CALGA
1022-1024 Malvern Road ARMADALE, STONNINGTON CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Federation house known as Calga, 1022-1024 Malvern Road, Armadale, a single-storey dwelling built in 1899.
Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include (but are not limited to):
. The house's original external form, materials and detailing
. The house's high level of integrity to its original design.
Later alterations and additions, such as the large rear addition, are not significant.
How is it significant?
Calga, 1022-24 Malvern Road, Armadale, is of local aesthetic and architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.
Why is it significant?
Calga, 1022-24 Malvern Road, Armadale, is a fine and highly intact example of a Federation house. The house strongly reflects the Federation Queen Anne architectural style popular in the first decade of the twentieth century in Armadale and across Melbourne more broadly. The asymmetrical composition, with contrasting front gabled bays, and architectural elements and materials, including tall chimneys, half-timbering with roughcast render, timber verandah detailing and bracketed hood with wall-hung shingles, are typical of the style. The use of quality materials and elaborate detailing imparts a sense of grandeur and demonstrates the status of the owner in wealthy established areas such as Armadale in the early twentieth century (Criterion D).
Calga, 1022-24 Malvern Road, Armadale, is a carefully designed and well-resolved example of a Federation house. The contrasting projecting gable-end bays and rich timber decoration, present a picturesque composition of this architectural style (Criterion E).
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CALGA - Physical Description 1
The dwelling at 1022-1024 Malvern Road is a single-storey detached villa on a regular allotment with a deep street setback and mature garden, including several mature trees. A fine and architecturally well-resolved villa, the dwelling draws broadly on the Federation Queen Anne style with its with asymmetrical siting and square plan form. Constructed in 1899, the dwelling remains in a good condition.
The wall construction is red brick, with a three-course black brick band at stringcourse level and a band of roughcast runs under the eaves line. The house comprises a main half-gabled roof form, with ventilated gable end, a projecting gable end and blind gablet and is clad in Marseilles tiles with terracotta ridge tiles, and both fern and ball finials to the gable ends (Figure 3). Two bio-chrome brick chimneys remain, with tall red brick stacks, simple rendered cornicing and terracotta pots (Figure 3). A lean-to verandah with a tiled roof is supported on turned timber posts, with a simple timber balustrade and frieze. The main gable end is supported on decorative timber brackets, and surmounts a projecting bay window (Figure 4). The gable end to both the projecting gable and gablet are half-timbered, with timber strapwork and roughcast and a simple timber bargeboard. Window openings are casements with highlights. The bay window features a decorative window hood with distinctive fish scale shingle tile roof, and is supported on ornate timber brackets.
A large, modern two-storey brick addition is located at the rear of the property but is of limited visibility from the street. The site is bounded by a tall, modern brick and metal panel infill fence and hedge. A brick driveway extends down the western boundary of the site.
Integrity
The house retains a high degree of integrity to the Federation Queen Anne style, in fabric, form and detail. While the house has undergone some alterations and additions, these do not diminish the ability to understand and appreciate the place as a fine example of a Federation house.
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - City of Stonnington Federation Houses Study
Author: GJM Heritage Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: Local
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