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BILL SNELL HOUSE

Location

1 Fran Court TEMPLESTOWE LOWER, Manningham City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Bill Snell House and garden, designed by Meg Henderson and constructed c.1964, at 1 Fran Court, Lower Templestowe.

How is it Significant?

The Bill Snell House is of local historic and aesthetic significance to Manningham City.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant as an example of the work of local architect, Meg Henderson, and demonstrates the innovative architecture that flourished in the Templestowe area in the post-war period. (RNE criteria A.4 & H.1)

Aeshetically, it is a rare and beautiful house complemented by a garden, which is significant as an early neo-brutalist design, contemporary with other similar work in Templestowe by Keith Reid and his sons, and which relates particularly well to its site and the context of its earlier neighbour, by the same designer and similarly intact. (RNE criteria E.1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House