House
23 Vernon Street CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY
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Statement of Significance
A timber good, characteristic Californian Bungalow built in about 1925, with a brick frontispiece and several contextual elements surviving, such as fence, gates, garage and mature trees in the front garden and nature strip, all in excellent condition and intactness. It is historically significant to Maroondah with others of these groups, as a representative embodiment of rural family life in Croydon in the 1920s, after the Great War. It is architecturally significant as a good representative example of this domestic style, retaining many contextual elements.
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House - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted timber Californian Bungalow, with a gabled roof across. The right bay is set forward over the verandah. This is supported on rendered abstracted squat Tuscan (?) columns
on tuck-pointed red brick piers, with a soldier course clinker brick frieze over, and rendered caps. The ballustrade has a catenary-curved top. There is a wrought steel curlicew standard lamp on the entrance pier and steps.
The chimney is similar brickwork with a terra-cotta pot. Windows are triples, with rectangular and geometric patterned leadlight upper sashes. That at left has a skillion hood, on palisade timber brackets. The recessed entry has double-doors, with upper lights in a diamond pattern. The fence is woven crimp-wire, with steel pipe-rail. Gates have chain-link mesh lower panels and curlicew ribbon frieze. The garage is contemporary with the house. It has its timber doors with double-ogee upper lights and gable light. There are mature trees including three in the nature strip.
House - Physical Conditions
Excellent.
House - Intactness
Excellent. Some possible gentrification of details. Fly-screen doors are later.
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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