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452 Warrigal Road
452 Warrigal Road ASHBURTON, Boroondara City

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Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell & Hawthorn
Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell & Hawthorn
Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell & Hawthorn
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Statement of Significance

452 Warrigal Road, Ashburton is of local historical and architectural significance as a competent and relatively externally intact of the application of Spanish Mission styling to a mid-sized suburban house of the early 1930s, successfully achieving an assertive open character. The house suffers to a degree from the alteration of its setting, including the replacement of the original fence and the development of the rear of the block. The association of this house with original owner and architect, P J O'Connor, is of interest, with its adoption of the Spanish Mission style reflecting the architect's own interest in the idiom.

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    • Physical Description 1

      452 Warrigal Road - Physical Description 1

      452 Warrigal Road Ashburton has a hipped roofed double-front facing Warrigal Road, augmented by a pyramidal-roofed tower over the front entrance. The rear elevation breaks up into a more casual array of parallel wings including a large laundry and toolshed wing, and at the rear of the site a galvanized iron shed appears of fairly long standing. Apart from the tower, the front-facing roofs are hipped with cement tiles in a Marseilles pattern. The north-eastern front has a stuccoed wall-screen with three arches, possibly an open loggia originally. The tower has an arched entry and two flanking spiral colonnettes, giving a note of ornamental flourish, albeit a frugal one. A small grilled window punctuates the tower higher up. The rear wings have straight pitches running to shallow gables.

      A high front fence of cement-rendered piers and red brick panelling has been built to screen the Warrigal Road frontage in recent years (replacing the original fence noted in the 1991 Camberwell Conservation Study).

      A free standing two-storey red brick house of unusual design is under construction on the south side of the property, with access to this building from Lancaster Street through a double garage.

      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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