KINKELL (also known as 'Cheslehurt')
45 Lansell Road TOORAK, STONNINGTON CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Federation house known as 'Kinkell', 45 Lansell Road, Toorak, built in 1916.
Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include (but are not limited to):
. The house's original external form, materials and detailing
. The house's high level of integrity to its original design.
Later alterations and additions, such as the garage and carport to the south, are not significant.
How is it significant?
'Kinkell', 45 Lansell Road, Toorak is of local architectural, aesthetic and historical significance to the City of Stonnington.
Why is it significant?
'Kinkell', 45 Lansell Road, Toorak is a fine and representative example of a Federation house. It displays typical features of the Federation Bungalow architectural style popular in the 1910s in Toorak and across Melbourne more broadly, including simple massing with large roof planes and rooms in the first floor roof space (Criterion D)
'Kinkell', 45 Lansell Road, Toorak is a well-considered and carefully detailed example of what can broadly be defined as a Federation Bungalow house. The simple design, with square plan and broad gable roofs and distinctive broad window to the first floor roof space, together with the restrained use of distinctive architectural elements, including latticework and simple leadlight glazing, presents a picturesque composition of this architectural style (Criterion E).
'Kinkell', 45 Lansell Road, Toorak has strong associations with Christopher Cowper, who was a prominent Melbourne architect in the early twentieth century. Well known for his Queen Anne style houses in the early twentieth century, this house clearly demonstrates his stylistic development in the later Federation period (Criterion H).
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KINKELL (also known as 'Cheslehurt') - Physical Description 1
The dwelling at 45 Lansell Road is an attic storey, detached Federation Bungalow. Designed by architect Christopher Cowper, the dwelling has a square emphasis in plan, with distinctive cross-ridged gable form and refined details that reflect the Federation Bungalow style. Constructed in 1916, the dwelling remains in good condition.
The walls are constructed of brick (overpainted), with roughcast render above stringcourse level and with an expressed rendered sill and rendered quoins to the corners. The roof is clad in Marseilles tiles with three tall brick chimneys (overpainted), one which retains its original terracotta chimney pot (Figure 2). The prominent gable form, with smaller projecting gable end have deep eaves lined in timber boards and roughcast with timber lattice to the gable ends (Figure 2). The main gable has a broad Diocletian window to the attic level (Figure 2). The ground floor windows are timber casements with highlights (Figure 3). A small, single-storey room projects off the north elevation of the dwelling, with a Marseille tiled roof, stepped brick corbelling to the gable end and an unusually tall chimney (Figure 4).
The site is bounded by a modern rendered masonry fence (constructed in 1988), with pointed piers and undulating masonry infill. A modern single-storey garage, constructed in 1988, is located on the south side of the dwelling, with brick quoining to match the main dwelling and a modern carport (1998) to the rear (Figure 5).
Integrity
The house retains a high degree of integrity to the Federation Bungalow style, in fabric, form and detail. While the house has undergone some alterations and additions, these do not diminish the ability to understand and appreciate the place as a fine example of a Federation house.
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - City of Stonnington Federation Houses Study
Author: GJM Heritage Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: Local
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