118 Walpole Street
118 Walpole Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
118 Walpole Street, Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and externally relatively intact example of an attic bungalow of the 1920s which combines elements from both the Californian and Craftsman bungalow forms. With its broad frontal gable and projecting side dormers, 118 Walpole Street is a striking and skilful composition. The use of Tuscan columns is of interest and looks back to a number of transitional Federation-Bungalow houses of the 1910s.
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118 Walpole Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 118 Walpole Street, Kew, is an interwar attic-storey bungalow of timber construction with a prominent gabled roof finished with terracotta tiles and exposed rafters. Bracketed gable ends and attic dormers contain paired timber-framed double-hung sash windows and are otherwise finished with timber lattice and shingle cladding. The asymmetrical plan provides two principal elevations; the north elevation containing the entrance and the west elevation facing the street. The entrance is screened by a small porch, recessed beneath the main roofline and supported by paired Tuscan columns. The walls have a strapped fibre cement finish flanked by a weatherboard dado and frieze set on an overpainted rendered brick plinth. The west elevation comprises a single gabled bay which contains a tripartite window group to the south and a corner window to the north-west corner. The main entrance is located in the north elevation with timber-framed leadlight-glazed door and matching surround and screen door, which is flanked to the west by the corner window and the east by a projecting faceted bay. All windows contain timber-framed double-hung sashes with multi-paned top sashes set within bracketed box frames with shingled awnings.
The timber paling front fence and gates appears to be reconstructed and the landscape is relatively recent.
A single-storey timber 'barn' is constructed on the northern boundary, however the origins of this building - which would appear to have been substantially altered - remain unclear.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: BBoroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study
Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
Year: 1988
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