TANGLEWOOD
11 Old Warrandyte Road DONVALE, Manningham City
Old Warrandyte Road Heritage Precinct
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Statement of Significance
Of local architectural significance as a rare example of pise de terre construction in the City, and as the only known sole design by the architect Nell Norris, donor of the Nell Norris Scholarship to University of Melbourne architecture students. It is in a beautiful forest setting, within a romantic garden with important plantings. The house was designed and built in 1949-50 for the present owner, Maria Fawcett, who has lived there ever since.
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TANGLEWOOD - Physical Description 1
The house is approached by a long driveway into an axe-head shaped block and set in a pine forest, overlooking the Wembley Gardens valley. It is not visible from the road and could not be inspected. The garden is said to include pergolas and significant plantings of old and rare (?) French roses and frangipani.
Only one other pise building is known in the City : 44A Garden Road, Donvale, built for the artist Harry Den Hartog, also about 1950. There are three adobe (mud brick) buildings known : at 152 Brackenbury Street, 88 and 90 Yarra Street, Warrandyte. There is a wattle and daub house at 32 Mullens Road, Warrandyte and in the 1853 section of 'Friedensruh', 10 Waldau Court, Doncaster.
Earth construction is of course, commonplace in the Shire of Eltham[7], but was not supported in Doncaster and Templestowe. No other buildings designed by Nell Norris are known, other than two townhouses designed with her then husband Marcus H. Norris in Toorak.
TANGLEWOOD - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
TANGLEWOOD - Integrity
Integrity Intact
TANGLEWOOD - Physical Description 2
Key elements
Building
Garden
TANGLEWOOD - Physical Description 3
Associations
FW (Maria) Fawcett
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading: LocalManningham - Doncaster & Templestowe Heritage Study Additional Sites Recommendations
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1993
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