Havelock Road, Denmark Hill Road and Linton Court Precinct

The flats at 27-33A Havelock Road, 2 and 8 Denmark Hill Road, and 1 and 2 Linton Court, Hawthorn East, are significant. The flats at 27-33A Havelock Road, Hawthorn East are individually significant and are already included in the HO as HO55-HO62. The remainder of the buildings at 2 and 8 Denmark Hill Road and 1 and 2 Linton Court, Hawthorn East are Contributory.  

 

The original front fences at 27-27A, 29-29A, 31-31A and 33-33A Havelock Road, and 2 Denmark Hill Road are significant. The original garages at 27-27A, 29-29A, 31-31A, and 33-33A Havelock Road, 2 and 8 Denmark Hill Road, and 1 and 2 Linton Court are significant. 

The flats are of local historic, aesthetic, and architectural significance to the City of Boroondara. 

The group of eight flat buildings is historically significant for the important evidence it provides of major social and environmental change which occurred in Hawthorn and Hawthorn East from the 1930s. Such change was associated with substantial population expansion between 1911-33, and resulted in a major increase in multi-unit dwellings. Subdivided from the land and grounds of a former Victorian-era mansion (demolished in 1939), the flats were all built in 1940 and are significant as one of the largest precincts of interwar flats in Boroondara. (Criterion A)

 

Aesthetically, the two-storey brick flats are significant as a cohesive group linked by consistency of design, detailing, materiality and form. They all utilise Moderne and International style elements – with Moderne elements only for the flats at 1 and 2 Linton Court, Hawthorn East – expressed in the parapeted structures with curved corner walls and glazing, horizontal banding in contrasting brick tones or expressed brickwork, and a skilful balancing of horizontal planes and decorative elements with vertical features. (Criterion D)

 

The four flat buildings at 27-33A Havelock Road, Hawthorn East are architecturally significant for their innovative approach to two-unit development, utilising Moderne and International style elements. (Criterion E)