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Lipton House (former)
Other NameLipton residence (former) Location67 HILL ROAD BALWYN NORTH, BOROONDARA CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former Lipton House at 67 Hill Road, Balwyn North, built in 1965 and designed by architects Raymond Tung and Kevin O'Neill, is significant. Significant fabric includes:
- the original built form, including the interlocking cubic forms stepped across the site
- flat roofs and raised lantern roof with broad eaves and tall fascia clad in metal decking
- face brick surfaces
- window and door openings and joinery
- timber slat sunshades.
The garden setting and sloped, embankment of rocks along the Lucifer Street boundary contributes to the significance of the place.
How is it significant?
The house is of historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.
Why is it significant?
The former Lipton House at 67 Hill Road, Balwyn North, is of local historical significance for the evidence it provides of Boroondara as a locus for leading architect-designed public and private buildings from the 1850s into the Post-war period. Built in 1965 to a design by architects Kevin O'Neil and Raymond Tung of leading architectural practice Bogle & Banfield, the unconventional house was featured in popular home-making magazine Australian Home Beautiful in 1966. This house exemplifies the high concentration of architect-designed Modernist houses built in Balwyn and Balwyn North during the 1950s and 60s. (Criterion A)
The former Lipton House is of aesthetic significance as one of the more innovative examples of 1960s residential architecture in Balwyn North. Occupying an elevated corner site, the design was conceived to present equally balanced elevations to two street frontages, in the manner of a sculpture-in-theround. Expressed as a series of stepped and interlocking rectilinear volumes, the house has an especially eye-catching roof-line emphasised by the inclusion of a lantern roof with broad panelled fascia and clerestory windows. With a continuous bay of full-height windows opening onto a broad sun deck over the garage, and its unusual integrated pergola and covered walkway connecting to a detached storeroom, the house remains a striking composition on this prominent suburban site. The building is enhanced by its open garden setting and sloped, embankment of rocks along the Lucifer Street boundary, also designed by architects Kevin O'Neil and Raymond Tung in 1965 and integral to their plans for the site. (Criterion E)
The former Lipton House is of aesthetic significance as one of the more innovative examples of 1960s residential architecture in Balwyn North. Occupying an elevated corner site, the design was conceived to present equally balanced elevations to two street frontages, in the manner of a sculpture-in-theround. Expressed as a series of stepped and interlocking rectilinear volumes, the house has an especially eye-catching roof-line emphasised by the inclusion of a lantern roof with broad panelled fascia and clerestory windows. With a continuous bay of full-height windows opening onto a broad sun deck over the garage, and its unusual integrated pergola and covered walkway connecting to a detached storeroom, the house remains a striking composition on this prominent suburban site. The building is enhanced by its open garden setting and sloped, embankment of rocks along the Lucifer Street boundary, also designed by architects Kevin O'Neil and Raymond Tung in 1965 and integral to their plans for the site. (Criterion E)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House