Surrey
73 Wattle Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Surrey, at 73 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance. A good and relatively externally intact example of a late Victorian two-storey villa, it displays many of the hallmarks of the type including bold tuckpointed Hawthorn brickwork, bracketed slate roof and cast iron detail to the verandah. As with its neighbour at 75 Wattle Road, Surrey at 73 Wattle Road is distinguished by its slender two-storey single-fronted form built to the boundaries, an atypical form for the area, and which gives both residences a prominence in the streetscape. The form and design of both buildings reflect their joint origins as two substantial houses constructed on a single allotment subdivided into two. Surrey also displays an unusual and eclectic composition combining a canted single-storey bay with open balcony above and single-storey verandah.
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Surrey - Physical Description 1
Surrey at 73 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, is a two-storey single-fronted villa of brick construction and asymmetrical planning. The hipped slate roof features bracketed eaves and a corbelled brick chimney. Unusually for a freestanding house, the western side elevation is finished with a parapet wall. The Hawthorn brick facade is tuckpointed and finished with moulded string courses and a distinctive frieze, as well as red brick heads to openings; the sides are red face brickwork. The main entrance contains a panelled timber door with glazed surrounds. The entrance is flanked by a canted bay at ground floor level which rises up to form an open parapeted balcony, reached by a single door opening with a pair of non-original timber-framed French doors. Window openings contain conventional timber-framed double-hung sashes. A full-width verandah screens the ground floor facade and follows the canted form of the bay. The verandah has corrugated galvanised steel roofing supported by timber posts with cast iron frieze and brackets.
Unspecified alterations and brick additions were approved in 1957 and a shed was constructed in 1965.[i] It has been suggested that the front verandah may have been reconstructed, however this has not been confirmed; the house appears otherwise externally intact.[ii]
The house is screened by a 1980s rendered brick wall which is set back from the front boundary to provide a paved parking area.
[i] Building Permit #1707, dated 1957 and #5833, dated 23 March 1965, City of Hawthorn Building Card Index.
[ii] Citation prepared for 73 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, Hawthorn Heritage Study, Meredith Gould Architects Pty. Ltd. 1997.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of C* Grade Buildings in the Former City of Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: C*Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage Study
Author: Meredith Gould Conservation Architects
Year: 1993
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