Former Hawthorn Returned Sailors and Soldiers Club
Location
605-607 Glenferrie Road HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
Level
Included in Heritage Overlay
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
605-607 Glenferrie Road is a brick and render single-storey former RSL
Hall and shop building, located at the corner of Glenferrie and
Manningtree Road. The hall and cafe shopfront (605 -607 Glenferrie Road)
read as a single unit, though the shop front is painted in a contrasting
colour. The principal facade of 605-607 Glenferrie Road is of rendered
brick, with wide-jointed rustication framing the central arched entrance
and forming the piers or pylons that enclose the building. The two
recessed bays either side of the entrance are of smooth render, with
that to the north incorporating a modern shopfront. The south side wall
to Manningtree Road is of over-painted face brick with rendered banding
that encloses the arched window heads and arched entry points, rendered
sloping sills and a smooth rendered parapet, with a narrow cornice
capping. The rendered and rusticated facade treatment continues for one
bay to this elevation and the remainder of the elevation is broken into
bays by brick piers which rise through the parapet.
How is it significant?
The former Hawthorn Returned Sailors and Soldiers Club is of historical
and aesthetic (architectural) significance to the City of Boroondara.
Why is it significant?
The former Hawthorn Returned Sailors and Soldiers Club is of historical
significance for its association with the Club and for its ability to
demonstrate the proliferation of returned servicemen's organisations in
the period immediately after WWI. While RSL clubrooms and halls from the
interwar period varied widely in their forms, the facilities
accommodated within them and their architectural expression, this
example is still considered of significance as a representative and
externally intact example of the broad typology. The incorporation of a
shop front is of interest in reflecting the location of the building on
a major shopping strip and opportunity to generate revenue. While not
assessed, it is also possible that members of the Hawthorn RSL retain a
level of attachment to this building, which ceased operation as
clubrooms in the 1970s and that the building could be found to be of
social value for this reason.
Group
Community Facilities
Category
Hall RSL
