20 Fernhurst Grove
20 Fernhurst Grove KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
20 Fernhurst Grove, Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and relatively externally intact example of a single-storey late Victorian villa with transitional Federation stylistic elements and mixed details and materials usage.
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20 Fernhurst Grove - Physical Description 1
The house at 20 Fernhurst Grove, Kew, is a single-storey double-fronted late-Victorian villa of tuckpointed Hawthorn brick construction on a bluestone plinth. The gabled and hipped slate-clad roof is penetrated by face brick chimneys with rendered bands and caps and the gable ends feature distinctive timber fretwork and finials in the form of sunbursts. The house is screened by a deep return verandah which was reconstructed in part, possibly to match the original, around 1988.[i] The skillion roofed verandah has timber floor, turned timber posts and a detailed non-original timber fretwork frieze. The asymmetrical facade is relieved by rendered bands and dressings and contains a prominent canted bay which projects up above the verandah roofline which contains three full-height timber-framed double-hung sashes. Windows elsewhere are similar, albeit not full-height. The main entrance is from the side verandah and is obscured from view from the street.
Extensive additions and a detached garage were constructed at the rear of the house during the mid to late 1980s, however these are set well back from the street and do not alter the presentation of the original building. The property is screened by a non-original timber picket fence and gates and the landscape appears to have been renewed around the same time.
[i] As noted in the datasheet from the previous study, Kew Urban Conservation Study, 1988.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Review of B Graded Buildings in Kew, Camberwell and Hawthorn
Author: Lovell Chen Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading: BBoroondara - City of Kew Urban Conservation Study
Author: Pru Sanderson Design Pty Ltd
Year: 1988
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