Voreppe House
9 Forster Avenue MALVERN EAST, Stonnington City
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Statement of Significance
The house (Voreppe) at 9 Forster Avenue, Malvern East is locally significant, architecturally:
- as an early and distinctive transition from the standard suburban Italianate designs of the early 1880s and 1890s to the Queen Anne influenced designs of the Edwardian-era.
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Voreppe House - Physical Description 1
(as assessed from the street)
This single-storey, late Victorian-era, polychrome brick Italianate style villa has a hipped slate-clad roof, brick chimneys with cemented cornices, bracketed eaves, and a convex-profile verandah. The verandah brackets and panelled frieze are of cast-iron with round-section posts. The body brickwork is brown, with cream quoins and red string courses near impost level. Cream and red bricks are also used in entablature panels and in the northern gabled end. The building plan is typically asymmetrical, with the verandah returning on the side street frontage and terminating on a projecting six-sided window bay adjacent to the entry. A distinctive element associated with this bay is the small gablet set into the hipped roof bay, with gable trussing, fretted bracket and turned timber finial. Not as innovative as the adjoining Oxonia at 3 Foster Avenue, Voreppe nevertheless shows an early transition from the standard suburban Italianate designs of the 1880s and 1890s to the Queen Anne influenced designs of the Edwardian-era.
Voreppe House - Integrity
(as assessed from the street)
The house is near externally intact, except for rear additions and the reroofing of the roof valley. The timber picket fence shown in early views has been replaced by a low, reproduction crimped wire fence. The side garden has been subdivided and thus the link with Oxonia has been lost.
Voreppe House - Local Historical Themes
8.2.2 'Country in the city' - suburban development in Malvern before 1920
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - Heritage Overlay Review - Amendment C5, C6
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2003
Grading: A2Stonnington - City of Malvern Heritage Study
Author: Nigel Lewis and Richard Aitken P/L
Year: 1992
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St Elmo/WestfordStonnington City
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Oxonia HouseStonnington City
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IronaStonnington City
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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"1890"Yarra City
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'BRAESIDE'Boroondara City
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'ELAINE'Boroondara City
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