Streamshall (or Stramshall)
173 Auburn Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Streamshall is of local significance as a good and relatively externally intact example of a substantial two-storey Italianate villa with hipped roof, projecting canted bay and two-storey verandah, large numbers of which were constructed throughout Hawthorn and the broader Boroondara area in the 1870s and 1880s. While the full extent of its original setting has been reduced and the house is obscured from the street by a fence, it maintains its garden setting on an elevated site.
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Streamshall (or Stramshall) - Physical Description 1
Streamshall, at 173 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, is a substantial two-storey Victorian villa of brick construction in the Italianate style. The hipped roof is finished with slate and rendered brick chimneys with consoled moulded caps. The walls display an overpainted rendered finish with moulded string courses and projecting bays on the west and south flank a double-height cast iron return verandah. The verandah has an ogee-profile corrugated galvanised steel roof supported by fluted Corinthian columns with cast iron balustrade, frieze and brackets and non-original tiled floor. The main entrance is via an arched opening containing a panelled timber door with leadlight surrounds and non-original timber-frame screen door; a second door accesses the verandah at first floor level. A double-height canted bay window, located in the projecting bay of the facade, features windows with segmented arch heads and metal valances at ground floor level and semi-circular arched windows with moulded archivolt at first floor level. Windows elsewhere in the principal elevations contain conventional timber-framed double-hung sashes.
Rear additions and alterations appear to be minor and are concealed from view from Auburn Road. The landscape has been completely renewed, a pool and shed may have been constructed and the property is fenced by a non-original brick wall and timber gates which probably date from the 1960s.[i]
[i] Details sourced from the City of Hawthorn Building Index, permit #461, dated 1944 (shed), permit #11817, dated 27 November 1974 (pool), and permit #6193, dated 10 December 1963, for construction of front fence.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: BBoroondara - Hawthorn Heritage study 1992
Author: Meredith Gould, Conservation Architects
Year: 1992
Grading:
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