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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 10 Agnew Street, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1887

Architect: Unknown Builder: George Reeve

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1887, George Reeve, a builder, constructed three seven-room brick dwellings on the east side of Agnew Street between Ferguson and Cluden Streets. The house now known as No. 10 Agnew Street was the southernmost of these three.1 The Sands and McDougall Victorian Directory for 1890 reveals that the house was vacant at that time. By 1893, the house was occupied by Henry Tree, and was again vacant the following year.2 Mrs Sarah Tatham was living there in 1900.

Description The house at 10 Agnew Street is a double-fronted asymmetrical Victorian rendered brick villa with a hipped roof that has been reclad in terracotta tiles. The projecting room has a canted bay with narrow window openings that have stop-chamfered jambs and heads, and contain timber-framed double-hung sashes. The verandah, which had been partly reconstructed to form a carport, has a shallow bullnose corrugated iron roof supported on iron columns with Corinthian capitals. Under the verandah is a wide window with a double-hung sash.

Comparative Examples Eloc, 52 Bay Street, Brighton Elrona, 11 Murphy Street, Brighton Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton Esmerelda, 32 Park Street, Brighton Aldgour, 192 Church Street, Brighton 1 Seymour Grove, Brighton Former Watchhouse, 743 Hampton Street, Brighton Weeroona, 17 South Road, Brighton South Leigh, 907 Hampton Street, Brighton Winmarleigh, 20 Were Street, Brighton Normanby, 11 Manor Street, Brighton South Lodge, 43 Were Street, Brighton Wangararu, 23 Marriage Road, East Brighton Euloura, 130 Were Street, Brighton 59 Milroy Street, East Brighton Mia Mia, 22 William Street, Brighton Roslyn, 61 Milroy Street, East Brighton Florence Court, 26 William Street, Brighton Heim Ruke, 63 Milroy Street, East Brighton

Significance The house at 10 Agnew Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is a typical asymmetrical late Victorian villa of which there are many in Brighton. Although somewhat altered, it contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of housing in Agnew Street, and thus demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

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1 Rate Book 1887. 2 Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory. 1893, 1894.

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Building: Haverstock Significance: B

Address: 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1887

Architect: Unknown Builder: George Reeve

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1887, George Reeve, a builder, constructed three seven-room brick dwellings on the east side of Agnew Street between Ferguson and Cluden Streets. The house now known as No. 12 Agnew Street was the middle of these three.1 In 1889 this property was owned by the Modern Permanent Building Society and leased to Charles Bennett, an artist.2 The Building Society continued ownership in 1900. However by 1905, George Bisetti, a draper, owned and occupied the property, then known as Haverstock.3

Description Haverstock is an asymmetrical Italianate brick villa with a hipped roof. There is a projecting bay at one end of the main facade with a canted bay window. The bullnose verandah is supported on iron columns with a cast iron lacework frieze between. Beneath the verandah is a timber-framed double- hung sash window with narrow sidelights. The brickwork has been painted, and the original roof cladding (probably slate) has been replaced by modern tiles.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Haverstock, at 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton, is of historical significance. It is a typical asymmetrical late Victorian villa of which there are many in Brighton. Although somewhat altered, it contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of housing in Agnew Street, and thus demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1887. 2 Rate Book 1889. 3 Rate Books 1900, 1905.

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Building: St Leonards Significance: B

Address: 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1886

Architect: Unknown Builder: George Reeve

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1886, George Reeve, a builder, constructed a four-room brick dwelling on the east side of Agnew Street, between Ferguson Street, and Cluden Streets. Mary Tamar leased the property, purchasing it in 1887.1 In 1889 the property was owned and occupied by Mary Ann Douglas. By this time the property may have been extended as it is listed as having seven rooms,2 In 1904, Mary Douglas, a widow continued as owner/occupant of the property then known as St Leonards.3

Description St Leonards is a single-storey symmetrical Italianate brick villa with a hipped slate roof. The brickwork was originally bichromatic, with quoining at the edges, but it has since been painted. The verandah has a convex corrugated iron roof and is supported on iron columns with cast iron lacework frieze between. The centrally-placed front door is flanked by canted bay windows with timber-framed double-hung sashes.

Comparative Examples 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton Myrtle Bank, 153 New Street, Brighton Benarty, 40 Bay Street, Brighton Westella, 356 New Street, Brighton 441 Bay Street, Brighton 101 South Road, Brighton Lauriston, 457 Bay Street, Brighton Clonaig, 230 North Road, East Brighton Gisland, 13 Black Street, Brighton Stonehaven, 12 Thomas Avenue, Moorabbin Carolside, 60 Halifax Street, Brighton Woodcliffe, 87 Well Street, Brighton 9 Gordon Street, Hampton Stanton, 3 Wellington Street, Brighton 11 Hoyt Street, Hampton

Significance St Leonards, at 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton, is of historic significance and aesthetic interest. It is a typical symmetrical Italianate villa of which there are many remaining examples in Brighton. Although somewhat altered, it contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of housing in Agnew Street, and thus demonstrates an important phase of residential development in the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1886, 1887. 2 Rate Book 1889. 3 Rate Book 1908.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 30 Agnew Street, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1884

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History In 1884, Henry Pimm, a surveyor, built a six-room weatherboard dwelling on the east side of Agnew Street, between Ferguson Street and Point Nepean Road. Pimm continued as owner/occupant in 18911 In 1900, the Australian Deposit and Mortgage Bank owned the property, renting it to Rosannah Veith in 1900, and Alfred Holt in 1904.2

Description The house at 30 Agnew Street is a symmetrical Victorian timber cottage with a distinctive roof form comprising two transverse gabled corrugated iron roofs, penetrated by painted brick chimneys, with a box gutter between. The twin gable ends have plain bargeboards and rectangular louvered vents. The street front has a verandah with a skillion corrugated iron roof supported on iron columns, with a cast iron lacework frieze in front of the central entrance. The front door, which has narrow sidelights and rectangular fanlight, is flanked by windows containing paired timber-framed casement sashes.

Significance The house at 30 Agnew Street, East Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. In many respects it is a typical simple Victorian timber cottage, but its distinctive roof form is extremely unusual in the municipality. Although altered, it contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of housing in Agnew Street, and thus demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1884, 1891. 2 Rate Book 1900, 1905.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1884

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The rate books for the house now known as No. 45 Agnew Street are unclear. In 1882 James Fleming, an engineer, had built a timber house on the west side of Agnew Street between Ferguson Street and Point Nepean Road. In 1884, he was identified as the owner of four 5-room timber dwellings at this location.1 Fleming still owned No. 45 in 1891 having leased it to several tenants.2 By 1906, the Trustees of the Burnley Estate owned the property, and the house was vacant. 3

Description The house at 45 Agnew Street is a single-storey, double-fronted symmetrical Italianate weatherboard villa, with a hipped roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel with timber bracketed eaves. The verandah is supported on timber posts and has a concave profiled roof, cast iron lacework and a timber floor. The front door is not original. The house is concealed behind a high, non-original timber picket fence.

Comparative Examples St Leonards, 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton Myrtle Bank, 153 New Street, Brighton Benarty, 40 Bay Street, Brighton Westella, 356 New Street, Brighton 441 Bay Street, Brighton 101 South Road, Brighton Lauriston, 457 Bay Street, Brighton Clonaig, 230 North Road, East Brighton Gisland, 13 Black Street, Brighton Stonehaven, 12 Thomas Avenue, Moorabbin Carolside, 60 Halifax Street, Brighton Woodcliffe, 87 Well Street, Brighton 9 Gordon Street, Hampton Stanton, 3 Wellington Street, Brighton 11 Hoyt Street, Hampton

Significance The house at 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. The house is a typical example of a weatherboard Italianate villa, retaining a number of original decorative features including eaves brackets and cast iron verandah lacework. It contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of housing in Agnew Street, and thus demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book: no entry under Agnew Street 1883. 2 Rate Book 1884-1891. 3 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Colonsay Significance: B

Address: 23 Albert Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1909

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1905, Sir Thomas Bent owned vacant land on the east side of Albert Street, which measured 500’ by 159’. This was later subdivided into residential allotments with 50’ frontages, probably after Bent’s death in 1909. By 1910, a six-room timber house, valued at £36, had been erected on a 50’ by 139’ allotment on the east side of Albert Street. The rate book for that year identifies the occupant as Charles Brown, a teacher, although no owner’s name was listed. Brown was still living there in 1914, when the owner was revealed as Elizabeth Davidson, a married woman. At that time, the house was known as Colonsay, and was addressed as No. 23 Albert Street. Mrs Davidson remained the owner until at least 1930, leasing the house to a number of tenants. These included Charles Wynn Allison, a civil engineer (by 1920), Charles Riley, gentleman (by 1925) and Frank Moore, a clerk (by 1930).1

Description Colonsay is a single-storey asymmetrical Edwardian weatherboard and roughcast house. The irregular roof is variously hipped and gabled, and clad in terracotta tiles. It is penetrated by particularly high red brick chimneys with brick ribbing and corbelled caps. The front elevation has a rectangular bay window beneath a half-timbered and roughcast gable end. It has a distinctive row of small square windows. Alterations include the addition of cast iron lacework to the verandah, and the addition of a carport (with sympathetic gable end detailing) adjoining the entrance porch.

Comparative Examples Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton 176 New Street, Brighton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance Colonsay, at 23 Albert Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of an asymmetrical Edwardian house, particularly notable for its prominent chimneys and front bay detail.

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1 Rate Books 1920, 1925, 1930.

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Building: French House Significance: A

Address: 22 Alfred Street, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 G4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1973

Architect: John Baird, with Cuthbert & Builder: R & P Gregory Pty Ltd Partners

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Leonard French house was built by architect John Baird, in conjunction with Cuthbert & Partners, as French’s residence and studio in 1973. It was built by R & P Gregory Pty Ltd.1 Norman Day described the house in his book, Modern Homes Melbourne (1976), as a large one-off house ... which had peculiar problems to solve ... The house is enormous with the addition (over a normal large house) of a studio, painting room, spray deck and library. A central gallery on both levels splits the zones into sections. The first level opens into the lower levels at various points to further increase the volume of the building. Lighting in the daytime is essentially from skylights above rather than ordinary windows (views over the site are restricted).2 The French House won the Royal Australian Institute of Architects bronze medal award for House of the Year in 1973.3 Leonard French, best known for his stained glass ceiling in the Great Hall of the National Gallery of Victoria, was born in 1928 in Brunswick. He studied at the Melbourne Technical College, before embarking on almost a decade of independent study in Europe and Great Britain. He returned to Melbourne in 1951 and the following year exhibited for the first time. Much of his work was of a large scale, from his first mural in a Brunswick church, at 19 years of age, to the Great Hall ceiling. He completed stained glass works for Monash University (1971); La Trobe University (1978); Haileybury College, Keysborough (1987-88); and St James the Less Anglican Church, Mt Eliza (1988-89). His work is represented at galleries including all the Australian State galleries; the University of Western Australia; Ballarat Gallery; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Hamilton Art Centre, Canada.4

Description The French House is a detached double-storey residence constructed of concrete block, originally unpainted but now painted green. The house is divided into two sections; the principal living rooms, located at the front of the site, and the studio and bedroom section, at the rear. The two parts are connected by a long narrow gallery, creating two courtyards on either side. A high concrete block wall encloses the front garden, forming another courtyard. The skillion roofs are clad in steel decking, and their angled forms are echoed in raking wing walls.

Comparative Examples Coakley House, 4 The Avenue, Hampton

Significance The French House, at 22 Alfred Street, Beaumaris, is of outstanding aesthetic and historic significance. It was designed as a house and studio for the important twentieth century artist, Leonard French, best known for his stained glass ceiling in the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria. The house, one of many post-War architect-designed buildings constructed in Beaumaris, is substantially intact and is a good example of contemporary residential design of the 1970s. The house is important as the winner of the RAIA Bronze Medal for 1973 House of the Year.

Source Royal Australian Institute of Architects

1 N Day, Modern Houses Melbourne, Melbourne 1976, pp. 152-53. 2 N Day, Modern Houses Melbourne, pp. 152-53. 3 Royal Australian Institute of Architects. 4 A & S McCulloch, The Encyclopaedia of Australian Art, St Leonards (NSW) 1964 (1994), p. 270.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 2 Allee Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Unknown Builder: William Ellis

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History William Willis, builder, owned four 44’ x 170’ lots on the north side of Allee Street, on which he had built houses by 1891.1 No. 2, a seven-room brick dwelling, was rented to a councillor, John W. Allee. By 1895, Mary Kennedy had purchased the property. In 1906, it was in the hands of the executors of the late Mary Kennedy and was let to Roger Leech, an agent.2

Description The house at 2 Allee Street is an asymmetrical Victorian brick villa with hipped and patterned slate roof, supported on brackets at the eaves line. The verandah, which appears to be a modern reconstruction, has a convex roof supported on square timber posts. The projecting bay has two narrow windows with distinctive pointed-arched heads.

Comparative Examples Kainga, 4 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Ronbaix, 55 Black Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Dunottar, 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Toxteth, 66 Champion Street, Brighton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Engadine, 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Bulow, 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 2 Allee Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of an asymmetrical late nineteenth century brick villa. Together with the three adjacent villas at Nos. 4, 6 and 8, it forms a group of buildings which demonstrate an important phase in the residential settlement of Allee Street, one of the earliest streets in Brighton but which remained largely undeveloped until the 1880s.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1891. 2 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Kainga Significance: B

Address: 4 Allee Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D10, E10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Unknown Builder: William Ellis

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History William Ellis, builder, constructed a seven-room brick dwelling in 1891 on one of four 44’ x 170’ lots he owned in Allee Street.1 In the same year, Ellis rented the house to an architect, Robert Gordon. By 1895, the property was owned by Mary Kennedy who resided there. In 1906, the estate was in the hands of the executors of the late Mary Kennedy and William Lingham, a railway employee rented it. In 1906, the property was known as Kainga.2

Description Kainga is an asymmetrical late Victorian bichromatic brick villa with a hipped roof supported on bracketed eaves. The original roof cladding, probably slate, has been replaced by terracotta tiles. There is a cast iron posted verandah with a convex roof and an iron lacework frieze. Windows are timber framed double-hung sashes.

