queen's)
Bridge (1880), the Premier Permanent Building Society's Offices (1880) and 'Our
Lodgings' (1883; now Gordon House) on Little Bourke Street; and tenement lodgings built
for theatrical entrepreneur George Coppin (Goad 2012:542).
In 1886, Pitt designed St Peter's parsonage at Eastern Hill (ADB). In the same year, Pitt
designed the Princess Theatre in Spring Street, the third theatre on the site, in the
French Second Empire style. In addition, Pitt collaborated with competition winners
Ellerker & Kilburn for the design of the 500-room Federal Coffee Palace on the corner of
King and Collins streets (1887-90), before completing Classical designs for St Kilda Town
Hall (1887) and Brunswick Town Hall (c1889) (Goad 2012: 543).
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He adopted the Venetian form of the Gothic Revival style for commercial offices, as
evident in the Olderfleet Building (1888), Stock Exchange (1888-91) and Rialto Building
(1889), all located on Collins Street. These, along with the Safe Deposit Building (1890)
on Queen Street, were all multi-level office buildings with superior Gothic Revival detail
(Goad 2012: 543).
Pitt also designed hotels during, and beyond, this period. They include Waterloo Cup
Hotel, Ascot Vale (1887), Leitrim Hotel, Little Lonsdale Street (1888); the Riversdale
Hotel, Hawthorn (1888-9); the Markillies Hotel, Flinders Street (1890) and the Lord Clyde
Hotel (now the Waterside), Flinders Street (1915).
Partnering with architect Albion Walkley in 1900, their firm took on a number of diverse
projects, which included industrial buildings and many theatre buildings throughout
Victoria, Sydney, Adelaide, as well as New Zealand (Goad 2012:543-4; ADB).
The Riversdale Hotel stands on the south-east corner of Auburn and Riversdale roads. It
addresses the corner with a chamfered bay. It is Italianate in style, typical of the Boom
era of the 1880s. The building is three storeys in height and is terminated with an open
balustrade. It is surrounded by two-storey buildings of a similar era and by virtue of its
situation, scale and level of architectural pretension, it is a landmark building.
The entire building is finished in cement render, including the Renaissance Revival
details such as triangular pediments and segmentally arched pediments resting on
corbels to the first and second storeys, respectively. The centre of the Auburn Road
facade is defined by three-bay arcades at both of the upper levels. This is the most
ornate part of the building with scrolled keystones to the arches and engaged Corinthian
columns with fluted bases and swags around the middle on either side of the arches.
There are simple moulded cornices between the floors with a modillioned cornice below
the parapet.
As noted in the history, in 1967 the ground floor was simplified, with the rusticated render
and render voussoirs to the arched door and window openings stripped off and replaced
with plain render. The course of rock-faced bluestone at the base was retained, as were
the openings themselves. The window and door joinery, however, was replaced. Also
before this time the urns to the balustrade and arched pediment to the chamfered corner
were removed. The arched pediment was replaced by a smaller and simpler triangular
pediment.
No other buildings designed by William Pitt in the City of Boroondara are specifically
identified in Heritage Victoria's Hermes database. However, the Australia Architectural
Index records up to 10 commissions undertaken by William Pitt (including those by his
later partnership, Pitt & Walkley, up until the time of his death in 1915) in the current City
of Boroondara. Most of them are houses, with a few garages and shops. The Riversdale
Hotel is his only recorded design of this type in Boroondara.
The Riversdale Hotel is one of a number of Boom-era hotels of the late 19th-century to
survive in the City of Boroondara, including:
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x
Allen's Auburn Hotel (1887), 87 Auburn Road, Hawthorn (Individually significant
in HO260). A grand, highly intact, three-storey corner hotel designed by architect
William Wolf in the French Renaissance style. On both frontages it has a doubleheight open arcade at the centre of the elevation, with trabeated (rectangular)
openings at the first floor and arches at the second floor.
Glenferrie Hotel (1889), 324-326 Burwood Road, Hawthorn (Individually
significant in HO491). Unusual for hotels of this era as it is not on a corner site.
The three-storey building is in the Italianate Boom style, with the most ornate
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detail the large broken pediment at the centre of the parapet. Some alterations to
the ground floor, including the enlargement of openings and replacement of the
doors.
Canterbury Mansions (former Malone's Family Hotel, 1889), 208 Canterbury
Road, Canterbury (VHR H869, HO29). A three-storey hotel corner with tower in
the Italianate Boom Style, highly intact.
Palace Hotel, Camberwell (1890), 893 Burke Road, Camberwell (Individually
significant in HO505). A three-storey corner hotel in the Italianate Boom style with
an octagonal tower. Some alterations, including infilling nearly all openings at the
first floor level, and replacement of most ground-floor windows and doors.
The Riversdale Hotel shares the Italianate detailing of most of Boroondara's Boom-era
hotels, and shares the double-height arcade motif with the Auburn Hotel. Like the other
three corner hotels, its height, size and prominent position give it landmark qualities. In
intactness, it is comparable to the Palace Hotel.
The Riversdale Hotel illustrates the new burst of hotel construction that came with the
new residential subdivisions and the overall property development boom of the late
1880s. The Riversdale Hotel was the anchor for the commercial precinct which grew up
around the intersection of Riversdale and Auburn roads, accelerated by the coming of a
horse-drawn tram terminus in January 1890, just after the hotel was built.
This is the only hotel and major commercial building by architect William Pitt known in the
City of Boroondara.
Not applicable
The Riversdale Hotel is one of a number of late 19th-century hotels in the City of
Boroondara which has a prominent corner site, a larger scale than the surrounding twostorey commercial buildings - making it stand out even more, and the use of the
Classical-inspired Boom style.
significance).
The Riversdale Hotel is a representative example of the Italianate Boom style, as
practiced by leading architect William Pitt. Significant features, drawn from the
Renaissance Revival and executed in cement render, include triangular and segmentally
arched pediments to upper-storey windows, a balustrade parapet, and an ornate doublestorey arcade at the centre of the Auburn Road facade.
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significance).
The Riversdale Hotel has been both a local meeting place and a local landmark since its
construction in 1888. It is still employed for its original use.
The Riversdale Hotel has associations with its designer, architect William Pitt (18551918). Pitt was one of the leading practitioners of the 'Boom style' in 1880s Melbourne,
designing major landmarks ranging from Queen's Bridge, the Princess Theatre, St Kilda
and Brunswick town halls, the suite of Venetian Gothic Olderfleet, Stock Exchange and
Rialto buildings, and numerous local hotels.
The Riversdale Hotel, 277 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, designed by architect William Pitt
and constructed in 1888 for owner John J Rosney. The hotel was run by JJ Rosney until
his death in the early 1890s, after which his widow, Annie Rosney, was the owner and
licensee until 1930.
The two-storey addition to the east side of the Riversdale Road frontage is not significant.
The Riversdale Hotel is of local aesthetic, architectural and historic significance to the
City of Boroondara.
The Riversdale Hotel is of aesthetic and architectural significance as a representative
example of the Italianate Boom style of the late 1880s as applied to a major commercial
building. Typical features of this style include Renaissance-inspired triangular and
segmentally arched pediments to upper-storey windows, a balustrade parapet, and an
ornate double-storey arcade at the centre of the Auburn Road facade, all executed in
cement render. (Criterion E)
The Riversdale Hotel is of architectural significance as a rare commercial design by
William Pitt in the City of Boroondara. Pitt (1855-1918) was one of the leading
practitioners of the 'Boom style' in 1880s metropolitan Melbourne, designing major
landmarks ranging from Queen's Bridge, the Princess Theatre, St Kilda and Brunswick
town halls, the suite of Venetian Gothic Olderfleet, Stock Exchange and Rialto buildings,
and numerous local hotels. (Criterion H)
The Riversdale Hotel is of historic significance as a local landmark and gathering place as licensed premises - since it was built in 1888. It provided a visual and economic
anchor to the new commercial precinct which grew at the intersection of Auburn and
Riversdale roads, accelerated by the coming of a horse-drawn tram terminus in January
1890, just after the hotel was built. The hotel also illustrates the new burst of hotel
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construction that came with the new residential subdivisions and the overall property
development boom of late 1880s metropolitan Melbourne. (Criteria A & G)
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notice and review?
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No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Identified By
M Gould, 'Hawthorn Heritage Study', 1993.
References
Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), 'William Pitt', http://adb.anu.edu.au/, accessed
29/10/12.
Australasian Builder and Contractor's News, 18 August 1887, viewed in Miles Lewis'
Australian Architectural Index.
Boroondara Library collection, http://boroondara.spydus.com/, accessed 6 Sep 2012.
Building Engineering and Mining Journal, 25 August 1888: supplement 5, viewed in Miles
Lewis' Australian Architectural Index.
City of Boroondara Local History Wiki, 'Riversdale Hotel',
http://coblocalhistory.pbworks.com/, accessed 24/10/12.
Goad, Philip, 'William Pitt' in Philip Goad and Julie Willis' (eds) (2012), The Encyclopedia
of Australian Architecture, Cambridge.
Gould, Meredith (1993), 'Hawthorn Heritage Study', Vol 1A, prepared for Hawthorn City
Council.
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Grow, Robin (2009), Melbourne Art Deco, Collingwood.
Land Victoria (LV), Certificates of Title and Old Law Notes, as cited above.
MMBW: Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, Detail Plan 1540, City of
Hawthorn.
National Library of Australia (NLA), picture collection, http://www.nla.gov.au/, accessed 6
Sep 12.
Peel, Victoria, Deborah Zion & Jane Yule (1993), A History of Hawthorn, Carlton.
Sands & McDougal directories.
The Argus.
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Address: 287 - 289 Auburn Road, Hawthorn
Name: Butcher's Shop and Residence, former
Architect:
Builder:
Historical Context
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the expanding transport network (trains
and trams) had a major impact on commercial development. In the 1880s the extension
of the railway caused a boom of retail expansion in the existing commercial strips on
Glenferrie Road, Auburn Road and Burke Road, as well as the establishment of new
retail centre around Canterbury and Surrey Hill stations (Built Heritage 2012:98).
The first horse-drawn tram terminus was established in January 1890 at the corner of
Riversdale and Auburn roads. As a result, the intersection became the centre of a new
commercial precinct (City of Boroondara Local History Wiki).
By 1890 the Auburn and Burwood roads intersection was a well-established retail centre
(Gould 1993:54). By 1900, Kew Junction, Camberwell Junction and the hub at the
intersection of Glenferrie and Burwood roads were the established pre-eminent retail
areas, while Auburn Road in Hawthorn East followed close behind (Built Heritage
2012:100).
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History
In 1908, William Carr, butcher (of Auburn Road) became the owner of land that included
287-289 Auburn Road (LV: V3259/F684).
Prior to this date (from at least 1900, as confirmed in the street directories) W A Carr had
run a butcher's shop a few doors down from the current building, on Auburn Road just
north of Broomfield Road (then number 223). By 1910, William A Carr, butcher was
operating further north at what is now 287-289 Auburn Road (then numbers 209-211),
while this site had been noted as vacant land a year earlier (S&Mc directories), giving a
built date of 1909-10. The site of Carr's previous shop was shown as vacant land in 1910,
suggesting it had been demolished.
The architect of the building at what is now 287-289 Auburn Road has not been
identified. While stylistically it has much in common with the work of architect Robert
Haddon, no tender notice for the building could be located, nor is the designer recorded
in the City of Boroondara buildings files.
The Hawthorn City Council approved the registration of 'W A Carr, butcher, 211 Auburn
Road' at their 13 July 1910 meeting (Box Hill Reporter, 22 July 1910: 7). By 1918 the
street numbering had changed, and 'W A Carr, Wholesale and Retail Butcher' was
advertising from 287-289 Auburn Road (Hawthorn, Kew and Camberwell Citizen, 19 April
1918: 3). 'W A Carr Butcher' remains inscribed on the parapet of the building.
Carr later subdivided his property and in July 1936, the shops and residence at 287-289
were sold to Charles Lloyd (LV: V3259/684).
The shop at number 287 had 'alterations' carried out in 1987, for owner Rushbank Pty
Ltd. The shop front of number 289 was rebuilt in 1973 by G&G Shop Fitters, for owner A
Rouge. In 1987, a brick 'factory' was built at number 289 for owner J C Morley (Council
building files); this appears to be at the rear of the site.
The former W.A. Carr's Butcher Shop is a two-storey brick building with two shops to the
ground floor and an upstairs residence, with its entrance between the shops. The walls
are of red brick with render dressings in the Federation Freestyle style (also called the
Edwardian Baroque). The building is distinguished by its unusual design, evocative of the
work of architect Robert Haddon, particularly details such as 'pepper-pot' pinnacles to the
parapet and the wide tiled arch.
The ground floor is divided into three sections of differing size. At number 287 is a narrow
shopfront with a central recessed entry. It retains its original metal-framed shopfront with
frosted glass highlights, a glazed timber door, and tiled stallboard (overpainted). Next to it
is a narrow recessed entry to the upstairs residence (number 289A), which retains its
original doorway (three-panelled door with an arched light, small sidelight and two
highlights with simple leadlights in them, and a bluestone lintel). The south half of the
facade comprises a larger shopfront (likely the location of Carr's butcher shop).
All parts of the ground floor share a timber-framed skillion verandah with simple vertical
slats at either end. It is suspended on cables, which may have been a later alteration to
an originally posted verandah.
The upper floor is symmetrical in form, divided into three bays by plain brick pilasters.
