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Location209-217 Auburn Road HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
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What is Significant?
Norwood Terrace, at 209-217 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, is significant. It
is a two-storey Italianate terrace row of five two-storey attached
dwellings, built in 1883-84 for owner Emily Morkham and rented to a
variety of tenants. The terraced houses are built of brick, with rendered front facades.
The roof is a continuous transverse gable with parapeted end walls.
Each house has a two-storey front verandah, all of which retain the
original cast-iron detail. The houses retain rendered chimneys with a
cornice to the front wings, some shared between houses some not, as
well as corbelled face-brick chimneys to the lower rear wings. Only
No. 215 retains its original slate roof cladding. The terrace is significant to its 1880s fabric. Later alterations
such as extensions to the rear, the dormers to No. 217, and the high
brick front fences are not significant.
How is it significant?
Norwood Terrace is of local architectural significance and rarity
value to the City of Boroondara.
Why is it significant?
As terraced houses, both rows and semi-detached pairs, are an
uncommon building type in the City of Boroondara and most commonly
seen in the western parts of Hawthorn and Kew, Norwood Terrace is one
of a relatively small number of terrace-type houses in Boroondara, and
one of the most easterly located examples. It is of even greater
rarity as one of a very small number of terraced houses in Boroondara
that were built prior to bylaws that required new attached dwellings
to have party walls that extend above the roofs and front verandahs.
With the change in regulations, the design of Italianate terraced
houses changed, from front facades with exposed eaves to those
finished with parapets. Norwood Terrace is one of a very small number
of the earlier type, with exposed eaves. (Criterion B) Norwood Terrace is a fine representative example of an Italianate
terrace of the type that pre-dates the late 1880s boom. As such, it is
simpler in its decorative detailing and use of render, and retains
exposed bracketed eaves in keeping with Italianate villas of the 1870s
and early 1880s. Other characteristic features of the Victorian
Italianate are the rendered and corniced chimneys, front verandahs
with cast-iron columns, balustrades and combined frieze and brackets,
also six-panelled front doors with fielded panels and bolection
mouldings (and original ruby-flashed lights at Nos. 211 and 215).
(Criterion D)
Residential buildings (private)
Residence