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Irona

Other Names

17 Dundonald Avenue, East Malvern , Aldene

Location

17 Dundonald Avenue MALVERN EAST, Stonnington City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
Part of a 1918 MMBW plan
[2/2]
A 1975 photograph of the rear

Statement of Significance

This building is a curious combination of a late Victorian Italianate villa combined with an attic gable of an Edwardian character. The main lower level has a low pitched hipped slate roof and a restrained balcony with a cast iron frieze.' It has conventional double hung windows and projecting bays, polychrome brick work. The upper level is far more elaborate. It has cast iron cresting on the ridgeline, three bands of decorative slates and a complex timber fretted detail to the gable end of the attic. The barge boards have an unusual cast iron cresting, the gable end is clad in terracotta shingles and there is an Art Nouveau pattern to the cast iron balustrading beneath the attic casement window. The building has been partially altered, in particular the verandah at the ground floor has lost the verandah brackets and gablet and cast iron pediment over the entry. On the upper level the terracotta shingles have now been painted.

Aldene is of regional significance as an extremely unusual villa that marks the transition between Victorian Italianate and Edwardian design characteristics. The unusual attic and details are of particular note .

Former stables:

The building was not made available for inspection and no accurate assessment of significance could be made. The available documentary and photographic evidence suggest that it is potentially significant as an atypically large and substantially intact outbuilding associated with a notable private residence.

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