Comparative Examples 2 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Ronbaix, 55 Black Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Dunottar, 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Toxteth, 66 Champion Street, Brighton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Engadine, 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Bulow, 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance Kainga, at 4 Allee Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of an asymmetrical late nineteenth century brick villa. Together with the three adjacent villas at Nos. 2, 6 and 8, it forms a group of buildings which demonstrate an important phase in the residential settlement of Allee Street, one of the earliest streets in Brighton but which remained largely undeveloped until the 1880s.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1891. 2 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Beltana Significance: B

Address: 6 Allee Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D10, E10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Unknown Builder: William Ellis

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891 builder, William Ellis, constructed a seven-room brick dwelling on this site.1 By 1895, the property had passed to John McBean who rented it to Caroline Rigg, a widow. By 1906, Beltana was owned by Myra Burrows, a married woman, who resided there.2 Beltana is the name of the former South Australian camel centre and township brought into the public eye by the opening of the railway in 1881.

Description Beltana is a late Victorian double-fronted symmetrical bichromatic brick villa with a hipped slate supported on brackets at the eaves line. It has a verandah with a convex roof and cast iron lacework frieze. The centrally-placed front door is flanked by pairs of timber-framed double-hung windows.

Comparative Examples Hazelwood, 15-19 Barnett Street, Brighton Hazelhurst, 59 Halifax Street, Brighton 400 Bay Street, Brighton Colombo, 417 New Street, Brighton Coggeshall, 92 Beach Road, Hampton Lumeah, 85 Outer Crescent, Brighton 9 Black Street, Brighton Thanet Cottage, 2 Southey Street, Brighton Grutle, 57 Halifax Street, Brighton Toiyabe, 42 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Beltana at 6 Allee Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a late nineteenth century brick villa. Together with the three adjacent villas at Nos. 2, 4 and 8, it forms a group of buildings which demonstrate an important phase in the residential settlement of Allee Street, one of the earliest streets in Brighton but which remained largely undeveloped until the 1880s. It is the only symmetrical villa in the street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1891. 2 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Inverness Significance: B

Address: 8 Allee Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D10, E10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Unknown Builder: William Ellis

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891, William Ellis owned this and three adjoining allotments, all 44’ x 170’ on which he built seven-room brick dwellings.1 No. 8 and No. 6 were owned by John McBean by 1895. Both properties were rented, No. 8 being occupied by the musician, Richard Ohiff.2 By 1906 Inverness was owned by William Wortley who resided there.3

Description Inverness is an asymmetrical double-fronted Victorian brick villa with a hipped slate roof supported on brackets at the eaves line. It has a canted bay window containing narrow timber-framed double- hung sashes. There is a verandah with a convex roof and timber posts, which appears to have been rebuilt.

Comparative Examples Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Inverness, at 8 Allee Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of an asymmetrical late nineteenth century brick villa. Together with the three adjacent villas at Nos. 2, 4 and 6, it forms a group of buildings which demonstrate an important phase in the residential settlement of Allee Street, one of the earliest streets in Brighton but which remained largely undeveloped until the 1880s.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1891. 2 Rate Book 1895. 3 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Stott Hall Significance: B

Address: Allee Street (corner New Melway Map Ref: 67 D10 Street), Brighton

Building Type: Hall Construction Date: 1854, 1892, 1915

Architect: Charles Webb, Builder: Unknown Oakden & Kemp

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Stott Hall forms part of the Wesleyan (now Uniting) Church complex on the corner of New and Allee Streets. The church itself, addressed as 278 New Street, was built in 1854, making it one of Melbourne’s earliest surviving churches (see separate datasheet). The design of the church is attributed to Charles and/or James Webb, notable Melbourne architects who lived and worked in Brighton. In 1892, it was proposed to make additions to the church, and to build a new Sunday School hall at the rear of the site, fronting Allee Street. The architectural firm of Oakden & Kemp were appointed to undertake the work. In January 1893, it was reported that ‘the additions to the church have not been commenced, but the schoolroom is completed.’1 Minor additions were made to the Sunday School Hall in 1915 by Oakden & Ballantyne, the descendant firm of the original architects. Early the following year, a substantial but temporary timber structure, designed by architect G B Leith, was erected inside the hall in connection with the Sunday School Anniversary celebrations.

Description Stott Hall is a gable roofed timber building with pairs of narrow lancet arched windows set high along the nave walls, and having timber drip moulds above. The projecting entrance porch has a gable end containing distinctive carved timber ornament in imitation of gothic tracery.

Significance Stott Hall, in Allee Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. As part of the Wesleyan (now Uniting) Church complex, it has strong associations with one of the oldest congregations in Melbourne. The building itself is a good and intact example of a nineteenth century church hall, with some distinctive Gothic detailing. It is also of interest as a minor example of the work of distinguished ecclesiastical architects Oakden & Kemp.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Correspondence in Public Building File No. 4388, VPRS 7885/P1. Public Record Office, Laverton.

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Building: Cluden Significance: B

Address: 4 Archer Court, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 J11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1871

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1870 Thomas Wilson owned land on the Arthur’s Seat Road. In 1871, he built a two-room brick house on the 35 acres of land. In 1872 the house had been extended to seven rooms and the land subdivided into two 17.5 acre blocks.1 In 1873 Wilson sold to John Ferguson, a merchant who remained there in 1891. In 1891 the house is listed as having fourteen rooms and as being on 2 acres of land in Cluden Street. Ferguson also owned an adjacent 14 acres of land.2 By 1896 the properties had passed to Mary Ferguson, a widow, who continued as owner/occupant in 1905 when the house was known as "Cluden".3

Description Cluden is a substantial double-storey, Italianate, rendered brick house with a three-storey tower and balustraded parapet, arcaded double-storey verandah with balustrading and fluted Corinthian order cast iron column supports to three centred arches over. A double-storey bayed section forms the third element of the main facade which has unusual garland ornamentation.

Comparative Examples Parana, 7 Bagley Street, Brighton Wyuna, 35-37 Black Street, Brighton Ratho, 29 Heithfield Road, East Brighton Landcox, 1-7 Mavis Avenue, East Brighton Gallia, 65 South Road, Brighton St Leonards, 163 South Road, Brighton Chevy Chase, 203 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Cluden, at 4 Archer Court, East Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It is a good and substantially intact example of a large Italianate mansion, and has some unusual detailing. The house has associations with Thomas Wilson, a former Mayor of Brighton and local property developer.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1870-1872 2 Rate Books 1873, 1891 3 Rate Books 1896-1906

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 25 Arkaringa Crescent, Black Melway Map Ref: 86 A3 Rock

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1895

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History 25 Arkaringa Crescent is located with Crown Portion 28, purchased by Jason Murphy in the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. It was built c.1895 on the north side of Arkaringa Crescent. In 1900, there was no Arkaringa Crescent listed in the Sands & McDougall directory. By c.1900, the sole occupant in the street was a Mrs Wastell. The only other buildings were two churches: the Church of England and the Congregational Church. The house at 25 Arkaringa Crescent was probably that occupied by Mrs Wastell. By c.1910, the Crescent was being developed, with four vacant, presumably new, buildings.1

Description The house at 25 Arkaringa Crescent is a single-fronted timber residence with a hipped corrugated iron roof. The front elevation is block-fronted, and has a tripartite arrangement of double-hung sash windows and a four-panelled entrance door with a highlight. The verandah is supported on timber posts with moulded timber capitals, and has a cast iron frieze and brackets and a convex profile corrugated iron roof. The eaves have paired timber brackets, with decorative timber panels between.

Comparative Examples Hobart, 5 Emily Street, Brighton 15 & 17 Lynch Street, Brighton 17 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham 26 Nepean Avenue, Moorabbin 25 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham 4 Sims Street, Sandringham 27 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham Barossa, 21 William Street, Brighton 5 Gordon Street, Hampton 15 Wright Street, Brighton Cornhill, 7 Lawrence Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 25 Arkaringa Crescent, Black Rock, is of aesthetic and historical significance. The house is one of a small number of surviving nineteenth century residences in Black Rock, demonstrating an early and important phase of residential settlement in the area. As an example of a block-fronted cottage, it is rare in the suburb, although common enough elsewhere.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory , various.

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Building: Glamis Significance: B

Address: 12 Arthur Avenue, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 F2

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1935

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History By the early 1920s, Arthur Hinkley, an agent, had acquired a large tract of vacant land with a 220’ frontage to Were Street, between Whyte and Hanby Streets. In 1923, he subdivided this land into 31 allotments.1 There were nine narrow lots fronting Whyte Street, obviously intended for commercial development, and a further 22 residential lots which were clustered around the oddly-shaped street which Hinkley named after himself. In 1925, all the of vacant lots of land in Arthur Avenue were still owned by Hinkley.2 By 1930, however, others had begun to purchase them. Mrs Caroline Evans, a widow who lived in Kew, acquired Lots 22 to 26, which comprised the area around the cul-de-sac at the northern tip of Hinkley’s estate.3 The oddly-shaped Lot 26 was the most prominent site in the entire subdivision, having a curved street frontage that projected out into Arthur Avenue. Rate books for Brighton in the 1930s are not available, and a new system of individual rate cards was introduced in late 1937. The rate card for No. 12 Arthur Avenue (Lot 26) indicates that a five-room brick house had been erected by December 1937, with a Net Annual Value of £64. At that time it was occupied by Raymond Hancock, an insurance clerk.4 The rate card also indicates that he remained as owner and occupant until at least 1946.

Description Glamis is a single-storey asymmetrical clinker brick villa in the English Domestic Revival style. The broad gabled roof is clad in glazed terracotta tiles, with brick corbels at the eaves line. The most distinctive element is the cylindrical entry porch, which is rendered and topped by a conical roof clad in terracotta pantiles. There are soldier courses of brickwork over the window heads and across the gable ends. The windows contain narrow timber-framed double-hung sashes. The matching clinker brick front fence is original.

Significance Glamis, at 12 Arthur Avenue, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a particularly picturesque example of a villa in the English Domestic Revival style, notable for its unusual circular porch and broad gabled roof. These qualities are enhanced by its prominent siting on an unusually-shaped allotment with a curved frontage.

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1 Lodged Plan No. 10106, declared 26 January 1923. Land and Survey Information Centre. 2 Rate Book 1925. 3 Rate Book 1930. 4 Rate Card, 12 Arthur Avenue, Brighton.

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Building: Higham Grange Significance: B

Address: 18 Asling Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1902

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1901, the east side of Asling Street, between Bay and Allard Streets on which number 18 is built, was vacant land with 158' (52.5 m) frontage. It was in the hands of the Executors of the late Thomas Moubray.1 In 1902 the property was divided into two blocks and sold, the northern most 73' x 185' (24 x 61.5m) being purchased by Catherine Ray, a married woman. In that year she built Higham Grange: a seven-room brick dwelling, occupied by James Ray, a gentleman.2 Ownership and occupancy remained unchanged in 1905.3

Description Higham Grange is a large asymmetrically composed red brick Queen Anne style villa. The roof, clad in slate with terracotta cresting and finials, is irregular in form and comprises a main hipped portion with subsidiary gables over projecting bays. The roof encloses a verandah with turned timber posts and fretwork frieze. The projecting bays have half-timbered gable ends with roughcast infill, and distinctive round arched windows with rendered dressings. At the rear of the house is a double-storey addition. Chimneys are tall red brick stacks, with corbelled brick cappings surmounted by terracotta pots.

Comparative Examples Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance Higham Grange, at 18 Asling Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a good and substantially intact Queen Anne style house displaying characteristic features such as red brickwork, picturesque composition, tall chimneys and half-timbered gables.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1902. 2 Rate Book 1903. 3 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Leylands Significance: B

Address: 38 Asling Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1888

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1888 Thomas Turnor, gentleman, built two six-room brick dwellings, now Nos. 38 and 40 Asling Street, on land acquired from George Whitney, tobacconist, in that year.1 Turnor was in residence there, in 1892, but by 1900, the Victorian Permanent Building Society owned the property which was rented to James Ray, gentleman.2 The property continued to be owned by the Victorian Permanent Building Society into the twentieth century, and was occupied by a succession of tenants. These included James Hodges, a bank clerk, in 1905, then Francis Augers, a traveller, by 1910 and then Gerard Kohn by 1917.3 At that time, the house was known as Leylands, and was addressed as No. 38 Asling Street.

Description Leylands is a double-storey, nineteenth century Italianate style residence. The house has a terrace form, with a double-storey verandah and balcony with cast iron columns, lacework and balustrading. A canted bay projects on the facade, with double-hung sash windows with segmented arched heads. The entrance door has narrow sidelights and a highlight. The corrugated iron roof is hipped with bracketed eaves, and chimneys are of red brick with corbelled brick cappings.

Comparative Examples Lara, 40 Asling Street, Brighton Bayview, 20 Huntley Street, Brighton Beaupre & Laurista, 22 & 24 Halifax Street, Brighton Tatloch, 160 The Esplanade, Brighton

Significance Leylands, at 38 Asling Street is of aesthetic significance. The form of the house, a double-storey terrace, is very unusual in the municipality. The house is also a good and substantially intact example of the nineteenth century boom style, featuring ornate render and cast iron decoration. It forms with a visual unit with the similar but altered No. 40, and contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of the Asling Street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books. 2 Rate Book 1900. 3 Rate Book 1905, 1910, 1917.

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Building: Lara Significance: B

Address: 40 Asling Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1888, c.1934

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1888 Thomas Turnor, gentleman, built two six-room brick dwellings, now Nos. 38 and 40 Asling Street, on land acquired from George Whitney, tobacconist, in that year.1 The house at No. 40 is first listed in the Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory in 1889, as ‘vacant’. The following year, the occupant was identified as Joseph Gee, who was still there in 1891. From 1892 until the end of the decade, the house was occupied by Henry B Nicholas. He was followed by a number of short-term occupants, firstly Edward Moorehouse (1900 to 1901) and then Alfred Morey (1902 to 1905).2 Mrs Elizabeth Terry lived in the house from 1906 until 1922.3 It was then taken over by Henry Misson, who lived there until 1933. The house was listed as ‘vacant’ in 1934, and as ‘flats’ from 1935.4 The present masonry facade dates from that time.

Description Lara is a double-storey, nineteenth century residence with later alterations. The house has a terrace form with a projecting canted bay and double-hung sash windows with segmented arched heads. The facade of the house was remodelled in the inter-War period in an Arts and Crafts style. The alterations including the replacement of the original cast iron verandah with a rendered masonry verandah with a large segmented arched opening, and the replacement of the original roofing material with terracotta tiles. Chimneys are surmounted by terracotta pots.

Comparative Examples Leylands, 38 Asling Street, Brighton Bayview, 20 Huntley Street, Brighton Beaupre & Laurista, 22 & 24 Halifax Street, Brighton Tatloch, 160 The Esplanade, Brighton

Significance Lara, at 40 Asling Street, Brighton is of aesthetic significance. The form of the house, a double-storey terrace, is very unusual in the municipality. Although altered during the inter-War period, the house forms a visual unit with the adjacent No. 38, and contributes to the overall nineteenth century character of the Asling Street.

