MCIVOR

The Federation house known as 'McIvor', 707 Malvern Road, Toorak, a single-storey dwelling built in 1901-02.

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

. The house's original external form, materials and detailing

. The house's high level of integrity to its original design.

Later alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?

'McIvor', 707 Malvern Road, Toorak is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Stonnington.

Why is it significant?

'McIvor', 707 Malvern Road, Toorak is a fine and highly intact example of a Federation house. The house strongly reflects the Federation Queen Anne architectural style popular in the first decade of the twentieth century in Toorak and across Melbourne more broadly. The asymmetrical composition, with complex roof forms and gabled bays, and architectural elements and materials, including tall decorative chimneys, half-timbering with roughcast render and polygonal oriel window, are typical of the style. The use of quality materials and elaborate detailing imparts a sense of grandeur and demonstrates the status of the owner in wealthy established areas such as Toorak in the early twentieth century (Criterion D).

'McIvor', 707 Malvern Road, Toorak is a carefully designed and well-resolved example of a Federation house. The unusual and prominent siting, asymmetrical composition, highly decorative projecting half-timbered gabled bays, oriel window, tiled niche and chimneys present a picturesque composition of this architectural style (Criterion E).

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House