The central bay is the most striking, and is almost wholly taken up by a large round-
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headed arch with a very fine bead around the edge executed in moulded red brick. At the
centre of the arch is a simple render keystone, and the sides of the arch rest on dwarf
piers with Art Nouveau capitals. Between the piers is a balustrade of hit-and-miss brick.
The spandrels of the arch are filled with grass-green tiles. Set behind the arch is a
balcony for the residence.
The two side bays each have a canted oriel window resting on two curved timber
brackets and set beneath a tiled hood resting on larger curved brackets infilled with slats
(like the verandah ends). The windows are casements with segmentally arched tops
below leadlight highlights (similar to those above the entry door).
Apart from the arch at the centre of the first floor, the other most striking feature of the
facade is the parapet, which is divided into three bays by octagonal pinnacles with
Baroque-inspired 'pepper-pot' tops. They taper off to a point where they meet the brick
pilasters, at the top of the first floor facade. The two side bays of the parapet are of plain
brick with moulded cement dressings above and below. The central bay of the parapet,
however, is finished in smooth render (with raised lettering: W.A. CARR. BUTCHER.). It
is higher than the two sides, as are the flanking pinnacles, and follows an undulating
arch, typical of the Federation Freestyle.
The roof is not visible behind the front or side parapets, but there is a corbelled brick
chimney on the north and south sides, near the front.
All of the rendered details of the facade (stringcourses, cornice, engaged 'columns',
arched parapet) are free from modern paint. There are hints of a yellowish colour on
sheltered parts of the render, suggesting it may have been limewashed or colourwashed
originally. Optimally, this should be investigated before any repainting/recoating so that
the original colour and finish type can be reinstated. There is a faded painted sign on the
upper part of the north wall (number 287).
At the rear of number 289 is a single storey wing which is attached to a two-storey,
gabled stables at the back of the property, all in the same red facebrick as the main
building.
External alterations to the building noted are as follows: The tiled stallboard to number
287 has been overpainted, as has the facebrick around the shopfront and entrance to
number 289A. The entire shopfront at number 289 has been replaced with an
unsympathetic modern one. All windows (all with segmentally arched brick lintels and
bluestone sills) to the south side elevation of number 289 and the stables at the rear
have been filled in with brick, as have the upper-level openings to the stables. A large
opening for a modern roller door was also created to the east elevation of the stables.
This was likely part of the works to create a factory in the rear yard in 1987.
Buildings comparable to W.A. Carr's Butcher Shop, in style, creativity and intactness are
small in number in the City of Boroondara. The handful of suitable examples found are:
x
108-112 Maling Road, Canterbury (Individually Significant to HO145) - Built 1914.
Three identical two-storey shops in a row with residences above (each with a
recessed balcony). Render with brick accents (mainly overpainted). Each shop
has an identical undulating-curved parapet between projecting piers with pepperpot caps. Hit-and-miss brick band to balconies and simple leadlight windows on
either side. Shops retain their metal and tiled shopfronts and timber posted
verandah.
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Former State Savings Bank, 851 Burke Road, Camberwell (Individually
Significant to HO505) - Built 1907. A large, two-storey red brick and render
building with octagonal engaged piers dividing the four bays. The ground floor
openings are arched and above them are very ornate floral reliefs. The two wide
bays of the first floor have canted oriel windows with ornate leadlights above the
casement windows. The simple red brick parapet is divided by the tops of the
octagonal piers of varying sizes. A building of very high quality and formal detail.
x
Hawthorn Fire Station, 66-68 Williams Street (VHR H1327) - Built 1910 to a
design by Oakden and Ballentyne. A fine example of a Federation Freestyle
building in red brick with minimal render dressings and Art Nouveau-inspired
wrought iron detail. Quite different in form and detail to Carr's Butcher Shop,
apart from the large round-headed arches to the ground-floor window and garage
entries, and the used of miniature curved parapets at the corner of the roof
(suggesting a tower).
In comparison to the Maling Road shops, Carr's Butcher Shop is of comparable
intactness (while it only retains one of two original shopfronts, its brick and render have
not been overpainted), and is a more striking architectural composition. In comparison to
the former Bank, its detailing is more domestic and quality of the renderwork not as
exquisite, but its parapet is of greater interest. (It is far more intact, as well, as all that
remains of the Bank is its facade.)
Further afield, in the City of Yarra, two more comparable buildings were noted, neither of
whose architect has been identified, but similarities to Robert Haddon's work was noted:
x
162-164 Bridge Road, Richmond (Individually Significant to HO310), c1900-15.
Similar materials palette (red brick and unpainted render), undulating curve to
parapet and pepper-pot pinnacles.
x
486-488 Bridge Road, Richmond, (Individually Significant to HO310), 1917 (488)
& 1924 (486 - dates on parapet). Similar materials palette (red brick and
unpainted render), use of round arch with green tiled spandrels (though here with
a Saracenic flavour), unusual pinnacles to parapet (here with ball at top).
The complex of butcher's shop and stables demonstrates the importance of horse-drawn
transport to businesses in the 19th and early 20th century.
A rare example in Boroondara of the Federation Freestyle.
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Not applicable.
Not applicable.
significance).
The former Carr's Butcher Shop is a distinguished example of the Federation Freestyle of
the ilk practiced by architect Robert Haddon among others. The designer of this building
has not been identified. It demonstrates the use of red facebrick paired with render
dressings, the strong round arch to the balcony, Art Nouveau inspired detail such as the
floral capitals, and the distinctive parapet with a curved central bay and articulated with
octagonal pinnacles with pepper-pot tops.
Not applicable.
significance).
Not applicable.
Not applicable.
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The former W.A. Carr's Butcher Shop and Residence at 287-289 Auburn Road,
Hawthorn, built in 1909-1910 for local butcher William A Carr and owned and occupied
by him until 1936. It is a two-storey brick building with render dressings which
incorporates two shopfronts and a residential entrance at the ground floor, residence at
the upper level. The upper level is articulated with two timber oriel windows and a central
balcony behind a large arch.
The building is significant to the extent of the original fabric, later alterations and
additions are not significant. The two-storey stables at the rear of number 289 is
contributory.
The former Carr's Butcher Shop is of local architectural and historic significance to the
City of Boroondara.
The former Carr's Butcher Shop is well-preserved and distinguished example of the
Federation Freestyle of the ilk practiced by architect Robert Haddon. It demonstrates the
use of red facebrick paired with render dressings, the strong round arch to the balcony,
Art Nouveau inspired detail such as the floral capitals, and the distinctive parapet with a
curved central bay and articulated with octagonal pinnacles with pepper-pot tops. It is
also notable for the survival of the render in an unpainted condition. (Criterion E)
The complex of butcher's shop and stables demonstrates the importance of horse-drawn
transport to businesses in the 19th and early 20th century, when most businesses had to
maintain their own cart and horses for everyday use. (Criterion A)
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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Identified By
References
Boroondara City Council, building files, 287 & 289 Auburn Road.
Council.
Sands & McDougall (S&Mc) directories, dates as cited above.
The Box Hill Reporter.
The Hawthorn, Kew and Camberwell Citizen.
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Address: 23 Morang Road, Hawthorn
Name: Jones-Evan House (Gallery House)
Survey Date: Jan 2013
Architect: Dale Jones-Evans
Builder:
Historical Context
Architects making homes for themselves
An interesting sub-theme expressed in post war middle-class housing across Boroondara
is the above-average proportion of dwellings that were designed by noted Melbourne
architects for themselves and their families.
This trend continued into the 1960s and beyond, during which the geographical focus
moved from the high concentration around Studley Park to Hawthorn, Kew, Kew East
and Camberwell. In the later 1970s, three houses in the study area designed by
architects for their own occupation won major architectural awards three years in a row.
These include the respective residences of Norman Day in Hawthorn (1973), John Kenny
in Kew (1978), and Kevin Makin in Hawthorn (1979).
Other architects who, in more recent years, have designed new houses for
themselves in the study area include prominent architects John Wardle and Sean
Godsell.
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A consistent feature of these houses is their individuality and their striving for new and
sophisticated architectural expression. They are rarely contextual with the predominant
neighbourhood character.
Dale Jones-Evans, architect
Dale Jones-Evans was born in Melbourne in 1955 and completed his studies at the
Caulfield Institute of Technology and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Design &
Art Australia). Between 1983 and 1987 Jones-Evans partnered with Roger Wood and
Randal Marsh to form the partnership 'Biltmoderne'. An example of their work is unique
Macrae and Way Film Production offices (1985) at 3 Francis Street, South Melbourne
(Goad 1999:216).
Practicing as Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architecture, he moved the office to Potts Point in
Sydney in 1993 (Design & Art Australia Online). The multi-disciplinary firm promotes its
'multivalent architecture', which 'integrates sculptural and painterly space with
environmental and contextual performance'. The firm is engaged in commercial, leisure
and residential projects in Australia and America (Dale Jones-Evans architecture; City
Architects).
History
In July 1988, Brenda Jones-Evans of Elgin Street Hawthorn, purchased 23 Morang Road
(LV: V7865/085). Architect Dale Jones-Evans designed the existing house, called
'Gallery House', built for his mother in 1987-1990. However, Built Heritage suggests that
the house was built for himself (Built Heritage 2012:149-50; Dale Jones-Evans
architecture).
In 1991, Jones-Evans' 'Gallery House' was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of
Architects (RAIA) National Robyn Boyd Award for Most Outstanding Domestic
Architecture. In the same year he also received the RAIA Victorian Merit Award for
Outstanding Architecture, for the house (Dale Jones-Evans architecture).
The Gallery house, designed and built by Dale Jones-Evans in 1987-90, is an early
example of the innovative work of this architect. It is an idiosyncratic house with design
elements drawn from a number of sources and assembled in linear form to suit the
narrow block. It is described by the architect as “a series of strung out pavilions,
cantilevered and suspended rooms are assembled around a series of designed
courtyard-gardens. The central spine made of bridges connects the spaces through a
journey of vistas and voids”.
A wall at the front of the site has an Eastern-inspired gateway with a wall behind,
ensuring that anyone approaching the house must turn to right or left rather than going
straight ahead. The house is a series of thin cantilevered pavilions clad in different
materials, with rooves extending to form porches. To the south side a long extruded form
half barrel vault clad in curved corrugated iron provides a counterpoint in form to that of
the rectilinear form elsewhere in the design. The 'half barrel' element is the dominant
form through which the ‘boxes’ are attached.
To the front elevation, the house presents with a cantilevered ‘box’. The box concludes
with a frame that extends at an almost impossible distance into the front garden at first
floor level, is clad in zinc ‘fish tail’ shingles and encloses a recessed balcony with glass
balustrade.
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The built form is arranged around several courtyard gardens, one of which is large
enough to provide outdoor living space. The articulation of the building form provides
views from the inside the house to the internal garden space different vantages.
The north and south elevations are radically different. A curved iron addition to the south
contrasts with the rectilinear forms of the north including small decks and horizontal sun
screens. The Gallery House is unusual, distinctive and sets the tone for some of the
radical experiments carried out later by Jones-Evans and the firm of Biltmoderne. The
house has retained its integrity and has no visible external alterations. It is in excellent
condition and appears to be highly intact.
Comparative analysis for the Gallery House is best described as part of a tradition of
architects’ own houses that aim for innovative design and best fit for themselves, as well
as showcasing their work. When this has been demonstrated through accolades from the
RAIA awards process, there is a firm foundation on which to expect an enduring
architecture. There are no useful stylistic comparisons for the Gallery House.
Furthermore this building is the most recently constructed and assessed to be of heritage
significance in the City of Boroondara.
The Gallery house is part of a large group of individual architect designed houses located
in the suburbs of Kew, Hawthorn and Camberwell from the two decades of the 1970s to
1990s. Others include:
x John Kenny’s own house at 7 Raven Street Kew (1978)).
x House, 45 Morang Road, Hawthorn (1979) – Kevin Makin's own (award-winning)
house (also recommended for an HO).
x House, 8 Hodgson Street, Kew (1997) – Sean Godsell's own (internationallypublished) house
x House 1 Kevin Grove Hawthorn (2000) – John Wardle’s own house
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The Gallery House at 23 Morang Road is part of the enduring and ongoing practice of
architects in the post war era building houses for themselves and their families. This
practice stems from the nineteenth century and has been a feature of middle class
housing in Boroondara.
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significance).
The Gallery House, designed and built by architect Dale Jones-Evans, is of architectural
significance for its innovation recognised through the Royal Australian Institute of
Architects Robin Boyd Award for residential buildings in 1991. As Australia’s most
prestigious annual architectural residential housing award, the Robin Boyd Award is
given to houses that set new benchmarks in terms of meeting the client’s needs,
responding to its site, and providing shelter which is at the leading edge of house design.
Dale Jones-Evans later became part of the innovative architectural practice Biltmoderne,
with Randal Marsh and Roger Wood producing some highly innovative buildings.
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significance).
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The Gallery House at 23 Morang Road Hawthorn designed and built between 1987 and
1991 by Dale Jones-Evans is significant.
The Gallery House is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of
Boroondara.
The Gallery House at 23 Morang Road is part of the enduring and ongoing practice of
The Gallery House, designed and built by architect Dale Jones-Evans, is of architectural
significance for its innovation recognised through the Royal Australian Institute of
Architects Robin Boyd Award for residential buildings in 1991. As Australia’s most
prestigious annual architectural residential housing award, the Robin Boyd Award is
given to houses that set new benchmarks in terms of meeting the client’s needs,
responding to its site, and providing shelter which is at the leading edge of house design.
