Tuena
1026 Malvern Road, GLEN IRIS VIC 3146 - Property No 1425
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Statement of Significance
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Tuena - Physical Description 1
Tuena is a single-storey Victorian Italianate style villa with rendered masonry walls and a hipped
slate roof. It has multiple canted bay windows to the front rooms producing an usually elaborate
building footprint and roof form. An elegant verandah with cast iron posts and frieze wraps
around facade. The main roof has paired eaves brackets and rendered chimneys with moulded
cornices and flue fins.
Various unsympathetic alterations had been made to the house by 1992, including the
construction of a gable roof entry porch and the removal of all cast iron from the verandah. A
small single-storey addition was made to east side of the house, replacing the conservatory
shown on the 1902 MMBW plan.
The house has been restored in recent decades with the entry porch addition removed and
verandah detailing reinstated. There is a modern garage in the front garden and a high solid
masonry wall to the Malvern Road boundary. The property has been reduced in extent with
land to the east and rear of the house having been subdivided and redeveloped.
The architect or designer of Tuena has not been confirmed. The plan form and facade
composition are very similar to the nearby villa Blairholme, 1034 Malvern Road (now part of
Lauriston Girl's School) suggesting that it was work of the same architect. Context Pty Ltd have
attributed the design of Blairholme to noted architect Lloyd Tayler on stylistic grounds and
because of Tayler had designed a number of building for William Jones, it also being the case
that Blairholme was built on Jones' Brocklesby estate for his daughter and son-in-law.
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ARMADALE PRIMARY SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H1640
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ARMADALE HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0637
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STONINGTONVictorian Heritage Register H1608
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