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Noorie

Location

56 Elizabeth Street MALVERN, STONNINGTON CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
'Noorie' at 56 Elizabeth Street, Malvern, is significant. It was built in 1891 for Catherine Taylor as her family home.

It is an early Federation Queen Anne two-storey polychrome brick house with an asymmetrical facade and a double-storey verandah. Walls are of red face brick with cream and black banding. Chimneys are of red brick with corbelled tops.

The house is significant to the extent of its nineteenth-century external form and fabric, particularly the elevations visible from the public domain (west, north and south), and the slate-covered hipped and gabled roof and chimneys.

The verandah posts and cast-iron detail, cast-iron crest to the bay window, front picket fence, the twentieth-century rear extension and outbuilding are not significant.

How is it significant?
'Noorie' is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it significant?
Architecturally, it is a largely intact example of a polychrome brick villa that demonstrates the emergence of the Federation Queen Anne Revival. The low M-profile hipped roof, clad in slate, survives from the Italianate,. while a medieval influence characteristic of the Queen Anne style, is seen in the use of a gable to the projecting bay, the decorative truss and pendant-finial in this gable, the use of red face brick, and the corbelled brick chimneys. (Criterion D)

Aesthetically, 'Noorie' is important both as a local landmark and for its retention of many fine details. Its landmark value is created by its substantial size in the Elizabeth Street context, making it visible from many vantage points, and is enhanced by the tall mature trees in its front garden. The house is notable for its eclectic details, such as a Venetian Gothic window with a banded arch, the front bay window which retains a timber roller-blind cover with an applied lozenge pattern, and the entrance porch structure on the south side with a complex roof supported on timber posts. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Villa