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BILL SNELL HOUSE
1 Fran Court TEMPLESTOWE LOWER, Manningham City
Meg Henderson Houses Heritage Precinct

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22531 Bill Snell House - 1 Fran Court, Templestowe Lower
22531 Bill Snell House - 1 Fran Court, Templestowe Lower
22531 Bill Snell House - 1 Fran Court, Templestowe Lower
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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Bill Snell House and garden, designed by Meg Henderson and constructed c.1964, at 1 Fran Court, Lower Templestowe.

How is it Significant?

The Bill Snell House is of local historic and aesthetic significance to Manningham City.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant as an example of the work of local architect, Meg Henderson, and demonstrates the innovative architecture that flourished in the Templestowe area in the post-war period. (RNE criteria A.4 & H.1)

Aeshetically, it is a rare and beautiful house complemented by a garden, which is significant as an early neo-brutalist design, contemporary with other similar work in Templestowe by Keith Reid and his sons, and which relates particularly well to its site and the context of its earlier neighbour, by the same designer and similarly intact. (RNE criteria E.1)

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    • Historical Australian Themes

      BILL SNELL HOUSE - Historical Australian Themes

      Local Themes

      8.02 - Architects

      Physical Description 1

      BILL SNELL HOUSE - Physical Description 1

      A rectangular plan pavilion built of brick with a wall of bluestone facing the street, and a steel deck roof. It has a projecting deck and large sliding timber-framed windows extending along the north elevation. The house is carefully integrated within its casual garden context of natives and exotics amongst boulders in the Ellis Stones manner. The house employs 'Solareit' panels and a concrete floor system devised by architect Meg Henderson. It incorporates 'Dicon' pipes for heating, with a resin layer as a waterproof membrane against rising moisture. There is a pebble screed above with a silicon gel plastic surface finish.

      It can be compared to Meg Henderson's own house, next door, at 232 Greenslopes Drive, which is stylistically very different and demonstrates the changing architectural fashions from the lightness of 1950s/early 60s to 'heavy' proto-brutalist influence of the mid to late 1960s.

      It also compares with later houses by the firm of John & Keith Reid at 4o Melbourne Hill Road (1966) McLachlan Street (1966), and the earlier Templestowe Uniting Church (1962). Refer to separate citations in this Study.

      Physical Conditions

      BILL SNELL HOUSE - Physical Conditions

      Condition Excellent

      Integrity

      BILL SNELL HOUSE - Integrity

      Integrity Intact

      Physical Description 2

      BILL SNELL HOUSE - Physical Description 2

      Threats Sale

      Physical Description 3

      BILL SNELL HOUSE - Physical Description 3

      Key elements

      Building

      Garden

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 2006
      Grading: Local

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