Streamlined Modern House
153 Mt Dandenong Road CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY
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Statement of Significance
A striking brick and rendered Streamlined Moderne hipped roof villa, with an array of contextual elements including fence, gates, garage and garden of the period and of compatible design, built about 1938. It is very intact and in very good condition. It is historically significant to Maroondah as part of these groups, as a representative embodiment of rural family life in Croydon, rare in the period after the Great Depression, but just before the descent of World War II. It is architecturally significant as a remarkable example of this domestic style with a remarkably complete ensemble of intact contextual elements.
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Streamlined Modern House - Physical Description 1
A striking, triple-fronted rendered brick Streamlined Moderne villa, with hipped roof of glazed terra-cotta Marseilles tiles. Right front and left side rear bays project, with a further wing set forward at left rear. A quadrant, parapeted porch, is in the angle. This is in manganese special bricks, as is the base, the window surrounds (which are toothed), string-course at window-head height, the fence, garage, a diamond decorative panel on the chimney and the chimney-cap. Windows are double-hung, but there is an unusually large fixed picture-window at front left (later?), a Chicago window at right and two porthole windows.
The fence and garage are matching components of the complex. The pedestrian gate is wrought steel curlicew, with unusual curlicew finials on the piers. Both the chimneys and most unusually, the fence, step in a Waterfall manner. The garden appears to be of the period of the house.
Streamlined Modern House - Physical Conditions
Very good condition. Some water damage to the chimneys.
Streamlined Modern House - Intactness
Very intact.
Heritage Study and Grading
Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Study
Author: Richard Peterson Architect & Conservation Consultant
Year: 2010
Grading:
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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTREVictorian Heritage Register H0054
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Former Sacred Heart MonasteryNational Trust
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Croyden War MemorialVic. War Heritage Inventory
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