AROYN
377-379 POOWONG-NYORA ROAD, NYORA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The front of the building has a parapet and the entire building has manganese brick highlights showing details and sculptural forms. There is an attached garage and service wing with a lower parapet. The significant internal features at 'Aroyn' include large rooms, textured plaster walls, brick fire surrounds and Art Deco cornices.
'Aroyn' is almost identical to a house at 407 High St, Bendigo, built in 1939, designed by Bendigo architect Godfrey Eathorne for George Albert Pethard.
Non-original alterations and additions, other than those specified above, are not significant.
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AROYN - Physical Description 1
"Aroyn" at 379 Poowong-Nyora Road, Nyora is a single storey rendered brick moderne style house based on a main L-shaped hipped roof with projecting semicircular bays to the front and side. Like many of its contemporary moderne houses, the glamorous parapet facade is mainly a front to a more conventional hipped roof construction of terra cotta tiles, rather than a flat roof which was used in the most progressive examples. A quadrant portico projects between the front bay and the main body of the house and is supported on a brick oval column (now painted).
"Aroyn" is essentially identical to a house at 407 High Street, Bendigo. Notable elements of both houses include:
- The steps to the front porch with their circular balustrade newels surmounted by opal spheres.
- The rendered plinth and recessed string moulds around the facades.
- The horizontally divided steel frame windows.
- The attached double garage and service wing, with a slightly lower parapet.
- The large chimney, with the projecting oval canopy pier, providing a vertical counterpoint to the design.
- The use of brick details (presumed to be manganese brick, now painted) to highlight the details and sculptural forms.
The interior has very large rooms with typical textured plaster walls, art deco cornices and brick fire surrounds.
The variations with the Bendigo house are minor, as follows:- The parapet of the garage is the same height as the balance of the house at Bendigo. At Nyora it is lower.
- The Bendigo house has a double recessed band around the parapet instead of one.
- It has two chimneys and different detailing to the chimney tops.
- Being in an urban context, the Bendigo house has a matching brick fence.
"Aroyn" enjoys a prominent, slightly elevated position at the end of a long driveway making it something of a local landmark. The planting and formal layout of the garden and lawn areas are sympathetic to the period of the house.Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
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