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CORONAL
Other Name9 Lewes Drive, East Malvern Location9-11 Lewes Drive and 9 Lewes Drive MALVERN EAST, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
Coronal, 9 Lewes Drive, East Malvern, is a two storey former mansion
with tower constructed in 1890. It enjoys high local significance as a
rare surviving house from a small group of mansion estates that once
existed in the area, surrounded by farm land. It is thought to be the
only towered nineteenth century mansion surviving in East Malvern, and
would seem to be the easternmost surviving, substantially intact
representative of the nineteenth century mansions which once ranged
across the present Stonnington area from South Yarra to East Malvern,
contributing substantially to the character and prestige of the area.
It stands in relative isolation with resprect to its peers within the municipality. Coronal is distinct from other extant mansions in the municipality
through its use of a relatively severe architectural expression based
on vernacular Italian antecedents and simple, face brick construction. Alterations undertaken in 1939 in order to convert the house to flats
have resulted in relatively slight, superficial changes to its overall
character, but have allowed it to integrate to a superior extent with
the general interwar character of Lewes Drive, and as such is the
centrepiece of its immediate built environment.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Mansion