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Essington House

Other Name Essington House Location 67 Mayston Street HAWTHORN EAST, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

Essington House, 67 Mayston Street, Hawthorn East, is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a large and substantially externally intact two-storey, 1870s, stucco-clad Italianate house, and one of a body of larger Melbourne houses built between the 1850s and 1870s which were influenced in their design by institutional buildings such as the various government houses. Architecturally, it has a demeanour and detail which are both restrained and magisterial, with the upper and ground floor elevations being restrained yet imposing, and effectively using a simple set of Renaissance details.