Maisonettes

What is Significant?
The maisonettes at 687-689 Orrong Road, Toorak is a double-storey English Domestic Revival style building designed by noted interwar architect Robert Bell Hamilton. It was built c1932 following the demolition and subdivision of the nineteenth century mansion Montalto.

Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include (but are not limited to):

-The original external form, materials and detailing of the building.

-The generally high level of external intactness.

-The unpainted state of the face brick and terracotta elements.

-The domestic garden setting (but not the fabric of the garden itself).

The garages and modern fabric, including the front verandah infill and front fence, are not significant.

How is it significant?
The maisonettes at 687-689 Orrong Road, Toorak is of local architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it significant?
The maisonettes at 687-689 Orrong Road are architecturally significant as a fine and largely intact example of residential building in the English Domestic Revival style designed by important interwar architect Robert Bell Hamilton (Criterion D). It has an imposing streetscape presence, and provides a good illustration of the propensity for maisonettes and flats in fashionable suburbs to be designed to emulate the appearance of a large single dwelling (Criterion E, TEH 8.6.3 - Architect Designed apartments,).

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Duplex