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6 Balaclava Road
6 Balaclava CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY

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6 Balaclava Rd St Kilda East, August 2000
6 Balaclava Rd St Kilda East, August 2000
6 Balaclava Rd St Kilda East, August 2000
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Statement of Significance

The villa residence at 6 Balaclava Road, now known as "Greenfield House" and erected prior to 1875, is important as a substantial late Victorian Italianate villa in the manner of many erected in nearby St. Kilda. It association with Philip Phillips may link it with P.D. Phillips, the noted Melbourne barrister of the late nineteenth century.
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    • Physical Description 1

      6 Balaclava Road - Physical Description 1

      An imposing two storeyed Italianate villa with encircling reconstructed verandah and having a generally symmetrical arrangement to Balaclava Road, but oriented originally towards Hotham Street. The lower level verandah has cabled cast iron columns with curved spandrels forming arches, the verandah floor having been removed (?) The upper level verandah has timber posts and cast iron lace balustrade and frieze. The front door facing Hotham Street is round arched and the south facing windows, one of which has been defaced, are distinguished by their cabled Corinthian colonettes, hood moulds and tri-partite form.

      Physical Description 2

      6 Balaclava Road - Physical Description 2

      Condition: sound

      Physical Description 3

      6 Balaclava Road - Physical Description 3

      Integrity: medium

      Historical Australian Themes

      6 Balaclava Road - Historical Australian Themes

      Caulfield as a location for Melbourne's gentry.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Glen Eira - City of Glen Eira Heritage Management Plan

      Author: Andrew Ward, Architectural Historian
      Year: 1996
      Grading:

  • Notes See all notes

    originally no 92 hotham "englefield"

    28/01/21

    This house occupied the whole corner block (see MMBW plans), subdivided (late 1920/30) with the flats now occupying along Hotham and Balaclava. It was named Englefield and was the home of Sir John Swanson, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1922-24, Swanson Brothers Builders, President Master builders, Freemason He died there in 1924, lady Alice died there in 1926.both buried in St Kilda Cemetery.

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Notes See all notes

originally no 92 hotham "englefield"

28/01/21

This house occupied the whole corner block (see MMBW plans), subdivided (late 1920/30) with the flats now occupying along Hotham and Balaclava. It was named Englefield and was the home of Sir John Swanson, Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1922-24, Swanson Brothers Builders, President Master builders, Freemason He died there in 1924, lady Alice died there in 1926.both buried in St Kilda Cemetery.

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