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CANTERBURY MANSIONS
208 CANTERBURY ROAD AND 126 MALING ROAD CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY

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Victorian Heritage Register
CANTERBURY MANSIONS SOHE 2008
CANTERBURY MANSIONS SOHE 2008
CANTERBURY MANSIONS SOHE 2008
CANTERBURY MANSIONS SOHE 2008
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?

Canterbury Mansions was first known as Malone's Family Hotel, after which it was called the Canterbury Club Hotel. In 1920, following the Local Option Poll and the closure of all hotels in the municipalities of Box Hill and Camberwell, it became known as the Canterbury Mansions. The three storeyed brick hotel and stables were built during the suburban development boom in 1889, seven years after the railway station at Canterbury began operating in 1882. It was designed by the architect William Wolf in the popular Italianate 'boom' style. After the hotel was de-licensed the building operated as a guest house.


How is it significant?

Canterbury Mansions is of historic and architectural significance to the State of Victoria


Why is it significant?

Canterbury Mansions is historically important as a rare example of a nineteenth century hotel which includes the original form of a kitchen wing and two-storey brick stable at the rear. The former hotel is historically important for its association with the 1880s expansion of the suburban railway network and commensurate land boom. It is also historically important through its association with the 1920 Local option Poll which closed all hotels in Camberwell and Box Hill. Canterbury Mansions is architecturally important in exhibiting the principal characteristics of late-nineteenth century hotel design, demonstrated by its main road and corner siting, and diagonal main entry. Canterbury Mansions is architecturally important in exhibiting the representative characteristics of the 1880s boom style.
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    • Permit Exemptions

      CANTERBURY MANSIONS - Permit Exemptions

      General Exemptions:

      General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.

      Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.

      Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.

      Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions.

      Find out more about heritage permit exemptions here.

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