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Rab-Nov-Jea

Other Name Rab-Nov-Jea Location 10 Wimba Avenue KEW, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of B Graded Buildings

Statement of Significance

Rab-Nov-Jea, at 10 Wimba Avenue, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance as a good and externally relatively intact example of a hipped-roofed, symmetrically composed Indian Bungalow design of the late 1920s, in this case incorporating components of the Colonial Revival being popularized in magazines and books of the day. 10 Wimba Avenue is of clinker brick construction with a terracotta tile roof, and the facade comprises a centrally placed projecting entry porch with a hipped roof supported on Tuscan columns, flanked by faceted bay windows with projecting angled brick sills. Other windows to the facade are set in box frames supported on several courses of stepped brickwork. The double hung windows have lead light with some textured glass panes in a geometric design.14