Residence

What is Significant?
The building at 14 St George Road, Toorak is a substantial double-storey residence with restrained Mediterranean/Georgian revival character. It was built c1929 to designs by architect A J Ainslie, on an allotment that was created through various subdivisions of the Toorak House 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 high level of external intactness.
- The legibility of the original built form in views from the public realm.
- The front fence.
- The layout of the circular driveway.
- The domestic garden setting - but not the fabric of the garden itself.

How is it significant?
The house at 14 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 notably large, well designed and generally intact interwar residence with a refined Mediterranean/Georgian revival character (Criterion D). It is distinguished from most other examples of this idiom in the municipality by virtue of its impressive scale.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House