Residence

What is Significant?

The building at 22 St Georges Road, Toorak is a double-storey English Domestic Revival style house with a circular conical roofed tower recalling French provincial architecture. It was built in 1937 to designs by noted architect Edward Fielder Billson. The property was created through various subdivisions of the Toorak House mansion estate.

Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include (but are not limited to):

-The original external form, materials and detailing of the building.

-The legibility of the original built form in views from the public realm.

-The generally high integrity of the street elevations.

-The absence of modern garages and carports in views from the public realm.

-The domestic garden setting (but not the fabric of the garden itself)

Modern fabric, including the non-original front windows, does not contribute to the significance of the place.

How is it significant?

The house at 22 St Georges Road, Toorak is of local architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it significant?

The house is architecturally significant as a fine and generally intact example of the French provincial variant of the interwar English Domestic Revival style. (Criterion D). It typifies architect Edward Billson's stylised approach to house design in this mode. The house also provides a good illustration of broader trends towards the simplification of form and detail in 1930s domestic architecture in Melbourne.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House