Lillirie House
1089 Malvern Road TOORAK, Stonnington City
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Statement of Significance
The former McLean house at 1089 Malvern Road is locally significant architecturally and historically:
- for the distinctive comparatively wide facade and associated block frontage, with remnant garden setting (mature trees, drive formation) for the otherwise sommon 19th century single-storey Italianate suburban villa style
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Lillirie House - Physical Description 1
(as assessed from the street)
This large single storey stuccoed Italianate villa has an M-hipped slate-clad roof, multiple cemented Victorian-era chimneys, eaves brackets, double hung timber-framed windows and two projecting three-sided room bays on the front elevation fronted by a skillion-form verandah with iron posts and frieze. The circular drive at the front of the house is early in form as is the cast iron front fence (relocated and rebuilt).
A plan from c1992-3 shows two main receiving rooms either side of the entry, and three main rooms either side of the passage to what was probably the rear verandah where the cellar stairs and a bathroom were in small rooms at either end. Open fireplaces are shown in most main rooms.
The 1902 MMBW Detail Plan shows the house centred on a block bounded by Malvern Hill Road, Hopetoun Rd, Church St and Malvern Road, with near symmetrically formed side gardens or yards and a perimeter fence which had an inner fence, possibly containing a major shrubbery bed or a hedge. The house yard curved out, in line with the rear of the house, and then in as it approached the front of the block. The house was shown, with cellar and room bays as it is today with steps at the front and rear verandahs and underground tank in the rear yard and, in a further yard to the north off Church St, an outbuilding with water closet attached.
Although the property had been owned over a long period by McLean with a substantial house always apparent, most of the existing house appears to be from the 1880s, with c1884 and 1886 being the most evident changes in value.
(*Inspection required)
Lillirie House - Integrity
(as assessed from the street)
Publicly visible parts of building are externally near original. The front fence has been modified and relocated to the siteLillirie House - Local Historical Themes
8.2.2 'Country in the city' - suburban development in Malvern before 1920
3.3.1 Crown land sales 1840-1850
6.1 Working the land
6.1.3 Dairying
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - Heritage Overlay Review - Amendment C5, C6
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2003
Grading: A2Stonnington - City of Malvern Heritage Study
Author: Nigel Lewis and Richard Aitken P/L
Year: 1992
Grading:
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