32 Booran Road
32 Booran Road CAULFIELD EAST, GLEN EIRA CITY
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Statement of Significance
It is historically significant (Criterion A) for its associations with horse racing and the Victoria Amateur Turf Club, its opulent Boom style demonstrating the economic successes of a bookmaker just prior to the nineteenth century depression in 1892-93. It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as an exceptionally opulent single storeyed villa in Caulfield, the use of vermiculation adding character to an otherwise representative form given dignity by means of its generous proportions. The spacious front garden and mature plantings constitute a rare surviving landscaped environment for a house of the era and enhance the cultural values of the place.
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32 Booran Road - Physical Description 1
An imposing single storeyed asymmetrical late Victorian Italianate villa with hipped slate roof and faceted window bay to the projecting wing.
There is a corner verandah, now partly built in and rebuilt. Ornamentation includes vermiculated quoins and panels beneath the round arched windows to the bay. There are also similar panels beneath the coupled columns to the verandah which support a scalloped bressemer32 Booran Road - Physical Description 2
Medium, verandah defaced and part built In. Spacious front garden with mature trees. Stables may survive at the rear.
32 Booran Road - Physical Description 3
Condition: sound
32 Booran Road - Historical Australian Themes
Caulfield as a location for Melbourne's gentry and Horse Racing and the Victoria Amateur Turf Club
Heritage Study and Grading
Glen Eira - City of Glen Eira Heritage Management Plan
Author: Andrew Ward, Architectural Historian
Year: 1996
Grading:
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CAULFIELD RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1665
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CAULFIELD RACECOURSEVictorian Heritage Register H2415
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LORD LODGEVictorian Heritage Register H0071
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