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Wanbuno

Other Name Wanbuno Location 37 Riversdale Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of C* Grade Buildings

Statement of Significance

Wanbuno, 37 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a fine example of a largely intact and substantial Federation brick attic-storey villa, with an asymmetrical plan, projecting bays and a centrally located recessed porch entrance. The house is also distinguished from many of its local contemporaries, through the comparatively high degree of formal integration of elements, achieved particularly in the continuity of line, integration of porch and bay window transoms, and in the complex roofscape. The house also embodies elements common to highly regarded Ussher and Kemp houses in Boroondara, such as the vertical string-corbelled chimney treatments, stuccoed cornice, basket-arched fenestration, and juxtaposition of canted bays in front of a flat fronted wing behind. The house is also an early example of the central porch and dormer mode in Federation houses, just gathering momentum in this period as a house style in Kew and Camberwell.