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1 Rate Books. 2 Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory. various. 3 Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory. 1906 to 1920. 4 Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory. 1933, 1934, 1935.

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Building: Fletcher House Significance: B

Address: 8 Avonbury Court, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1967

Architect: Robin Boyd Builder: Norman D Fletcher

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Fletcher House was designed by influential twentieth century architect Robin Boyd in 1965, and was built two years later by the owner, Norman D Fletcher.1 Robin Boyd designed the Fletcher House while in partnership with Frederick Romberg, an association which lasted from 1962 to 1971. According to Philip Goad, the Fletcher House was an example of the ‘collected shed roof house’, which Goad describes as ‘illustrat[ing] the house as conceived as an agglomeration of discrete forms ... where prismatic boxes of single function were butted together to form unselfconsciously picturesque compositions.’2

Description The Fletcher House is one of a number of shed-roof type houses designed by Boyd. The house occupies a corner site, at the intersection of Avonbury Court and St Kilda Street. Constructed of brick, the asymmetrically planned house is divided into three sections, each containing a separate function (living/dining wing, bedroom wing and guest wing)3, and each having a skillion roof with exposed rafter ends. A carport connects two of the sections facing St Kilda Street, but is now concealed behind a high brick fence.

Significance The Fletcher House at 8 Avonbury Court, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is one of several mid-twentieth century architect-designed buildings in the municipality, reflecting contemporary design of the period. The house is an important late work of notable architect and critic, Robin Boyd; a notable feature is its courtyard planning and the division of functions within separate skillion-roofed, shed-like wings.

Source Transition, No. 38 (Special Issue: Robin Boyd), Melbourne, 1992.

1 Transition, No. 38 (Special Issue: Robin Boyd), Melbourne, 1992, p. 229; and R Boyd, Living in Australia, Rushcutters Bay (NSW) 1970, p. 154. 2 P Goad, ‘Robin Boyd and the design of the House 1959-1971. New Eclecticism: Ethic and Aesthetic’, Transition, No. 38, p. 178. 3 P Goad, ‘Robin Boyd and the Design of the House 1959-1971’, p. 169.

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Building: Parana Significance: B

Address: 7 Bagley Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 E2

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1878

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1877 Andrew Agnew owned about twelve acres of land on the east side of New Street. The following year, Agnew, an importer, built a nine-room brick dwelling, a good distance back from the road. Agnew continued in residence in 1884.1 In 1885 Charles Lush, a squatter, purchased the property. Owner/occupier changed again by 1888 when John Howden, a manager, purchased it.2 By 1896 Harold Kent, a civil servant, occupied the house which was on just one acre of land. The owner was not listed. In 1905 Herbert Heron, a bank manager, occupied the house which at that time was known as Parana. The owner was again not listed.3

Description Parana is a substantial single-storey rendered brick Italianate residence with asymmetrical form and projecting south facing wing. The slate roof is hipped and the eaves are bracketed. There is a prominent three-storey tower with balustraded parapet. The cast iron posted verandah has a concave roof and extends across two elevations.

Comparative Examples Cluden, 4 Archer Court, East Brighton Wyuna, 35-37 Black Street, Brighton Ratho, 29 Heithfield Road, East Brighton Landcox, 1-7 Mavis Avenue, East Brighton Gallia, 65 South Road, Brighton St Leonards, 163 South Road, Brighton Chevy Chase, 203 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Parana, at 7 Bagley Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact, large Victorian Italianate residence with a prominent balustraded tower.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1887, 1878, 1884. 2 Rate Book 1885, 1888. 3 Rate Book 1896, 1906.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 215 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 87 A6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1900

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History James Bickford Moysey and Nicholas Moysey obtained a government lease for their run ‘Beaumaris’ in the 1843, comprising around 3,200 acres (1,320 hectares). This run took up most of the land not leased by the Kings and Alexander McDonald and encompassed the areas now known as Black Rock (to the Nepean Highway), Mentone, west of Warrigal Road, and Beaumaris.1 After Port Phillip was severed from New South Wales, Moysey’s lease on his run Beaumaris was terminated and the land was divided into 100 acre (40 hectares) allotments for the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. 215 Balcombe Road is within Crown Portion 49D, purchased by R C Luscombe. James Moysey purchased Crown Portion 49B. In c.1890, there was one person, Edward Cullaine, listed as living on the south side of Balcombe Road. Between 1900 and 1910, there was one person, Matthew Wood Green, between Wells and Cromer Roads, so the house now known as 215 Balcombe Road may have been his. In c.1920, Mrs Sarah Green and a poultry farmer, F W Seal, were listed as residing between Wells and Cromer Roads.2

Description The house at 215 Balcombe Road is a small weatherboard transitional Victorian/Edwardian cottage, with a hipped and gabled corrugated iron roof. Victorian elements include the paired timber eaves brackets and tripartite double-hung sash windows, whilst the bullnose-profiled verandah, carved timber posts, frieze and brackets are Edwardian elements. The projecting gabled section has carved bargeboards and a turned timber finial. Chimneys are of red brick, with corbelled brick caps.

Comparative Examples Addieville, 6 Grant Street, East Brighton Langi, 37 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham Homebush, 59 Carpenter Street, Brighton Omeath Villa, 664 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton Jesmond, 17 Georgiana Street, Sandringham 97 Park Road, Cheltenham 6 Grant Street, East Brighton

Significance The house at 215 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic and historical significance. The house is a substantially intact and decorative example the transitional Victorian/Edwardian style; of particular note are the carved bargeboards and timber bullnose profiled verandah. The form of the house—an asymmetrical weatherboard cottage—although common elsewhere, is now rare in Beaumaris, and thus it demonstrates a particular phase of settlement and housing typology in the area.

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1 Andrew Ward & Assoc, City of Sandringham Heritage and Conservation Study, p. 19. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory , various.

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Building: Godsell House Significance: B

Address: 491 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 A4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1960

Architect: David Godsell Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Sands & McDougall Directory for 1960 indicates that there was a ‘house being built’ on the north side of Balcombe Road, between Nos. 471 and 495. This house, which later became No. 491, was designed by architect David Godsell (1930-1986) as his own residence.1 Born in Portsmouth, England, Godsell studied architecture at the University of Melbourne, completing the Atelier course in 1956. He then worked in the offices of noted local architects, including Marcus Martin and Guildford Bell, before commencing his own private practice.2 The house shows the influence of the early work of the important American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). The influence of the so-called Prairie School style, of which Wright was the most noted exponent, had infiltrated Australia as early as 1912, when Wright’s colleague, Walter Burley Griffin, arrived in this country. There was a renewed interest in Wright’s work in the years prior to, and immediately after, his death in 1959. David Godsell was only one of many young Australian architects of the late 1950s and early 1960s who found inspiration in Wright’s work. The house was one of several residences designed by architects in Beaumaris in the 1950s and 60s. According to architect Robin Boyd, the suburb contained “the highest concentration of first class modern domestic architecture in Australia.”3

Description The house at 491 Balcombe Road is a double-storey brick residence, one of a several in Beaumaris designed by architect David Godsell. The house, situated on an elevated site on the south side of Balcombe Road, is an asymmetrical composition of cubic forms and rectangular planes. Windows are timber-framed and have timber awnings, and a similar cantilevered awning projects over the front garage, between brick piers. One of the brick piers has an unusual decorative brick finial.

Comparative Examples 3 Linacre Road, Sandringham

Significance The Godsell House at 491 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is an interesting example of early 1960s architecture, characterised by the use of brown brickwork and cubic forms recalling the work of the important American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. It is also important as an example of the work of the late David Godsell, particularly as it was designed as the architect’s own house.

Source Homebuilders’ Handbook

1 Homebuilders’ Handbook, p. 53. 2 ‘David Godsell’, Architects Registration Board of Victoria file, VPRS 8838/P2, Public Records Office Victoria. 3 The Age, 24 August 1949, quoted from Robin Boyd in the Victorian Architectural Students’ paper Smudges.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 495 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 B4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1930

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History 495 Balcombe Road is within Crown Portion 31, purchased by James Atkinson in the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. The house at 495 Balcombe Road was built c.1930; it is on the south side of Balcombe Road between Haydens Road and Keating Street. In c.1930 there was one house, a holiday house, between Haydens Road and Keating Street. In c.1940, there were two houses; in c.1950 there were five houses (one being built) and a children’s home; in c.1960 there were ten houses and the RSSAILA rooms.1

Description The house at 495 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, is a large, double-storey inter-War Moderne style residence, situated on an elevated site. The house displays typical features of the Moderne style, such as asymmetrical cubic massing, steel-framed corner windows, flat roof and curved corners. Horizontality is emphasised by yellow brick banding between rendered wall surfaces. A metal ladder provides access to a roof terrace. The mature exotic garden appears to be contemporary with the house.

Significance The house at 495 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is an impressive example of the inter-War Moderne style, enhanced by its scale, elevated siting and mature garden setting.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory , various.

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Building: St Joseph’s Catholic Primary Significance: B School (School No. 1292) Address: 544 Balcombe Road, Black Melway Map Ref: 86 A4 Rock

Building Type: School Construction Date: 1928

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is located with Crown Portion 33, purchased by Josiah Morris Holloway in the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. In the early 1900s, Black Rock was still largely undeveloped. The local Catholic community had no church of their own, and were forced to travel to either Mentone or Sandringham to attend services. From 1924, Sunday Mass was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Murphy in Black Rock, led by Father Mangan. In 1927, Father Mangan decided that Black Rock needed its own Catholic church, and plans proceeded quickly. A new brick building in Balcombe Street was completed in 1928, intended for use as both a church and a school. The first classes were held from the beginning of the 1929 school year. After thirty years, the congregation had outgrown the small building, and a new church was built on the adjacent site. The original building continued to operate as a school.1

Description St Joseph’s School is single-storey red brick building with a gabled terracotta tiled roof. A central pedimented porch is attached to the elevation facing Balcombe Road, adorned with cement rendered Tuscan engaged columns. The adjacent walls are articulated by simple red brick buttresses between which are banks of multi-paned double-hung sashes, with bottom-hung lower sashes. Sills and heads are rendered. The gable ends have corbelled parapets, and there is a semi-octagonal apse at the east side. This is a significant element, as it is the only remaining external evidence that the building once functioned as a church.

Significance St Joseph’s Primary School, Black Rock, is of aesthetic and historical significance. Its continued operation as a parish school is also of interest. The building is a prominent element in the streetscape; of note is the unusual combination of a prominent classical porch with Gothic-style buttresses and corbelling. As the first Catholic church in Black Rock, it demonstrates the development of organised religious activity in the area.

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1 ‘History of St Joseph’s.’ Typescript provided by St Joseph’s Primary School.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 571 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 B4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1950

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History 571 Balcombe Road is within Crown Portion 29, purchased by F G Dalgetty in the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. By 1930, there were eleven houses on the south side of Balcombe Road between Central Avenue and Ebden Avenue, as well as one holiday house and the premises of the Black Rock Timber Company. By 1940, a block of flats were listed in addition to the above. The house at 571 Balcombe Road was built c.1950 on the south side of Balcombe Road between Central Avenue and Ebden Avenue. At that time, directories listed 15 houses, an ironmonger, a joinery and a block of flats.1

Description The house at 571 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, is a single-storey residence designed in the Waterfall style of the 1950s. Asymmetrically planned, the house has rendered walls with contrasting manganese brickwork used for the plinth, string course, chimney and window sills and heads, and a glazed terracotta tiled hipped roof with boxed eaves. The house has curved corners, curved steel- framed windows and rendered chimneys with curved brick cappings. The corner entrance canopy is also curved, supported by decorative wrought iron posts. The front fence is of matching manganese brickwork, and has a decorative wrought iron gate.

Comparative Examples 1 Clonmult Avenue, Highett 725 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton 666 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton 64 Union Street, East Brighton

Significance The house at 571 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a distinctive example of the Waterfall style popular in the post-War period. Of note is the decorative use of wrought ironwork, contrasting manganese brickwork, and the Waterfall style elements such as the curved steel-framed windows and curved entrance canopy.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory , various.

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Building: Sandringham Primary School Significance: B

Address: Bamfield Street, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76H8

Building Type: School Construction Date: 1885, 1982

Architect: Additions: Clarke Hopkins & Builder: Additions: Robert E Clarke Charles Constructions

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Sandringham Primary School is located within Gipsy Village, encompassing Crown Portions 71-88, bounded by Bamfield Street, Henry Street and Susan Street, in the south-east corner. The school originates from the Gipsy Village Church of England School which opened in 1855 with an enrolment of 20 students. In 1883 the stability of the building was questioned but, after inspection, was reported to be safe except under pressure of high winds. After a series of disputes concerning the building’s safety between the school board and the Education Department, the land was purchased in 1885. A brick building was erected at a cost of £525 but was found to have been built on the adjoining block of land which the Department then also purchased. The school became known as the Sandringham Primary School in 1890. Between 1906 and 1938 more land was purchased. A number of open-air pavilions were erected in 1912 (demolished), the first of their kind in the state, a response to the movement that fresh air was beneficial to the health. By 1923 the school had been declared unsanitary and an extensive upgrade was undertaken, at a cost of £9,950. The growing number of students were housed in portable classrooms until Sandringham became eligible for new buildings in 1980. The designs submitted by the Public Works Department (PWD) were considered unsuitable by the school, which was granted permission to find its own architect as long as the price came in under the PWD estimate. An invitation was issued to architect Les Clarke, of Clarke Hopkins & Clarke, to visit the school. Clarke believed his firm could design a building which accommodated the schools needs while remaining under the $800,000 budget. The design, which had to be sympathetic with the existing buildings, featured the grouping of facilities which could be used by the local community such as the multi-purpose room, library, art/craft room. This was a relatively new feature in school design in Victoria. Robert E Charles Constructions submitted a tender price of $690,000 and the buildings was erected for a total cost of $750,000.1 The school won a merit award in the Buildings Category of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Awards in 1982.

Description The Sandringham Primary School is a single-storey, red brick, Queen Anne style building, asymmetrically composed with a series of gabled terracotta tiled roofs, tall red brick chimneys and multi-paned double-hung sash windows with multi-paned highlights. The gable ends are half- timbered with roughcast render and have timber bracketed eaves. The walls of the northern section are articulated by a number of cream brick string courses. A smaller, weatherboard building exists to the west of the site, and has gabled roofs clad in corrugated iron with metal roof vents, and multi- paned double-hung sash windows with highlights. The single-storey 1982 extension, to the west of the original building, is designed in a contextual manner, having red brick walls and hipped and gabled terracotta tiled roofs.

