Moorah House
13 Tintern Avenue TOORAK, Stonnington City
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Statement of Significance
The former Hansen House at 13 Tintern Avenue, Toorak, is locally significant architecturally:
-as an innovative design for its construction date, with the main distinctive element being the prismatic oriel window (west elevation) juxtaposed against a restrained fenestration pattern and as an evocative example of Arts & Crafts architecture (Criterion E1,B2)
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Moorah House - Physical Description 1
(as assessed from the street)
This gabled roof, two storey house has roughcast stucco walls and tall capped chimneys, leadlight casement windows, wide eaves and exposed rafters, and a distinctive hipped roof triangular-section oriel window projecting from at first floor level. This element is reminiscent of the work of Desbrowe-Annear (see angled wall bays at Cloyne, 611 Toorak Rd, 1929) and is set central to two slim window openings at ground level providing an unusually simple street elevation for the time. The south elevation has leadlight window bays on two levels, a projecting hipped roof room bay at ground level, shingled upper level wall panels, and a timber entry arch. The north elevation has a projecting upper level room bay supported on curved timber brackets and roofed in a slated hipped form. The house resembles the work of Arts & Crafts English domestic revival architects such as CFA Voysey.
Moorah House - Physical Conditions
(as assessed from the street)
The roof slates have been renewed; some balconies may have been enclosed in related leadlight glazing to timber casements.
Moorah House - Local Historical Themes
8.4.1 Houses as a symbol of wealth, status and fashion
9.2 Developing a system of state education
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - Heritage Overlay Review - Amendment C5, C6
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2003
Grading: A1Stonnington - Prahran Conservation Study Identification of Buildings & Areas of Major Significance
Author: Nigel Lewis & Associates
Year: 1983
Grading: A1
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