Dale Jones-Evans later became part of the innovative architectural practice Biltmoderne,
with Randal Marsh and Roger Wood, producing some highly innovative buildings.
Planning Scheme as an individually significant place.
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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Identified By
Built Heritage, 'City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History', 2012
References
City Architects, 'Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architect', http://cityarchitects.com.au/,
accessed 1/11/12
Dale Jones-Evans Architecture, 'Gallery House', http://www.dje.com.au/, accessed
24/10/12.
Design & Art Australia Online, 'Dale Jones-Evans', http://www.daao.org.au/, accessed
1/11/12.
Goad, Philip (1999), Melbourne Architecture, Sydney.
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Makin house
Adopted: 16 February 2015
Revised 1.9.2014
Address: 45 Morang Road, Hawthorn
Name: Makin House
Architect: Kevin Makin
Builder:Max Lehmann
Historical Context
Architects making homes for themselves
An interesting sub-theme expressed in post war middle-class housing across Boroondara
is the above-average proportion of dwellings that were designed by noted Melbourne
architects for themselves and their families.
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This trend continued into the 1960s and beyond, during which the geographical focus
moved from the high concentration around Studley Park to Hawthorn, Kew, Kew East
and Camberwell . In the later 1970s, three houses in the study area designed by
architects for their own occupation won major architectural awards three years in a row.
These include the respective residences of Norman Day in Hawthorn (1973), John Kenny
in Kew (1978), and later houses by John Wardle, Sean Godsell and Dale Jones Evans.
Other architects who, in more recent years, have designed new houses for
themselves in the study area include prominent architects John Wardle and Sean
Godsell.
A consistent feature of these houses is their individuality and their striving for new and
sophisticated architectural expression. They are rarely contextual with the predominant
neighbourhood character.
Kevin Makin, architect (1931-1993)
Kevin Makin was born in 1931 in Adelaide and was both an architect and musician. He
joined the Adelaide practice of Ashton Fisher before also embarking on a career as a
percussionist with the Adelaide symphony orchestra. In 1954 he joined the practice of
Bevan Rutt and Associates where he was trained as a draftsman. His formal architectural
training was completed at the University of Adelaide and RMIT where was awarded a
prize for architectural history. Following his thesis on school libraries he was engaged to
design many of these for Victorian government schools. In 1970 Kevin established his
architectural practice in Hawthorn and carried out commissions for over 20 years.
Kevin was recognised by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) with an
award for new House of the Year in 1979, for 'Makin House' at 45 Morang Road,
Hawthorn. The Age (8 Jan 1979) published an article in 1979, written by RAIA (Vic)
Director John Barker, highlighting his design of a house built in Arthurs Seat which was
recognised for its design solutions that wind and noise problems, as a result of the
house's sea-side location. The Adelaide Building Industry publically recognised his
Blackwell Funeral Home at Henley Beach.
History
In November 1975, 45 Morang Road was sold to the Yannopolous'. In February 1977,
Kevin Makin, architect, and his wife Tanya, became the owners (LV: V3062/F260). Kevin
Makin designed the existing house at 45 Morang Road between 1977 and 1979 (Built
Heritage 2012:150). The current owner (2014) has indicated that plans for extensions
including an additional room at the rear and a deck were prepared by Kevin Makin in
1983; however this has not been confirmed.
The design won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects' (RAIA) bronze medal for the
House of the Year in 1979. The jury described the house as an example of ' how flair and
imagination can achieve a distinguished architectural solution at a minimal cost'
(Heritage Alliance 2008:196; Age 20 Aug 1979). An article in the Age (20 Aug 1979) that
reported on the RAIA awards, written by RAIA (Vic) Director Dennis Carter, noted that
'Makin's brick cube is an architectural understatement. It was not conceived in visual
terms – but designed to a price, and to be a functional house.'
Morang Road has a small linear park, the boundary of which is close to the narrow site
occupied by 45 Morang Road. The proximity to the park and the views of the green
space that could be obtained was a key driver in the design of the Makin House.
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The front elevation consists of a sheer two storey brick wall however a splayed corner
window extends the full two stories, enabling a view of the parkland. The window is
emphasized through a rounded panel above and a square sill below, which is the only
attention to detail given to the front elevation. The house was designed as a ‘two storey
container’ allowing a free flow of space both vertically and horizontally. It represents a
pure and uncompromising design and its extreme simplicity is a powerful object in the
street.
45 Morang Road was built of brick with a painted surface, and is still painted white and
surrounded by landscaping that matches its extreme simplicity. A garage is at the rear of
the site, concealed by side gates. The front garden has terraced walls of crazy patterned
Castlemaine slate and lawn, with a pair of palm trees providing scale to the house itself.
An original pencil light was removed by the current owner due to repeated damage. The
palm trees are distinctive but are not known to have been part of the original landscape
design for this house.
Comparative analysis for the Makin House is best described as part of a tradition of
architects’ own houses that aim for innovative design and best fit for themselves, as well
as showcases for their work. When this has been demonstrated through accolades from
the RAIA awards process, there is a firm foundation on which to expect an enduring
architecture. There is no useful stylistic comparison for the Makin House.
The Makin house is part of a group of houses from the two decades of the 1970s to
1990s. Others include:
x John Kenny’s own house at 7 Raven Street Kew (1978) (to be assessed).
x House, 8 Hodgson Street, Kew (1997) – Sean Godsell's own (internationallypublished) house (considered to be too recent to assess but should be revisited
fro assessment in the future).
x Gallery House at 23 Morang Road, Hawthorn (1991) – Dale Jones- Evans
(recommended for an HO).
x House 1 Kevin Grove Hawthorn (2000) – John Wardle’s own house (considered
to be too recent to assess but should be revisited for assessment in future).
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The Makin House at 45 Morang Road is part of the enduring and ongoing practice of
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significance).
The Makin House, awarded as The Age House of the Year in 1979 is notable as an
architectural understatement and a functional house, designed to a price but achieving a
strong presence. It achieves a striking simplicity and purity of form that is unlike many of
its peers. It is a highly original house with its tall window designed to take in the view of
the park, and its unadorned two storey brick walls.
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significance).
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The Makin House at 45 Morang Road Hawthorn designed and built in 1978-9 by architect
Kevin Makin for his own family is significant.
The Makin House is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of
Boroondara.
The Makin House at 45 Morang Road is part of the enduring and ongoing practice of
The Makin House, awarded as The Age House of the Year in 1979 is notable as an
architectural understatement and a functional house, designed to a price but achieving a
strong presence. It achieves a striking simplicity and purity of form that is unlike many of
its peers. It is a highly original house with its tall window designed to take in the view of
the park, and its unadorned two storey brick walls.
Planning Scheme as an individually Significant place.
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Identified By
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Built Heritage, ‘City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History’, 2012.
References
Heritage Alliance (2008), 'Survey of Post War Built Heritage in Victoria, Department of
Planning and Community Development'.
Kevin Makin Obituary. Architect, August 1993
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TOWER HOTEL
Address: 686-690 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East
Name: Tower Hotel
Builder:
Property No:
Architect: P J O'Connor
Construction Date: c1941
Historical Context
Hotels
The first licensed premises within the City of Boroondara is said to have been the Queen's
Arms Hotel at the corner of Yarra Street and Burwood Road, Hawthorn, established 1851.
With the opening of the first road bridge across the Yarra River, the area became more
accessible and many hotels opened along Burwood Road, including the Red Lion Hotel
(1852) and the Hawthorn Hotel (1853), as well as the Bridge Hotel on Church Street (1854).
There was a concentration of hotels built in Hawthorn, with the following built in 1855: the
Beehive Hotel on Church Street, the Governor Hotham Hotel on William Street, the Sir Robert
Nickle Hotel on Burwood Road and Fletcher's Hotel on the corner of Burwood and Glenferrie
roads (Built Heritage 2012:105).
It was a tendency for hotels to be built on major intersections, as was the case with the hotels
that appeared through the more sparsely populated districts of the current City of Boroondara.
The early temperance movement in the City of Boroondara was evident in 1874, when the
Council resolved to oppose most new licensed houses. Later, in 1920, the City of Camberwell
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became a 'dry area' after a local poll caused the closure of all hotels and licensed premises in
the municipality (Built Heritage 2012:15, 106).
Development during the 1880s Boom era, and the consequent residential subdivisions, saw a
new burst of hotel construction, particularly along the railway lines, as evident in the
Glenferrie Hotel (1889), the Palace Hotel, Camberwell (1890) and Allen's Auburn Hotel
(1887), to name a few (Built Heritage 2012:106).
In the twentieth century, many hotels received an upgrade as a result of an amendment made
to the Liquor Licensing Act (amended in 1920), which enabled the Liquor Licensing Court to
approve or disapprove plans for new hotels and to order improvements to existing ones
where necessary. While this legislation closed some hotels, many were remodelled or entirely
rebuilt to meet the standards of the licensing board, as was the case with the Tower Hotel,
rebuilt c1941 on the opposite corner at 686 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East, with the original
Tower Hotel of 1874 later demolished. This remodelling continued in the post-war era.
Architects that were prominent in the redesign of hotels in the area during this period include
R H McIntyre and P J O'Connor (Built Heritage 2012:107; Grow 2009:40).
History
The existing Tower Hotel at 686-690 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East (then known as Auburn),
was built c1941 (Herald, dated by hand 19/2/41, includes a photo of the completed building).
The site, encompassing the current site of the hotel apart from the carpark on Burwood Road,
was purchased on 30 September 1941 by architect Patrick Joseph O'Connor and
hotelkeepers Julius J and Ethel M Dennis (LV: V6535 F948). The site had been home to the
Hawthorn Market Buildings at the turn of the century (MMBW, Detail Plan 1550, 1903).
The Herald reported on the imminent demolition of the original Tower Hotel across the road
and the relocation of its landmark clock, which was to be transferred next door to Wridgeway
Bros., where a new tower was to be built to house the clock. The article also states that the
new Tower Hotel, yet to be constructed, was designed by architect P J O'Connor. (Note that
previous heritage studies for Hawthorn state that the Tower Hotel was built c1939, as did the
Built Heritage Thematic Environmental History (2012: 109). The 1941 date is more accurate.)
The description in the Herald of 1941 said of the proposed design:
It will be one of the most modern metropolitan hotels. A feature will be that beer will be
cooled in bulk in special cool rooms in the enlarged basement instead of by refrigeration.
The building will be of brick with tile roof and reinforced concrete floors. The corner tower
will be 60ft high. On the ground floor will be public and saloon bars, bottle department,
parlors, and large lounge. Residential and private sections will contain an entrance hall,
several dining rooms, kitchens and office. Staff accommodation will be at the rear. Bar
walls, floors and counters will be tiled [?] with stainless steel fittings and tile exterior.
Under the tower there will be a large sun room. The first floor will include 12 bedrooms
and two suites.
The Tower Hotel was run and owned by Julius and Ethel Dennis from the time it was built.
They had run the previous incarnation of the Tower Hotel from 1937, and before that, the
Coburg Hotel and the Croxton Park Hotel (Argus, 19 June 1937: 16). In 1950 they transferred
the hotel licence to their sons, after which it was known as Dennis' Tower Hotel (Argus, 28
Oct 1950: 31; 4 Apr 1955: 9). In 1954, an article in the Argus (12 Jun 1954:19), notes that P J
O'Connor and Brophy, architects, of 317 Collins Street, invited tenders for 'renovations and
painting' of the Tower Hotel, Auburn. O'Connor remained the owner of 5/11ths of the property
until his death on 19 July 1955, after which his share reverted to Julius and Ethel Dennis (LV:
V6535 F948).
The existing Tower Hotel underwent alterations, thought to date to c1968 (Walking
Melbourne, The Old Tower Hotel). This may be the remodelling of the ground floor windows.
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This date corresponds to the transfer of the property title on 8 July 1968 to Julius and Ethel
Dennis's sons, who formed Dennis Bros. Investments Pty Ltd (LV: V8286 F624).
The original Tower Hotel, with its landmark Italianate clock tower, was located on the southwest corner of Burwood and Camberwell roads (MMBW, Detail Plan 1550, 1903). It was built
in 1874 to a design by architect James Gall. The first publican, from 1874 to 1891, was Anne
Hurley, an unmarried woman (Argus, 11 June 1874: 5). This building was demolished in 1954
(Built Heritage 2012:106; City of Boroondara Library photo collection; Argus, 6 Dec 1954: 10).
P J O'Connor, architect
A majority of O'Connor's work was ecclesiastical buildings and hotel design and remodelling.
John O'Connor, the son of P J O'Connor, provided the following background to his father's
career (cited from Hermes record 26888):
Patrick Joseph O'Connor was born at Melbourne on 23 February 1901, one of thirteen
children of John O'Connor, stationmaster, and his wife Margaret (nee Whelan). He was
educated at a Catholic school in Carnegie and at an early age entered the Victorian
Railways Architects Office as an articled pupil. He studied architecture at night classes
conducted at the Working Men's College and after gaining experience in the Railways
Department, he set up in practice as an architect in Collins Street in 1926. He took James
Thomas Brophy into partnership in 1946, after which the practice was known as O'Connor
& Brophy.
P. J. O'Connor specialised in ecclesiastical and liquor industry work, and designed many
Catholic churches, convents, presbyteries and schools in Victoria between 1926 and his
death in 1959. His most accomplished works include the St John of God Hospital in
Ballarat and St Roch's Church in Glen Iris.
