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Loyola

Other Name

Loyola

Location

75 Wattle Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

Loyola, at 75 Wattle Road, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and broadly externally intact example of a late Victorian villa. It displays many of the hallmarks of the style including bold tuckpointed Hawthorn brickwork, bracketed slate roof and canted bay. While compromised to a degree by the loss of its original return verandah, the house appears to be otherwise generally intact and is an interesting example of the single-fronted two-storey villa form. In addition, Loyola exhibits a design which is more typical of generous allotments and which has been adapted to suit a narrow site as one of a pair.

As with its neighbour at 73 Wattle Road, Loyola at 75 Wattle Road is distinguished by its slender two-storey single-fronted form built to the boundaries, an atypical form for the area. The form and design of both buildings reflect their joint origins as two substantial houses constructed on a single allotment subdivided into two. Loyola is also of interest for combining a narrow straight front facade with a canted bay set back on the side elevation. Individually and with its neighbour, the house stands as a landmark in the generally single-storey streetscape context.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House