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54 Berkeley Street

Location 54 Berkeley Street HAWTHORN, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

No 54 Berkeley Street, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a prominently located, attic-style, rough-cast stucco, bungalow house, which is generously proportioned and substantially intact externally. Architecturally, it is considered to be a relatively early example of the emerging bungalow and attic bungalow modes in Melbourne, and something of a prototype for a range of later bungalows in Boroondara. Its combination of stuccoed brickwork with bungalow form was effective and well-rounded, and part of a general adaptation to masonry construction in bungalow design which was starting to occur in Australia. It also has a number of elements and motifs which appear in later bungalows.