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Other NameBel-Air Location69 Power Street, Hawthorn,Boroondara City LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
HO152 Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove Precincts, Hawthorn
The Grace Park and Hawthorn Grove Precincts, Hawthorn, are of
heritage significance for the following reasons: - The place is a concentrated and relatively intact precinct of
generally high quality residential buildings of the later Victorian
and Federation periods. - Hilda Crescent has an unbroken set of highly distinctive Federation
house designs, and the mode continues in the adjacent streets. - The area is characterised by mature gardens and street trees,
filtering the light in the more southern streets, south of Kinkora
Road, and giving the area a distinctive shaded character. - The diagonal house compositions and curving streets in the Grace
Park Precinct combine to create an informal and picturesque character. - The northern section - Kinkora Road and Hawthorn Grove - has a
large concentration of 1880s housing in tighter patterns that are
similarly characteristic of that earlier era, and is relatively
intact. These streets were the first typically-scaled suburban
development in Hawthorn, in contrast to the St James Park area which
began as a mansion group. - The Barkers Road section is more heterogeneous, but does
incorporate several notable Federation and Bungalow designs. Clovelly
Court is an impressive apartment group utilising garden villa forms,
comparing with both the courtyard flats in the Fairview Park Precinct
(HO148) and the more similar Corsewall Close (HO149). - Located at the southern end of the precinct, the Michael Tuck Stand
at the Glenferrie Oval is striking both for the way it draws on its
red-brick domestic surroundings as it is for its 1938 modernity. - The precinct is visually unified by the shared, curving park based
around the former Kew Railway line, that runs though the entire
precinct from south to north and reads as a reminder of the precinct's
early popularity as a commuter suburb.
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