Among his church designs, O'Connor was also responsible for St Mary Immaculate
Conception (Catholic), Ascot Vale (1934), St Theresa's (Catholic), Lake Wendouree (1938),
St Joan of Arc (Catholic), Brighton (1938), Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Catholic),
Sunshine (1940), Sacred Heart (Catholic), Newport (1942), Our Lady Star of the Sea
(Catholic), Flinders Naval Depot (1948), Uniting (Methodist), Albion (1951), and St Margaret
Mary's (Catholic), Spotswood (1953) (Coleman 1996: 64). He also designed the Notre Dame
de Sion convent (1939), located at 6 Witton Street, Warragul (Hermes record No 31837).
His residential work included Catholic presbyteries and private homes. Those listed on the
Heritage Victoria database include St Patrick's Presbytery, Camperdown of 1927-8, the St
Mary's Presbytery, Malvern East of 1931, and Bradoc House, 32-38 George Street, East
Melbourne of 1933. In addition, O'Connor designed his own house at 452 Warrigal Road,
Ashburton, in the Spanish Mission style, in 1932 (HO417, City of Boroondara; Hermes record
No 14742).
O'Connor redesigned many existing hotels during the interwar period (Grow 2009:40). In the
late 1930s, his hotel designs were in the Moderne style. These include the Wool Exchange
Hotel, Melbourne (c1930) (RVIA journal, Sep 1930); the Shamrock Hotel, 108 Woods Street,
Donald (1877, remodelled c1938) (Age 24 May 1938); Great Britain Hotel, Flinders Street,
Melbourne (remodelled c1938) (Age, 12 Apr 1938); Royal Hotel, 73 Flemington Road, North
Melbourne (c1938; recently demolished) (Age, 24 May 1938); Star and Garter Hotel, 470Bridge Road (remodelled 1940; now the Dover Hotel) (Herald, 16 Aug 1939); and the Ararat
Hotel, 118-130 Barkly Street, Ararat (1847; remodelled 1940) (Buildings of St Kilda; Hermes
record no. 42828).
Hotels that O'Connor designed in their entirety include the Tower Hotel (c1941), and a hotel in
Wyndham Street, Shepparton (c1938; believed to be the Victoria Hotel at 272 Wyndham
Street) (Age, 20 Sep 1938).
His offices were located at 317 Collins Street (Argus, 9 April, 1938; LV: V6535 F948).
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The Tower Hotel, of c1941, is a two-storey building with a V-shaped plan, located at the
sharply angled corner of Burwood and Camberwell roads. It is Streamlined Moderne in style
with a very unusual and decorative landmark tower at the corner.
The Hotel exhibits typical Streamlined Moderne characteristics including the use of smooth
render to much of the façade, strong horizontal lines, and decorative features such as
ziggurat-like steps framing the corner tower. The horizontal emphasis is created by a wide
horizontal band with incised lines above the ground floor, a narrow banded hood above the
first-floor windows, a high parapet that conceals the tiled hip roof, horizontal glazing bars to
the first floor double-hung windows, and incised horizontal lines in the render of the ground
floor and parapet. Two original ground-floor windows, at the south end of the Camberwell
Road façade, also have horizontal etched lines to the windows and highlights above.
Apart from incised render, there is face brick between the first floor windows, and the tower is
of brick. (The colour is unknown, as it has been overpainted.)
The corner tower is very unusual in its details. It sits above banks of ten first-floor windows at
the corners, displaying the advanced steel framing of the building. It is octagonal in plan, with
a brick shaft of running bond terminating in a soldier course beneath a simple cement-render
cornice. Above the cornice rises the highly unusual tower roof, which has eight curved sides
rising to a pyramidal top and flagpole. On alternating curved sides are vertical stripes of
projecting bricks, five on each side, which are reminiscent of buttresses. The pyramidal top is
Grecian in its proportions.
At the east end of the Burwood Road elevation is a section five window bays long which was
built at a different time. The facade is identical in materials and details, though the windows
lack the horizontal glazing bars. The roof of this section is a very wide gable, in contrast to the
original hip-roof extent. It is visible in a 1945 aerial photo (Uni Mel, ERC: 849A3A, 1945), as is
the building to the east of it where the bottle shop is now. This section was either a very early
extension to the hotel, or an earlier building which was incorporated into the hotel by
O'Connor.
The hotel has the following alterations: almost all ground-floor windows have been replaced
with modern, plate glass windows (most likely larger than the originals), and all of the face
brick has been overpainted. There are also intrusive signage and mobile phone transmitters
on the tower, but this appears to be reversible.
The Tower Hotel is one of only a handful of Moderne landmark buildings in the City of
Boroondara, though there are many surviving houses of this era. These 'landmarks' are
mostly public-use buildings, designed by architects and intended to have a striking street
presence by virtue of their size, location, and design. They include:
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Dillon's Buildings, 493-503 Riversdale Road, Camberwell of c1936 (recommended for
an individual HO by PS Amendment C101). A late interwar design with graded apricot
and tapestry brickwork, a sculpted tower and original tower signage, at the corner of
Riverdale and Burke roads. The ground floor has been entirely altered.
Second Church of Christ Scientist, 41 Cookson Street, Camberwell (VHR H1196) of
1937. This building of 1937, designed by architects Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, is
described by Heritage Victoria as being in the 'Moderne-Classical manner' (also
known as Stripped Classicism). This cream-brick building is far more austere and
grand than the entertainment-related buildings, such as the Tower Hotel, the Rivoli
Theatre and the Glenferrie Oval Grandstand, but it shares a use of strong horizontals
and boxy forms.
Glenferrie Oval Grandstand, 34 Linda Crescent, Hawthorn (VHR H890) of 1938, by
architect Stuart Calder in association with Marsh and Michaelson. This red-brick
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structure has a dramatic cantilevered roof which is visually suspended from the
curved corner tower.
Camberwell Police Station and Court House complex, 311-317 Camberwell Road,
Camberwell (VHR H1194) of 1938-39, designed by Public Works Department
architect Percy Everett. The complex is in the Moderne style and is set on a diagonal
axis. The buildings are constructed of red, brown and manganese bricks and contain
Everett's trademark pattern detailing.
Rivoli Cinema, 200 Camberwell Road, Hawthorn East (VHR H1524) of 1940. It was
designed by architects H Vivian Taylor and Soilleaux, and features polychrome
banded brickwork in colours ranging from pale pink to dark brown. The façade is
dominated by a vertical fin.
Kew Fire Station (former), 35-37 Belford Road, Kew (HO274) of 1940-41 by architect
Harry Winbush. It is cubic, with parapets hiding the roof. The walls are of red brick
with dark brown brick between the windows. A flagpole with horizontal bands at its
base is one of the main decorative elements of the façade. It is distinguished by a
plainness and elegance in its massing and detailing which sets it aside from earlier
Streamlined Moderne treatments, and foreshadows the Modern period.
The Tower Hotel compares most closely with Dillon's Buildings, sharing Moderne design
features such as a strong horizontal emphasis created by a concrete hood above the first
floor windows, differentiated cladding between these windows, a parapet to hide the roof
form, and a vertical anchor in the form of a corner tower. Both buildings have altered ground
floors, as is typical for commercial buildings. The striking polychrome brick of Dillon's
Buildings is intact, while that of the Tower Hotel has been overpainted. The main architectural
feature of the Tower Hotel is not its brick but the namesake tower.
The Tower Hotel is the most striking and accomplished of PJ O'Connor's known hotel
designs. His creativity, seen at places such as St Roch's Catholic Church in Glen Iris (HO351,
City of Stonnington), was hampered as most of his pub designs were remodellings of existing
buildings, with the consequent constraints. These include:
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Shamrock Hotel, 108 Woods Street, Donald of 1938. A modest two-storey country
hotel with a hip roof. The central feature is a modest balcony at the centre of the
façade, with a parapeted awning above it. There are two cast-concrete Art Deco
reliefs - above the door and on a short parapet at one end of the façade. Windows
have a horizontal emphasis - two horizontal panes to upper sashes of first floor and
frosted horizontal lines at ground floor (both window treatments also seen on the
Tower Hotel).
Ararat Hotel, 118-130 Barkly Street, Ararat (HO16, Rural City of Ararat) of 1940. An
earlier hotel that was extensively remodeled in the Moderne style. It is a local
landmark with a dramatic double-storey curved balcony at the centre of the façade
with dramatic curved fins above them. The roof is hidden by a parapet. Cast Art Deco
panels feature above window and door openings (like the Shamrock). First floor
windows have three horizontal panes. Appears to be quite intact, apart from
overpainting.
Dover Hotel (formerly Start and Garter), 470 Bridge Road, Richmond (contributory to
HO310) of 1939-40. A remodeling of an earlier hotel, this is a modest two-storey
corner building. The remodeling was restricted to creating horizontal render bands
between the two floors and around the chamfered corner.
The Ararat Hotel compares most closely with the Tower Hotel, with its long façade and
dramatic central balconies and fins creating a dominant presence in Ararat. The Tower Hotel,
with its large and highly visible corner site, the chance to design a building from 'scratch', and
the additional influence of being nearly half owner of the property afforded O'Connor a much
greater degree of creative freedom than in his other hotel commissions. The result is a
building with standard Streamlined Moderne elevations, on a larger scale than usual, paired
with a very idiosyncratic corner tower.
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A search of hotels on HERMES (Heritage Victoria's database) indicates that only Victorianera hotels in the City of Boroondara are currently protected under the Heritage Overlay.
These include Malone's Family Hotel, 208 Canterbury Road, Canterbury (HO29), and the
Auburn Hotel, 87 Auburn Road, Hawthorn (Individually significant in HO260). No interwar
hotels were individually noted, though there may be examples protected within heritage
precincts which are not specifically noted.
Criteria adopted by the Heritage Council on 7 August 2008 pursuant to Sections 8(1)(c) and
8(2) of the Heritage Act 1995, modified for the local context.
CRITERION A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of the City of Boroondara's
cultural history.
The Tower Hotel illustrates the central role of local hotels in residential areas of the City of
Boroondara. They tended to be built on major intersections, becoming local landmarks both
for their size and visibility and as community meeting places.
The original Tower Hotel, of 1874, was built at the same intersection, on the west side of the
street. The c1941 hotel continued the role of this early hotel in the local community.
Boroondara's cultural history.
The Tower Hotel is one of only a handful of interwar public-use buildings in the City of
Boroondara, which include State-significant buildings such as the Second Church of Christ
Scientist, the Glenferrie Oval Grandstand, the Camberwell Police Station, and the Rivoli
Cinema. Locally significant examples include Dillon's Buildings, Camberwell, and the former
Kew Fire Station. On the whole, however, Boroondara's hotels, town halls, etc. were
th
th
constructed during the 19 and early 20 centuries.
the City of Boroondara's cultural history.
Not applicable.
cultural places and objects.
Not applicable.
CRITERION E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics.
The Tower Hotel exhibits the aesthetic characteristics of the Streamlined Moderne style. This
includes the strong horizontal lines - in the rendered bands, parapet wall, continuous window
hood, and window glazing. Another feature seen in the more accomplished Moderne buildings
is the use of a strong vertical element - here, the tower, framed by ziggurat-like steps - to
provide balance.
achievement at a particular period.
The design of the tower itself is unusual and idiosyncratic for the period.
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group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place
to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions.
The Tower Hotel is a local landmark in the City of Boroondara, by virtue of its highly visible
angled corner site and by its striking corner tower. The tower and name of the hotel both refer
to the original Tower Hotel of 1874, which was located across the street. Thus the current
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hotel has been a local meeting place since 1941, with its pedigree reaching back to the 19
century.
persons, of importance in the City of Boroondara's.
The Tower Hotel of c1941 was designed by architect PJ O'Connor, who was also part-owner.
O'Connor's proprietary involvement in the building and its creation on an empty site (apart
from a small building on the Burwood Road site which may have been incorporated), gave the
architect an unusual amount of design freedom, seen in the striking and unusual tower
design. O'Connor was well-known in the interwar period for his Catholic Churchcommissioned and hotel designs. The Tower Hotel is representative of his use of the
Moderne style for his hotels.
The Tower Hotel, at 686-690 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East, designed by architect and partowner Patrick Joseph O'Connor for licensees Julius and Ethel Dennis c1941. The hotel is Vshaped in plan, due to the sharply angled corner of Burwood and Camberwell roads, giving it
visual prominence. It is Streamlined Moderne in style, with an idiosyncratic tower at the
northern corner.
The later extension to the south end of the Camberwell Road elevation is not significant.
The Tower Hotel is of local historical, aesthetic and architectural significance to the City of
Boroondara.
The Tower Hotel is of historical significance for the enduring use of this site as a licensed
premises since 1941, and of this intersection since 1874. The current hotel demonstrated that
is was a successor to the 1874 Tower Hotel by continuing its name and featuring a landmark
tower. The construction of a new hotel demonstrates the wider trend during the interwar
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period of upgrading and rebuilding 19 century hotels to meet new and stringent State liquor
licensing laws, though it is a rare example of an interwar hotel in the City of Boroondara.
(Criteria A, B)
The Tower Hotel is of aesthetic and architectural significance as a good example of the
Streamlined Moderne style, with its strong horizontal lines created by rendered bands,
parapet wall, continuous window hood, and window glazing. This horizontal movement is
anchored by a strong vertical accent created by the idiosyncratic tower design. The building is
a local landmark due to its prominent corner site and tower.
