Alice Bale House
83 Walpole Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Alice Bale House is of local historical and architectural significance as a fine, representative and externally relatively intact example of a comfortable Victorian Italianate polychrome brick suburban house of the later nineteenth century. The house is of historical interest for its connection with the artist Alice Bale and - after her death - for its role as a studio for a range of visiting artists between 1955 and 1980.
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Alice Bale House - Physical Description 1
The Alice Bale House at 83 Walpole Street, Kew, is a single-storey double-fronted Victorian villa of brick construction. The foundations of the house are concrete, and its use in the construction of this house was noted by Professor Miles Lewis, University of Melbourne, during an inspection in 1981.[i] The hipped slate roof has bracketed eaves and a pair of rendered brick chimneys with moulded caps. A return verandah with bullnose corrugated galvanized steel roof supported on cast iron posts with cast iron frieze and brackets, bluestone steps and timber floor, screens the east and north elevations. The essentially symmetrical facade of the original house displays tuckpointed polychrome brickwork with red brick elsewhere and is divided into two bays by a central entrance containing a panelled timber door with leaded surround and non-original timber-framed screen door. The entrance is flanked to the north by a tripartite window group containing timber-framed double-hung sash windows with barley sugar pilasters to the mullions, and to the south by a faceted bay window with matching sashes. To the south of the original building is a relatively recent addition which is constructed of red face brick and which is set back from the front alignment by a single room's depth. Other non-original elements include the timber picket fence and gates, an open carport and small outbuilding in the south-west corner of the garden.
The entrance to the property is marked by a very large Eucalypt and a Palm sp. The landscape appears otherwise relatively recent.
[i] Lewis, Miles. 200 Years of Concrete in Australia, 1988, p. 5.
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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SPRINGTHORPE MEMORIAL, BOROONDARA GENERAL CEMETERYVictorian Heritage Register H0522
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0944
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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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