Canyanboon
28 Stevenson Street KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The Edwardian-era house, Canyanboon at 28 Stevenson Street, Kew, built in 1909 on part of the estate of Leaghur, for pastoral expert and wool manager Ernest Jackson and his family, is significant.
How is it significant?
28 Stevenson Street Kew is of local aesthetic and architectural significance to the City of Boroondara.
Why is it significant?
28 Stevenson Street is a fine example of an Edwardian-era house with features such as the red brick chimneys and elaborate leaded windows, however it foreshadows the transition to the bungalow style through the lower pitch of the roof and a compact symmetrical form with a central recessed porch framed by a red brick arch. 28 Stevenson Street is a notable, early and highly intact example of a transitional house between the Edwardian-era villa and bungalow styles. (Criterion D)
28 Stevenson Street is aesthetically significant for its pair of non-matching front bow windows with leaded glass top lights. A feature is the extended eaves line above the windows and supported on triangular brackets with notched weatherboard spandrel above. Further significant features include the deep recessed porch with squared double posts and the original door set in a Chinese-arched door case with sidelights. Aesthetically the form of the house is enhanced by its terra-cotta tile hipped roof with simple finials and the two heavily sculpted red brick chimneys. Aesthetically 28 Stevenson Street is also significant for its sympathetic colour scheme and use of roughcast render to the upper walls with plain red face brick below. Significant features of the front garden include the mature Canary Island Palm Phoenix Canariensis and rubble edging along the front boundary with the name Canyanboon in moulded concrete set into one of the basalt stones. (Criterion E)
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Canyanboon - Physical Description 1
28 Stevenson Street is a highly intact Edwardian-era house with some bungalow stylistic characteristics. Walls are of red face brick and roughcast render. It has a symmetrical facade with projecting hipped bays around a recessed porch. The form of the house is symmetrical with two projecting hip roofs either side of a central recessed porch. There is a use of simple brick detail in the use of bull-nosed soldier course to the porch.
To one side is a bow window with extended eaves line supported on triangular brackets with notched weatherboard spandrel above the casement windows. To the other side a shallow canted bay window features five casement windows. All front windows have decorative leaded glass top lights. The deep recessed porch features squared double posts with small infill curved panels and the original door is set in a Chinese-arched door case with sidelights. The terra-cotta tile hipped roof features simple terra cotta finials and the two heavily sculpted red brick chimneys are notable features. Walls feature roughcast render to the upper walls and plain red face brick below this. The current paint scheme is sympathetic to the period.
The front garden retains a tall and well shaped Canary Island palm, Phoenix Canariensis and stone rubble edging along the front boundary inset into which is one stone with the name of the property in moulded concrete.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study Volume 4: Kew
Author: Context
Year: 2018
Grading: Significant
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