MAYFIELD
44 Murphy Street, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No 38362
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
Mayfield at 44 Murphy Street, South Yarra is a complex of double-storey English Domestic
Revival style flats arranged around a central semi-enclosed courtyard. The flats were
constructed in 1934 to a design by prominent interwar Melbourne architect Robert Bell Hamilton.
Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include (but are not limited to):
-The original external form, materials and detailing of the buildings.
-The unpainted state of the face brick and terracotta elements.
-The domestic garden setting (but not the fabric of the garden itself).
Later additions and alterations, including the dormer additions, garages, and the driveway gate,
are not significant.
How is it significant?
Mayfield is of local architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.
Why is it significant?
Mayfield is architecturally significant as a fine and largely intact example of interwar flat
development in the English Domestic Revival style (Criterion D). The flats are the work of noted
interwar architect Robert Bell Hamilton, one of the most important and influential designers of
flats in interwar Melbourne (TEH 8.6.3 - Architect Designed apartments).
Mayfield is also architecturally significant as an early prototype for Hamilton's 'luxury flat' design
configured around a central courtyard (Criterion E, TEH 8.6.2 - Developing apartment living).
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MAYFIELD - Physical Description 1
Mayfield is an English Domestic Revival style complex of double-storey flats with a U shape
plan form partially enclosing a garden court that provides driveway access and hardstand
carparking. The driveway entrance on Murray Street is flanked on either side by original semicircular
clinker brick walls with integrated bench seating. The flats have a picturesque
arrangement of hipped and gabled roofs with terracotta tiles and tall brick chimneys with paired
shafts and corbelled caps. External walls are constructed of clinker brick with half-timbering to
the first floor and attic storey dormers. Windows typically have multi-pane double-hung sash
frames. Some of the flats have first floor oriel windows supported on ornate timber brackets.
The flats are generally intact externally apart from attic storey storey additions (with dormer
windows and half-timbered detailing to match the original) and first floor additions above the
rear garages.10 There are also single-storey garage additions to the front flats and a largely
concealed double-storey addition to the rear south-east. The additions and alterations are
sympathetically designed and do not detract from the interwar character of the flats.
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FORMER BRYANT & MAY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H0626
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2084Victorian Heritage Register H1634
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FORMER RICHMOND POWER STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1055
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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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1) ST. ANDREWS HOTEL AND 2) CANARY ISLAND PALM TREENillumbik Shire
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