House

The house and landscaping at 12 Forster Court, Pascoe Vale South is significant. The form and materiality of the architect designed International Style house is significant, in particular the timber framed floor to ceiling glass, external unpainted Californian Redwood wall cladding, internal wall timber cladding, and the low-pitched flat roof with internal exposed beams. The landscape architect designed garden, originally designed in the Australiana theme, is significant.

The house is of local representative, aesthetic and associative significance. The landscaping is of local associative significance.

The dwelling demonstrates principle characteristics of the postwar International style, in particular the floor to ceiling glass windows to maximise views of the garden, timber windows, external unpainted wall cladding, and internal wall cladding, and the low-pitched flat roof which cantilevers over the balcony. It is considered to be an intact and representative example of this style. (Criterion D)

The dwelling has aesthetic significance as an intact postwar International style house which has high quality features and design, in particular the flat roof which cantilevers over the balcony, windows, layout in relation to site landscaping, external Californian Redwood timber cladding and internal timber detailing. (Criterion E) The dwelling is associated with mid-century architect Peter Hooks, an English born architect who designed many Modernist dwellings in Melbourne. The site is also associated with mid-century landscape designer Ellis Stones, known as one of the founding figures of the Australian landscaping style. The landscaping has an Australian bush character, with several mature Eucalyptus plantings evident amongst other native plantings. (Criterion H)