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330-338 Balaclava Road
330-338 Balaclava Road CAULFIELD NORTH, Glen Eira City

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330-338 Balaclava Rd Caulfield, August 2000
330-338 Balaclava Rd Caulfield, August 2000
330-338 Balaclava Rd Caulfield, August 2000
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Statement of Significance

The complex of former shops and residences at Nos. 330-338 Balaclava Road is locally important as an unusual commercial development which, in conjunction with "Wybar's Buildings" diagonally opposite, constituted a small shopping centre at this location. It is now largely defunct but has historic interest also to the extent that it was virtually established by members of the Wybar family during the late Victorian Land Boom as a speculative venture.

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    • Physical Description 1

      330-338 Balaclava Road - Physical Description 1

      This complex consists of two identical former shops: "Tarnaki House" at no.330 and ''Dunedin House" at no. 338 at either end of a short terraced row of two houses: nos. 332 and 334. The shops retain their pilastered fronts and balustraded pedimented parapets but the shop windows have been removed as a part of their conversion to residential use. The residence at no. 330 has a timber posted verandah, possibly reconstructed, and both buildings have been overpainted. The houses at No. 332-334 are in polychrome brick with balustraded and pedimented parapets. The verandahs to no. 332 has been built in and to no. 334 altered.

      Physical Description 2

      330-338 Balaclava Road - Physical Description 2

      Condition: sound

      Physical Description 3

      330-338 Balaclava Road - Physical Description 3

      Integrity: fair

      Historical Australian Themes

      330-338 Balaclava Road - Historical Australian Themes

      Caulfield's late Victorian suburban expansion

      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:

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    Brick Villas Caulfield North

    • 07/07/15

    Unfortunately ' Wybars Buildings' have been demolished over 2 years ago. However, It might also be worth mentioning the significance of the brick villas in Kambrook road and Normanby Road which were also built by Wybar during the land boom and retain much of their original features.

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Brick Villas Caulfield North

• 07/07/15

Unfortunately ' Wybars Buildings' have been demolished over 2 years ago. However, It might also be worth mentioning the significance of the brick villas in Kambrook road and Normanby Road which were also built by Wybar during the land boom and retain much of their original features.

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