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It is also of architectural significance as one of prominent interwar architect PJ O'Connor's
most accomplished hotel designs. While many of his Moderne hotels were remodellings of
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19 -century hotels, he had the chance to design the Tower Hotel from scratch. His creative
freedom on this job was undoubtedly increased by the fact that he was part owner of the
property. (Criteria E, H)
Recommended heritage controls and heritage grading
Boroondara Planning Scheme
Tree Controls
Incorporated plan
Internal Alterations Controls
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Aboriginal heritage place
No
Identified By
Gould, Meredith, Hawthorn Heritage Study, 1993, Appendix B.
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References
Buildings of St Kilda and their people, '39, Elsternwick Hotel',
http://www.skhs.org.au/SKHSbuildings/39.htm, accessed 18/10/12.
Built Heritage (2012), 'City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History', prepared for the
City of Boroondara.
Carter, Francesca (2012), The Weekly Review, 'A Man of contradiction',
http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/article-display/A-man-of-contradiction/5268, accessed
17/10/12.
City of Boroondara Library photo collection, 'Dennis' Tower Hotel',
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38802804?q=tower+hotel+
hawthorn&c=picture&versionId=51526136, accessed 17/10/12.
City of Boroondara Local History Wiki, 'Riversdale Hotel', http://coblocalhistory.pbworks.com/,
accessed 24/10/12.
Coleman, Ian & Roslyn (1996), Twentieth Century Churches in Victoria.
Council.
Grow, Robin, of Art Deco and Modernism Society, personal communication, 15 October 2012.
Grow, Robin (2009), Melbourne Art Deco, Collingwood.
Lewi, Hannah & David Nichols (eds), (2010) Community: Building Modern Australia.
Lewis, Miles (ed.), (1991) Victorian Churches: Their Origins, Their Story & Their Architecture,
National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Melbourne.
Lewis, Nigel, 'VCAT application P866/2012, Heritage evidence for 39-41 & 43-45 Marne
Street, South Yarra', http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/BuildingandPlanning/
Planning/planningpermits/Documents/, accessed 17/10/12.
Royal Victorian Institute of Architects (RVIA) Journal, Sept. 1930, viewed in Miles Lewis'
Australian Architectural Index, http://www.mileslewis.net/australian-architectural.html,
accessed 24/10/12.
State Library of Victoria (SLV) photo collection, Argus newspaper collection of photographs,
accessed 17/10/12.
The Age, in Royal Victorian Institute of Architects press cuttings (SLV) 1938-9, viewed in
Miles Lewis' Australian Architectural Index, http://www.mileslewis.net/australianarchitectural.html, accessed 24/10/12.
The Argus.
The Herald: 1941 article provided by Robin Grow; 16 August 1939 in RVIA Press [cuttings
1939], viewed in Miles Lewis' Australian Architectural Index,
http://www.mileslewis.net/australian-architectural.html, accessed 24/10/12.
Walking Melbourne forum, 'The Old Tower Hotel, Burwood Road, Auburn',
http://www.walkingmelbourne.com/, accessed 24/10/12).
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Herborn House
Address: 88 Pleasant Road, Hawthorn East
Name: Herborn House
Survey Date: 28 Nov. 2012
Architect: Eric M. Nicholls
Builder:
Figure 1. Herborn House, c1950-73 (Peter Willie Collection, State Library of Victoria)
Historical Context
Eric M Nicholls, architect
Eric Milton Nichols (1902-1965) spent most of his youth in Kew and studied at Swinburne
Technical College before completing his article with the Melbourne firm, Haddon &
Henderson between 1913 and 1921. It was at this firm that he was introduced to Robert
Haddon's pursuit of a distinctively Australia style of architecture. After 1921, Nicholls
gained employment in the Melbourne office of Marion Mahoney Griffin and Walter Burley
Griffin. During this period, Nicholls contributed to both residential and commercial
projects, including the Capitol Theatre (1922) and Leonard House (1923, demolished).
Through their instruction, the Griffins undoubtedly instilled in him their distinctive design
ideals, including those of the Prairie Style which was developed in the United States
primarily by Frank Lloyd Wright (a former employer of both Griffins). Nicholls became a
registered architect in Victoria in 1923 (Vernon 2012:495-6).
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Nicholls was able to simultaneously work for the Griffins and take on private
commissions, his first being a meeting hall at the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Highbury
Grove, Kew (1921, HO221). His designs derived from the modular ideas developed by
Griffin, and were similar to Griffin's in their 'chunky, squat proportions', yet differed in plan
and elevation (Johnson 1980:125). Vernon (2012:495-6) cites Nicholls' key works as the
Joseph Lyddy Polish Manufacturers factory in Fitzroy (1922-3, City of Yarra HO334) and
Herborn House in Hawthorn East. He designed his own house in Hill Street, Balwyn
(c1929; demolished) in the Prairie Style, and a house for his mother in Wellington Street,
Kew (c1939; demolished) (Built Heritage 2012:149 & 231-2). He also designed
Beaumont House at 33 Uvadale Grove, Kew (1924-5, HO142) and Stanton House,
Kooyong Road (1923) (Johnson 1980: note 106 of Ch. 3).
In 1925, Nicholls was left to run the Melbourne office, assumed to be a junior partner by
this stage, when the Griffins' moved to Sydney to oversee the construction of their
community, Castlecrag. In 1930, Nicholls moved his family to Castlecrag. In this year he
was made full partner and the firm re-named Griffin & Nicholls, before the Griffins' left for
India in 1935 and Nicholls effectively ran the Australian practice from Sydney. The firm
continued to run under this style until 1942, even after Griffin's death in 1937 and
Marion's return to the USA. Nicholls continued with residential and commercial designs,
many in Castlecrag and most developing his 'earlier themes of crystalline geometries and
massive form'. In 1956, Nicholls formed the firm Nicholls, Elliot & Nicholls, with Ron Elliot
and his son Glynn. It was during this period that Nicholls designed one of his key works,
Caltex House in Sydney (1956) (Vernon 2012:496).
History
Herborn House was designed in 1929 by architect Eric M Nicholls, for Mr A W and his
wife, E M Herborn (AHB Jul 1931:21; original plan in Johnson 1980:124).
In July 1931, The Australian Home Beautiful magazine published an article 'A little house
set on a hilltop' which notes that the house had been completed, and included the original
plans of the house by Nicholls. The article further comments on the pen sketches and
plans that the magazine had published the previous year, of the 'delightful and unusual
little home' (AHB Jul 1931:21). Vernon (2012:496) also dates the house to 1931, while
other sources, including Johnson (2002), date the house to 1928-31 (Prairie School
Traveller, accessed 14 Jan 2013).
The Australian Home Beautiful (Jul 1931:21-24) continues to discuss the house at length,
stating that it had 'carried out its earlier promise of being a departure in domestic
architecture that is quite uncommon'. The article talks of the interweaving of the house
and garden by means of a trellised court at the entrance, with its greenery, flowers and
'creeper-entwined colonnade, in the centre of which a fountain plays'. The pool below
the fountain was electrically lit. To the rear of the house, the garden was designed to be
as labour-saving as the house. The original plan (published in this 1931 article) included
a planting scheme by Nicholls, which was 'virtually carried out', with a list of 100 exotic
and native plants (AHB, Jul 1931:22-4). Johnson (1980:126) compares the landscape
design to that of Walter Burley Griffin, with its open, free-form spatial arrangement. This
arrangement was a departure from the formal, axially-arranged gardens of the 1920s and
30s. Vernon (2012:496) suggests that the garden was designed by both Nicholls and his
wife.
The article notes that the original plan of the house grouped the bedrooms in the east
wing, while the living and kitchen space were in the west wing. It then stated that the
owners 'now [after completion of the house] have conceived the idea of turning the house
into two flats'. The Herborns had converted the bedroom at the south-east corner into a
dining room and kitchenette, and the north-east bedroom into a sitting room, while also
making additions to the rear of the west wing. The article commended the original design,
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which had two front doors, noting 'few homes could be induced to divide into two so
neatly and with so few alterations!' In regards to the interior, it went on, 'comfort and
homeliness have nowhere been sacrificed to bizarre effect', despite the architect's pursuit
of the unconventional. The article commented on the original light fixtures, fireplaces, the
many built-in and often-concealed cupboards (AHB Jul 1931:22-23).
Figure 2. Herborn House, 1931. Note the dark stained timber elements and the tapered front gate
post. (Australian Home Beautiful, 01/07/1931, p 21)
Herborn House has a generous setback from Pleasant Road, behind a semicircular drive
entered via two sets of mild-steel vehicular gates with tapered, rendered piers. This same
configuration is shown on Nicholls' plans of 1929.
The house is single-storey with rendered walls with a U-shaped plan. The main roof has
a low hip, following the U-shaped plan, with very wide, flat eaves extending out from it,
creating a horizontal emphasis. The eaves are strongly defined by boxed gutters with
angled fascias (this form is mirrored in the reverse by the fascias of the front pergola and
corner window hoods). The open side of the 'U' is open to the facade and holds an
entrance courtyard with a small fountain at its centre. The courtyard is enclosed by low
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battered rendered walls that contain planters, above which sits a pergola. The chunky
pergola columns have very unusual geometric capitals and bases which are square with
indented corners. The remaining three walls of the courtyard comprise solely of window
and door openings between columns. Early photos of the house from Australian Home
Beautiful show that these same columns, both freestanding and engaged, were used to
articulate the interior as well. There are two glazed front doors, side by side on the back
wall of the courtyard. The windows are casements with narrow horizontal margin glazing
at the top and bottom.
Due to the U-shaped plan, the facade is articulated as two pavilions around the entrance
courtyard. Each pavilion has a large, protecting vertical mass at the centre. On the west
side this is a wide, rectangular chimney, while on the east side, it is a projecting bay that
terminates at the eaves. On either side of each projecting mass are corner windows
beneath eyebrow-like flat hoods which continue the line of the central pergola. The low
battered walls that enclose the courtyard are interrupted by the chimney breast and
projecting bay, but then start again beneath the corner windows.
The house appears to be highly intact, even retaining its original or early white limewash.
In the rear yard, set well behind the house, is a two-storey Modernist studio with a creambrick wall to the laneway, and steel-framed glazed walls to the garden. It has been sited
with care so as not to intrude upon the 1920s house and appears to sit on the footprint of
the small garage shown in the 1931 site plan.
Built Heritage (2012: 231) notes that the City of Boroondara had many links with Walter
Burley Griffin and his circle. Griffin and his associates Eric Nicholls and Leslie Grant
(both hailing from Kew), as well as EF Billson and JFW Ballantyne. The architecture of
this 'school' was highly distinctive within an interwar architectural context, so it is
appropriate to compare Herborn House to other works by this group, including by
Nicholls himself.
Places in Boroondara designed by Nicholls that have been identified:
x
Men's Fellowship Room, rear Kew Uniting Church, 21-25 Highbury Grove, Kew,
of 1922, part of HO221. A timber building with a high-pitched, tiled roof and
angled fascias to the boxed gutters. The entry doors feature bold prismatic
decoration, and windows have narrow margin glazing at the top and bottom (as at
Herborn House).
x
Beaument (or Beament) House, 33 Uvadale Grove, Kew, 1924-5, Individually
significant to HO198. A roughcast-render clad house with its massing a
combination of cubes. An emphasis on horizontality created by wide eaves with
strongly defined edges delineated with box gutters. The walls project above the
geometric leadlight windows to create hoods, and below the front windows, is a
long masonry planter box, like a plinth to the house. There is an upper storey set
into the roofline with is noted as original in the 1988 'City of Kew Urban
Conservation Study'.
x
34 Fellows Street, Kew, Eric Nicholls, 1929, Contributory to HO143. A rendered
building with a strong horizontal emphasis to the ground floor created by a
projecting hood above the windows and a recessed band below the eaves.
Windows have geometric leadlights, and below them are large, cast-concrete
planter boxes decorated with unusual incised circle motifs and fluting. An upper
storey was added above the main roofline, copying many of these details c1990s.
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Places by Griffin and other architects of his 'school' in Boroondara cited in the Thematic
Environmental History (Built Heritage 2012):
x
House, 7 Warwick Avenue, Surrey Hills, by Walter Burley Griffin, 1923, VHR461
& HO136. A small house of modular concrete-block construction with vertical ribs
(Knitlock). Windows are slim casements with Griffinesque chevron-pattern
glazing bars.
x
George Silcock House, 16 Glenroy Road, Hawthorn, by EF Billson, 1926, HO50.
Externally, the house is dominated by a massive front gable. The building has an
implied plinth, and the wide eaves. Retains its roughcast render front fence.
x
Flats, 7 Rochester Road, Canterbury, by Leslie Grant, 1927, HO184. Cement
rendered, with a flat roof and severe, symmetrical form. Bold horizontal forms
balanced by vertical piers. Chevron-pattern glazing.
In comparison, Herborn House has the highest intactness as any of the comparisons,
down to the limewash on the render. No external alterations were noted to the building,
apart from wear and tear. It exhibits some of the same design details as the others, such
as horizontal margin glazing (Nicholls' Men's Fellowship Room), the use of a plinth at the
base of the walls and corner windows (Billson's Silcock House), the use a raked box
gutter on wide horizontal eaves (Nicholls' Men's Fellowship Room & Beaument House,
and a play between dominant horizontal lines and vertical elements (Griffin's Flats).
Like the comparisons, it was also a highly unusual house when constructed in the 1920s,
far removed from the California Bungalow and Mediterranean Revival styles that were
popular at the time. One of the most distinctive details of the house - the heavy columns
with matching square capitals and bases - are like nothing else seen at the time and
evidence of Nicholls' creativity.
Further afield, a very similar column design - with a square capital and base - is seen at
the Essendon Incinerator (VHR434), designed by Nicholls while at Griffin's office and
constructed in 1929-31. Here the capitals lack the fine detailing seen at Herborn House.
