38 Hawthorn Grove
38 Hawthorn Grove HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
Grace Pk, Hawthorn Gve Prects, Hawthorn
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Statement of Significance
Significance of Individual Property
1. Architecturally significant as one of the best examples of the domestic Queen Anne, Australia's first truly National style in Victoria. Among the best examples of the roof as the dominant decorative element within that style.
2. "Glencairn" has a historical significance, also, for its associations with such notables as the Dyers, who founded the Lyrebird Press in Paris, Count O'Laughlin and his family in the 1930s and later, with R. Willmore Chenoweth, who became Commissioner of Taxation.
HO152 Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove Precincts, Hawthorn
The Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove Precincts, Hawthorn, are of heritage significance for the following reasons:
- The place is a concentrated and relatively intact precinct of generally high quality residential buildings of the later Victorian and Federation periods.
- Hilda Crescent has an unbroken set of highly distinctive Federation house designs, and the mode continues in the adjacent streets.
- The area is characterised by mature gardens and street trees, filtering the light in the more southern streets, south of Kinkora Road, and giving the area a distinctive shaded character.
- The diagonal house compositions and curving streets in the Grace Park Precinct combine to create an informal and picturesque character.
- The northern section - Kinkora Road and Hawthorn Grove - has a large concentration of 1880s housing in tighter patterns that are similarly characteristic of that earlier era, and is relatively intact. These streets were the first typically-scaled suburban development in Hawthorn, in contrast to the St James Park area which began as a mansion group.
- The Barkers Road section is more heterogeneous, but does incorporate several notable Federation and Bungalow designs. Clovelly Court is an impressive apartment group utilising garden villa forms, comparing with both the courtyard flats in the Fairview Park Precinct (HO148) and the more similar Corsewall Close (HO149).
- Located at the southern end of the precinct, the Michael Tuck Stand at the Glenferrie Oval is striking both for the way it draws on its red-brick domestic surroundings as it is for its 1938 modernity.
- The precinct is visually unified by the shared, curving park based around the former Kew Railway line, that runs though the entire precinct from south to north and reads as a reminder of the precinct's early popularity as a commuter suburb.
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38 Hawthorn Grove - Physical Description 1
A mansion house of substantially single storey form, with a small attic storey. The house spreads across a wide area of the large block under a dominant, highly decorative terracotta tile roof. This is a basic hipped form with projecting gable wings arising from it at two co-ordinate points, and gable end balconied dormers. On the corner hip a turret rises from the bayed form below. The entrance is inconspicuously marked by a shallow hip below the central street facing dormer.
The verandah occupies almost the whole of the front elevation and much of the side garden aspect. It is formed by simple square posts rising out of brick piers. Plain flat arches connect the paired posts together. The dormer balconies reflect this form with fish scale pattern panels forming the balustrade.
A large side garden provides a generous setting to the scheme.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage study 1992
Author: Meredith Gould, Conservation Architects
Year: 1992
Grading: A
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GLENFERRIE RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1671
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FORMER ES&A BANK (MANRESA PEOPLE'S CENTRE)Victorian Heritage Register H0516
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GRACE PARK HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0730
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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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