Yarraby

What is Significant?
Yarraby at 66 Heyington Place is a single-storey interwar Georgian revival house designed in 1923 by noted architect Frederick Hawkins as his own residence.

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

-The original external form, materials and detailing.
-The virtually intact state of the exterior.
-The legibility of the original form in views from the public realm.
-The domestic garden setting (but not the fabric of the garden).
-The absence of modern vehicle accommodation in views from Heyington Place.

How is it significant?
Yarraby, 66 Heyington Place, Toorak is of local architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it significant?
The house is architecturally significant as distinctive and virtually intact example of an interwar Georgian Revival house with American Colonial overtones (Criterion E). It is also notable as a relatively early example of the idiom, predating the widespread adoption of the Georgian modes in the 1930s.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Villa