Loyola
75 Wattle Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Loyola, at 75 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and broadly externally intact example of a late Victorian villa. It displays many of the hallmarks of the style including bold tuckpointed Hawthorn brickwork, bracketed slate roof and canted bay. While compromised to a degree by the loss of its original return verandah, the house appears to be otherwise generally intact and is an interesting example of the single-fronted two-storey villa form. In addition, Loyola exhibits a design which is more typical of generous allotments and which has been adapted to suit a narrow site as one of a pair.
As with its neighbour at 73 Wattle Road, Loyola at 75 Wattle Road is distinguished by its slender two-storey single-fronted form built to the boundaries, an atypical form for the area. The form and design of both buildings reflect their joint origins as two substantial houses constructed on a single allotment subdivided into two. Loyola is also of interest for combining a narrow straight front facade with a canted bay set back on the side elevation. Individually and with its neighbour, the house stands as a landmark in the generally single-storey streetscape context.
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Loyola - Physical Description 1
Loyola at 75 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, is a substantial single-fronted double-storey Italianate villa of brick construction and asymmetrical planning. The hipped roof is slate-clad with bracketed eaves and boldly ribbed brick chimneys. The walls display tuckpointed brown face brickwork with red brick window heads and moulded string courses on a bluestone plinth. The main entrance is set back in the west side elevation, now screened by a non-original skillion porch but which was originally accessed via a verandah which returned around the facade and was terminated by the projecting canted bay on the west side elevation. The narrow facade contains two pairs of timber-framed French doors at ground floor level which may have been altered at an early date.[i] Above these is a pair of timber-framed double-hung sash windows.
It would appear that, with the exception of the removal of the verandah and possibly the French doors, the house is otherwise externally intact as viewed from the street. The property frontage is fenced by a non-original coursed bluestone wall.
[i] Citation for 75 Wattle Road, 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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