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17 Mason Street

Location 17 Mason Street HAWTHORN, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

No 17 Mason Street, Hawthorn, is of historical and architectural significance at a local level. It is a prominent, well executed and substantially externally intact, interwar, asymmetrical bungalow, of tuck-pointed red face brick construction with a Marseilles-tiled gabled roofscape. The projecting west bay has a distinct and highly visible almost circular bow window; the property is also enhanced by the retention of the clinker brick fence with capped piers. Architecturally, the house can be included in a group of houses built in the Boroondara area in the 1920s, which appear to have been influenced by Melbourne architect, Robert Haddon's, corner bay Bungalow type, as published in the Real Property Annual, 1918. In this context, the property has a lively composition, a boldness of line, and utilises a rich assembly of materials.