Significance The Sandringham Primary School is of historical and aesthetic significance. The school has served the local community for over a century, occupying the site continuously since 1885. Architecturally, the Queen Anne style building is a typical example of Public Works Department school design of the late nineteenth century, and is a prominent element in the Gipsy Village area. The extension is of interest for its sympathetic contextual design, which won an RAIA award in 1982.

Source Royal Australian Institute of Architects

1 All information for this history has been taken from: Sandringham Primary School, '"Once Upon a School ..." Gipsy Village to Sandy Primary', 1995, passim.

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Building: Alpha Significance: B

Address: 23 Bamfield Street, Melway Map Ref: 76 G8 Sandringham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1921-22

Architect: W T Sunderland Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1921 Charles Peeler, a contractor, owned lot 59, a site of 100 x 140 feet, on the north-east corner of Bamfield and Susan Streets. In the same year, Peeler subdivided the land into two housing blocks and sold the corner site (70 x 100 feet) to W T Sunderland who commenced building a seven room concrete house for himself. The property was completed in 1922.1 William Thomas Sunderland was born in Castlemaine in 1880. His father was a builder, and he worked with him for ten years before commencing his own business of ‘designing and erecting on my own account around the Castlemaine district.’2 His work included the local Anglican vicarage as well as several houses in reinforced concrete. Sunderland also served as Borough Engineer in Castlemaine prior to being appointed City Engineer in Sandringham. He patented the later popular cement penetration method of road construction and was responsible for other concrete structures in the municipality including the grandstand at Picnic Point and the rotunda at Melrose Street. In addition to his municipal duties, he designed several buildings in the area ‘in an honorary capacity’, which included this house for himself in Bamfield Street.

Description Alpha is an austere house revealing the influence of the so-called Prairie School style of American architecture, chiefly introduced to Australia by Walter Burley Griffin. The house is an asymmetrical composition of cubic forms, with roughcast rendered walls and a projecting rectangular porch supported on square rendered columns. Windows are rectangular double-hung with leadlighted upper sashes. A deep projecting concrete cornice runs around the house, providing a horizontal emphasis, and the roof is concealed behind a parapet. The first floor is set back, and also has a projecting cornice. A stepped rendered wall separates the garage and driveway from the house. The house has been converted to flats.

Comparative Examples House, 49 Victoria Street, Sandringham

Significance Alpha, at 23 Bamfield Street, Sandringham is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is stylistically innovative for its time and compares with the work of J F W Ballantyne (e.g. Dixon house, Malvern, 1924), one of Walter Burley Griffin’s articled students. It predates the well-known work of the modernists, drawing on Central European sources during the 1930s, and is important in this respect. The house is also important as one of the few private commissions of W T Sunderland, who acted as City Engineer for Sandringham during the 1920s.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1921-1923. 2 ‘William Thomas Sunderland’. Architects’ Registration Board of Victoria file, VPRS 8838/P2, Public Records Office Victoria.

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Building: Tallandoon Significance: B

Address: 36 Bamfield Street, Melway Map Ref: 76 H9 Sandringham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1904

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The land on which 36 Bamfield Street stands was originally released in 1852 as part of the Gipsy Village subdivision. By 1903, vacant land on the south side of Bamfield Street, between Beaumont Street and Grange Road, had been acquired by Thomas Holiday, a jeweller. His allotment was designated as Lot 7, and had a 50’ frontage to Bamfield Street. In 1904, Holliday erected a five-room wood house for his own residence. He was still owner and occupant in 1909. By 1915, the house had been purchased by Charles Purdie, and was then known as Tallandoon.1

Description Tallandoon is a symmetrical Victorian Survival timber villa with a block-fronted street facade. It has a hipped slate roof, penetrated by a single red brick chimney, and supported at the eaves line on paired timber brackets. The return verandah has a corrugated iron skillion roof, supported on timber posts with chamfer-stops and timber brackets. The street front has two pairs of double-hung timber- framed sash windows, and the front door is located in the side elevation.

Comparative Examples Cascaes, 28 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Veronique, 49 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Warringah, 24 Georgiana Street, Sandringham 12 Nepean Avenue, Moorabbin

Significance Tallandoon, at 36 Bamfield Street, Sandringham, is of historical significance. It is one of the earliest surviving houses remaining within the Gipsy Village subdivision, and thus demonstrates an early and important phase of residential settlement in the area. As a house displaying Victorian Survival characteristics, it contrasts with the mature Edwardian dwellings built only a few years later elsewhere in the street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1904, 1905, 1910, 1916. Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory 1904, 1905.

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Building: Buxton Significance: B

Address: 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Melway Map Ref: 76 H8 Sandringham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1908

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1909, Edgar Bower bought vacant land on the south side of Bamfield Street, between Beaumont Street and Grange Road. His land was designated as Lot 11, and had a 50’ frontage to Bamfield Street. In 1910, he erected a five room timber house for his residence in 1910. Bower, a jeweller, continued as owner/occupier in 1916, at which time the property was known as Buxton.1

Description Buxton is a small, single fronted single storey weatherboard Edwardian house, with a gabled roof recently reclad in corrugated galvanised steel. The gable end facing the street is half timbered and roughcast rendered. Adjoining the house, and connected to it by a recent glazed conservatory style link, is No. 56: an asymmetrical double fronted Edwardian weatherboard house. The hipped roof has also been recently re-clad. The return verandah has a bullnose profile, and is supported by turned timber posts. The front fence is not original.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton 176 New Street, Brighton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance Buxton and its neighbour, at 54 and 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham, are of aesthetic and historical significance. They form a reasonably intact pair of Edwardian timber villas with detailing typical of the period. They demonstrate an important phase of early residential settlement in an area which was otherwise not developed extensively until the post-War period.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1910, 1911, 1917.

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Building: Hazelwood Significance: B

Address: 15-19 Barnett Street, Hampton Melway Map Ref: 76 K5

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1888-89

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1888, a vast tract of land on the south side of South Road was subdivided as the Hazelwood Estate, and three new streets, named Ivy, Myrtle and Olive, were created to provide access to 100 new blocks of land. All of these blocks had standard small frontages except for Lot 56, which ran between Ivy and Myrtle (now Barnett) streets with frontages of 180’ at each end. By 1889, Claude Porter built an eight-room brick house on Lot 56. Porter resided there for several years, and in 1893 purchased nearby Lots 51 and 55 as well. By 1917, Porter had also acquired Lots 76 to 79. At that time, the house was occupied by John and Ray Porter, presumably relatives of Claude, who were identified as dairymen.1

Description Hazelwood is a substantial Victorian polychromatic brick villa with a hipped slate roof penetrated by a pair of brick chimneys with rendered caps. The principal elevation is symmetrical, with a wide doorway flanked by large windows which extend down to floor level. All three openings have splayed reveals and flat arched heads in contrasting cream brick.

Comparative Examples Beltana, 6 Allee Street, Brighton Hazelhurst, 59 Halifax Street, Brighton 400 Bay Street, Brighton Colombo, 417 New Street, Brighton Coggeshall, 92 Beach Road, Hampton Lumeah, 85 Outer Crescent, Brighton 9 Black Street, Brighton Thanet Cottage, 2 Southey Street, Brighton Grutle, 57 Halifax Street, Brighton Toiyabe, 42 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Hazelwood at 15-19 Barnett Street, Hampton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is a rare polychromatic brick villa in Sandringham, and is associated with the early history of the Hazelwood Estate which predates the subsequent subdivision of this part of Hampton by approximately three decades.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1888, 1889, 1893, 1917. Plan of subdivision Crown Allotment 16.

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Building: All Souls Memorial Church Significance: B

Address: Bay Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 G10

Building Type: Church Construction Date: 1921

Architect: North and Williams Builder: C Peeler (engineer: W T Sunderland)

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Church of England first proposed to erect a permanent church building in Sandringham in 1903, and the present site on Bay Road was purchased in the following year. Prior to this, church services had been conducted in a timber church erected in 1888 in Queen’s Square in the Gipsy Village, a site which had been donated to the Church of England by Mr John Matthew Smith. Owing to the development of the township of Sandringham further south, however, it was decided to purchase another site. The Queen’s Square building was subsequently relocated to the new site and extended, and the first service was held in the building on 17 October 1904 by Rev E C Spicer. A vicarage was built in 1911 at a cost of about £1,150.1 An appeal to raise funds for a new church commenced in 1914 and in 1919, following the delay caused by the outbreak of World War I, architect A North of North and Williams was engaged to the design the building. The tenders received for the proposed brick church were double the original estimate, and it was decided to construct the building from reinforced concrete, apparently the first use of this technique for a church building in Australia.2 The consulting engineer for the structure was city engineer of the former City of Sandringham, W T Sunderland, who pioneered the use of concrete for roads and designed a number of concrete buildings in the suburb,3 and was also a churchwarden of All Souls. The church was consecrated on 10 December 1921. The old timber building was sold for removal in 1976.4

Description The All Souls Memorial Church is situated on the south side of Bay Road, adjacent to the Sandringham shopping centre. Constructed of reinforced concrete the building is in a simplified Gothic Revival Style and has rendered walls and steeply pitched gabled roofs with exposed rafter ends. A tower, square in plan and with corner buttresses, is located at the north-west corner of the building. Windows are small with simple, perpendicular style tracery; those on the east gable end have pointed arches. Early photographs of the church show the tower with louvered openings and a castellated parapeted roof; these have since been removed and the tower presently has a gabled roof. Other alterations include the replacement of the original roofing material and the addition of a porch at the base of the tower.

Significance The All Souls Memorial Church on Bay Road, Sandringham, is of historical and technological significance. The building, constructed in 1919 to replace an earlier building, is apparently the first church in Australia to have been constructed of reinforced concrete. The engineer, W T Sunderland was the city engineer of the former City of Sandringham and a pioneer of the use of reinforced concrete for roads. Historically, the Anglican Church has continuously occupied this site and served the local community since 1904.

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1 O Wilson, All Souls’ Memorial Church Sandringham Historical Sketch, 1922, passim. Copies held by the Sandringham Historical Society. 2 All Souls Memorial Church, 1981, p. 32. 3 G Disney, pers. comm., September 1998. 4 All Souls Memorial Church, 1981, p. 32.

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Building: Cleavemont Significance: B

Address: 57 Bay Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1904

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1904 Job Cleaves built a six room house in Bay Road, north side, between Fernhill Road and Nelson Street. John Best was tenant.1 Cleaves, a gentleman, continued as owner in 1916. John Hardbordt was occupant at this time, and the property was known as Cleavemont.2

Description Cleavemont is a single-storey villa constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof. The entrance elevation is approximately symmetrical, with two semi-octagonal bay windows with double-hung sashes flanking the central entrance door. The return cast iron verandah has turned timber posts and a bullnose profiled roof clad with corrugated galvanised steel. Chimney stacks are rendered, with moulded cappings. The house has a high non-original brick fence.

Comparative Examples 42A Black Street, Brighton Andover, 165 Church Street, Brighton 28 Cromer Road, Beaumaris Kotska Hall, 47 South Road, Brighton Rathgar, 24 Tennyson Street, Brighton Lochiel, 80 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Cleavemont, at 57 Bay Road, Sandringham, is of aesthetic significance. The house is an unusual and late example of an Italianate villa, distinctive for its symmetrical composition and ornate cast iron lacework verandah.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First entry Rate Book and Sands & McDougall Directory. 2 Rate Books 1904, 1905, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directory 1904, 1905.

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Building: Waverley Significance: B

Address: 63 Bay Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1897

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History In 1897 Hannah McNeil built a house on lots 56, 57 and 58 Bay Road on the north east corner of Nelson Street for use as her residence.1 By 1901 the property was known as Waverley and was described as brick with ten rooms. McNeil leased the property to John Gibbons.2

Description Waverley is a transitional Victorian/Edwardian single-storey villa. The house is of red brick construction, now painted white, and displays both late nineteenth and early twentieth century elements. The roof is hipped and slated, with timber bracketed eaves and terracotta ridge cappings. The gable facing Bay Road is in the Queen Anne Style, with a terracotta finial and shingled gabled end, whilst the canted bay window has double-hung sashes typical of the Victorian period. Chimneys are brick with moulded brick cappings. The original return verandah was replaced in the inter-War period, and has a corrugated iron roof supported by squat roughcast rendered piers.

Comparative Examples 52 Black Street, Brighton West Craig, 75 Champion Street, Brighton Mount Pleasant, 73 Champion Street, Brighton Corra Lynn, 28 Elwood Street, Brighton Ingleside, 845 Hampton Street, Brighton Glynn, 42 New Street, Brighton

Significance Waverley, at 63 Bay Road, Sandringham, is of aesthetic significance. Substantially intact, the house is a distinctive example of the transitional Victorian/Edwardian style, combining Italianate and Queen Anne style characteristics.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First entry Rate Book and Sands & McDougall Directory 2 Rate Books 1897, 1901, 1906, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directory 1896-1900.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 1 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 B8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1930

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Brighton rate books for the 1930s are not available, and were superseded in late 1937 by a new system of individual rate cards. The rate card for No. 1 Bay Street indicates that a nine room brick house had been erected on Lot 5 and part of Lot 4 by December 1937, when it was valued at £350. It was owned and occupied by Harry Visbord, an investor. The rate cards note that he died in July 1939, and the house was thereafter owned and occupied by his widow, Mrs Marie Visbord. She was still living there in 1945.1

Description The house at 1 Bay Street, Brighton, is a large, double-storey inter-War house in the Spanish Mission style. Walls are of rendered brick with timber-framed windows, some set in slightly recessed arches. The front porch piers and chimneys are decorated with Cordoba tiles. The hipped roof is clad in terracotta tiles. The front fence may be original; it is sympathetic in style to the house.

Comparative Examples 17 North Road, Brighton 5 Birdwood Avenue, Brighton Okataina Flats, 33 Chelsea Street, Brighton 135 Park Road, Cheltenham

Significance The house at 1 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a simple, refined example of a substantial inter-War house incorporating Spanish Mission and Classical Revival elements.

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1 Rate Card, No. 1 Bay Street, Brighton.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 6 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1938

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1929 the Brighton City Council owned the land on the south side of Bay Street, between St Ninians Road and the beach. In February 1938, part of Lot 3 was acquired from the Council by Weigall and Co. The vacant land measured 76’ by 86’ and was valued at £45. When the property was rated in December 1938, a six room brick house had been erected, valued at £150. It was owned and occupied by Ivy Earle, who was still living there in 1945.1

Description The house at 6 Bay Street is a large double-storey clinker brick residence in the English Domestic Revival style. The house has steeply pitched gabled and hipped roofs, diamond pattern leadlighted casement windows, Tudoresque half-timbering to the upper level, tapestry brickwork details to the gable ends and a Tudor arch to the front porch. The random rubble stone chimney contributes to the picturesque composition of the house The front fence and garage are not original

Comparative Examples Culverkeys, 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham 188 Church Street, Brighton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton The Gables, 7 Brandon Road, Brighton

Significance The house at 6 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial and interesting example of the English Domestic Revival style. Largely intact, it displays a range of features characteristic of the style.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Card, No. 6 Bay Street, Brighton.

