MACGEORGE HOUSE
25 Riversdale Road IVANHOE, Banyule City
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Statement of Significance
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MACGEORGE HOUSE - Historical Australian Themes
The MacGeorge House is one of a number of buildings in the City of Banyule which was connected with the artistic movement of that area in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is one of a group of Arts and Crafts style houses designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear in Heidelberg and Ivanhoe.
MACGEORGE HOUSE - Usage/Former Usage
Residence (Original and current)
MACGEORGE HOUSE - Physical Conditions
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MACGEORGE HOUSE - Physical Description 1
BUILDINGS: 25 Riverside Road is in the picturesque, Arts and Crafts style exemplified by the broad gable with half-timbering, horizontal groupings of casement windows, timber verandah balustrading and tapered rendered chimneys. Unlike Annear's other Heidelberg houses, the walls of the MacGeorge residence are roughcast, without half timbering or a weatherboarded dado.
Internally, the living spaces are large and partially interconnect, as in the manner which became more common in the 1920s, with horizontal sliding doors between living and dining rooms. Door-high wainscoting, exposed ceiling battens and continuous window strips, with an under-shelf bracketed from below are complemented by built-in timber furniture. Waxed floors, Persian rugs and early 20th century furnishings contribute to the spacious Jacobean-like interior.
Two areas were enclosed on the north-east balcony in 1938, but otherwise, the house is intact.
LANDSCAPE: Blamire Young's garden once had clipped privet hedges dividing the formal part from the informal section which blended the riverside gums with 'rioting flowers, spreading oaks and acacias'. The oaks remain, as do the natives and some of the beds of shrubs, while other more contrived parts have gone.MACGEORGE HOUSE - Intactness
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MACGEORGE HOUSE - Physical Description 2
Lot 26, Fairy Hills Estate
Heritage Study and Grading
Banyule - Banyule Heritage Study
Author: Allum Lovell & Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: A
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