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Wynduk House
Other Name1310 High Street, Malvern Location1310 High Street MALVERN, Stonnington City LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? It comprises a substantial single-storey Italianate villa of rendered masonry with a hipped roof clad in slate and chimneys with heavy rendered cornices. It presents a symmetrical facade to High Street comprising two projecting canted bays and an encircling verandah which returns on both sides of the house. It is set back behind a generous front garden with a pre-1910 circular path, and is significantly intact as viewed and appreciated from High Street. It is significant to the extent of its nineteenth century external form and fabric. The modern additions to the rear and the front picket fence are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant? Aesthetically, 'Wynduk' is distinguished by its bullnose verandah that not only encircles the pair of canted bays to the front but also returns along both side elevations. The cast-iron work is of a high quality which utilises a range of floral and shield motifs within the intricate frieze, bracket, and dropper patterns and cast columns with wrapped vine work. The walls are rendered above a bluestone base, with a finely executed stringcourse of acanthus leaves and cast-cement garlands set between paired eaves brackets above the verandah. It is a highly intact example within the municipality retaining its tessellated floor tiles contained by a bluestone verandah plinth, decorative urns flanking the front steps and the original or early garden layout including the circular front path. (Criterion E)
'Wynduk' at 1310 High Street, Malvern is significant. It was built in 1891 for merchant Samuel Bloomfield. It was once one of a row of substantial single-storey late Victorian villas erected in the late 1880s and early 1890s along this prestigious part of High Street, opposite the Malvern Town Hall and Malvern Cricket Ground. It served as a family home, before it was purchased by the Brigidine Sisters in 1967 to become part of the former Brigidine Girls' School, Kildara College.
'Wynduk' at 1310 High Street, Malvern is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.
Architecturally, 'Wynduk' at 1310 High Street, Malvern, is a fine representative example of a substantial single-storey Italianate villa, built for upper middle-class residents of Malvern during the boom years of the 1880s and early 1890s. 'Wynduk' is the last remaining house of a row of prominently located late nineteenth-century single-storey villas along High Street, that serves as a reminder of the early substantial residential character dating from the boom era in this part of Malvern. Its association with the land boom and crash is highlighted by its brief association with Benjamin Fink. The house adopts a symmetrical Italianate plan and a hipped slate roof with a pair of canted bays to the front linked by an encircling cast-iron verandah. (Criterion D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Villa