LOCKSLEY
32 Sutherland Road ARMADALE, STONNINGTON CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Locksley, 32 Sutherland Road, Armadale, a single-storey dwelling built in 1896.
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
. The coach house.
Later alterations and additions, such as rear alterations to the house and coach house, are not significant.
How is it significant?
Locksley, 32 Sutherland Road, Armadale, is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Why is it significant?
Locksley, 32 Sutherland Road, Armadale, is a carefully designed and well-resolved example of a predominantly Federation Queen Anne style house, with some Victorian features such as contrasting cream brickwork. The house, with large, dominant polygonal corner bay, decorative chimneys and decorative timberwork, presents a picturesque composition of a predominantly Federation architectural style (Criterion E).
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LOCKSLEY - Physical Description 1
The dwelling at 32 Sutherland Road, known as 'Locksley', is a single-storey detached villa, with deep street setback and located within a garden setting that contains two mature Norfolk Island pines. Built of bio-chrome brick with a slate roof, the 1896 design displays key characteristics of the Federation Queen Anne style and remains in good condition.
Locksley has a diagonal plan form with a large transverse gable roof, with half hip running north-south. The wall construction is red brick, with two-course cream brick detailing at plinth and sill level, cream brick striping to the gable end and cream brick quoining. A large conical roof form continues over the verandah, which is supported on decorative timber posts with deep geometric timber fretwork that further emphasise this corner element (Figure 3). The verandah is raised on a brick plinth with tiled floor, bluestone edging and steps. The two gable ends present to the south and west (Sutherland Road), with a moulded bargeboard and terracotta fern finial. The gable ends are detailed with a small vented opening with arched cream brick head, bluestone sill and cream brick quoining. Three bio-chrome brick chimneys remain, with cream brick corbelling and strapwork.
Windows are double hung, with bluestone sills to the main frontage and segmental arch heads in contrasting cream brick to the side elevation. The windows on the west are protected by a bullnose metal sheet window hood supported on moulded timber brackets.
A two-storey coach house is located at the rear of the property (Figure 4). The stepped gable form is visible from the street, although it appears the roof has been replaced in a modern sheet metal and alterations and additions have occurred on all elevations. The walls are red brick with cream header brick detailing below a central timber casement window with arched cream brick head.
The site is bounded by a tall modern brick fence with metal gates.
Integrity
The house retains a high degree of integrity to its original construction, in fabric, form and detail. While the house has undergone some alterations and additions, these are largely sited at the rear of the property and do not diminish the ability to understand and appreciate the place as a fine example of a Federation house, with some Victorian features.
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - City of Stonnington Federation Houses Study
Author: GJM Heritage Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: Local
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