HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street
23 Rosa Street TEMPLESTOWE LOWER, Manningham City
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The house, designed by John and Phyllis Murphy and constructed in 1950 (excluding the later additions including the front fence), at 23 Rosa Street, Lower Templestowe.
How is it Significant?
The house at 23 Rosa Street, Lower Templestowe is of local historic and aesthetic significance to Manningham City.
Why is it Significant?
The house at 23 Rosa Street, Lower Templestowe has historic significance as one of the first houses designed by the important architectural practice of John and Phyllis Murphy. It is one of the earliest examples of the post-war Modernist style in a residential building in the study area. (RNE criteria A.4, D.2 and H.1)
The house at 23 Rosa Street, Lower Templestowe has aesthetic (architectural) significance as a relatively intact example of an early Modernist house. (RNE criteria E.1)
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HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Historical Australian Themes
Local Themes
8.02 - Architects
HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Physical Description 1
23 Rosa Street, Lower Templestowe is an early Modernist house with a low-pitched skillion roof. Fenestration is in the form of timber 'window walls' below wallboard cladding (possibly fibro), alternating with white-painted brick walls. The plan is L-shaped, with a walled garden between the street boundary and the projecting front, returning at the angle which contains another, pergolaclad, walled courtyard. A lower skillion roof extends from the right side of the rear wing to form a carport.
The high brick wall around the property has insets of Victorian-style palisade cast-metal fencing (including the front gate), which are inappropriate.
COMPARATIVE EXAMPLES
This house compares with the house at 50 Mahoney Street, Templestowe, also designed by J & P Murphy in 1955.
HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Physical Conditions
Condition Good
HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Integrity
Integrity Intact
HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Physical Description 2
Threats None apparent
HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Physical Description 3
Key elements
Building
Site layout
HOUSE AT 23 Rosa Street - Physical Description 4
Associations
John and Phyllis Murphy
Heritage Study and Grading
Manningham - Manningham Heritage Study Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2006
Grading:
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