D'estaville

7 Barry Street KEW, Boroondara City

Barry Street Precinct, Kew

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City of Kew Urban Conservation Study 1988

Statement of Significance

• Other Records For This Place
  • D'ESTAVILLE - Victorian Heritage Register
  • D'Estaville - National Trust
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  • Physical Description 1

    D'estaville - Physical Description 1

    This two-storey fourteen roomed mansion was built for Sir William Foster Stawell, the first Attorney-General and later Chief Justice of Victoria[3]. It was designed by the architects of the Melbourne Parliament House, Knight and Kerr, who called tenders for a ' ... large stone house at Kew for Sir W.F. Stawell' in February 1858[4]. It is a very imposing house built in exposed Footscray basalt and has picturesque massing with ltalianate detailing. The walls are in coursed basalt with rockfaced raised quoins to the windows and corner walls, while around the entrance door there is a shallow pilastered entrance porch with a broken pediment above. The roof line is dominated by the gable units and deep eaves, both decorated with closely set timber brackets. The house was originally set on a large tract of land, now greatly reduced. In its styling, D'Estaville compares with few houses of the 1850s in Victoria, the (basalt) Bishopscourt in East Melbourne constructed by James Blackburn about five years previous, being one of the few. Like Bishopscourt, it is possible that this house was originally intended to be rendered over the basalt between the raised quoining blocks.

    Rate Books record that the initial N.A.V. of the building was £600[5] although by 1860 the valuation had fallen to £350 [6]. Stawell's property was occupied during the early 1870s by Niel Black[7], a Western district pastoralist, and although it was used as the Ruyton Kindergarten Training School during 1904-1906 [8], the current ownership has reverted to a private residence.

    References --

    1 National Trust of Aust.(Vic), Building Citation: 'D'Estaville'

    2 Architects' Index, Univeristy of Melbourne.

    3 National Trust of Aust.(Vic), 'Research into "D'Estaville"...',6 December 1976

    4 Architects' Index, University of Melbourne, Argus 15 February 1858, p.8

    5 ibid.

    6 ibid.

    7 ibid.

    8 ibid.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Boroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study

    Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
    Year: 1988
    Grading: A

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