Isles View

40 Bayview Road,TOORADIN, Casey City

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Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Isles View - Physical Description 1

    The site is next to a branch of the Tooradin inlet, with mangroves, boat-building slip and sheds next to the banks. Next to the slip is a mature flowering gum.
    
    An early photograph of the house shows it as face brick, with a hipped roof and a return, cast-iron verandah which incorporated a fan pattern frieze typically used in the late-19th and early-20th centuries (15). There appears to be a balustrade around the viewing platform on the roof.
    
    Today the house is similar but the verandah has been renewed with timber posts in a new position and a large matching extension made to the street elevation. The nature of this addition has detracted from the original symmetry of this elevation (once symmetrical about the front door). It has made the original section difficult to identify and hence has blurred the historical contribution of this house.
    
    At the rear is a courtyard with a verandahed brick skillion service-wing facing the street along one side. Toothing of the bricks in this end wall indicate that this wing was intended to expand. A fibrous cement lean-to has recently been added along the back of this wing. At the rear of the main part of the house is a weatherboard, hipped roof wing which is thought to have once been 'Bay View' and later used as the Tooradin Police Station.
    
    Inside, like Tooradin Estate house, the doors facing the passage have toplights but have etched glass. The passage is also in the unusual T-form, with similar coupled columns under the hall arch. French doors to one of the rooms depict the four seasons in transfers.
    
    CHANGES
    The house has been extended to one side in matching brick and form so as to be hardly distinguishable from the original. The verandah and paving have been renewed. A timber mantle which was in the old kitchen has been moved to the front room but is reputedly the same as the others which were in these rooms.

    Physical Conditions

    Isles View - Physical Conditions

    Good

    Intactness

    Isles View - Intactness

    Moderate to Low

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Casey - Casey Heritage Study

    Author: Context Pty Ltd
    Year: 2004
    Grading: Local

    Casey - Heritage of the City of Casey: Historic Sites in the former Cranbourne Shire

    Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
    Year: 1994
    Grading:

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