AROYN

'Aroyn', the homestead at 377-379 Lang Lang-Poowong Road, Nyora, constructed in c.1939, is significant. The Art Deco Moderne Streamline-style homestead is a single storey, rendered brick building with two chimneys and an L shaped hipped roof with projecting semi-circular bays. The hipped roof is clad in terracotta tiles and the building has a projecting quadrant portico between the front bay and main body of the house, supported by brick oval column. 'Aroyn' has steps to the front porch that have circular balustrades newels surmounted by oval sphere, a rendered plinth and recessed moulds around the facade and horizonatally divided steel frame windows. 
The front of the building has a parapet and the entire building has manganese brick highlights showing details and sculptural forms. There is an attached garage and service wing with a lower parapet. The significant internal features at 'Aroyn' include large rooms, textured plaster walls, brick fire surrounds and Art Deco cornices. 
'Aroyn' is almost identical to a house at 407 High St, Bendigo, built in 1939, designed by Bendigo architect Godfrey Eathorne for George Albert Pethard. 
Non-original alterations and additions, other than those specified above, are not significant.

'Aroyn', is of local aesthetic significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

'Aroyn' is the only residential building in the South Gippsland Shire that is built in the Art Deco Moderne Streamline-style. The homestead is in a prominent, elevated position, at the end of a long drive way on the outskirts of Nyora. The building can be considered a local landmark, and the planned formal gardens and lawns add context to the house, although they are later additions. (Criterion E)