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5 Avondale Road Armadale
Location5 Avondale Road ARMADALE, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
Statement of significance How is it significant? Why is it significant?
What is significant?
The pair of
Italianate villas, 'The Briars' at 3 Avondale Road and the house at 5
Avondale Road, Armadale, both built in 1890. The two houses are
single-storey dwellings with rendered brick walls and an asymmetrical
plan form featuring a canted projecting bay and cast-iron verandah to
the front facade of each.
Also the rendered brick stables at 3
Avondale Road, constructed in 1905, are significant.
The current
front fences and rear extensions of both properties, as well as the
garage of 3 Avondale Road, are not significant.
3 and 5 Avondale Road are of local
architectural and aesthetic significance, while the stables at 3
Avondale Road are of local significance for their associations and rarity.
Architecturally, the two dwellings are fine
and intact representative examples of Victorian Italianate villa
residences built for middle-class residents of Armadale, of the sort
that began to characterise the suburb in the 1880s and 1890s. The two
near-identical villas exhibit typical features of this type including
the asymmetrical plan form of a projecting canted bay to one side of a
cast-iron verandah, ruled render finish, hipped roof clad in slate and
rendered chimneys with decorative cornices. (Criterion
D)
Aesthetically, the two dwellings retain a high level of
ornamentation executed in cast and run cement and other materials.
Decorative elements of note include diaper patterning of the slate
roofing, cast wythes and brackets to the chimney cornices, dog-tooth
mouldings to verandah beams and to a window sill (sill of No. 3,
only), vermiculated quoins and panels, scrolled keystones to window
arches, acanthus leaves to impost blocks, and twisted colonnettes to
window reveals (No. 5, only). (Criterion E)
The stables to the rear
of No. 3 Avondale Road is a very rare and intact example of a
nineteenth century stables complex in Stonnington. It is also of
significance for its association with its owner and builder, James
Wright, who was a prominent Melbourne builder and contractor.
(Criteria B & H)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Villa