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Tahoma

Location

37 Sandown Road ASCOT VALE, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

'Tahoma' at 37 Sandown Road, Ascot Vale, is significant. It was built in 1934-35 by local builder Robert John Shaw for owner Robert Walker.

Significant fabric includes the:

- original building form and roof form and fenestrations;

- glazed terracotta roof ties and unpainted chimney;

- unpainted face brick work and smooth rendered walls including clinker and red brick detailing and tuckpointing;

- eaves details;

- gable ends details including scalloped shingles;

- porch details including piers, arch, brick balustrade and planter boxes;

- bow window with scalloped shingles;

- door and window joinery, leaded glass panes; and

- brick front fence and curved concrete pedestrian path

The garage is not significant.

How is it significant?

'Tahoma' at 37 Sandown Road, Ascot Vale, is of local architectural (representative) significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?

'Tahoma' at 37 Sandown Road, Ascot Vale, is a fine and intact representative example of a late Californian Bungalow with some stylistic influence from neoclassical styles popular at the time. It illustrates characteristic elements of the Californian Bungalow style such as the use of a minor gable to house the front porch, the use of bold brick piers and arch framing the entry, and the contrasting materials, particularly the shingles to the front gable and above the bow window. The stylised Adamesque leadlight windows and the hipped roof and expressed brick quoining show influence from the Georgian Revival style which was popular in the 1930s. (Criterion D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House