54 Berkeley Street
54 Berkeley Street HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
No 54 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a prominently located, attic-style, rough-cast stucco, bungalow house, which is generously proportioned and substantially intact externally. Architecturally, it is considered to be a relatively early example of the emerging bungalow and attic bungalow modes in Melbourne, and something of a prototype for a range of later bungalows in Boroondara. Its combination of stuccoed brickwork with bungalow form was effective and well-rounded, and part of a general adaptation to masonry construction in bungalow design which was starting to occur in Australia. It also has a number of elements and motifs which appear in later bungalows.
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54 Berkeley Street - Physical Description 1
No 54 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn, is an attic-style, overpainted, rough-cast, stucco-clad masonry house in the general bungalow mode. It is composed around two large gables (on the north and east elevations) with four-light, awning-style, attic window rows in each gable end; the gable eaves are supported on diagonal bracing struts and slatwork screens. The roof has been re-clad with non-original charcoal-grey concrete tiles, and the attic windows are not original (although the window opening is), but the other materials in the house exterior are basically original. These include a flat-roofed porch-verandah, conceived as a sealed pergola with projecting scroll brackets and a minimal fascia, supported on paired timber posts on stuccoed pedestals. The verandah balustrade is a solidly detailed masonry structure with stucco coating, and the front steps are bracketed by two heavy stuccoed concave balustrades. The ground floor windows are timber-framed, double hung sashes with diamond-pattern lead lighting in the upper panes. The front fence is a picket structure in concave loops, added in 1990[i] with a recent lich-gate at the Berkeley Street/Callantina Road corner, possibly in an original pattern.
[i] Details sourced from City of Boroondara Planning File 40/408/04412, item 7088, dated 12 April 1990.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of C* Grade Buildings in the Former City of Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: C*Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage Study
Author: Meredith Gould Conservation Architects
Year: 1993
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