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HENDRA

Location 11 WILLIAMS ROAD MOUNT ELIZA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE File Number 608157 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?

Hendra is a single-storey brick residence constructed in Interwar Old English style as a country house for the E.B.Coles family in 1938. Designed by the prominent commercial architect, Harry Norris, the house exterior is in the tradition of English country houses, but with Moderne detailing. The house is constructed of rendered brick with a massive, steeply pitched terracotta shingled roof.

How is it significant?

Hendra is architecturally and historically significant to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?

Hendra is architecturally significant as an unusual and accomplished example of interwar architecture in the Old English style with Streamlined Moderne influence and as an unusual example of the work of the prominent Melbourne architect Harry Norris

Hendra is historically significant for its association with the Coles family, whose chain of retail stores became a household word across the nation from the 1920s. Built for Edgar Coles, who was for 23 years the chief executive of the company, the house was designed for comfortable family living and entertaining. Its layout, with staff quarters, swimming pool and large reception rooms, reflects a way of life soon to disappear after World War II.