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Figure 3. The Essendon Incinerator, 1929-30. Note the colonnade at the right. (Danae Sidh,
Flikr.com, 2008)
Johnson (1980: 125-6) cites inspiration for the front courtyard as the Mary Williams
House of 1923, which is believed to by 74 Clendon Road, Toorak, the remodelling of an
existing Victorian house (Griffin Society). While this design does incorporate a recessed
entry behind pairs of columns in antis (i.e., recessed within the opening), Nicholls' design
for Herborn House is more fully developed in creating a three-dimensional outdoor
'room'. At the time, the 'embowered court' of Herborn House was praised for bringing 'the
garden almost into the house' (AHB, 01/07/1931:21) - an idea well before its time.
Figure 4. Mary Williams House, 74 Clendon Road, Toorak, remodelled by WB Griffin in 1923
with a recessed front porch. (Danae Sidh, Flikr.com, 2008)
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A second source of inspiration, cited by Johnson, is the model plan (never realised) for a
'Home of Five Rooms', which Griffin designed c1920 for Melbourne's climate. The house
in this concept has a U-shaped plan with a distinctive recessed and trellised patio forming
the entry to the house. On hot days, windows and doors can be opened to the shaded
internal patio as a source of cool air. This idea is akin to the central courtyards seen in
hot Middle Eastern countries, with the distinct difference of having it open to the street.
Figure 5. Griffin's 'Home of Five Rooms' of c1920 (Birrell 1964:144)
This design has clear links to Herborn House. Nicholls' design more fully develops the
basic concept in a very sculptural way, with the eastern wing projecting further at the
front and rear, the use of wide eaves as a corner device, and the reversal of the typical
bay window - here the projecting bays at the front and rear are solid, without openings,
but are flanked by corner windows.
Herborn House demonstrates the special association between Walter Burley Griffin and
associated architects and the City of Boroondara. In particular, its architect Eric M
Nicholls (1902-65), hailed from Kew and carried out a number of his commissions in the
area, some while simultaneously working in Griffin's practice.
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Not applicable.
Not applicable.
The Herborn House is a highly intact example of the Australian interpretation of the
Prairie style, by a member of Walter Burley Griffin's 'school'.
significance).
Herborn House designed by architect Eric M Nicholls (1902-65) shares features such as
strong horizontal lines in tension with vertical elements and ahistorical ornamentation
with other buildings in Boroondara by Griffin and his associates. Most of their houses
were clad in cement render, with concrete elements. The capitals and bases of the
columns used to define the courtyard and internal spaces are a refinement on those seen
at Nicholls' Essendon Incinerator of 1929-30. Other design features it shares with
buildings in Boroondara by Griffin and his 'school', include horizontal margin glazing
(Nicholls' Men's Fellowship Room), the use of a plinth at the base of the walls and corner
windows (Billson's Silcock House), the use a raked box gutter on wide horizontal eaves
(Nicholls' Men's Fellowship Room & Beaument House, and a play between dominant
horizontal lines and vertical elements (Griffin's Flats).
Herborn House is a considered to be one of the defining examples of Eric M Nicholls'
oeuvre, along with the Joseph Liddy Factory in Fitzroy. The traditional house form is
reversed, with a deep courtyard between the front wings of the house effectively creating
an outdoor room which modulates the heat of the Melbourne climate while remaining
open to the public gaze.
significance).
Not applicable.
Herborn House is significant for its association Eric M Nicholls as the architect. Nicholls
was one of the leading proponents of the Prairie Style in Australia. He worked with Walter
Burley Griffin in Melbourne from 1921, contributing to residential and commercial
projects, and running the office after 1925. He also carried out his own commissions
once registered in 1923. Nicholls was from Kew and studied at Swinburne University, and
a number of his surviving works are located in the City of Boroondara, including
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Beaumont House (HO142) and the hall at Wesleyan Methodist Church (HO221). Herborn
House is considered one of the defining designs of his oeuvre, along with the Joseph
Liddy Polish Factory in Fitzroy.
Herborn House, 88 Pleasant Road, Hawthorn East, of 1929-31. The house and garden
were designed for Mr A W and his wife, E M Herborn, by architect Eric M Nicholls. The
house is highly intact, down to the retention of its white limewash finish.
The house is significant to the extent of its 1929-31 fabric. Significant elements of the
design include the low, hipped roofs with wide, flat eaves to the corners, the timber
pergola over the courtyard whose line is continued by the flat hoods over the corner
windows, the battered planter boxes which form a heavy plinth to the building, and the
dematerialisation of the walls into glazing between the characteristic columns.
Its original setting, including the curved entrance drive, semi-circular garden bed,
rendered gate posts and gates at either end, is also of significance.
The modern studio, which stands where the garage once was, is not of significance.
Herborn House is of aesthetic (architectural) and associative significance to the City of
Boroondara and potentially to the State of Victoria.
Architecturally, Herborn House is considered one of the defining examples of Eric M
Nicholls' oeuvre, along with the Joseph Liddy Factory in Fitzroy. The traditional house
form is reversed, with a deep courtyard between the front wings of the house effectively
creating an outdoor room which modulates the heat of the Melbourne climate while
remaining open to the public gaze. Among Nicholls' surviving designs in Boroondara, this
is both the most unusual - for its front courtyard plan and highly sculptural form - and the
most intact. (Criterion F)
Aesthetically, it shares features such as strong horizontal lines in tension with vertical
elements and ahistorical ornamentation with other buildings in Boroondara by Walter
Burley Griffin and his associates. The capitals and bases of the columns used to define
the courtyard and internal spaces are a refinement on those seen at Nicholls' Essendon
Incinerator of 1929-30. Other design features it shares with buildings in Boroondara by
Griffin and his 'school', include horizontal margin glazing (Nicholls' Men's Fellowship
Room), the use of a plinth at the base of the walls and corner windows (Billson's Silcock
House), the use of a raked box gutter on wide horizontal eaves (Nicholls' Men's
Fellowship Room & Beaument House, and a play between dominant horizontal lines and
vertical elements (Griffin's Flats, 7 Rochester Road, Canterbury).
It is of significance for its association with Eric M Nicholls (1902-65) as its architect.
Nicholls was a Kew local and had studied at Swinburne Technical College. Nicholls had
worked with Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin since 1921, and ran their
Melbourne office from 1925 to 1930, after which he moved to Castlecrag, Sydney. He
was permitted to carry out his own commissions while working with the Griffins, of which
Herborn House is one. (Criterion H)
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Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
Yes [due to retention of
limewash; when
repainting limewash
should be used on
cement/concrete
surfaces]
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Identified By
References
Walter Burley Griffin Society, Melbourne Works, accessed 8
http://www.griffinsociety.org/lives_and_works/a_melbourne.html#built.
March
2012:
Johnson, D L (2002; first published 1980), Australian Architecture 1901-51: Sources of
Modernism, Sydney.
National Trust File B2883, accessed online via Hermes record no. 71767.
Prairie School Traveller, http://www.prairieschooltraveler.com/html/world/aus/aus.html,
accessed 14 January 2013.
The Australian Home Beautiful: a journal for the home builder (AHB) magazine, 'A Little
House Set On A Hilltop' by Easter Soilleux, 1 July 1931, pp20-24. Accessed on microfilm
at the State Library of Victoria.
Vernon, Christopher, 'Eric Nicholls' in Philip Goad and Julie Willis' (eds.) (2012), The
Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, Cambridge.
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5 Eamon Court, Kew
Address: 5 Eamon Court, Kew
Name: House
Survey Date: 2012
Architect: Holgar and Holgar
Builder:
Photo
Historical Context
The house is located in Raheen Estate, which was named after the Victorian mansion
'Raheen' (1870; 1884), currently at 96 Studley Park Road, Kew and built for brewer
Edward Latham (Built Heritage 2010:13).
The Catholic Church subdivided and created Raheen Drive, Eamon Court and 36
residential lots, matching the current boundaries, with sales commencing in 1962 (LV:
V4269/F780). 'Raheen' was retained on a two acre allotment (Built Heritage 2010:13).
Built Heritage (2012:133) notes that the completion of subdivision in Studley Park
culminated in the creation of 'Raheen Estate' in 1960, consisting of Raheen Drive and
Eamon Court, Kew. It was the last large-scale estate to be created in Studley Park.
A newspaper reported that the 'subdivision [had] probably created more public interest
than any since the war' (Built Heritage 2010:13). The estate was praised for its wide
roadways, the underground electricity supply and each allotment's view of the river valley
(Built Heritage 2010:13). The estate also illustrated a lull in the local residential book, with
the construction of new houses across Melbourne badly affected by the Credit Squeeze
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of 1961-62, when only a few dwellings would be built on the estate during those years.
The estate filled-out by the late 1970s (Built Heritage 2012:133).
A very high percentage of houses within the estate were architect-designed in the 1960s
and 70s (Built Heritage 2010:13). Built Heritage (2010:14) further notes that the
architects and firms whose work is represented on the Raheen Estate include a broad
cross-section of Melbourne's post-war architectural community: some well-known firststring practitioners (eg. Charles Duncan, Neil Clerehan, Chancellor & Patrick), some
lesser-known but very talented designers (eg. Holgar & Holgar, Frank Steen, Murphy &
Alekna) and others who are better known for their pre-war work, (eg. Edward F Billson,
Plaisted & Warner).
As a result of the political instability in Europe in the early twentieth century, the interwar
and postwar era saw mass migration to Australia. In 1947 this migration was facilitated
when the Commonwealth Government revised its Anglocentric immigration policy,
following an agreement with the International Refugee Organisation. Within the current
City of Boroondara, Studley Park, Kew East and Balwyn North were suburbs developed
during the post-war era by European migrants who had successfully established
themselves in Melbourne and were then able to afford to build their own homes (Built
Heritage 2012:36).
The influx of European migrants continued in the 1950s and 1960s and included
architects who often designed houses for themselves and their compatriots. Migrant
architects who designed houses within the City of Boroondara include John and Helen
Holgar, Ernest Fooks, Ernest Milston, Leonas Baranasukas, Anatol Kagan, Kurt Elsner,
Laszlo Gutman, Grigore Hirsch and Klaus-Juergen Veltjens (Built Heritage 2012:36).
History
The land at 5 Eamon Court, Kew, was sold to Leon and Hanna Teperman in August 1964
(LV: V8551/F575). The existing house was designed in 1967 by Polish-born architects
Holgar & Holgar, for owner Leisir (Leon) Teperman, also a European migrant (Built
Heritage 2010:13). Hannah Teperman was the sole owner from 1989, before selling to
the Bartnickis in August 1991 (LV: V8551/575).
Holgar & Holgar, architects
The practice of Holgar and Holgar Architects was formed by Wladyslaw Aleksander
Januiz (John) Ptaszynski Holgar and his wife Helena Ptaszynska Holgar, who migrated
to Melbourne in 1952. At first the pair worked in a number of architectural firms, before
John began building up a private practice and Helen worked with Professor Brian Lewis,
the then Dean of the University of Melbourne's faculty of architecture. Helen worked with
Grounds, Romberg & Boyd before joining her husband's practice in 1958 (Anderson
2012:336).
Holgar & Holgar specialised in the residential housing sector from the 1960s to the
1980s, in many suburbs throughout Melbourne. The practice particularly designed large
houses in Toorak, Brighton, Caulfield and Templestowe; 34 houses were built in Toorak
alone. Helen Ptaszynska Holgar still lives in Eaglemont and recently published an
autobiography under the title, 'One lady: many lives' (Helen Ptaszynska Holgar pers.
comm. Oct 2010).
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5 Eamon Court Kew is situated off Raheen Drive on a steeply sloping court. It is situated
towards the front of the allotment with a large garden behind the house. The house has a
low pitched butterfly roof with internal gutter. The front elevation comprises a windowless
panel of rendered masonry with chevron patterns incised. The spacious entry has a
timber door set within a broader framework of glass panels with a terrace raised several
steps above the surrounding ground level. Upstairs is a return balcony with wrought iron
railing. The overall design is of a European expressionist style.
The front garden is planted with a number of plants of large foliage leaves either side of a
straight path to the front door.
The form of the house is a two storey cube and it utilizes the controlled composition of
wall plane contrasted with large areas of glass. Viewed from the street the house at 5
Eamon Court has a high integrity and is in good condition.
The Raheen Estate comprises a number of houses designed in the period 1960 -1980.
The houses vary substantially in their typologies and cannot be compared stylistically.
Research undertaken by Simon Reeves for the Thematic Environmental History on
individual properties in the Yarra Boulevard precinct and just outside its boundaries
(including the Raheen Estate), has identified more than 80 individual places for which the
architects have been confirmed, representing the work of over 40 different individuals or
firms. Such a high concentration of architects’ work is rare.
For first rank (or highly prominent architectural practices) assessment leans towards
innovative and seminal works rather than more mainstream, but for less well known
architects, such as Holgar and Holgar, intact representative examples of their work are
valued. Their output was highly varied and tended to the expressionist approach,
responding to site and conditions as well as individual client requirements.
There is no direct stylistic comparison between 5 Eamon Court and other modern houses
in the Kew area. However the house belongs to a period of development characterised
by strong architectural input into housing and there are many good examples of post war
architecture of diverse genres.
