Villa

 The villa at 22 Murray Street, Prahran is significant. It was built in stages from c1876 for successful chemist, Thomas William Norris and his family. It was later occupied by notable resident, Sister Flora Amelia Tatlow (1877-1956), a former Army nurse for the AIF during World War I, ran a private hospital named 'Kia-Ora'. 

It comprises a substantial single-storey Italianate villa with walls finished in cement render with a hipped roof and tall chimneys. The cast-iron verandah stretches across the front facade and returns to encircle the projecting canted bay to the side elevation. 

It retains its generous setback from the street and is significant to the extent of its nineteenth century external form and fabric, and as viewed and appreciated from Murray Street. 

The modern additions and alterations including the contemporary front fence and garage are not significant. 

 The villa at 22 Murray Street, Prahran is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.

The recent garage and swimming pool are not significant, and land they stand on, which formerly comprised 24 Murray Street, is excluded from the Heritage Overlay extent. In addition, the 2016 rear extension to the house is not significant.

 Architecturally, the villa at 22 Murray Street is a fine representative example of a single-storey Italianate villa built following the early subdivision of the area and later extended during the boom years of the 1880s. It exhibits typical features of this type including the hipped roof form with tall corniced chimneys, a symmetrical facade and a generous return cast-iron verandah. (Criterion D)

Aesthetically, it is distinguished by its large garden setback from Murray Street, and for its refined use of Victorian detailing including the elaborate cast-iron verandah that stretches across the front facade and returns to encircle the projecting canted bay to the west. It is notable for its paired cast columns with Corinthian capitals and for the unusual cast-iron frieze of circle motifs, which is keyed between chamfered timber beams with matching brackets. The paired columns, and the clusters of three at each corner, have an arched insert between them which are of note. (Criterion E)