32 Hortense Street

32 Hortense Street GLEN IRIS, BOROONDARA CITY

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Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell & Hawthorn

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    32 Hortense Street - Physical Description 1

    32 Hortense Street is a triple-fronted, two storey house of 1938, designed by the architect Leslie Reed.[i] It has double brick walls clad in rough stone, with half-timbering over a north wing and a thickly grained slate roof with no ridge-capping. It has unusual cement or fireclay chimney shafts, halfway between a stack and a chimney pot, with a spiral external pattern. The stair window is a lancet; the ground floor living room windows in a trio with a blind arch over each; the first floor main bedroom window is a plate glass and sash 'Chicago' type. The north wing windows are plain sheets, and the upstairs wing, with half timbered spandrels, looks glassed-in. The front fence in scoria stone looks original, though the metal pickets may be later, the general garden layout and large trees all look original. The original plan was a simple, tight arrangement of rooms in an L shape with the stair well positioned in the angle of the L, forming three steps to the north east side, the intersection of Ariel Street. Behind the house, on the Ariel Street side, is a large extension in stone similar to that of the original house that alters the original geometry and makes the house appear more expansive.[ii] Behind that is a newer garage (possibly replacing or incorporating the original) and some later fence additions, which look quite different from those of the original house.[iii] Notwithstanding these additions, the original front section still reads as a distinct entity from the north-east, east and south-east sides.

    [i] Details sourced from the City of Camberwell Buildings Index, #10703, dated 5 December 1938. Plans drawn by Leslie J W Reed, architect, 23 November 1938, in City of Camberwell archives.

    [ii] Details sourced from the City of Camberwell Buildings Index, #20806, dated 28 June 1957.

    [iii] Details sourced from the City of Camberwell Buildings Index, #63842, dated 2 October 1978.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Boroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn

    Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
    Year: 2006
    Grading: B

    Boroondara - Camberwell Conservation Study

    Author: Graeme Butler
    Year: 1991
    Grading:

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