5 Eamon Court is a distinguished example of this period as an intact and unusual house
that demonstrates a distinctive expressionist design approach adopted by European
trained architects designing for European clients.
x
x
Other buildings in the Kew area of a similar period of construction and design
(conservative interwar domestic style) and with post war European connections,
but exhibits less architectural innovation than 5 Eamon Court include:22 Milfay
Avenue, Kew – former residence of German migrant artists Julius and Tina
Wentcher (Wentscher) and the Shipman House
9 Cascade Drive, Kew East (1947) – house designed by Anatol Kagan for an
Austrian émigré.
.
Other houses within the Raheen Estate built at the same period, including 7 Eamon
Court and 16 Raheen Drive, both by Murphy & Alekna (1966), are more conservative in
styling, and in the case of 7 Eamon Court, less intact.
Other houses designed in a similar period by European architects and deemed significant
include:
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36 Stawell Street Kew - by Anatol Kagan in1952 (HO124). This house is one of the
most innovative examples of Kagan’s work and is one of the a finest examples of
European functionalism in Boroondara.
29 Holroyd Avenue in Kew designed by Anatol Kagan in 1958 has been noted as
significant in the Yarra Boulevard Precinct, as has 31 Holroyd Street by Kurt Elsner in
1961. 5 Eamon Court is deemed to be of equivalent architectural design and integrity to
these places.
5 Eamon Court, located in the Raheen Estate which was originally developed by the
Catholic Church, and the last large scale estate to be created in Studley Park, is an
excellent example of residential development designed and built by and for European
emigres.
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
significance).
5 Eamon Court is an intact example of the work of architectural practice Holgar and
Holgar who specialised in the residential housing sector from the 1960s to the 1980s
throughout Melbourne. Often associated with large houses for European emigres, 5
Eamon Court is a representative and intact example of their output which is notable for
its expressionist style.
5 Eamon Court demonstrates some of then modern design principles of a low pitched
butterfly roof, light filled entry and outdoor terraces at ground and first floor level. A
distinctive and unusual feature of this house is the rendered masonry wall surfaces
decorated with incised chevron patterns. 5 Eamon Court has a high degree of external
integrity.
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significance).
Not applicable
Not applicable
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The house at 5 Eamon Court, Kew designed by architects Holgar and Holgar and built for
Leon Teperman in 1967 is significant.
5 Eamon Court is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of
Boroondara.
5 Eamon Court, located in the Raheen Estate which was originally developed by the
Catholic Church, and the last large scale estate to be created in Studley Park, is an
excellent example of residential development designed and built by and for European
emigres.
5 Eamon Court is an intact example of the work of architectural practice Holgar and
Holgar who specialised in the residential housing sector from the 1960s to the 1980s
throughout Melbourne. Often associated with large houses for European emigres, 5
Eamon Court is a modest design when compared other examples of their work.
5 Eamon Court demonstrates some of then modern design principles of a low pitched
butterfly roof, light filled entry and outdoor terraces at ground and first floor level. A
distinctive and unusual feature of this house is the rendered masonry wall surfaces
decorated with incised chevron patterns. 5 Eamon Court has a high degree of external
integrity when compared with other houses on the Raheen Estate.
Planning Scheme as an Individually significant place.
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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Identified By
Simon Reeves, City of Boroodara Thematic Environmental History
References
Anderson, Catriona (2012), 'Holgar & Holgar', in Philip Goad and Julie Willis' (eds), The
Encyclopedia of Austalian Architecture, Cambridge.
Built Heritage (2010), 'City of Boroondara, Assessment of Heritage Precincts in Kew',
prepared for Studley Park Modern.
Helen Ptaszynska Holgar pers. comm. Oct 2010, as viewed in Context Pty Ltd's history in
Hermes record No 120582.
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$GRSWHG$XJXVW
AUSTIN BRAMWELL SMITH HOUSE
Address: 8 Orford Avenue, Kew
Name: Austin Bramwell Smith House
Survey Date: 7 Dec. 2012
Architect:
Smith
Builder:
Austin
Bramwell
Historical Context
Orford Avenue is located in the eastern part of Kew, not far from Deepdene and Canterbury. The
area was settled in the 19th century, with a large number of substantial villas and mansions
constructed along Sackville Street. The surviving ones are now protected as part of the Sackville
Street Precinct (HO162), though the Victorian mansion 'Northumbria' was demolished to create
Orford Avenue during the late interwar period (MMBW Detail Plan No. 1564, 1904). Both the
Garden Suburb inspired cul-de-sac form of the street and the Old English and American Colonial
Revival houses along it were fashionable for their time. A similar cul-de-sac subdivision was
created just to the east, Bramley Court, around the same time, on the site of another Victorian
villa ('Eschol').
Architects making homes for themselves 1
An interesting sub-theme expressed in middle-class housing across the study area is the aboveaverage proportion of dwellings that were designed by noted Melbourne architects for
themselves. This trend began on a modest scale in the second half of the nineteenth century. ...
1
This section is cited from Built Heritage, 'City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History', 2012, pp. 147149.
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Although noted city architect Henry Kemp designed a house for himself in Kew in 1913, it was
not until the inter-war era that architects really began to establish a presence in the study area in
that way. Eric Nicholls, a long-time associate of Walter Burley Griffin, grew up in Kew and, after
his marriage in 1928, designed a much-published (but sadly demolished) Prairie School-style
house for himself in Doncaster Road, Balwyn. ...The trend of architects designing their own
houses intensified in the later 1930s, when architects like Norman Seabrook, Edgar Gurney and
Roy Prentice built houses in Hawthorn, and Bramwell Smith built his in Kew. It peaked after the
Second World War, when young architects – many recently demobbed from military service and
keen to rejoin civilian life – were drawn to the developing suburbs east of the Yarra River. A
young Robin Boyd built his house in Riversdale Road, Camberwell in 1946, while J Brett Finney
built his in Kew East in 1949 – his first independent architectural commission after leaving the
AIF.
History
The house at 8 Orford Avenue was built in 1938, designed by owner and architect Austin
Bramwell Smith (Built Heritage 2012:150; AHB). Smith’s father, who owned the adjacent lot,
gave the land at 8 Orford Avenue to him as a wedding present. The land was officially transferred
to A.B. Smith’s in August 1937, and remained so until 1973 (LV:V6137/F228).
The house subsequently built was featured in Australian Home Beautiful in May 1938. The
article, ‘An attic house in brick’, notes that the recently completed house was an 'excellent
example of American Colonial architecture', constructed for the architect and his family. The
article describes the house:
The general exterior finish is ivory painted brick walls to roof gutter level, then cream painted
12 inches wide red pine weatherboards in gables and dormer windows, all contrasting with a
chocolate blended Marseilles tile roof and pale green curved roofs over the three dormer
windows, two of which have gaily flowered window boxes.
Figure 1. Photo of 8 Orford Crescent, as built. (Source: Australian Home Beautiful, 01/05/1939, page 12)
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The house was designed to complement the unusual site, which ‘commands a view’. The house
was positioned to face north, with its east side elevation facing the street, to allow for sunlight
and air. The article includes photos of the interior, with its timber joinery and floors, as well as a
floor plan of the ground and attic levels. Personalised touches include a built-in 'drawing table' in
Bramwell Smith's study, wrought-iron grilles and fly wire on the front door sidelights so they could
be safely left open at night, and labour-saving touches such as a laundry chute from the atticstorey bathroom to the laundry below.
It is believed that the Bramwell Smiths resided here until the early 1970s.
In 1976, additions were made to the house, for the next owners John and Janet Murphy, which
included the conversion of the original garage, attached to the west end of the house, into a
rumpus room. In 1977 new wrought iron gates were installed and a pool built in 1980. In 1982 a
small skillion-roofed addition was made to the south side of the house, to serve as a store room
for new owner M Loftus (BP).
In 1989, owners G and H Harris carried out further additions, designed by architects Derek
Green and Associates Pty Ltd of Glen Iris Road, Camberwell. The addition was a substantial
two-storey wing added to the west elevation, with materials and details, such as dormers, similar
to the originals. Its facade was set back from the original extent of the building, so it is not visible
from the public domain and reads as a later phase. A fourth dormer window was added to the
west side of the original roof at this time (BP).
In 1993 a ‘study bay window’ was added to the south elevation of the original house. In 1995 a
garage was built, designed by Ball Coghlan Architects. It sits at the south end of Orford Avenue,
to the east of the house, and is clearly visible. It also adopts the same gabled roof form and
dormers as the original house (BP).
Austin Bramwell Smith, architect
Smith (1898-1975) was born in Geraldtown, Western Australia, before moving to Hawthorn,
Victoria in 1909. He is listed as an alumnus of the University of Melbourne, Faculty of
Architecture, Building and Planning in 1922. Smith was a student of architect Rodney Alsop
(1881-1932) and practiced with Alsop in 1931-2 (ADB).
Arthur Bramwell Smith's former house is located at the end of the Orford Avenue cul-de-sac, on
the west side. The east side of the house faces the cul-de-sac, while the main elevation - the
north side - is visible obliquely from the public domain. A low brick wall delineates the boundary
to Orford Avenue, corresponding to the curved 'low brick wall' shown on the 1939 plan (though a
neo-Victorian palisade fence has been added on top of it, but this is reversible). The house is
separated from the street by a garden, while a paved driveway along the north side of the house
has replaced the narrow double-track drive and stepping stone path seen in the 1939 plan. As
noted in the history, the garage at the south end of the cul-de-sac is a recent addition, in keeping
with the style of the house.
The house itself has a transverse gable roof, clad in variegated brown Marseille tiles. The walls
are of painted brick, with wide timber weatherboards to the gable end facing the street. This
elevation has a simple, external chimney at its centre, with tiny casement windows in the gable
picturesquely placed on either side. At the ground-floor level, windows are four-over-four doublehung sashes with panelled shutters. The shutters each have a cut-out design of a tree in a pot in
the upper panel. While American Colonial Revival houses of all types generally had louvered
shutters appropriate for the humid summers of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard - to exclude light but
admit a cooling breeze - the solid shutters to this house appear to be an appropriate adaptation
to Melbourne's hot, dry summers. The Australian Home Beautiful article notes that the
downstairs rooms remained a pleasant 77 degrees Fahrenheit when the shutters were closed,
despite 114 degree temperatures outside.
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Most of the facade (north elevation) is in a symmetrical arrangement around the front entrance
portico. On either side of the portico is a pair of four-over-four sash windows with suitably wide
panelled shutters, these ones with a cut-out floral design. Above these three openings are three
small dormer windows with segmentally arched heads. A fourth bay at the west end of the facade
breaks the symmetry, and did not originally have a dormer above it. It is filled with a bank of
French windows.
The portico is the focal point of the house, and clearly referencing the American Colonial Revival
style. It has a broken pediment front and rests on three simple classical piers at each corner. Like
the rest of the house, its gable roof is clad in brown tiles, with wide timber weatherboards to the
gable front. The four-panel front door has sidelights; the cast-iron grilles over them survive.
While the house has undergone a series of alterations and additions, these are not visible from
the public domain apart from the small skillion of the storeroom at the east end of the south
elevation. The new dormer added at the west end of the roof would be partially visible should the
present tree cover be removed. Apart from that, the house is intact to its original design when
viewed from the public domain.
In the early 20th century Australian architecture was influenced by the parallel Georgian Revival
movements in England and America. William Hardy Wilson is considered the main inspirer of the
Georgian Revival movement in Australia, both by his designs and his book of drawings titled Old
Colonial Architecture in New South Wales and Tasmania of 1924. This book was based on
Wilson's researches from 1912 to 1920. He also visited America in 1923, at the height of the
'academic' Colonial Revival (as Georgian Revival was known) in that country, travelling down the
East Coast as a student, from Massachusetts to the Carolinas, sketching 18th-century
architecture.
Australian Georgian Revival became synonymous with upper-middle-class concepts of good
taste, with its order and restraint, and was favoured by academically trained architects. For this
reason interwar Georgian Revival houses are seen mostly in well-to-do suburbs of Melbourne.
High-style Australian Georgian Revival houses are few in Boroondara. A fine example is the
elegant and accomplished 'Wynivy', 15-17 Deepdene Road, Balwyn (1924, Barlow & Hawkins).
More typical is a 'Georgian' variant of the typical 1930s bungalow. To the standard house form
with rendered walls and a tiled high hip roof, a classical porch - often semicircular - is appended
to the front. Examples are seen in the Reid Estate precinct (HO192). While these houses are
attractive, their Georgian features are not an integral part of the design and their approach is far
from academic.
A distinct and important sub-section of the interwar Georgian Revival in Australia is the American
Colonial Revival, which was very popular in well-heeled suburbs like Camberwell and Toorak, as
well as exclusive holiday spots like the Ranelagh Estate in Mount Eliza. These houses are
inspired by the Federal period in America (the first decades of the 19th century). The most
common type is two-storey, with a symmetrical facade and multi-pane sashes windows with
louvered shutters. The central front entry has a porch in the form of a classical portico, with an
entablature or triangular pediment, resting on slender columns. The roof is often a transverse
gable, though hip roofs are also seen. In the United States the Colonial Revival houses of the
1920s were most frequently clad in weatherboard, while brick was the most common material for
suburban examples in Australia with weatherboard reserved for regional and holiday houses,
such as Percy Meldrum’s ‘Summerlease’ in Mt Eliza of 1933.
Another American Colonial Revival house type that was very popular during the 1920s through
the 1940s in the United States was the ‘Cape Cod cottage’. These were attic-storey houses,
inspired by the vernacular cottages of eastern Massachusetts but with the addition of Georgian
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or Adamesque doorways and porticos (McAlester, 1984: 322). These houses were modestly
scaled, more informal in their level of classical ornamentation and more likely to stray from a
strictly symmetrical façade so as to suggest organic growth over the centuries. They usually had
multi-pane double-hung windows with shutters (usually louvered), and were constructed most
commonly of timber, but also of brick.
