16 Lyndhurst Crescent

1. Architecturally significant for the avant-garde red brick design, particularly unusual for single storey buildings. few buildings are executed with "Modern Italian" and/or Elizabethan detailing in Melbourne.

2. Architecturally significant for the attempt to adapt a partly row house form to a high status garden villa.

3.Architecturally significant for the prominent role it plays in illustrating the flow on effect for high quality housing which focused on the mansions. Strategically placed on Hawthorn hill.

HO155 Lyndhurst Crescent Precinct, Hawthorn

Lyndhurst Crescent Precinct, Hawthorn, is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:

-The place is representative of the growth of Hawthorn as a garden suburb from 1856- 1900, particularly through the siting of middle-class, Victorian-style villas of varied size and materials in garden settings.

-The development of the place capitalized on the fashionable status of nearby Harcourt Street and consolidated this area as a highly desirable garden suburb for the both the wealthy and relatively wealthy.

- The place contains a number of significant examples of the Victorian architectural style.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House