50 High Street South Kew

50 High Street Kew is a triple-fronted single-storey Californian bungalow of dark-stained or tarred weatherboards. The house has a roof of terracotta tiling with a prominent gable to High Street and a further gable, part-concealed by the adjoining property, to the north side. There is a timber verandah that extends across two-thirds of the facade and returns along the north elevation, facing towards Stevenson Street. The building has a high degree of external integrity as it presents to the street.

50 High Street Kew is of historical and aesthetic (architectural) significance to the City of Boroondara.

50 High Street Kew is of significance as a representative and externally intact example of a timber Californian bungalow of the early 1920s. It is an accomplished example, in timber, of a distinct bungalow variation, where a monopitch continuation of the verandah roof, linked to a broad transverse tile roof, is drawn partway across the base of a dominant projecting gable, so that the horizontal line flows from one otherwise separate elevational component into another. The horizontality in this design is emphatic and particularly well handled.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House