1 Harcourt Street
27 Auburn Road HAWTHORN and 1 Harcourt Street HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
Harcourt Street Precinct, Hawthorn
Statement of Significance
Significance of Individual Property
1. A highly individual adaptation of the Australian style in the Queen Anne, at the height of its popularity.
2. A rare example of the overall hipped roof type, adapted to two storey mansion house form.
3. Illustrative of the inventive work of Hawthorn's great architect Beswicke.
4. A substantially intact mansion which is a landmark in Auburn Road and Harcourt Street.) The last of Beswicke's mansions here, and the gateway building to the mansion house precinct in Harcourt Street.
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 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.
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AUBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2948
Victorian Heritage Register H1707 -
AUBURN RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
Victorian Heritage Register H1559
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GLENFERRIE RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
Victorian Heritage Register H1671
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"1890"
Yarra City -
"AMF Officers" Shed
Moorabool Shire -
"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOL
Victorian Heritage Register H1687
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