Cranbrook Lodge, comprising the guest house constructed c.1905 and the

associated mature trees and gardens, at 7-13 Westmount Road, Healesville.

Cranbrook Lodge at 7-13 Westmount Road, Healesville, is of local

historical and aesthetic significance.

Of historical significance as one of the best preserved early twentieth

century guesthouses in the Shire of Yarra Ranges. It illustrates the

boom in guest house accommodation following the opening of the railway

to Healesville. RNE criterion A.4

Of aesthetic significance because it is a fairly intact representative

example of a substantial Edwardian weatherboard villa. It is set in

extensive grounds featuring lawns, hedges and mature trees that provide

an appropriate setting. RNE criterion E.1

Cranbrook Lodge (formerly Aberfoyle) is a substantial single-storey Edwardian weatherboard guesthouse with a corrugated iron roof and skillion verandah on two sides set between projecting gabled bays. The main roof is a hipped gable with louvred vents and corbelled red-brick chimneys. The verandahs are supported by turned-timber posts with timber fretwork valances and brackets. The gable ends have half-timbered and roughcast infill and contain timber-framed double hung sash windows with distinctive ripple-iron awnings.

There are a number of skillion roofed additions located to the rear and to either end of the verandah on the north elevation. A small number of original windows have been replaced.

Adjacent to the original guesthouse is a recently completed chapel building which incorporates an earlier hipped gable roofed building.

The building is set in substantial grounds of lawn and mature trees including cypresses. There is a well-maintained privet hedge along the side of one verandah, and some of the pathways are edged in brick