Inverkelty, Kiora, Baroona
11 Redmond Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Inverkelty, at 11 Redmond Street, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance as a representative example of later nineteenth-century Italianate design as applied to a two-storey suburban villa with tower. Though it has been altered in a number of areas, including the rebuilding of the verandah, the presentation of the house is generally as a broadly intact example. Kiora exhibits conventional composition, planning and style for 1888, though its vertical proportions and stained glass inserts give it some individuality. It retains elements of its original or early garden layout.
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Inverkelty, Kiora, Baroona - Physical Description 1
Inverkelty, 11 Redmond Street, Kew, is a substantial two-storey, double-fronted Victorian Italianate villa of brick construction with a hipped roof clad with non-original concrete tile and rendered and moulded brick chimneys. The asymmetrical facade has a rendered finish with moulded string courses and comprises two bays flanking a projecting central towered entrance. The tower comprises three levels and provides access to an entrance porch at ground floor via an arched opening framed by a moulded aedicule; the porch floor is tessellated and the entrance contains a panelled timber door with leaded surround. The levels above contain regular fenestration with paired openings and the tower is crowned by a balustraded parapet. A reconstructed double-height verandah screens the bay to the north and has a convex corrugated galvanised steel roof supported on remanufactured timber posts with cast iron lacework frieze and balustrade and tessellated tiles floor with a bluestone coping.[i] Note that the tiled verandah floor has a different pattern from the porch tiling and appears to date from these works. The southern bay has a double-height canted bay window. Fenestration is regular between floors with arched timber-framed double-hung sash windows.
Extensive rear additions were constructed around 1997 which comprise a single-storey living and utilities wing at ground floor level with basement garage, accessed via the adjacent laneway.[ii]
The front fence is a low hoop iron fence with matching gate, thought to date from 1964, when application was made for the construction of a 3'6" wrought iron fence.[iii] Other than for the changes noted above, alterations to the house and property have been relatively minor and include a steel garage (1974), renovations to a damaged roof (1979, possibly the recladding?) and construction of a swimming pool (1979).[iv]
The front garden contains a mature landscape arranged around a central cast iron fountain and path. This layout and feature may be contemporary with the house as it is indicated on a MMBW plan of the area prepared in 1899.[v] The bowl and parapet for the fountain were recently replaced, along with paving immediately in front of the house, and the fountain works were repaired. A later galvanised steel tube arbour flanks the front gate.
[i] It is not clear whether the 'reconstruction' was based on evidence of the form of the original verandah.
[ii] Planning Permit No. BOR 96/519, dated 14 May 1997, City of Boroondara Planning File , 40/409/00299, Parts 1 & 2.
[iii] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #875, dated 30 January 1964.
[iv] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #4898, #5795 and #8038 respectively.
[v] MMBW Plan No. 39, Kew & Heidelberg, scale 160':1", dated 1899.
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
Grading:
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D'ESTAVILLEVictorian Heritage Register H0201
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FORMER WILLSMERE HOSPITALVictorian Heritage Register H0861
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RAHEENVictorian Heritage Register H0515
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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