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146403

Villa Alba

Mount Royal Hospital Rehabilitation Centre ,  Henry Pride Wing- Royal Women's Hospital

44 Walmer Street, KEW VIC 3101 - Property No B1385

A house containing one of the most complete and elegant decorative schemes of the 1880s, partly obscured but almost all apparently recoverable. This work, done by Patterson Brothers of Melbourne in 1883-4 for William Greenlaw, general manager of the Colonial Bank of Australasia, is characterised by rich and delicate schemes of painting and stencilling, extending even to the dedorated skirtings, and by the absence of wallpaper. The original house, thought to date from before 1863, is ... more

B1385

State
135538

Villa

10 Seaby Street,, STAWELL VIC 3380 - Property No B4923

No 10 Seaby Street, Stawell is a substantial and richly decorated villa constructed in 1890 for the wealthy mine-owner Mary Ellen Hobbs, widow of philanthropist William Hobbs. The exterior of the house presents two fine elevations with brick work enhanced by elaborate window hoods, quoins and a vernadah with paired pillars and encaustic tiles. Inside the house, the conventional disposition of the front formal rooms give way to a substantial rear section which runs transversely. ... more

B4923

Local
68449

Former Ashton Villa

64 Pasco Street, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B1155

5Ashton Villa was erected in 1859 for Customs and Immigration Official George Ashton, with subsequent alterations and additions. The single-storied house has a hipped slate roof with close eaves and coursed bluestone masonry walls. The facade is symmetrically arranged about central doorway with side and top lights; the windows have double vertical mullions and multi-pane windows. It is an early bluestone dwelling notable for of the period, for its role in the townscape ... more

B1155

Local
194239

Rathmines Village- Historic Area

Bounded by Barkers, Burke, Rathmines and Auburn Roads,, HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B7235

The Village of Rathmines was the name given to the subdivision of crown allotment 70 of the Parish of Boroondara in the mid 1850's (now the block bounded by Barkers, Burke, Rathmines and Auburn Roads). It derives its significance from a complex and unique mix of suburban subdivision and housing styles which reveal different phases of the development of the middle-class suburb of Hawthorn. The cluster of houses in the south-western corner reflects the influence of topography and ... more

B7235

Regional
68742

Villa

75 Caroline Street,, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B2515

This small suburban villa was erected prior to 1855. The house is constructed of stucco rendered brick with a timber verandah. French windows and Georgian window sashes are irregularly disposed around a rusticated, arched side entry door.. It is one of the first houses constructed in SouthYarra, possibly before 1851, and is of architectural interest as a surviving example of the conservative Georgian architectural tradition commonly adopted in pre-gold rush Victoria. The ... more

B2515

Regional
 

Bickleigh Vale Village

Cardigan Road, Pembroke Road, Pine Road, MOOROOLBARK VIC 3138 - Property No G13124

Bickleigh Vale, a landscaped estate created by Edna Walling in the 1920s and developed by her and a group of like-minded purchasers to the 1950s, then largely retained within the spirit of its creator, is of state and possible national significance: - as the major work of its creator, the gifted and single-minded landscape designer Edna Walling (1896-1973); Bickleigh Vale was developed around Walling's own residence Sonning and her studio (The Cabin), part of the land was ... more

G13124

State
 

Wollert Village Reserve Boundary Dry Stone Wall

Cooper Street, east of Merri Creek,, EPPING VIC 3076 - Property No B7161

The Wollert Village Reserve boundary dry stone wall is of historical significance at the local level, as a rare feature, which demonstrates the very first stages of European settlement in the Port Phillip District. While it is degraded, it still stands in its original location to mark the boundary of the Wollert Village Reserve and so marks the first step in the appropriation and alienation of Aboriginal land and the establishment of the British and Colonial authority over the Port ... more

B7161

Local
196335

Welsh Mining Village

Chapel Street, GOLDEN POINT VIC 3451 - Property No L10139

L10139

File only
75251

Riversdale Villa

557 Brunswick Street,, FITZROY NORTH VIC 3068 - Property No B3503

A five room brick row house of 1873 with ornamental iron railings and verandah and decorative rendered pediment and chimneys. Front path and verandah floor tiles and internally some plaster ceiling cornices and centre pieces and carved wooden fire-places still intact. Classified: 25/04/1974

B3503

Local
71393

Toorak Village- Historic Area

Toorak Road,, TOORAK VIC 3142 - Property No B7299

In 1854 the State Government leased James Jackson's Toorak House for use as the Governor's residence, and Gardiner's Creek Road (subsequently Toorak Road) was transformed from a rough bush track into a made road. The presence of the Vice-Regal residence attracted wealthy merchants, pastoralists and politicians to the area and a small village gradually developed around Notley's Hotel at the foot of Orrong Hill, to service the mansions and villas of the gentry. This group of modest ... more

B7299

Regional
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