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23 Riversdale Road

Location 23 Riversdale Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

No 23 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, is of historical and architectural significance at a local level. It is a fine and well-executed example of a substantial Federation brick villa on an asymmetrical plan with Queen Anne overtones. Its prominent siting on the high side of the street, and its straightforward, dignified and solid proportions, epitomize aspects of Federation period development in Hawthorn. The house is also distinguished when compared to many Federation designs in Boroondara, displaying an early use of formal simplification and plainness of massing, window and wall treatments that mark many later Federation houses. This includes reducing the verandah to a simple recessed porch, and the simple treatment of the south-west eave in the area of the canted bay, which has exposed rafters and virtually no fascia. The expressed chimney breast, built clear of the western wing gable, is also unusual when compared to the main run of Federation housing.