Mackey House
6 Castle Road NORTH WARRANDYTE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
ELTHAM STUDY STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
This attic house is one of the finest pre 1950, small, picturesquely designed dwellings in the Shire of Eltham, as well as being one of the oldest buildings in the area. Dwellings of this type built before 1960 are very rare anywhere in the Municipality. The comparable building in the Shire is the nearby "The Robins" in the Kangaroo Ground Warrandyte Road. (Shire of Eltham Heritage Study, pg 1092)
REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE (with AHC criteria)
The Mackey house (later The Rest) is significant to the Nillumbik Shire as: - a picturesque and good example of the English Domestic style within a semi-rural setting and enhanced by the river side sitting as the subject of distant views to the property (Criterion F1); - a well preserved example of a rural home for a successful City based professional, Mackey ( criterion 82)
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Mackey House - Physical Description 1
Design unusual and probably unique in Victoria.
Plan rectangular.
Single storeyed.
Walls roughcast rendered.
Roof steeply pitched gabled roof, corrugated iron clad.
Features include':
The verandah along the eaves sides.
The relationship of the A.C. sheet cottage and the roughcast
outbuilding to this house are not known, but the latter at least merits conservation.
The outbulldlnq near the front gate is also roughcast.
REVISED OR EXTENDED DESCRIPTON:
This is a picturesque, attic 'form English Domestic styled weatherboard and rough-cast stuccoed house with a steeply gabled corrugated iron clad roof, fitted with dormer windows. The stucco has been applied to lathes. The tall tapering chimneys are also rough-cast clad with simple cornices and terra-cotta pots. The double hung windows have skillion form window hoods. The verandah along one side is set unde the continuation of the main roof pitch and has a fretted timber frieze in an Indian pattern with fine trellis above.
Mackey House - Physical Conditions
good (partially disturbed, well preserved)- being renovated at lnspection.
Mackey House - Integrity
substantially intact/some intrusions)- being renovated at inspection.
Mackey House - Historical Australian Themes
ELTHAM BUILDING STYLES, SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT.
Heritage Study and Grading
Nillumbik - Nillumbik Shire Heritage Study 2001
Author: Graeme Butler & Assoc
Year: 2001
Grading:
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FORMER WARRANDYTE WINE HALLVictorian Heritage Register H1150
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WARRANDYTE MINER'S COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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'THE ISLAND' DIVERSION CUTTINGVictorian Heritage Inventory
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