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Building: Bangalore Significance: B

Address: 19 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1924

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1923 Richard Tyas, a secretary, owned a block of vacant land, measuring 87’ x 153’, on the north side of Bay Street, between St Ninian’s Road and St Kilda Street. The following year, a brick house was built there, owned and occupied by Lilian Gidney, a married woman.1.

Description Bangalore is a substantial double-storey red brick house in the California Bungalow style with a distinct South Asian influence. The gabled terracotta tile roof is supported on curved timber brackets at the eaves line, and the gable ends are infilled with shingles. At the centre of the main facade is a rendered projecting porch over both levels. Windows are in groups of double-hung sashes and contain leadlighted glazing in a lozenge pattern. Some have rendered window boxes below. The substantial front fence consists of a balustrade of squat red brick piers, some capped with rendered pyramid ornament. At the driveway entrance and main gate, the brick piers rise even higher and have timber-framed superstructures that form distinctive pergolas.

Comparative Examples 42 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance Bangalore, at 19 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial Californian Bungalow style residence featuring distinctive South Asian cultural influences in its design, notably in the main gable, and front fence design, pergolas and portico.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1924, 1925.

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Building: Eldern Flats Significance: B

Address: 31-35 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C8

Building Type: Flats Construction Date: 1928

Architect: F K (Keith) Cheetham Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Eldern Flats were designed in 1928 by F K Cheetham for the owner, Rance Kirby.1 The design utilised an existing villa, projecting a double-storey addition along the Bay Street frontage. Australian Home Beautiful noted on its completion that Eldern Flats avoided ‘the tiny rooms, cramped halls, passages and stairways, which were all, characteristics of the earlier flat building’, achieving ‘a sense of space and roominess’. The flats features were noted: cross ventilation and large built-in cupboards—real cupboards that will take a coat hanger.’ The double-storey addition featured an enclosed courtyard with ‘lawns, flowers and arcaded balconies’.2

Description Eldern is a single- and double-storey block of flats designed in the Classical Revival style popular during the inter-War period. The multiple dwellings contained within the building are concealed by the formal treatment of the facade. The building is rendered and has a hipped terracotta tiled roof with shallow eaves. The double-storey entrance elevation is approximately symmetrical; the earlier single-storey house is located to the north. Multi-paned casement windows, embellished with rendered architraves, moulded sills and keystones, flank the entrance door. First floor windows have wrought iron balustrades. Rusticated pilasters rise through both storeys, and a pediment with low relief rendered decoration marks the entrance. Chimneys are red brick, with projecting brick cappings. The front garden is enclosed by a high fence that is not original.

Significance Eldern, at 31-35 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The building is a good example of the inter-War Classical Revival style. Of note is the restrained use of rendered decoration and wrought iron work. As one of a small number of inter-War flats in Brighton, the building demonstrates a housing typology that is unusual in the area.

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1 Terry Sawyer, ‘Residential Flats in Melbourne: The Development of a Building Type to 1950’, Research Report, 5th Year Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1982, p. 103; and Australian Home Beautiful, 1 April 1929, p. 13. 2 Australian Home Beautiful, 1 April 1929, pp. 12-18.

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Building: Benarty Significance: B

Address: 40 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: Pre 1861

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History 40 Bay Street was built prior to 1861 at which time Arthur Smale was owner/occupant. Smale a solicitor, continued in residence until 1866 when the house was described as iron and wood.1 In 1867 Richard Saunders, a gentleman became owner/occupant and in 1870 Lyon Christie, a draper, purchased the seven-room house on one acre of land.2 The following year Samuel Hogg, an auctioneer, became owner/occupant, remaining there until 1875. In 1876 Robert Grieve, a merchant purchased the property for his residence. Grieve continued as owner/occupant in 1905 at which time it was known as Benarty.

Description Benarty is a large single-storey rendered house on an L-shaped plan, enveloped by a shallow hipped slate roof that is penetrated by numerous rendered chimneys. A wide skillion verandah extends along the principal facade and is supported on paired iron columns. The centrally-placed front door is flanked by very large timber-framed double-hung sash windows.

Comparative Examples St Leonards, 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton Myrtle Bank, 153 New Street, Brighton 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton Westella, 356 New Street, Brighton 441 Bay Street, Brighton 101 South Road, Brighton Lauriston, 457 Bay Street, Brighton Clonaig, 230 North Road, East Brighton Gisland, 13 Black Street, Brighton Stonehaven, 12 Thomas Avenue, Moorabbin Carolside, 60 Halifax Street, Brighton Woodcliffe, 87 Well Street, Brighton 9 Gordon Street, Hampton Stanton, 3 Wellington Street, Brighton 11 Hoyt Street, Hampton

Significance Benarty, at 40 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historical significance. It predates the earliest Brighton rate book of 1861, and thus represents the earliest phase of residential settlement in the area. The house possibly retains elements of its original ‘iron and wood’ construction.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1861, 1866. 2 Rate Book 1867, 1870.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 42 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1916

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1909 Catherine Clarke, a widow, owned Holmwood, a thirteen-room brick dwelling on one acre, and three acres of land adjoining the western boundary, situated in Bay Street south side between New and St Kilda Streets. In 1914 Maxwell McGrath purchased 132’ x 200’ of land from the Executors of the late Catherine Clarke. The land was subdivided in 1915 into two blocks, each about 60’ x 200’; the land nearer St Kilda Street being sold to Bertha Dudfield, a married woman. In 1916 Mrs Dudfield built an eight-room brick dwelling which was occupied by Reginald Dudfield, a warehouseman.1.

Description The house at 42 Bay Street is a substantial double-storey red brick villa in the English Arts and Crafts manner. It has a prominent gabled roof, clad in terracotta tiles, with shingles in the apex of the gable ends. The rendered chimneys are tapered, and have terracotta chimney pots. A shingled and bracketed hood protects the north facing bay windows whilst a flat roofed entrance porch with scalloped rafter ends is carried on rough cast pillars with timber balustrading.

Comparative Examples Bangalore, 19 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 42 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantial and intact example of a house showing the influence of the English Arts and Craft tradition.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1909, 1915, 1916, 1917.

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Building: Ballara Significance: B

Address: 47 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1912

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The land on the north side of Bay Street between Selwyn and St Kilda Streets, was vacant by 1910. The rate book of that year indicates that this land comprised Lots 44 to 52 (with a combined size of 120’ by 153’) and Lots 53 to 57 (measuring 188’ by 462’).1 At that time, the land was owned by the Executors of the late Thomas Bent. A prominent figure in Brighton’s history, Bent had died in September 1909. By 1914, a ten-room brick house known as Ballara had been erected on the north-west corner of Bay and Selwyn Streets. The site, which measured 184’ by 255’, was addressed as 47 Bay Street.2 The house was valued at £190, and was owned and occupied by Francis Eastwood, a medical practitioner. Soon after the property was rated in February of that year, the house was acquired by George Nathan, an importer, whose name is pencilled above Eastwood’s in the rate book. By 1917, Nathan had acquired the adjacent vacant lot, thus increasing his Bay Street frontage to 264’. Nathan, described as a warehouseman, was still the occupant in 1925 with Frances Nathan, presumably his wife, as the actual owner. At that time, the huge property was valued at £253.3 Description Ballara is a large asymmetrical double-storey Edwardian rendered brick villa with a gabled terracotta tile roof. A canted bay at the west end of the Bay Street elevation is topped by a half-timbered rough cast gable supported by paired columns. A secondary gable projects from the eastern end of this facade, while an upper storey (possibly dating from the inter-War period) topped by a minor half- timbered gable projects from the roof. The infill to the balcony rail and vertical linings under the main gable are scalloped weatherboards. The entry is on the Selwyn Street side, covered by a gabled porte- cochere supported by paired columns. A brick garage, outbuilding and carport with corrugated iron roof at the rear of the property on the Selwyn Street side are of early date. The garden is well established. Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton Significance Ballara, at 47 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historic interest. The house is a fine example of a late Edwardian house, with some bold detailing and a particularly interesting gabled wing to the front. Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1910. Andrew Ward’s datasheet suggests that the house was built pre-1881 with twentieth century additions. Further rate book research suggests that this house had been demolished prior to 1910 and the present Edwardian-style house built by 1914. 2 Rate Book 1914. 3 Rate Book 1925.

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Building: Nyora Significance: B

Address: 49 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1880

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Thomas Albury, whose bakery was located on Bay Street, had purchased the vacant lot on which Nyora stands, by 1879. He built his eight-room residence there in 1880, and by 1883 had built a pair of attached dwellings immediately to the east. He died there in the late 1890s, and by 1906 Joseph Albury, gentleman, owned Nyora, and Frederick Cheshire, a chemist, lived there.

Description Nyora is an asymmetrical bichromatic brick nineteenth century villa with a hipped slate roof supported on cream brick brackets at the eaves line. There is a canted bay window at one end of the main facade, containing narrow double-hung sash windows. The verandah has a convex roof supported on iron columns, with a cast iron lacework frieze.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Nyora, at 49 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a Victorian bichromatic brick villa, and it demonstrates an important phase in the residential development of the area. Its association with a local Bay Street baker, Thomas Albury, is also of interest.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Eloc Significance: B

Address: 52 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1881?

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History By 1861, a timber house had been erected on this site by John Tout, a local builder who had also erected the Devonshire Hotel. The house was occupied by a succession of tenants until 1873, when it was purchased by an accountant, James Cole.1. In 1881, Cole’s house was described as being of brick and weatherboard, and in 1886 as being just of brick. This suggests that the original timber house had been substantially remodelled, or more likely completely rebuilt, during this time. The brick house continued to be owned by members of the Cole family: in 1896, Caroline Cole was listed as the owner, with one James Henry Cole, clergyman, as occupant.2 Caroline Cole was still the owner in 1905, but the house was occupied by Ernest Bryant. At that time, the property was known as Eloc,3 which was the owner’s surname spelt backwards.

Description Set back from the street on a large block, Eloc is a substantial asymmetrical Victorian brick villa with a canted bay window at one end of the main facade. The hipped slate roof is supported on timber brackets at the eaves line and is penetrated by rendered chimneys with moulded caps. A skillion verandah extends around two sides of the building, supported on timber posts with a particularly ornate cast iron lacework frieze. The verandah floor is timber, and is reached by a short flight of bluestone steps. A later addition is the small square nook projecting from the western end of the verandah, surmounted by a tall pyramidal slate roof.

Comparative Examples 10 Agnew Street, East Brighton Elrona, 11 Murphy Street, Brighton Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton Esmerelda, 32 Park Street, Brighton Aldgour, 192 Church Street, Brighton 1 Seymour Grove, Brighton Former Watchhouse, 743 Hampton Street, Brighton Weeroona, 17 South Road, Brighton South Leigh, 907 Hampton Street, Brighton Winmarleigh, 20 Were Street, Brighton Normanby, 11 Manor Street, Brighton South Lodge, 43 Were Street, Brighton Wangararu, 23 Marriage Road, East Brighton Euloura, 130 Were Street, Brighton 59 Milroy Street, East Brighton Mia Mia, 22 William Street, Brighton Roslyn, 61 Milroy Street, East Brighton Florence Court, 26 William Street, Brighton Heim Ruke, 63 Milroy Street, East Brighton

Significance Eloc, at 52 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a large Victorian brick villa, which still occupies a large block. It demonstrates an important phase in the residential development of the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1868-1874. 2 Rate Books 1881, 1886, 1896, 1900. 3 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Kantara Significance: B

Address: 54 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre 1861

Architect: Unknown Builder: John Tout ?

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History There was a house on this site by 1861. The rate books for that year indicate that there were three adjacent properties in Bay Street, all owned by John Tout, a local builder. In 1861, No. 52 can be identified but it is difficult to determine which was No. 54. The following year, No. 54 is clearly identifiable as being owned by Tout and occupied by a George Barnes.1. Rate books for 1866 identify the dwelling as a brick house, then owned by Thomas Wilson, who later served as a councillor and mayor. Wilson was still residing in the house in 1886.2. Ownership changed twice more by the turn of the century. Frederick Baines, a gentleman was the owner and occupant in 1891 and John Packer, a journalist, in 1900. Packer continued as owner/occupant in 1905 at which time the property was known as Kantara.3

Description Kantara is a symmetrical early Victorian brick villa with a hipped slate roof. The walls are rendered and are incised with a distinctive vine-leaf motif. At each end of the principal facade are projecting bays with canted bay windows. These contain timber-framed double-hung sashes with unusual patterned cast iron panels between them. The verandah, which extends right across the principal facade, has a concave corrugated iron roof supported by cast iron posts with a narrow frieze of cast iron lacework. A window and doorway in the central portion of the facade have stained glass. The house has been recently renovated, and there is a new carport at the eastern street frontage.

Comparative Examples Charlton, 34 Drake Street, Brighton Wotonga, 67 St Andrews Street, Brighton 193 Church Street, Brighton 98 St Andrews Street, Brighton 14 Lynch Street, Brighton Merrow, 316 St Kilda Street, Brighton Melville, 32 Middle Crescent, Brighton 22 Seymour Grove, Brighton Cathkin, 43 Middle Crescent, Brighton Osiris, 28 Seymour Grove, Brighton Milverton, 82 New Street, Brighton Doon, 8 Stanley Street, Brighton 285 New Street, Brighton Chilton, 1 Wellington Street, Brighton Finchal, 299-305 New Street, Brighton Cathcart, 19 Wellington Street, Brighton Corowa, 389 New Street, Brighton Oyanna, 22 Wellington Street, Brighton Tullavin, 453 New Street, Brighton

Significance Kantara is of historic and aesthetic significance. Predating the first rate book of 1861, it is one of the oldest houses in Brighton and thus demonstrates an early and important phase of residential settlement in the area. Also of some interest are the associations with John Tout, local builder, and Thomas Wilson, former councillor and mayor. The house has some unusual decorative details, notably the incised vine-leaf ornament and patterned cast iron panels between the windows.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1861, 1862. 2 Rate Books 1866, 1868, 1874, 1881, 1886. 3 Rate Books 1891, 1900, 1906.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 70 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre-1862

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History There was a house on this site as early as 1862, when the first Brighton rate book was compiled. Described only as a ‘house’, it was valued at £20 and was owned and occupied by Joseph James, a yeoman. Over the next few years, James leased the house to a Mrs Wegg before living there himself again in 1868. At that time, it was described as a three-room brick house. The following year, it was purchased by Margaret McCoy, who leased it to Rhoda Boore, a laundress. Boore was replaced as tenant in 1873 by Matthew Green, a minister. The house was apparently vacant in 1875 before James Cumming, a gardener, moved in the following year.1 The house was still owned by Margaret McCoy in 1879, when William Johns, a cab driver, became the tenant. The next occupant was Edward Johns, possibly a relative, in 1883.2 The following year, the house was purchased from Miss McCoy by William H Hunt, a local painter and decorator who had erected his business premises nearby at 168 Bay Street (see separate datasheet). Hunt continued to rent out the house to a succession of tenants. These included Albert Pearson, a labourer (1885), Richard Moody, a baker (1886), Sarah Brady (1887 to 1888), James Luscombe, a dairyman, (1889), Andrew Scott, a carrier (1890 and again in 1895), William Braden, a labourer (1891-92), David Wagstaff, a gardener (1893), and Henry Kidman, a butcher (1899). William Hunt, the owner, also resided in the house intermittently in the 1890s. He is listed as the occupant in 1894, from 1896 to 1898, and again in 1901. By 1905, the house was owned by Miss Selina Hunt, probably his daughter, and was occupied by David Peebles, a driver. At that time, the house was described as a four-room brick dwelling on a site with a 32’ frontage to Bay Street.

