CLANGILLIAN
1334 High Street MALVERN, STONNINGTON CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Federation house known as Clangillian, 1334 High Street, Malvern, a single-storey dwelling built in 1902.
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 rear carport, are not significant.
How is it significant?
Clangillian, 1334 High Street, Malvern, is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Why is it significant?
Clangillian, 1334 High Street, Malvern, 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 Malvern and across Melbourne more broadly. The asymmetrical composition, with complex roof forms, multiple gabled bays and integrated polygonal bay, along with architectural elements and materials, such as tall chimneys, and decorative coloured glass, 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 Malvern in the early twentieth century (Criterion D).
Clangillian, 1334 High Street, Malvern, is a carefully designed and well-resolved example of a Federation house. The complex roof forms, projecting bays, rich timber decoration, use of coloured and leadlight glass and decorative encaustic tiling present a picturesque composition of this architectural style (Criterion E).
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CLANGILLIAN - Physical Description 1
The dwelling at 1334 High Street, known as 'Clangillian', is an attic storey, detached dwelling with a small street setback. It is characteristic of the Federation Queen Anne style, with a steep dominant roofscape, asymmetrical facade and diagonal emphasis in plan. The dwelling, constructed in 1902, is in good condition.
The walls are constructed of tuck-pointed red brick, set on a bluestone plinth with roughcast render banding (overpainted) at both sill and stringcourse level. The roof is clad in interlocking Marseilles tiles, with terracotta fleur finials to the gable peak, octagonal bay and central dormer (Figure 3). Two decorative chimneys remain, with deep brick corbelling and strapwork, rendered stacks (overpainted), and two terracotta chimney pots (Figure 3). The main octagonal bay on the eastern side is finished in roughcast render, with a bank of casement windows with stained glass highlights (Figure 4). It is balanced by a flying gable on the western side, supported on ornate timber brackets, with a gable end finished in roughcast render with vertical timber strapping.
The windows are timber casements with stained glass highlights, and a segmental arched top rail. Radiating brick voussoirs form the window head, and the windows have a rendered sill. The attic dormer, centrally located in the main roof features timber strapwork and roughcast to the gable ends, with notched timber weatherboards below the six-pane casement windows.
The entry porch is recessed under the central dormer, and features a small section of metal lacework to the underside of the opening (Figure 5). The porch floor is accessed via three bluestones steps and has an encaustic tile floor, with bluestone edging and plinth. The ornate front door is original, with a solid four-panel timber door flanked by elaborate stained glass side and arched fanlight within decorative timber surrounds (see Figure 5).
The site is bounded by a low height, modern timber picket fence and three mature trees (one palm and two birch trees) are in the frontage. A concrete driveway extends down the eastern boundary, providing access to a modern carport at the rear.
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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