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Wykeham Lodge
Location2B Erskine Street ARMADALE, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The house is a substantial two-storey brick residence with cement-render detail (all overpainted). The roof has a high hip, with a corner tower which retains terracotta shingles. The house is entered via an inset porch on the east elevation. It once had a front verandah facing Malvern Road, but this has been removed. The front carport, rear addition and the brick front fence are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant? Aesthetically, the house is distinguished by high-quality details from eclectic stylistic sources used in a free manner. They include the elaborate gable treatment like a hammer-beam truss with infill of sunburst motifs, the terracotta shingles and flared eaves of the corner tower, the elaborate classical pedimented hood marking the entrance porch, and other cement-render details such as the ox-eye gable vent and the scalloped apron mouldings to the windows. (Criterion E)
'Wykeham Lodge', at 2B Erskine Road, Armadale, was built in 1891 for Charles Shuter, a police Magistrate, as his retirement home. Considering stylistic similarities, it appears that the house was designed by prominent Melbourne architectural practice Reed, Smart & Tappin.
'Wykeham Lodge' is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Architecturally, it is an example of a substantial early Queen Anne Revival house, here with an eclectic Scottish Baronial influence seen in the corner tower. It displays features that would become typical of Queen Anne Revival houses such as the use of red face brick with cement-render dressings, a high hipped roof, corner bay windows to create diagonal axes, projecting gables, and highlight windows with tiny coloured panes of glass. (Criterion D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Other - Residential Buildings (private)