Description The house at 70 Bay Street is a symmetrical double-fronted Victorian brick villa with a longitudinal gabled slate roof with parapets at each end. The rendered walls have quoining at the corners and around the window and door openings, and there is an unusual rendered dado. The verandah, which has been rebuilt, has a skillion corrugated iron roof supported on square timber posts. There are some modern brick additions at the rear.

Comparative Examples 74 Bay Street, Brighton 76 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 70 Bay Street is of historical and aesthetic significance. It pre-dates the first Brighton rate book of 1862, thus making it one of the oldest surviving houses in the municipality. It is an example of a simple worker’s cottage of the type common in Melbourne’s inner suburbs but somewhat unusual in Brighton. Also of interest is its association with prominent local tradesman William H Hunt, who built the nearby shop at 168 Bay Street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1870-75. 2 Rate Books 1879, 1881, 1883.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 74 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre-1862

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History There was a house on this site as early as 1862, when the first Brighton rate book was compiled. Described only as a ‘house’, it was valued at £45 and was owned and occupied by Mark Hollow, a gardener. Hollow also owned the adjacent house, now 76 Bay Street (see separate datasheet), which he rented out. The house at No. 74 remained as his own residence until 1876, at which time it was described as a four-room brick house.1 Hollow appears to have died, as the owner of the house was subsequently listed as Mrs Hollow.2 She lived there until 1881, when she, too, died, and the two adjacent properties passed into the hands of her executors. Thomas Albury lived in No. 74 until 1884, when both houses were acquired by John Stamp, a builder. Stamp briefly rented the property to W R Wilson before taking it over as his own residence, and he was still living in 1900.3 He had obviously died by 1905, when the occupant of the house was listed as Rebecca Stamp, widow, and the owners as the Executors of the late John Stamp.4

Description The house at 74 Bay Street is a single-storey symmetrical rendered brick Victorian house. The front elevation comprises a central door flanked by single timber-framed double-hung windows beneath a concave-profile verandah. The hipped roof is clad in corrugated iron. One rendered chimney with a moulded cap remains. Alterations to the house include the replacement of the original verandah posts and frieze, and of some windows. The low front fence appears to date from the inter-War period.

Comparative Examples 70 Bay Street, Brighton 76 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 74 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It pre-dates the first Brighton rate book of 1862, thus making it one of the oldest surviving houses in the municipality. Although altered, the house retains several Victorian elements, including its concave-profile verandah roof and chimney.

Identified By Allom Lovell & Associates

1 Rate Books 1862-1876. 2 Rate Books 1877, 1879, 1881. 3 Rate Books 1884, 1890, 1895, 1900. 4 Rate Book 1905.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 76 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre-1862

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History There was a house on this site as early as 1862, when the first Brighton rate book was compiled. Described only as a ‘house’ valued at £32, it was owned by Mark Hollow, a gardener, but no occupant was listed. Hollow also owned the adjacent house, now 74 Bay Street (see separate datasheet), which he used as his own residence. The house at No. 76 was rented out to a succession of tenants. It was occupied by Fanny Quick in 1866, by Charles Thomas, a squatter, from 1868 to 1869, and then by John A Saunders, merchant, in 1870.1 Hollow apparently lived in the house himself in 1871 and 1873 before leasing it to Annie Sim, a teacher, for two years.2 Hollow appears to have died by 1877, when the owner of the house was began to be listed as Mrs Hollow.3 It remained vacant until 1881, when William Ridley moved in. Mrs Hollow herself died, and the two adjacent properties passed into the hands of her executors. William Kelly, a gardener, then moved into No. 76, and remained as tenant after John Stamp, a builder, acquired the property in 1884.4 This arrangement continued until at least 1900. By 1905, both William Kelly and John Stamp had died: the rate book for that year lists the owners as the Executors of the late John Stamp, and the occupant as Fanny Kelly, widow.5 At that time, the house was valued at £20, being described as a six-room brick dwelling on a 29’ by 148’ block.

Description The house at 76 Bay Street is a single-storey symmetrical rendered brick Victorian house. The front elevation comprises a central door flanked by single timber-framed double-hung windows beneath a verandah with cast iron columns and lacework frieze. The hipped roof is clad in slate. Alterations include the re-tiling of the verandah floor.

Comparative Examples 70 Bay Street, Brighton 74 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 76 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historic and aesthetic significance. It pre-dates the first Brighton rate book of 1862, thus making it one of the oldest surviving houses in the municipality. It is a substantially intact example of a typical, symmetrical Victorian villa.

Identified By Allom Lovell & Associates

1 Rate Books 1866-70. 2 Rate Books 1871-75. 3 Rate Books 1877, 1879, 1881. 4 Rate Book 1883, 1884. 5 Rate Book 1905.

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Building: Office Significance: B

Address: 101-103 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Shops and offices Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The rate books for the 1890s identify an eight-room brick shop which occupied an 107’ by 110’ site on the western corner of Bay Street and Berwick Street.1 During this time, it was owned by the Executors of the late Thomas Aitken, and occupied by John Lines, a wood merchant. By 1905, the tenancy had been taken over by William Clarke, a produce merchant. The building is currently used as the offices of an insurance company.

Description The building at 101-103 Bay Street is a single-storey rendered brick building with a double-storey section at the east end. The hipped slate roof is concealed behind a low parapet with a prominent cornice. The ground level facade is symmetrical, with a central entrance flanked by pilasters and window openings containing single or paired double-hung sashes. The upper storey, which may have been a later addition, has quoining in place of pilasters, and a single double-hung sash window.

Comparative Examples Burgess House, 164 Bay Street, Brighton Residence, 168 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance The building at 101-103 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The shop is distinguished by its unusual single- and double-storey form and restrained use of ornamentation. Stylistically, it forms a pair with the shop at nearby 164 Bay Street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1897, 1898, 1899.

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Building: Higinbotham Hall Significance: A

Address: 104 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Library Construction Date: 1886-87

Architect: Treeby & Cutler Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Brighton Municipal Library had its origins as a local Mechanics’ Institute, founded in 1859 by the Reverend W R Lewis. After first occupying a small room in Outer Crescent, a new building was erected in 1861 near the corner of New and Park Streets. Due to financial and other difficulties, the library relocated in 1871 to premises in Bay Street. Problems of funding and poor management continued. By 1880 hundreds of books were missing, many were dilapidated, and all were in need of proper cataloguing.1 It was decided that the solution to the problem of flagging membership was to build a new and impressive library building. A site was selected in Bay Street, but actual construction was delayed by lack of funding as well as by committee disagreements. Work finally commenced in 1886 to the design of architects Treeby & Cutler. The principal of the firm, Phillip Treeby, was a local resident. He commenced his practice in 1883 and designed many buildings in the area including buildings at Brighton Grammar School, the Oriental Coffee Palace, and the local branch of the ES&AC Bank. The new Brighton Free Library was officially opened on 7 May 1887 by George Higinbotham, then Chief Justice of Victoria. It subsequently took his name, becoming known as Higinbotham Hall. Continually plagued by financial difficulties, it was taken over by the council in 1910 and thus became the Brighton Municipal Library. In June 1978, the library was relocated to the former Brighton Town Hall. Its former premises in Higinbotham Hall was then used as the offices of the City of Brighton Citizen’s Advice Bureau, now known as the City of Bayside Community Information Centre.

Description Higinbotham Hall is a substantial double-storey Italianate rendered brick building. The side elevations are plain, with simple round arched windows, while the main facade is highly ornamented. The ground floor is rusticated, with pairs of round arched windows on either side of a central projecting porch. The upper level is separated from the lower one by a heavy cornice and string course, and comprises a central Serlian window flanked by engaged Corinthian columns, rusticated piers and pairs of round arched windows with balustraded sills. The parapet is also balustraded, with a central triangular pediment flanked by curved broken pediments with decorated tympana.

Comparative Examples Former Melbourne Savings Bank, 118 Church Street, Brighton

Significance Higinbotham Hall is of outstanding aesthetic significance and considerable historical significance. It is a highly ornamented Italianate building that is typical of the overblown Boom style of public buildings. Historically, it is important for its association with the Brighton Free Library which was the origin of the present-day municipal library.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Weston Bate. A History of Brighton. p 293.

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Building: Burgess House Significance: B

Address: 162-164 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Shops and residence Construction Date: pre-1862

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1862 William Harbison owned and occupied a shop, house, two cottages and a timber yard on the south west corner of Bay and Cochrane Streets. It is believed the shop and house are the present No. 164.1 Prior to 1862, the rate books are unclear. Harbison, a timber merchant and councillor,2 owned the land and building, on the south west corner of Bay and Cochrane Streets between 1862 and 1906, and possibly at other times. There were various tenants during this period, interspersed by Harbison’s own use of the premises. In 1867, it was occupied by Thomas Ottoway and Edward McLean, grocers. From 1876 to 1885 it served as the Brighton branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, and from 1886, it reverted to a grocer’s premises, this time operated by Messrs Corr and Surridge.3 According to directories, the building was vacant for most of the 1890s.4 The building is currently occupied by a Christian Bookshop and offices associated with the adjacent Baptist church.

Description Burgess House is a double-storey rendered brick building with shops at street level and former residential space above. At the lower level, the main entry is on the corner, flanked on both the Cochrane and Bay Street elevations by large rectangular shop windows that now contain modern sashes. The lower level is divided by Tuscan pilasters, with a heavy cornice above. There is a similar cornice at the upper level, with a narrow string course forming a plain frieze panel below. There is some decorative variation in the upper level window openings. Most are rectangular with simple architraves, while two on the Bay Street frontage have segmental arched heads with small keystones.

Comparative Examples Shop & Residence, 168 Bay Street, Brighton 101-103 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance Burgess House, at 162-164 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historical significance. It is a prominent and substantially intact early commercial building in the municipality, retaining some original shop front elements. Of particular interest is the building’s use as a branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia, and it association with long-time owner William Harbison, a one time local councillor, is also of some interest.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1862. 2 Rate Books 1860-71. 3 Rate Books 1862-1869, 1871, 1873, 1876, 1881, 1885, 1886, 1891, 1900, 1906. 4 Sands and McDougall Victorian Directory. 1890, 1893, 1901.

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Building: Shop and residence Significance: B

Address: 168 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Shop and residence Construction Date: 1885

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The rate book of 1885 indicates that William H Hunt, a painter and decorator, owned land with a 48’ frontage to Bay Street, on the south-east corner of Cochrane Street. The following year, Hunt had erected a six-room brick shop, valued at £110. Hunt had apparently extended the shop by 1889, when it was described as having nine rooms, and was valued at £147. Directories reveal that ‘W H Hunt and Son’ still occupied the building at the turn of the century. William H Hunt was a prominent local businessmen. In the 1890s, he lived intermittently in the nearby house at 70 Bay Street, which he purchased in 1883 (see separate datasheet). Around the same time, his son, William Walter Hunt, lived in the adjacent (and now demolished) brick house at No. 68. The former W H Hunt shop at 168 Bay Street is presently used as the offices and showroom of an air- conditioning company.

Description The shop at 168 Bay Street is a double-storey Victorian rendered brick building with a concealed hipped slate roof. The ground floor has been remodelled, but the traditional entrance on the splayed corner has been retained, as well as a round arched window. At the upper level, there are two windows to Bay Street, and one to Cochrane Street, each with a timber-framed double-hung sash. A blind window on the splayed corner contains remnants of original painted signage. All four openings have bracketed sills, and moulded architraves with paterae in the upper corners. The parapet has a string course and heavy cornice. The Cochrane Street frontage has an attached dwelling in the form of a double-storey terrace with a narrow skillion verandah and two narrow windows at each level.

Comparative Examples Burgess House, 164 Bay Street, Brighton 101-103 Bay Street, Brighton

Significance The shop at 168 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historical significance. It is a prominent and substantially intact early commercial building in the municipality. Together with Burgess House on the opposite corner of Cochrane Street, the shop provides evidence of the minor shopping precinct which once thrived at this end of Bay Street. Its association with local painter and decorator William H Hunt and his son, William W Hunt, both of whom lived nearby in Bay Street, is also of interest.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 400 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 G9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1881

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1880, a Mrs Bent owned an allotment of land on which she built a ten-room brick dwelling the following year.1. By 1884, Thomas Bent, a valuer, and former rate collector for the City, was owner/occupant. Bent had been elected to Parliament in 1871, and to Council in 1873. He was nine times mayor of the municipality, minister of Railways during the early 1880s and vice-president of the Board of Land and Works. He was, for a period, Brighton’s largest land owner and is especially remembered for his successful efforts in establishing the former Victorian Railways tramway service from St Kilda to Brighton Beach. Bent rented the property to James Shovill, a gentleman in 1885 and George O’Hea, a solicitor, in 1887. By 1896, Elizabeth Bent was owner and Thomas Bent used the property as his residence. Bent was still living there in 1905 by which time, Elizabeth Bleazby, a married woman, was owner.2

Description The house at 400 Bay Street is a substantial late Victorian bichromatic brick villa with a hipped slate roof and terracotta ridging. It has a symmetrical elevation to Bay Street, with a corrugated iron hip roofed verandah supported on iron columns with a frieze of cast iron lacework. Along the Warriston Street frontage is a brick portico, wooden tower and timber outbuildings.

