RESIDENCE AND REAR CONCRETE STUDIO - "LANDSCAPE", 60 LAVENDER PARK RD
60 LAVENDER PARK RD ELTHAM, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
Statement of Significance
REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE. CONTEXT, 2010
What is significant?
The 1926 colonial revival residence, the rear concrete studio and the entire surrounding site to the title boundaries.
How is it significant?
The residence is historically and aesthetically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.
The studio is historically and technically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.
Why is it significant?
The residence and studio are historically significant because they are connected with the artist, cartoonist and anthropologist, Percy Lesson; during Lesson's period of occupation (1926-1938) the property became a centre for visiting artists, including Max Meldrum, Justus Jorgensen, Clarice Beckett, "Jock" Frater and Richard McCann (Criterion H). The residence is historically and aesthetically significant because the house is a one-off design in the Colonial Revival style (Criteria B & F).
The studio is technically significant because it, unusually, features mass concrete walling (Criterion B).
BICK STUDY, 1992
'Landscape' residence and rear studio has historical significance as the home of Percy Leason, artist, cartoonist and anthropologist, from 1926 until circa 1938.
Leason was notable for his cartoons in the Bulletin, Punch and Table Talk during the 1920s and later. He was one of a significant number of artists who lived and worked in the Shire of Eltham during the present century and who became an important group within the Eltham community.
'Landscape' was also a centre for artists visiting Eltham. The mass concrete, walling of the studio is most unusual and the site is enhanced by the survival of the front outbuilding, mature exotic planting and the presumably original front gates.
BASIS OF SIGNIFICANCE:
ILLUSTRATION OF THE THEMES
HISTORY
ARCHITECTURE
DEGREE OF SIGNIFICANCE:REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
EXTENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
ENTIRE RESIDENCE AND REAR CONCRETE STUDIO, FRONT OUTBUILDING (ORIGNAL GARAGE?), MATURE EXOTIC PLANTING, FRONT GATES AND SITE.
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MONTSALVAT
Victorian Heritage Register H0716 -
ELTHAM COURT HOUSE
Victorian Heritage Register H0784
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FORMER POLICE QUARTERS
Victorian Heritage Register H1539
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