32 Riverside Avenue

Location

32 Riverside Avenue, Balwyn North,Boroondara City

Level

Incl in HO area contributory

Statement of Significance

HO231 Riverside Estate and Environs, Balwyn North

The Riverside Estate and Environs, Balywn North, precinct is an area of heritage significance for the following reasons:

- The large, detached houses built in various interwar architectural styles (particularly those constructed during the 1930s building boom in Camberwell) demonstrate a high quality of architectural design. This architectural quality is combined with the visually unifying factors of lot size, materials and uniform set backs to create a cohesive and notable interwar precinct.

- The housing types and styles physically demonstrate the appeal of Balwyn as one of Melbourne's most fashionable new suburbs of the 1930s, a status which was consolidated after 1945.

-The precinct is distinguished by the scale and complexity of its building styles, combined with its location on a slope commanding broad views of the Yarra Valley and distant mountains.

-The place contains individual aesthetically significant sites from the interwar period.

-The place is a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads and mature gardens and street trees.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House