21 Christowel Street
21 Christowel Street, Camberwell,Boroondara City
Golf Links Estate Camberwell
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Statement of Significance
Significance of Individual Property
Architecturally, a superior example of one of the less well-represented suburban villa styles of the Between Wars period which benefits from its corner siting, physical integrity and the surrounding estate.
Historically, a faithful expression of a suburban villa type, in this case (with the rest of the estate) representing one of the last crown sections to be subdivided close to the railway.
HO1 Golf Links Estate, Camberwell
The Golf Links Estate, which occupies the former Riversdale Golf Club, was subdivided in 1927 and lots were offered for sale later that year. The first houses on the estate were built in 1928 with the majority of the allotments built and occupied by 1938. The Golf Links Estate, Camberwell, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:
- The place is a particularly intact and notable collection of vernacular housing styles of the late 1920s to the early 1940s, including interwar Mediterranean, Old English and Californian Bungalow. It contains a significant number of Art-Deco and Moderne flavoured houses that read as prototypes for the suburban vernacular that spread around Australia after WWII.
- The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads, landscaped medians with concrete lamp standards and mature street trees.
- The place demonstrates the successful influence of building controls during the interwar and post-WWII period in terms of prescribed set backs and uniform material usage to ensure a consistent visual quality.
- The housing types and styles physically demonstrate the appeal of Camberwell as one of Melbourne's most fashionable new suburbs of the 1920s and into the 1930s and 1940s.
- The Estate is conspicuously predicated on a commuter-based city workforce, being bounded by a tram route on one side and a railway on the other.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Camberwell Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: BBoroondara - Review of Heritage Overlay Precinct Citations
Author: Lovell Chen P/L, Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading:
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FORMER ROBIN BOYD HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0879
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CAMBERWELL COURT HOUSE AND POLICE STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1194
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DoneraileBoroondara City
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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