Comparative Examples Beltana, 6 Allee Street, Brighton Hazelhurst, 59 Halifax Street, Brighton Hazelwood, 15-19 Barnett Street, Brighton Colombo, 417 New Street, Brighton Coggeshall, 92 Beach Road, Hampton Lumeah, 85 Outer Crescent, Brighton 9 Black Street, Brighton Thanet Cottage, 2 Southey Street, Brighton Grutle, 57 Halifax Street, Brighton Toiyabe, 42 Were Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 400 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It has associations with prominent Brighton resident Thomas Bent, who lived there in the 1880s and 1890s. Although he went on to own much greater homes, including Sargood’s mansion, Ripponlea, in Elsternwick, as well as other houses in Brighton, No. 400 Bay Street is of interest in that it relates to his first period of successful land dealing and political life preceding the Depression. Substantially intact, the house is a good example of a large Italianate villa, and is a prominent element in the streetscape.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1880, 1881. 2 Rate Books 1884, 1885, 1887, 1896 & 1906.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 441 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 G9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1885

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1883, William Sayer, a gentleman, owned a lot with 60’ frontage in Bay Street.1. Two years later, he built a ten-room brick dwelling on the site. In 1887, Sayer rented the house to Catherine Mahoney.2 Sayer remained as the owner, and the house had a succession of tenants. Harry Haines, a gentleman lived there in 1888, John Ambler, a dentist, in 1896, William Walker, a manager in 1900 and Robert Johnston, an agent, in 1905.3 The building is currently used as a medical clinic.

Description The house at 441 Bay Street is a large symmetrical Italianate rendered brick villa. The hipped slate roof, which is penetrated by pedimented chimneys, is supported on paired brackets at the eaves line, with decorative medallions between them. The verandah, which extends around three elevations, has a concave corrugated iron roof, and is supported on paired timber posts with a frieze of cast iron lacework between. The front door is actually at the side, and the street facade has two pairs of narrow double-hung sash windows, with incised arabesque ornament on the areas of rendered wall between.

Comparative Examples St Leonards, 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton Myrtle Bank, 153 New Street, Brighton 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton Westella, 356 New Street, Brighton Benarty, 40 Bay Street, Brighton 101 South Road, Brighton Gisland, 13 Black Street, Brighton Clonaig, 230 North Road, East Brighton Carolside, 60 Halifax Street, Brighton Stonehaven, 12 Thomas Avenue, Moorabbin 9 Gordon Street, Hampton Woodcliffe, 87 Well Street, Brighton 11 Hoyt Street, Hampton Stanton, 3 Wellington Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 441 Bay Street is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a good and substantially intact example of an unusual villa form with a verandah to three elevations. It has some particularly interesting decorative details, including the incised arabesque ornament and the pedimented chimneys, the former being comparable with Kantara at 54 Bay Street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1883. 2 Rate Books 1885 & 1887. 3 Rate Books 1888, 1896, 1900, 1906.

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Building: Irwell Significance: B

Address: 451 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 G9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1889

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1883, James Jenkins, a commission agent, owned land in Bay Street with a 60’ frontage1. The land was purchased by Mary Wright in 1888 and an eight-room brick dwelling was built there in 18892. From 1890 to 1900, the house was occupied by Joseph Wright, a gentleman and presumably a relative of Mary. In 1905, Mary Wright, listed as a widow, became occupant as well as owner, and the property was then known as ‘Irwell’.3

Description Irwell is a large asymmetrical Italianate bichromatic brick villa with a hipped slate roof, penetrated by unusually tall chimneys, and supported on brackets at the eaves line. The return verandah has a shallow corrugated iron roof supported on iron columns, with a frieze of cast iron lacework. The verandah terminates at one end in a canted projecting wing with round arched windows.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Irwell, at 451 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is a good and intact example of a substantial Victorian brick villa. It is something of a landmark due to its prominent corner site, its unusually tall chimneys and its boldly patterned polychromatic brickwork. Its association with Mary Wright, who built nearby Salford at 388 Bay Street, is also of some interest.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1883. 2 Rate Books 1888, 1889. 3 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Tourdale Significance: B

Address: 455 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 G9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1878-79

Architect: Frederick Purbrick Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Tourdale was built for Frederick Purbrick in 1878-79. The rate books for 1878 show Frederick Purbrick as the owner of land valued at £7 in Bay Street.1 In July 1878, Purbrick and J H Fox called for tenders from plumbers, slaters and plasterers for a job in Bay Street, North Brighton.2 The following year, the rate books, prepared in March, list Purbrick as the owner


and occupier of an eight room bluestone house valued at £65.3 The Sands and McDougall directories record Purbrick as the occupier of the house until 1885. Subsequent occupants of the house include Francis Were, a sharebroker, in 1886.4 Were (1853-1946) was the fourth son of J B Were, and became senior partner in the family company J B Were & Son on his father’s death in 1885.5 The occupant in 1892 was David Oliver, a plumber and gas fitter, who had previously occupied one of the nearby shops.6 By 1915, properties in Bay Street had been numbered, and the present house was listed in the directories as No. 303, at which time it was occupied by Robert W Powell.7 Between 1924 and 1931, renumbering occurred and the house, by then known as Tourdale and owned by the Planet Building Society of Collins Street, Melbourne, was listed as No. 455.8 Between 1922 and 1930, the house was occupied by Robert W Powell, by Mrs Hannah Powell (presumably Robert Powell’s widow) from 1931 until 1953, and by Herbert Powell 1954-74.9 When the house was auctioned in 1980, it was known as Colonial Close.10 The Australian Architectural Index, compiled by Miles Lewis, lists 29 references to works by Purbrick in contemporary journals. These show Purbrick as responsible for the design of a number of mainly residential projects in Melbourne, including several in Brighton.11 Apart from Purbrick’s own house, there are seven individual works cited in Brighton, comprising both cottages and villas, in brick and wood.12 The entries in the Australian Architectural Index list works carried out by Purbrick between July 1874 and June 1879.13 A birth notice in the Argus records the birth of a daughter to Purbrick’s wife in Wangaratta in June 188614, suggesting that the family spent at least some time away from Melbourne in the mid-1880s. Purbrick was honorary treasurer of the Victorian Institute of Architects in the late 1880s, and was a strong advocate of the professionalisation of architecture, as documented in The Making of a Profession by Max Freeland.15 Although registration of architects in was not introduced in Australia until the 1920s, as early as October 1887 Purbrick was complaining about the number of ‘improperly trained’ people, including builders and other tradespeople, advertising architectural services. He published a paper titled ‘The Legal Incorporation of the Architectural Profession’ and claimed that there were: legions of others—land agents, auctioneers, butchers, cowhands, clerks, tobacconists, in fact any who can get plans drawn for them and exhibited in a shop window...16 Purbrick’s lobbying caused the formation of a committee to discuss the issue of registration of trained architects.17 Purbrick had formulated a plan for registration of architects and the creation of a Chair of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. By March 1891, the RVIA council proposed to its members not a version of Purbrick’s considered plan, but rather a blueprint of the registration Bill which had been rejected by the British Parliament in 1889. But the general meeting drew little support for registration, and criticisms of ‘mere selfish clap-trap’ were levelled at Purbrick’s arguments in favour of it. The need for government control of a profession already ‘controlled’ by the institute was not acknowledged; the Bill was not passed.18 In 1883, the Railways Department held design competitions for new station buildings at both Flinders Street and Spencer Street. In conjunction with M Egan, Purbrick, who had been the assistant engineer of maintenance with the Railways, entered a design.19 The competitions for both stations were won by William Salway20, but the Railways Department was so impressed with Purbrick’s design, that even though it did not comply with the competition conditions, the Department purchased the

128 Allom Lovell & Associates City of Bayside Heritage Review: Building Citations drawings. This purchase by the Railways Department was reported in the Argus in April 1883.21 Purbrick’s connection with the railways went back to at least 1872, when on 12 April he was began service as draughtsman to the Melbourne and Hobsons Bay Railway Company.22 The Australian Architectural Index records two tender notice in the Argus, placed by architects James Henry Fox and Frederick Purbrick23, but the details of the nature of any partnership which existed are unclear. Certainly, the documented collaborations between the two occurred after Purbrick’s Bay Street house was built, so the proposition that Fox’s connection with the stone Werribee Park may somehow explain the use of stone in Purbrick’s own house is difficult to substantiate. The lack of availability of bluestone south of the Yarra River meant that few bluestone buildings were constructed in the Brighton area. The known suitability of bluestone for buildings, however, prompted the Brighton Council, at its first meeting in the late 1850s, to discuss the investigation of where it could be obtained for use in the municipality’s buildings.24 Known examples are St Andrew’s Church, built in 1856-57 to a Charles Webb design, and the single-storey residence at 61 St Andrews Street, built in 1861. The sea wall along the foreshore between Brighton and Black Rock was constructed between 1930 and 1941, re-using bluestone from the St Kilda Courthouse and the Old Melbourne Gaol, including some prisoners’ headstones.

Description Tourdale is a symmetrical double-fronted Italianate bluestone villa with a hipped slate roof, penetrated by rendered brick chimneys and supported on timber brackets at the eaves line. The skillion-roofed verandah is supported on irregularly-spaced iron columns without a frieze. The street facade has wide openings with rendered quoining, and both the door and windows have narrow sidelights. The front door also has a fanlight with a segmental arched head. The house has undergone some alterations. There is a red brick addition to the rear, and the rear face of the slate roof has been re-clad in green galvanised steel. The verandah framing and roof are not original, and the verandah floor has been replaced with concrete, once painted green. Italianate-style balustrading has been added at each end of the verandah. In addition, Council building permit files record that the concrete block front fence dates from 1968, and the garages were built in 1969 and 1975. Further alterations took place in 1974, and additions in 1988.25

Comparative Examples St Andrew’s Church, 38 Church Street, Brighton (bluestone; 1856-57) Residence, 61 St Andrew’s Street, Brighton (bluestone; pre-1861)

Significance Tourdale, at 455 Bay Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact, and relatively late example of a plain bluestone villa, a building type rare south of the Yarra. The house also has historical associations with local architect and active promoter of the architectural profession, Frederick Purbrick, who built the house as his own residence.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1878. 2 Argus. 18 July 1878. p 3. 3 Rate Books 1879. 4 Sands & McDougall directories 1881, 1884, 1885, 1887. 5 Untitled notes held by Brighton Historical Society. Researched by William Norris, 10 September 1980. 6 Sands & McDougall directories 1885, 1887, 1891, 1890, 1892.

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7 Sands & McDougall directories, 1915. 8 Rate Books 1930. 9 Untitled notes held by Brighton Historical Society. Researched by William Norris, 10 September 1980. 10 A J Barley. Auction Notice for 455 Bay Street, Brighton. Sat 27 September 1980. 11 Miles Lewis (ed.). Australian Architectural Index. 12 Miles Lewis (ed.). Australian Architectural Index. 13 Miles Lewis (ed.). Australian Architectural Index. 14 Argus. 21 June 1886. p 1. 15 J M Freeland. The Making of a Profession: A History of the Growth and Work of the Architectural Institutes in Australia. Sydney, 1971. pp 16, 37, 16 J M Freeland. The Making of a Profession. pp 16, 37. 17 J M Freeland. The Making of a Profession. pp 16, 37. 18 J M Freeland. The Making of a Profession. pp 234. 19 G B Loader. Flinders Street Station. pp 16ff. 20 Argus. 19 April 1883. p 7. 21 Argus. 20 April 1883. p 6. 22 Latrobe Library Biographical Index. State Library of Victoria. 23 Miles Lewis (ed.). Australian Architectural Index. 24 Hilary Bullock (Historian, Brighton Historical Society). Pers. Comm. 25 City of Bayside Building Permit Records (Microfilm Copy.

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Building: Lauriston Significance: B

Address: 457 Bay Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 G9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1884

Architect: Frederick Purbrick? Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Frederick Purbrick, a noted Melbourne architect, erected a stone house for himself at No. 455 Bay Street in 1878.1 (see separate datasheet). Purbrick, who lived there until 1885, may also have designed this house at No. 457, which is very similar in style. According to the Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory for 1885, this house, to the immediate east of Purbrick’s, was occupied by a Mrs Clarkson. The rate books for 1890 indicate that the seven room brick house, then valued at £44, had been acquired by W Nuttall, an agent. Over the next few years, he rented the house to a succession of tenants. James Gilfillan, a banker, lived there in 1888, followed by Amelia Grant by 1891. David Oliver, a plumber, lived there in the mid-1890s.2 By 1899, the house had been acquired, or more likely repossessed, by the Economic Permanent Building Society. It was occupied by William McKee, a clerk, who was still living there in 1905. At that time, his house was identified as Lauriston.3

Description Lauriston is a symmetrical double-fronted rendered brick villa with a hipped roof, penetrated by rendered brick chimneys and supported on small timber brackets at the eaves line. The skillion verandah is supported on iron columns with a simple frieze of cast iron lacework. The centrally- placed doorway has a fanlight, and is flanked by tripartite windows with timber-framed double-hung sashes and narrow sidelights. The roof has been re-clad in artificial tiles.

Comparative Examples St Leonards, 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton Myrtle Bank, 153 New Street, Brighton 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton Westella, 356 New Street, Brighton Benarty, 40 Bay Street, Brighton 101 South Road, Brighton 441 Bay Street, Brighton Clonaig, 230 North Road, East Brighton Gisland, 13 Black Street, Brighton Stonehaven, 12 Thomas Avenue, Moorabbin Carolside, 60 Halifax Street, Brighton Woodcliffe, 87 Well Street, Brighton 9 Gordon Street, Hampton Stanton, 3 Wellington Street, Brighton 11 Hoyt Street, Hampton

Significance Lauriston, at 457 Bay Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a symmetrical Victorian villa, which, although slightly altered, retains a number of typical Italianate details including cast iron lacework and tripartite windows.

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1 Rate Books 1878, 1879. 2 Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory. various. 3 Rate Books 1899, 1900, 1905.

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Building: Mona, later Shenval Significance: B

Address: 47 Bayview Crescent, Black Melway Map Ref: 85 K2 Rock

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Captain Murray ? Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Mona (now Shenval) was built for Captain Murray and his family in the early 1890s, apparently to his own design. Murray had served in the British Army in India and the design may have been based on the verandahed homes he saw over there. The property extended to Bluff Road and was surrounded by natural vegetation. A visitor at that time recalled that ‘the house stood among wonderful heathland and we would gather beautiful wildflowers there.’1 The house was the residence of the Lay family c.1915 and remained with them until Miss Jean Lay (later Hardy) sold it in 1959. At that time a tea-tree hedge and formal gardens surrounded the house. Later owners included the Johnston and Tarrant families.2

Description Shenval is a single-storey weatherboard house, rectangular in plan, with a hipped slate roof and encircling timber verandah with a concave-profiled corrugated iron roof. The verandah has a timber scalloped frieze with decorative drilled holes, and is supported on tapered timber posts with metal Corinthian capitals. Windows are double-hung sashes with timber moulded architraves. The chimneys are rendered, with moulded and barrelled caps and vermiculated panelled stacks. A skillion-roofed carport has been constructed to the east.

