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Springfield

Other Name Springfield Location 6 Berkeley Street HAWTHORN, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

Springfield, at 6 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a substantially externally intact, finely executed and to a degree striking example of a two-storied bichrome and Hawthorn brick Italianate house, with an asymmetrical composition, canted bay, two-storey iron-framed verandah with lacework decoration, and hipped slate-clad roof. Although the details and bichrome patterning resemble a great many single-storey Italianate houses of its time, this property stands out to a degree due to its bichrome surfacing combined with the double-storey canted bay composition, and a particularly vivid use of the bichrome brick treatment.