Wyreena
13-23 Hull Road CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY
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Statement of Significance
Wyreena Community Arts Centre (formerly Hayward), is a substantial double-storey Bungalow style house built in c1923, designed by Philip B. Hudson architect. It is historically significant as a representative embodiment of the comfortable way of life in the inter-war period, of an executive and his family in a rural setting. It is architecturally significant as representative of the domestic work of Hudson prior to his involvement with the design of the Shrine of Remembrance (1927-34). It is also architecturally significant as a representative of the two-storey Bungalow type influenced by the Vernacular Revival and the Chicago School. It later acquired social significance as a community focus.
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Wyreena - Physical Description 1
Now with Silver Birches, set in pleasant and spacious mature parkland. A substantial double-storey clinker-brick bungalow, with a major gable facing Mount Dandenong Road. It is roughcast over doorhead height. Windows with unusual tripartite glazing bars, are expressed double-hung on corbels (now roughcast over). Upper gables have shingles and jetty. Rafters are exposed. Gable ends have deep eaves, supported on plain props to exposed purlins, with diamond ends. At front is a hipped pair of rectangular bays. At right projects a first floor balcony solarium (now infilled), with the entrance under, in the angle. This gable is more elaborate, with a decorative shallow eyebrow (cyma recta) hood, on bull-nosed brackets. The shingled cladding is concave over bull-nosed brackets. All is supported on four clinker piers. There are various mature pines in the grounds.
Wyreena - Intactness
The fence and hedge are recent. Roof tiles have been replaced with cement, now in poor condition. The roughcast has been re-applied more extensively and painted. The first floor verandah has been infilled with glazing. There have been various additions, particularly classrooms in the grounds
Heritage Study and Grading
Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Identification Study
Author: Richard Peterson with Peter Barrett
Year: 1998
Grading:
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