Church House

The residence at 146 Yarrbat Avenue, Balwyn, built in 1921 on the Canterbury Park Estate for Hereward Church, is significant. The front fence is not significant.

How is it significant?

The residence at 146 Yarrbat Avenue, Balwyn, is of local architectural (representative) and associative significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

The residence at 146 Yarrbat Avenue, Balwyn, is a good representative and externally intact example of a substantial 1920s attic-style bungalow, constructed in keeping with the wealth and status of its owner. It is distinguished by its striking flat roofed entrance porch and shed dormer with a Japanese influence, flanked by roughcast rendered chimneys which rise above the roofline and act as a pair of columns. Its use of densely spaced rafters with reverse chamfered ends, roughcast render, face brick detailing and timber shingling is representative of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the 1920s. (Criterion D)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House