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Former Melrose

Other Name

Hopetoun Private Hospital

Location

2 - 4 Hopetoun Street,, ELSTERNWICK VIC 3185 - Property No B6243

File Number

B6243

Level

Regional

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B6243 Hopetoun Private

Statement of Significance

Built in 1890 to the design of the prominent architectural firm, Charles Webb & Son, Melrose is architecturally and historically significant at a regional level beause of its association with Charles Webb as a speculator and early land owner in the area, also as one of a small number of known surviving suburban villas designed by Webb. It is an indicator of Webb's approach to outer-urban residential sites.
Melrose is also architecturally notable as a full development of the verandahed Italianate style which was characterized in its earlier British development by the same type of hipped-roof towers seen at Melrose. It is distinctive as one of the early large houses, once set in grounds, in what is now a densely developed suburb, and it possesses notable cast-iron ornament.
Classified: 12/06/1991

Group

Health Services