Malone's Family Hotel
208 Canterbury Road CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY
Maling Rd Shop. Ctr. and Res Envs. Cant.
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Statement of Significance
Significance of Individual Property
The building is significant architecturally: as a free-standing building and as an hotel (given the altered state of other suburban hotels, particularly at ground floor level) and as a major streetscape element, visible form all directions, particularly from the west and east.
The building is locally significant historically as one or two early surviving hotels in the Canterbury area, as the typical early meeting place for social groups and particularly as the venue for both the first football and cricket club activity in the area.
As an historical expression of this important era (prior to delicensing in the 1920's), the building is well preserved inside and out (except for internal decorative wall and ceiling finishes) and is particularly enhanced by the survival of the stable form in its own right with its unusual gabled parapet and Dutch-hip roof combination. The main rooms (meeting rooms, parlors and bar room) were the focus for this social activity and take on special significance in contrast to the accommodation rooms which are typical only. Nevertheless some indication of their configuration, size and finish should be maintained, particularly as the Surrey Family Hotel has been completely gutted.
The 1922 renovation is evident in the external escape, the closing-off of part of the back stair, bathroom fittings, the glazing done at ground level, new corner door and new garden created to the west.
HO145 Maling Road Shopping Centre and Residential Environs, Canterbury
Maling Road Shopping Centre and Residential Environs, Canterbury, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:
- The precinct is a comprehensive and architecturally notable illustration of the effect of the railway's arrival in the Victorian era and the railway's further development around WWI. This is expressed, in part, in the distinctive street pattern that runs axially from the Canterbury Railway Station. It is also expressed in the well preserved residential and commercial development which was largely complete by WWII.
- The Maling Road and Canterbury Road commercial strips demonstrate a high level of architectural excellence, strong Victorian, Federation and interwar-era expression and a high degree of visual cohesion. The Maling Road strip also contains individually notable buildings that have a high degree of integrity and landmark value; the Post Office (1908), the Canterbury Theatre (1912) and Malone's Hotel (1889).
- The place is a highly representative Victorian and Federation-era residential precinct with individually notable houses. The precinct is interspersed with strong and well preserved interwar elements that offer an historic and architectural contrast and create streetscapes of high aesthetic interest.
- The precinct contains well preserved residential and commercial examples from the 1920s-30s, which reflects the premier status of Camberwell as an urban growth area during that period.
- The precinct has an historic association with Terry & Oakden, the designers of the original Claremont Park Estate and one of Victoria's most important architectural firms, and other important architects of the time such as Ward and Carleton and Ussher and Kemp.
- The precinct includes public landscaping elements such as asphalt paving, basalt pitching, kerbs, channels and mature trees and garden plantings, some of which date from the beginnings of the Claremont Park and Highfield Estates.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Camberwell Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: ABoroondara - Review of Heritage Overlay Precinct Citations
Author: Lovell Chen P/L, Architects & Heritage Consultants
Year: 2006
Grading:
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