33 - 35 Alma Road
33 - 35 Alma Road CAMBERWELL, BOROONDARA CITY
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Statement of Significance
33 Alma Road, Camberwell is of historical and architectural significance as a fine and externally relatively intact example of an asymmetrical stuccoed Victorian Italianate villa with tower. It is distinguished architecturally from other examples by its quiet but consistent re-scaling of otherwise conventional Italianate elements, effectively enlarging the presence of the house.
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33 - 35 Alma Road - Physical Description 1
33 Alma Road is a generally intact house in stuccoed Italianate style, double-fronted with a canted bay, attached iron verandah and two-storey tower. The large barrel-vaulted porch is unusually scaled relative to the house and rare in Melbourne as a porch type. It runs through to an imposing wheel-fanlight over the front door and sidelights, which look original and well-kept. An acanthus leafed frieze links the external composition.
Several of the major trees look original and the garden, though largely changed in its smaller plants, is well shaded and deep. The rear garage shown on site plans now resembles a summer-house of sorts from the street, surrounding the pool of 1978, and a more recent timber frame structure, this time in the open frame and lattice summer-house theme, acts as a garage, just inside the front gate. The largest additions have been a small (2 metre) extension to the family room, facing south and not visible from the street, and accompanied by some internal wall rearrangement at the rear of the house. The entrance steps are original, if weathered; the paint and wall maintenance is good. Roof is original slate on the front sections at least. The fence and gates date from 1992, the fence is in close grained corrugated steel and draws on fence treatments common in the 1880s and early twentieth century.
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 - Camberwell Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
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FORMER ES&A BANKVictorian Heritage Register H0534
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CAMBERWELL COURT HOUSE AND POLICE STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1194
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RIVOLI THEATREVictorian Heritage Register H1524
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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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