HALYCON

Location

927 Toorak Road CAMBERWELL, BOROONDARA CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The dwelling and fence of 927 Toorak Road, Camberwell is significant to the City of Boroondara as an interwar dwelling constructed in 1925 for the Lum family.

How is it significant?

927 Toorak Road, Camberwell, is of historical, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

927 Toorak Road is historically significant as it demonstrates the growth and residential development of Camberwell during the interwar period. (Criterion A)

927 Toorak Road is architecturally significant as an intact example of a transitional interwar bungalow that successfully combines the characteristics of the earlier Federation Queen Anne with the later Californian Bungalow style to produce an interesting interwar dwelling type. As an intact California Bungalow, the dwelling is an example of the influence of aspects of American life and culture, mixed into the Australian context. (Criterion D)

The building is aesthetically significant for its adoption and successful use of rocked-face concrete stonework, unusual to Californian Bungalows within the municipality. (Criterion E)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House