Trengrove House

Trengrove House at 8 Tower Place, Hawthorn East, is an attic-storey Bungalow house with original front boundary fence constructed in 1927-28. The house is significant to the City of Boroondara.

Trengrove House at 8 Tower Place, Hawthorn East is of architectural (representative) and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

It is architecturally significant as a representative and largely intact interwar dwelling in the attic-storey Bungalow style which was a style common in suburbs throughout the 1920s. (Criterion D)

 

It is of aesthetic significance as a largely intact example of an attic-storey bungalow. Typical features of the style that can be found in this house include a low-pitch gable roof, a sleepout opening off the living area and bedroom, sash windows with leadlight to the upper sash, and stucco over clinker brick walls. Unusual details, such as the engaged pilasters at attic storey level, hint at the Old English Domestic Revival styles that would become popular in the following decades. (Criterion E)