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Durrol Garden

Location

Mount Macedon Road, MOUNT MACEDON VIC 3441 - Property No G13103

File Number

G13103

Level

National

Statement of Significance

Durrol, laid out in the first years of the twentieth century and incorporating an enclosed garden by Edna Walling (1925) for the second garden owner, is of National significance:

- as an integral component of the Mount Macedon area, a precinct of hill station gardens of outstanding cultural significance;

- for the manner in which the garden is skilfully planned, with the residence, elevated on an earthen podium, providing a central pivot in the design which comprises open moss-covered lawns and clumped planting screening enclosed compartments of the garden and service areas;

- as a fine surviving example of a small garden by noted garden designer Edna Walling, incorporating typical elements such as axial planning, stone paving, herbaceous plants and hedged boundaries;

- for the balance between intensively maintained gardens, service areas and open bushland, all forming a complementary relationship as part of the overall design of the property;

- for several outstanding trees listed on the National Trust's Register of Significant Trees of Victoria;

- for the manner in which the garden is complemented by the intact Edwardian residence, its picturesque design befitting the hill station ideal;

- for its retention of early outbuildings which assist in the appreciation of the service functions of a hill station property;

- for its pattern of long ownership (two family ownerships in 90 years) which has contributed to the exceptional intactness of the whole property.

File note 16/07/2018: House destroyed by fire 11/07/2018.

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