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1293 Toorak Road

Location 1293 Toorak Road CAMBERWELL, BOROONDARA CITY Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Review of B Graded Buildings

Statement of Significance

The house at 1293 Toorak Road is of local historical and architectural significance as a fine, representative and externally intact example of a villa from the late phases of the Federation period. While relatively conservative for its construction date, the building exemplifies the central aspects of Federation composition: return verandah, major event at the verandah turn, anchorage of the verandah at either end with projecting wings that imply an L-shaped armature or spine of rooms and more sold massing, with the corner behind the verandah dissolving into a fabric of robust turned woodwork, filtering the sun.