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Wright House

Location

84 Kangaroo Ground - Warrandyte Road NORTH WARRANDYTE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010

What is significant?
The 1964 house and the surrounding site to the title boundaries.

How is it significant?
The house is architecturally significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?
The house is architecturally significant because it is a notable example of Australian modernist domestic architecture and one of six houses in the Warrandyte-Eltham area designed by Robin Boyd between the 1940s and the 1960s (Criteria B, D, F & H). It is also significant as a notable example of Australian Modernist domestic architecture. The house is set on two levels and featured exposed oregon beams and bagged and painted surfaces evoking the Eltham mud-brick era (Criterion F).

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House