2 Elmie St
2 Elmie St, Hawthorn,Boroondara City
Leslie Street Precinct, Hawthorn
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Statement of Significance
Significance of Individual Property
Architecturally: an original but overformalised example of Queen Anne villa architecture which nevertheless represents its type well on a metropolitan basis and contributes to a civic-residential precinct: of regional importance.
Historically: the 20th century home of a 19th century commercial pioneer of Hawthorn: of local importance.
HO164 Leslie Street Precinct, Hawthorn
The Leslie Street Precinct, Hawthorn, which includes both Leslie Street and the Urquart
Estate and Oxley Road precincts, is an area of heritage significance for the following
reasons:
The place illustrates most of the significant development phases affecting Hawthorn
including the early years of settlement (1835-1855), the growth of Hawthorn as a
Victorian garden suburb, the Federation-era prosperity of 1901-1919; and interwar
concepts of the garden suburb.
- The place contains a number of individually significant buildings exemplifying High
Victorian and Italianate design, the Federation style in its formative phase, and a
series of characteristic interwar designs.
- Individually significant buildings in the Oxley Road precinct include institutional
buildings such as St Columbs Church, Auburn Uniting Church and its accompanying
buildings, and notable houses including Terrick Terricks and Auburn House.
- The place has a particularly well-preserved and notable collection of the prevailing
house styles of the 1880s through to the 1930s, with homogeneous concentrations of
style in several streets. The interwar Old English and Mediterranean is particularly
well represented in Urquhart Street and Swinburne Avenue and homogeneous arrays
of 1920s Bungalows are found in The Boulevard and Lyall Street. Oxley Road, Elmie
and Goodall Streets have a good variety of Victorian and Federation houses. Leslie
Street is a homogeneous run of 1880s workers' cottages, and Minona Street has a
relatively intact group of small late interwar housing units.
-Through the road layout, the footpaths transecting parts of the precinct, the broad
street lawns in the Urquhart Estate component, mature street trees and other landscape
features, and concrete road paving (Swinburne Avenue), the place clearly
demonstrates the application of the 'garden suburb' ideal as variously interpreted in
the later nineteenth century, Federation and inter-war periods. In Hawthorn the
precinct compares interestingly with its primarily Victorian and Federation
predecessor, the Grace Park Estate (HO 152). The Urquhart Estate component
(Urquhart Street, Swinburne Avenue, and The Boulevard) was the last substantial land
holding in Hawthorn to be subdivided for residential purposes (in 1919).
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Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage Study
Author: Meredith Gould Conservation Architects
Year: 1993
Grading: BBoroondara - Review of Heritage Overlay Precinct Citations
Author: Lovell Chen P/L, Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading:
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AUBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2948Victorian Heritage Register H1707
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AUBURN RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1559
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GLENFERRIE RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1671
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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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