HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road
70 Old Warrandyte Road DONVALE, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The house, constructed c.1928 for William Stringer, at 70 Old Warrandyte Road, Donvale.
How is it Significant?
The house at 70 Old Warrandtye Road, Donvale is of local historic and aesthetic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The house at 70 Old Warrandtye Road, Donvale is of historic significance for its association with its designer and builder, WTP Stringer, East Doncaster bricklayer and member of a pioneer district family. (RNE criteria A.4 and H.1)
The house at 70 Old Warrandtye Road, Donvale is of aesthetic (architectural) significance as a particularly fine and substantially intact example of an Inter-War Craftsman Bungalow, which is notable for the use of stone facing and unusual design details such as the arched entry and tapered chimneys. (RNE criterion E.1)
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HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
5.02 - Orchards & market gardens
7.05 - Houses of the 1920s-30s
HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Physical Description 1
The house at 70 Old Warrandyte Road, Donvale is a single-storey Craftsman Bungalow with clinker brick walls and locally quarried stone facing to the front elevation. The picturesque front elevation contains diamond pattern leadlight windows and an arched entry flanked by tapered brick chimneys. The transverse gabled roof has timber shingle infill to the gable ends and exposed rafters at the eaves.
The house is set within a well-maintained mature garden, which provides an appropriate setting
HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Integrity
Integrity Minor Modifications
HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Physical Description 2
Threats None apparent
HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Physical Description 3
Key elements
Building
Garden
HOUSE AT 70 Old Warrandyte Road - Physical Description 4
Associations
William Stringer
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:
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