Glendower

The house has an asymmetrical terraced form with a hipped roof, exposed eaves brackets and a return verandah which retains cast-iron detail. The house is substantially intact and is significant to the extent of its nineteenth century exterior form and fabric.

How is it significant?
'Glendower', at 612 Malvern Road, Prahran is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it significant?
'Glendower', at 612 Malvern Road, Prahran is an intact representative example of the substantial houses built for the middle-class residences of Prahran during the boom years of the 1880s and early 1890s. The terrace house form, most commonly constructed with blind boundary walls and verandah wing walls in rows in the densely packed inner suburbs, were constructed as free-standing house for the grander houses on more spacious sites. 'Glendower' exhibits typical features of this type, including the masonry verandah wing wall (to one side) creating a focus on the front facade, as well as a generous return verandah and the early exposed eaves brackets which were more common before the mid-1880s. (Criterion D)

Aesthetically, 'Glendower' is distinguished by the level of bold and characteristic polychrome brick patterning to the facade, wing wall and chimney. This brickwork is expressed as a cream and red brick trim to dark Hawthorn bricks in a diamond pattern to the windows, front door, building corners and wing wall. Diamonds are also expressed in brick below the bluestone window sills, between the eaves brackets and to the boxy chimney with cream brick capping and corbelling. The visual effect of the cast-iron verandah over the bold polychrome patterning is particularly lively and of note. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Villa