HANDFIELD RESIDENCE

What is significant?
The 1960 house and the surrounding site to a radius of 20 metres.

How is it significant?
The house is historically, architecturally and aesthetically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?
The house is architecturally significant because it was designed by the prominent modernist architect Robin Boyd after he returned from lecturing architectural students in Japan). The house shows the influence of traditional Japanese design in its modular wall arrangements, solid and glazed panels and sliding exterior doors and because the courtyard planning, floor to ceiling glass walls and the combination of single and double storey sections on the steep site illustrate quite advanced dwelling design for the time (Criteria H, F & B). The house is aesthetically significant because it appears to be intact and has remained in the Handfield family (Criteria E & H).

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence