91 Maud Street

91 Maud Street BALWYN NORTH, Boroondara City

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Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell & Hawthorn

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  • Physical Description 1

    91 Maud Street - Physical Description 1

    91 Maud Street, is a two-storey, flat-fronted brick house in a careful and thoroughly typical neo-Georgian style: type CF 7 by the architectural office of the State Savings Bank of Victoria under G Burridge Leith, who had run that office since the 1920s.[i] It has simple cube form, a hipped roof with a single chimney at the east end, and symmetrically placed windows and front door. A wrought iron balconette frames the central first floor window, and shutters frame the outer windows on both floors. The smaller upstairs windows suggest an attic level; while the course line and vaguely ceremonial front steps, with their wrought iron balustrade, hint at a basement.

    The low picket fence, noted by Graeme Butler as part of the original specification,[ii] has been removed since the 1991 Camberwell Conservation Study, though the side paling fence, with flat top may be early. The garage, with stepped top, was added either at the end of construction or just after the houses was completed.[iii] It is a simply treated brick box with boarded and braced doors, typical of many of the interwar and early post-war years.[iv] Apart from a kitchen, meals and patio area added at the rear in 1986,[v] the house appears to be intact externally.

    The plan was comparatively open for its time, with a stair hall opening into living and dining rooms through double doors to either side. This may reflect Leith's wide experience in weatherboard Bungalow design during the 1920s. Surprisingly, the house has little if any climatic recognition, its generously windowed west and north walls topped with almost vestigial eaves in a way that suggests suburban house design of the 1990s.

    [i] Leith's designs figured prominently in Home Beautiful and elsewhere during the 1920s, and he remained prominent as a house designer during the 1930s, developing designs that were prototypes for the post war 'brick veneer'. For Leith and the State Bank Office, see Peter Cuffley, Australian Houses of the 1920s and 1930s, Five Mile, Melbourne, 1989, passim.

    [ii] G Butler, City of Camberwell Conservation Study 1991, vol.4, p. 181. The fence appears in Butler's photograph.

    [iii] Detail sourced from the City of Camberwell Building Index, # 13592, dated 7 October 1940.

    [iv] The City of Camberwell Building Index lists unspecified 'Additions and alterations' (costing $25,000) in # 81111, dated 5 September 1986.

    [v] Details sourced from the City of Camberwell Building Index, #81111, dated 5 September 1986, and working drawings (86-148 F) by Allan A Armstrong Pty Ltd.

    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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