'KAIAPOI'

35 Chatham Road CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY

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35 Chatham Road, Canterbury KAIAPOI

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    'KAIAPOI' - Physical Description 1

    'Kaiapoi' sits on the west side of Chatham Road, on a somewhat elevated site. There is a low retaining wall at the street boundary of rubble stone, which appears to date from the interwar period, and a flight of steps up to the front gate and path. The current picket fence is sympathetic in design, but as it stands atop the retaining wall, blocks views to the house from the footpath. The house sits behind a medium-sized front garden containing some large eucalypts. There is a large, modern garage in the south side setback, but it is set well back from the street and is concealed behind plantings.

    'Kaiapoi' is an embellished version of the Italianate houses that were so popular from the 1870s to 1890s. It adopts the simpler of the two typical plan forms - symmetrical and asymmetrical - with a flat, symmetrical facade. The house displays characteristic features of the Italianate style, including a low-line M-profile hipped roof, corniced chimneys, bracketed eaves, a hipped-roof verandah (which returns on the south side), and a heavy panelled front door with sidelights and highlights. The walls are of a dark brown Hawthorn-type brick with burnt headers, laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with polychrome brick accents. The front wall is tuckpointed, with a white ribbon.

    'Kaiapoi' retains original decorative detail including roofing slates with a band of octagonal slates, cream-brick quoins to the corniced and bracketed chimneys, faceted terracotta chimney pots, patterning in cream and red bricks between the paired eaves brackets to the main roof, red and cream brick banding to the front wall, and cast-iron elements to the return verandah (fluted Corinthian columns, and a compound frieze and brackets). The front verandah retains its bullnose bluestone edging, as well as fine curved bluestone front steps that project well forward of the verandah roof (as is visible in the 1909 MMBW plan), which is mirrored by the inset front entrance.

    The facade of the house is intact, apart from the loss of the cast-iron frieze and brackets to the north end of the verandah. The tiles to the front verandah also appear to be a sympathetic restoration. When on the site a small brick addition with a skillion roof is visible on the north side of the house, set behind the front room. A shallow bay window has been added to the south side of the house, c1910. There is also a large rear addition that nearly doubles the floor area of the original house, but it is single-storey, so is not visible from the front. (There is a valley gutter between the rear extension and the original M-profile hipped roof of the house, clearly indicating the boundary between old and new.) The rear outbuilding shown on the 1909 MMBW is no longer there.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Boroondara - Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Vol. 1 Canterbury

    Author: Context
    Year: 2018
    Grading: Local

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