84 Walpole Street
84 Walpole Street KEW, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
84 Walpole Street, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and externally relatively intact bungalow of the late 1920s, demonstrating the gabled and dormered forms and richness of materials typical of the style. It is an elegant composition which features a distinctive combination of eyelid dormer and gable on its street front.
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84 Walpole Street - Physical Description 1
The house at 84 Walpole Street, Kew, is an attic storey asymmetrical double-fronted Californian Bungalow of brick construction. The gabled roof is clad with terracotta tile and comprises a transverse form with broad front-facing gable over a deep verandah, flanked by a smaller subsidiary gambrel roof over the adjoining projecting bay. The roofscape is penetrated by a centrally placed eyelid dormer which features shingle cladding, projecting rafters and a bay of four timber-framed multi-paned casement sashes. The theme of projecting roof members is repeated in the form of projecting purlins of the other gables, also shingle clad. The verandah is supported by rendered piers, square in plan, and enclosed by a low dwarf wall. Red face brick chimneys with simple flat caps and engaged chimney breasts mark the ends of the roof plane. The walls are of tuckpointed red face brickwork with string courses of glazed brown brick. The central entrance contains a pair of timber-framed multi-paned doors with wrought iron screen doors. The fenestration is irregular and comprises box-framed windows which project out from the face of the wall in a slightly Japanese fashion and which contain bays of timber-framed casement sashes, with diaper leadlight glazing to the top sashes.
A brick garage was constructed to the north of the house in the 1970s.[i] The house appears otherwise unaltered at the front with recorded alterations and additions to the rear not visible from the street.[ii]
The front fence is contemporary with the house and comprises a low rendered brick wall with capped piers between which is a single over-painted galvanised steel tube rail.
[i] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #5252, dated 20 May 1975.
[ii] Details sourced from the City of Kew Building Index, #93322, dated 11 August 1993.
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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