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E A Watts House

Other Name E A Watts House Location 1291 Burke Road KEW, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of B Graded Buildings

Statement of Significance

The EA Watts house, at 1291 Burke Road, Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a handsome and externally relatively intact example of a substantial two-storey interwar residence designed in a broadly Mediterranean mode. The design is a skillful fusion of Mediterranean styles commonly applied in larger houses of the period 1925-39, which in this case incorporates elements of the later English Baroque. The design evokes the scale, detailing, and utopian qualities of Italian contado villas and reflects the strong general knowledge of, and interest in, a wide range of architecture of the client/owner, EA Watts.