There are a handful of American Colonial Revival houses on the Boroondara Heritage Overlay.
The most common expression of this domestic style is the formal, two-storey house which
usually has a highly symmetrical facade, a classical portico to the central front door, a simple
classical cornice below the eaves, and a simple hipped or transverse gable roof (the grander
houses may have a classical pediment at the centre of the roof). Almost all are constructed of
brick. They characteristically have multi-pane double-hung windows with shutters (usually
louvered).
Examples of this type include:
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HO392 - 91 Maud Street, Balwyn North, of 1940. A simplified version of red brick, with a
symmetrical facade, shutters to the nine-over-nine sash windows, and a hip roof. The window
above the front door has a curved metal balcony balustrade. There is no entrance portico.
HO383 - 119 Doncaster Road, Balwyn North of 1948. A rather ornate and late cream-brick
example of this style, and one that introduces asymmetry to the facade. Classical ornament
includes raised window keystones, an octagonal window, wide eaves with a modillioned
cornice, and an entrance aedicule with a scrolled broken pediment. The six-over-six sash
windows do not have shutters, but some first floor windows have delicate mild-steel
balustrades.
HO192 (contributory) - 4 Bowley Avenue, Balwyn of the 1930s. A simple version of the twostorey type with red-brick walls, symmetrical facade, shutters to first-floor windows, hip roof,
highly simplified front entrance. There are a number of contributory houses of this type in the
Reid Estate precinct, which was developed in the 1930s.
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HO159 - 19A Trafalgar Road, Camberwell (NB: This house is non-contributory to the
precinct, as only the Victorian and Edwardian houses are contributory). A real estate ad
claims that it was designed and built by Fritsch Holzer (a major local brickmaker). This twostorey brick house has a transverse gable roof as well as a rooflet above the ground-floor
facade, lending it informality. The nine-over-nine sash windows have louvered shutters. The
entrance portico has Tuscan columns and a triangular pediment.
Figure 2. 19A Trafalgar Road, Camberwell (Source: www.masonpoint.com.au)
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67 Mont Albert Road, Canterbury (in the proposed Mont Albert Road West Precinct, but not
on HO). This is one of the grandest houses of this style in Boroondara, and one of the most
authentically detailed, with its high hip roof and deep modillioned cornice. It is reminiscent of
the grand Georgian houses of the state of Virginia.
Figure 3. 67 Mont Albert Road, Canterbury. (Context Pty Ltd, 2012)
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No examples of Cape Cod cottages could be identified on the Heritage Overlay, but there are
examples scattered around the City of Boroondara, most of which appear to have been built in
the 1940s. Two examples are 2A Scott Street and 74 Robinson Street, Hawthorn, neither of
which are on the Heritage Overlay. Both appear to be builder-designs, and lack the authenticity
and fine detail of the Bramwell Smith house.
To conclude, the Bramwell Smith house is a faithful rendition of a Cape Cod cottage, making it a
very rare type in Boroondara. Even in comparison with the above examples of the more formal,
two-storey American Colonial Revival houses protected on the Heritage Overlay, the house is
distinguished by its fidelity to the original forms (though comparable in this aspect to the two
unprotected houses on Trafalgar and Mont Albert roads).
Criteria referred to in Practice Note 1: Applying the Heritage Overlay, Department of Planning
and Community Development, September 2012, modified for the local context.
CRITERION A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of the City of Boroondara's cultural or
natural history (historical significance).
The Bramwell Smith house illustrates the strong theme of architects designing their own homes
in Boroondara's suburbs.
NA
CRITERION C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the City of
Boroondara's cultural or natural history (research potential).
NA
CRITERION D: Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or
natural places or environments (representativeness).
The Bramwell Smith house is an accomplished example of the American Colonial Revival
imported to Australia.
significance).
The Bramwell Smith house exhibits typical features of the American Colonial Revival style
including its shuttered multi-pane windows and broken-pediment portico resting on slender
classical piers. Its modest, attic-storey massing, subtle asymmetry of the facade, and picturesque
details such as the curve-roof dormers and tiny windows flanking the end chimney place it into
the sub category of the Cape Cod cottage mode.
CRITERION F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement
at a particular period (technical significance).
NA
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CRITERION G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for
social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous
peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions (social significance).
NA
CRITERION H: Special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of
importance in the City of Boroondara's history (associative significance).
NA
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The house at 8 Orford Avenue, designed by architect Austin Bramwell Smith (1898-1975) as his
own home and constructed in 1937-38. The house was constructed in the American Colonial
style, in the Cape Cod cottage mode. It has painted brick walls, and wide weatherboards to the
gable end, brown Marseille tiles to the gabled roof which contains an attic storey, and an
entrance portico near the centre of the main facade, which faces the side boundary.
The low, curved brick wall along Orford Avenue contributes to the significance of the place.
Alterations and additions of the 1970s or later are not significant.
The Bramwell Smith house is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of
Boroondara.
Architecturally, it is a faithful and successful rendition of a Cape Cod cottage, a variant of
American Colonial Revival which was popular in America in the 1920s-40s, but is rare in the City
of Boroondara. These houses are modestly scaled, informal in their level of classical
ornamentation (usually restricted to the entrance portico) and more likely to stray from a strictly
symmetrical façade so as to suggest organic growth over the centuries. They typically have an
attic storey, and - like all types of Colonial Revival houses - have multipane windows with
shutters. The Bramwell Smith house reflects these features, including its most prominent element
- the broken-pediment portico resting on six slender timber piers. Picturesque details include the
curve dormer windows, the tiny casement windows in the gable on either side of the chimney,
and the wrought-iron screens to the entrance sidelights. The use of solid timber shutters, instead
of the typical American louvered shutters, show adaptation to Melbourne's climate. (Criteria D &
E)
Historically, as a representative example of the above-average proportion of dwellings that were
designed by noted Melbourne architects for themselves in the City of Boroondara. While the
trend emerged on a modest scale in the late nineteenth century, it became a pronounced theme
during the interwar years, particularly in Kew. (Criterion A)
Recommended for inclusion in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay of the Boroondara Planning
Scheme as an Individually Significant place.
Recommendations for the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay (Clause 43.01) in the Boroondara
Planning Scheme:
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
No
No
No
No
No
No
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notice and review?
No
No
Identified By
Built Heritage, City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History, 2012.
References
Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), George Tibbits ‘Rodney Howard Alsop (1881-1932)’,
http://adb.anu.edu.au/ accessed July 2013.
Australian Home Beautiful journal (AHB), ‘An Attic House in Brick’, May 1 1939, pp11-15.
Built Heritage, City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History, 2012.
City of Boroondara Building Permit (BP) information, including plans for additions dated 1976,
1977, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1993 & 1994.
McAlester, Virginia and Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses, 1984.
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Shops and Offices
Address: 1363 Burke Road, Kew
Name: Shops and office
Architect: John R. Tovey
Builder:
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Historical Context
Suburban shopping centre at Kew East
The development of the retail centre at Kew East was strongly influenced by the vagaries
of public transport networks. A branch rail line to Kew (1887) and the Outer Circle line
running from Ashburton to Alphington via Balwyn and Kew East (1891) were not
particularly successful and their respective closures in 1952 and 1926 curtailed
settlement in those areas until the establishment of an electric tram network in the 1910s.
Kew East started to develop key institutions and shops throughout the 1920s, however
the commercial centre developed an effort to keep up with the burgeoning car-based
retail culture. New shops erected in established retail strips in the 1950s were often
designed along modern lines, with large plate-glass windows, prominent signage and
deliberately eye catching architectural forms to attract the attention of passersby.
John R. Tovey, architect
Little is known of architect John Richard Tovey. In the late 1940s, Tovey briefly entered
into a partnership with architect Robert G Warren, until it was dissolved in 1949. Their
office was located at 309 Spring Street Melbourne (Built Heritage website; Argus 17 Aug
1949:12). An article in 1955 noted that architect John R Tovey (ARAIA, ARVIA) had his
office at 42 Toorak Road, South Yarra. Tovey was calling for tenders 'on behalf of the
committee of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne for alterations and additions to existing
building at Lit. Collins St., Melbourne' (Argus 22 April 1955:11).
History
In January 1938, Stanley Morrison, a chemist of Hawthorn, purchased the recently
subdivided lot, located on the corner of Burke and Harp roads; the extent matched the
current boundaries of 1363 Burke Road (lot 1, Crown Portion 84, Parish of Boroondara).
From this date the lot had a number of owners with various occupations. Owners
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included: Gerald Thomas, shipping clerk from 1944; Raymond Wootton, dentist, from
1949; and Leslie Woolley, dentist, from 1951 (LV: V6174/647). As Kew experienced a
boom in residential subdivision between 1910 and 1940 (Built Heritage 2012:128), it is
likely that a building occupied the site at the corner of Burke and Harp roads, during this
period.
In January 1952, 1363 Burke Road was purchased by Richard, Douglas and Francis
Buxton, estate agents of 443 Collins Street, Melbourne (LV: V6174/647). JR Buxton and
Co (later Pty Ltd) was located at 443 Collins Street from at least the 1920s (Argus 3
March 1928:24; 21 April 1934:17). John Robert Buxton founded the company in 1861,
opening an office in South Melbourne (Buxton website).
The titles indicate that Raymond Maintenance Building Company Pty Ltd are noted on
the titles as the owners from September 1953 (not noted as a mortgage) (LV:
V6174/647). The shops and offices at 1363 Burke Road, Kew East were built in 1954 and
designed by architect John R Tovey (Built Heritage 2012:102).
Newspaper articles in 1956 indicate that offices of J. R. Buxton Pty Ltd were located at
the corner of Burke and Harp roads, East Kew, at this date. In 1956, J R Buxton had
offices in East Kew, Box Hill and Melbourne (Argus 24 Aug 1956:14; 12 Dec 1956:17; 4
April 1956:13). This suggests that 1363 Burke Road served as an additional Buxton real
estate agency.
Subsequent owners of 1363 Burke Road included Serge Kunstler, a medical practitioner,
from 1962 to 1985 (LV: V6174/647). In 2013, the building serves as three separate
shops.
The commercial premises at the corner of Burke Road and Harp Road in the local
shopping centre of Kew East, occupies a prominent corner site. It comprises a long
narrow building built to the boundary lines with monopitch roofing. Although most of the
building is of cream brick with a base course of brown brick, the facing cladding around
the front door is of colourful Castlemaine slate that makes a highly decorative entry. The
windows are of simple anodised metal framing and the timber framed door and sidelight
appear to be original. The side elevation has particular attention paid to the window
design that utilises bands of highlight windows at ceiling level and a group of six square
windows form an unusual feature. This is complemented by a pair of square windows
places at eye level adjacent to the entry.
A cantilevered verandah wraps around the entry area with an angled corner and extends
along Harp Road in stepped form. The building is quite intact apart from some window
changes to the Harp Road elevation and the advertising signs on the fascia of the
verandah. The entry is given dramatic effect by the roof lines of the monopitch roof as
they follow the recessed corner.
Three modern commercial premises are noted in the City of Boroondara Thematic
Environmental History.
A former carpet showroom, now Cash Converters at 1360 Toorak Road, Burwood (1960)
is a striking modern building designed by architect John Ahern and an outstanding
example of modern commercial architecture. It also has a high degree of integrity.
A modern supermarket at 1424 Toorak Road, Camberwell (c.1955) is less innovative
than 1360 Toorak Road and also less intact than 1363 Burke Road.
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A row of modest shops at 57 Canterbury Road, Canterbury (c.1963) – that display typical
skillion-roofs and glass-walled frontages are directly comparable to 1363 Burke Road,
however the latter is a more arresting composition.
Post war commercial places are not well represented in the heritage schedule to
Boroondara and 1363 Burke Road, Kew is an excellent example of this genre.
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1363 Burke Road is an excellent example of 1950s commercial premises and is a
landmark building within the local shopping centre of Kew East. It represents the new
modern retail culture of the 1950s.
Not applicable
Not applicable
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significance).
Designed with a monopitch roof, cantilevered, splayed verandah and a highly decorative
entry of Castlemaine slate cladding, the building is an unusually intact and fine example
of 1950s commercial architecture. Also of note are the anodised window frames
designed in a combination of large glazing and small square window boxes, and the
timber framed doors.
Not applicable
significance).
Not applicable
Not applicable
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The commercial building at 1363 Burke Road Kew East designed by architect John
Tovey in 1954 is significant.
1363 Burke Road is of local historic and architectural significance to the City of
Boroondara.
1363 Burke Road is an excellent example of 1950s commercial premises and is a
landmark building within the local shopping centre of Kew East. It represents the new
modern retail culture of the 1950s.
Designed with a monopitch roof, cantilevered, splayed verandah and a highly decorative
entry clad with Castlemaine slate cladding, the building is an unusually intact and fine
example of 1950s commercial architecture. Also of note are the anodised window
frames designed in a combination of large glazing and small square window boxes, and
the timber framed doors.
Planning Scheme as an individually significant place.
Tree Controls
Incorporated Plan
notice and review?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Identified By
Built Heritage, ‘City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History’, 2012.
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References
Built Heritage website, 'Dictionary of unsung architects: Robert G Warren (1920-2002)',
http://www.builtheritage.com.au/, accessed April 2013.
Buxton, '152 years', http://www.buxton.com.au/, accessed April 2013.
State Library of Victoria (SLV) online.
The Argus.
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