Comparative Examples Ingleside, 11 Carpenter Street, Brighton 8 Sydney Street, Cheltenham Sevenoaks, 13 Carpenter Street, Brighton 10 Sydney Street, Cheltenham 174 Highett Road, Highett 9 Warriston Street, Brighton 91 Martin Street, Brighton 171 Were Street, Brighton 8 Parliament Street, Brighton Dunlop, 19 Willansby Avenue Toowong, 19 Stanley Street, Brighton Doonside, 19 William Street, Brighton

Significance Shenval, at 47 Bayview Crescent, Black Rock, is of historical and aesthetic significance. Shenval is one of the earliest residences in the suburb, predating suburban subdivision. The weatherboard house is largely intact; of note is the unusually detailed verandah posts and frieze.

Source National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 1632.

1 G Disney & V Tarrant, Bayside Reflections: History & Heritage of Sandringham, Hampton, Black Rock & Beaumaris, City of Sandringham 1988, p. 140. 2 Disney & Tarrant, Bayside Reflections, p. 140.

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Structure: Cenotaph Significance: B

Address: Beach Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 F9

Building Type: Monument Construction Date: c.1945

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition:

G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The history of the construction of the Cenotaph on Beach Road is unknown, but it appears to have been erected in the years following World War II. The Sandringham RSL was dissolved to become part of the Hampton RSL in the 1960s. The Hampton RSL used the cenotaph as a focus for its services over the following two decades. It is no longer used regularly.1

Description The monument at Beach Road, Sandringham, is a tall granite cenotaph commemorating the two World Wars. The cenotaph is raised on a grass mound, approached by concrete steps on four sides. The stepped base is of quarry-faced granite, in contrast to the smooth finish of the monument itself. The monument has a stepped profile; the dates of the wars (1914-1918, 1939-1945) and a crucifix are inscribed in the stone and painted black. A bronze plaque was added to the monument in 1992, commemorating the Malayan Emergency (1948-1968), the Malaysian Confrontation (1964-1965), and the Korean and South Vietnam Wars (1950-54, 1962-1973).

Comparative Examples Cenotaph, The Esplanade, Brighton

Significance The cenotaph at Beach Road, Sandringham, is of historical and aesthetic significance, commemorating Australian involvement in significant twentieth century wars.

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1 Harry Trott, pers. comm. 1998.

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Building: Rotunda Significance: B

Address: Beach Road, at Melrose Street, Melway Map Ref: 76 G9 Sandringham

Building Type: Band Rotunda Construction Date: 1926

Architect: Under direction of W T Builder: Council workers Sunderland, City Engineer

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History The Rotunda was built from funds provided by Dr Garnet Leary of Montcastel (Beach Road, now demolished), who was also the municipal Health Officer. It was designed under the direction of the Sandringham City Engineer, W T Sunderland. William Thomas Sunderland was born in Castlemaine in 1880. His father was a builder, and he worked with him for ten years before commencing his own business of ‘designing and erecting on my own account around the Castlemaine district.’1 His work included the local Anglican vicarage as well as several houses in reinforced concrete. Sunderland also served as Borough Engineer in Castlemaine prior to being appointed City Engineer in Sandringham. He patented the later popular cement penetration method of road construction and was responsible for other concrete structures in the municipality including the grandstand at Picnic Point. In addition to his municipal duties, he designed several buildings in the area ‘in an honorary capacity’ which included his own house in Bamfield Street.

Description The Rotunda is situated on the west side of Beach Road facing Port Phillip Bay, terminating the vista down Melrose Street to the east. Of reinforced concrete construction, the Rotunda is smooth and roughcast rendered. The four corner piers have curved buttresses on a diagonal axis, supporting an upper level that is accessed via a flight of steps on the west side. On each side, there are projecting curved balconies which effectively create a circular plan at the upper level. The roof is supported by four piers, each with two columns at the corners. A wide overhanging cornice is supported on moulded brackets with incised arabesque ornament on the lintels between. At ground level, beneath the bandstand proper, there is evidence of a small fountain. Only the base remains, raised on a stepped platform.

Significance The rotunda is of aesthetic and historical significance. It forms a focal point at the termination of the western vista along Melrose Street, and is something of a local landmark. It is particularly unusual in its composition and decorative detailing. Also of importance is its association with W T Sunderland, the local City Engineer who erected several interesting concrete buildings in the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 ‘William Thomas Sunderland’. Architects’ Registration Board of Victoria file, VPRS 8838/P2, Public Records Office Victoria.

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Structure: Sandringham Football Club Significance: B Wall Address: Beach Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 F8

Building Type: Wall Construction Date: 1929

Architect: W T Sunderland Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[ ] F[ ] P[x]

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History In 1929 the Sandringham Council received permission from the Minister for Lands to erect a fence around the Beach Oval on Beach Road, following the admission of the Sandringham Football Club to the Victorian Football Association.1 The concrete wall was reputedly designed by the city engineer, W T Sunderland, a pioneer of the use of reinforced concrete who had constructed numerous concrete roads and several concrete houses in the suburb.2 The wall was still under construction on the same day of the first match in the competition against Brighton, and completed with the assistance of the some of the players who helped pour the concrete.3 In 1985 the Council resolved to replace the badly deteriorating wall, as funds allowed.4

Description The wall at the Sandringham Football Club is a pier and panel concrete wall which encloses the football field. The wall is of in situ reinforced concrete construction, and comprises rectangular panels divided by piers at regular intervals. The piers are square in plan and have a pointed cap. The external face of each wall section has a slightly recessed decorative panel with curved corners, whilst the internal face is plain. The wall is in poor condition: in many areas the concrete has eroded, exposing the reinforcing. A new section of wall to the north-east is of precast concrete panels with details matching the original.

Significance The wall at the Sandringham Football Club is of historical significance. Construction of the wall is associated with the origins of the Sandringham Football Club. The wall is an unusual example of the use of reinforced concrete which appears to have been designed by City Engineer of the former City of Sandringham, W T Sunderland, a pioneer of the use of concrete in the 1920s.

Identified By Bayside City Council

1 A Hubbard, The Zebra Story: A History of the Sandringham Football Club, 1985, p. 1. 2 G Disney, pers. comm., September 1998. 3 A Hubbard, The Zebra Story: A History of the Sandringham Football Club, 1985, p. 1. 4 A Hubbard, The Zebra Story: A History of the Sandringham Football Club, 1985, p. 1.

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Building: Culverkeys Significance: B

Address: 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 G7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1954

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History James Bickford Moysey and Nicholas Moysey obtained a government lease for their run ‘Beaumaris’ in the 1843, comprising around 3,200 acres (1,320 hectares). This run took up most of the land not leased by the Kings and Alexander McDonald and encompassed the areas now known as Black Rock (to the Nepean Highway), Mentone (west of Warrigal Road) and Beaumaris.1 After Port Phillip was severed from New South Wales, Moysey’s lease was terminated and the land was divided into 100 acre (40 hectares) allotments for the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. Culverkeys is located within Crown Portion 49E, originally purchased by Henry Wells. This land remained largely undeveloped until after World War Two. In 1940, there were only two houses on Beach Road between Hutchison Avenue and Wells Road. The present house at No. 11 was first listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory in 1954, when it was described as ‘under construction’. The following year, the occupant was listed as W B Monteath, and the address as No. 17 Beach Road. It was renumbered as No. 11 in the early 1960s, and Monteath was still living there. By 1970, the occupant was A G Smith.

Description Culverkeys is an asymmetrical, double-storey, English Domestic Revival style clinker brick residence with a gabled terracotta tiled roof. The main entry, with a four-centred arched head, is at the ground level of a circular tower which is topped by a conical copper roof with a weathervane. To one side is a projecting room with a half-timbered upper level. Window openings contain groups of multi-paned double-hung sashes. An attached garage exists to the north, and there is a half-timbered attic portion above which appears to be a later extension.

Comparative Examples 6 Bay Street, Brighton 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham 188 Church Street, Brighton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton The Gables, 7 Brandon Road, Brighton

Significance Culverkeys, at 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a large and substantially intact example of a post-War house displaying the influence of the English Domestic Revival style, which was most common in the inter-War period. Its retrogressive style demonstrates a different approach to post-War housing design, contrasting with the modern architect-designed houses erected in the area by progressive architectural firms of the 1950s.

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1 Andrew Ward & Assoc, City of Sandringham Heritage and Conservation Study, p. 19.

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Building: Clyde Significance: B

Address: 49 Beach Road, Hampton Map Ref: 76 F7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1903

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[ ] P[x] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Clyde was built in 1903 for John Dun, a manufacturer. Listed in the rate books as a four-room wooden house on part of Lot 1, in Beach Road between Willis and Small Streets.1 Dun resided there for two years before leasing the property, the lessees including Thomas Hayter, an estate agent, in 1906, followed in 1908 by Everest Sheriff, a manager, and in 1916 by Arthur Redding. By 1916 the property was known as Clyde.2

Description Clyde is a single-storey, single-fronted weatherboard cottage. It is of a standard design of the type commonly produced by local builders. The hipped corrugated iron roof is penetrated by a single unpainted rendered chimney with moulded cap. The front verandah has been altered and partially enclosed, and the front window is not original.

Comparative Examples Mia-Mia, 50 Beach Road, Hampton 4 Sims Street, Sandringham

Significance Clyde, at 49 Beach Road, Hampton, is of historical significance. It is a rare surviving example of a small seafront weatherboard worker’s cottage in an area otherwise eroded by later development. Although not in original condition, the alterations are of a reversible nature.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First Rate Book and Sands & McDougall Directory entry. 2 Rate Books 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directory 1903, 1904.

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Building: Mia-Mia Significance: B

Address: 50 Beach Road, Hampton Map Ref: 76 F6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1903

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[ ] P[x] G[ ] F[ ] P[x]

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History Mia-Mia was built in 1903 for W Franklyn, a manufacturer. The rate books list a four-room wooden house on part of Lot 1 in Beach Road, between Willis and Small Streets.1 Franklyn resided there until 1905. In 1906 the house was occupied by Annie Clarke, and in 1908 by Albert Sadler, a shopkeeper. The property was later listed as tea rooms.2

Description Mia-Mia is a single-storey, single-fronted weatherboard cottage. It is of a standard design of the type commonly produced by local builders. The hipped roof is penetrated by a single rendered chimney with moulded cap. The front verandah has been altered and the front bay window is not original. The galvanised steel roofing is not original.

Comparative Examples Clyde, 49 Beach Road, Hampton 4 Sims Street, Sandringham

Significance Mia-Mia, at 50 Beach Road, Hampton, is of historical significance. It is a rare surviving example of a small seafront weatherboard worker’s cottage in an area otherwise eroded by later development. Although not in original condition, the alterations are of a reversible nature.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First Rate Book and Sands & McDougall Directory entry. 2 Sands & McDougall Directory, 1908.

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Building: Hampton Hotel Significance: B

Address: 56 Beach Road, Hampton Melway Map Ref: 76 F6

Building Type: Hotel Construction Date: c.1900

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History This site was occupied by a hotel as early as 1 January 1859, when The Argus reported that William Ashling had opened the Brighton Retreat Hotel. The Sands and McDougall Directory records that the Retreat Hotel was still in existence in 1899, with Frederick Stevenson as licensee. In 1900, Robert Schmidt was located at this address and the following year, he is identified as the proprietor of the Hampton Hotel and tea gardens. This would suggest a construction date of 1900.1

Description The Hampton Hotel is a double-storey Italianate rendered brick building with a roof concealed behind a parapet. A curved broken pediment marks the corner, and a triangular pediment terminates the south end of the west facade. A curved bay window occupies the corner, with a curved balcony above. A four bay loggia faces Beach Road, with segmented arched openings at ground floor and rendered segmented arched balustrading at first floor. The two levels are divided by a moulded string course. The roof is concealed behind a parapet. Window openings have moulded architraves and contain double-hung sashes. A number of windows have been altered. The hotel building has recently been converted into apartments with additional apartment blocks having also been constructed at the rear. Internally. most of the original fabric has been demolished and new work inserted into the shell of the old.

Comparative Examples Former Great Southern Hotel, 471 Beach Road, Sandringham Milano’s Brighton Beach Hotel, 4-6 The Esplanade, Brighton

Significance The Hampton Hotel, at 56 Beach Road, Hampton, is of historical significance. It is one of a number of coastal hotels built in the nineteenth century which helped establish Sandringham’s reputation as a major seaside resort. Most comparable examples have either been altered, such as the Great Southern Hotel, or demolished, as with the Sandringham Coffee Palace. As such it is an important surviving remnant of the once more numerous and well-known seaside hotels.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Sands and McDougall Directory, 1901.

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Building: Former Lido Tea Gardens Significance: B

Address: 66 Beach Road, Hampton Melway Map Ref: 76 F6

Building Type: Shop and residence Construction Date: 1895

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History In 1895, F H Bride erected a timber building on land with a frontage of 100 feet to Beach Road, between Small Street and Linacre Road. By 1899, Francis Kronhubo had purchased the property, which he continued to operate as Hampton Tea Gardens. By 1906 the property was described as a six room wood house and a brick and wood shop, occupying Lots 50 and 60 with a 68 feet frontage. By 1916 Johanna Ortner, a caterer, was owner and occupant of the premises, which then went under the name of the Lido Cafe, Hampton. The former Dance Hall at the rear of the property has been removed to form the Bamfield Street Scout Hall.1

Description The former Lido Tea Gardens cafe is a double-storey building constructed of painted brick at the lower level, with a timber framed upper level, clad in weatherboard. The gabled corrugated iron roof runs parallel to the street alignment, with a subsidiary intersecting gable end in the centre. The facade is not symmetrical at the lower level, having five narrow openings with segmental arched heads. Two of these contain doors with fanlights above, while the remainder have timber-framed casement window sashes. At the upper level, there are four windows with timber architraves and sills, and distinctive pedimented heads.

Significance The former Lido Tea Gardens, at 66 Beach Street, Hampton is of historical significance. Although somewhat altered, the building is evidence of the important role that Hampton played as a seaside resort in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1895-1900, 1906, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directory 1895, 1896.

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Building: Coggeshall Significance: B

Address: 92 Beach Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 F9

Building Type: Club Rooms Construction Date: 1876

Architect: A Taylor Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History David Abbott acquired this site and built Coggeshall in 1876.1 Abbott was solicitor and a Moorabbin Shire councillor, and was a supporter of severance from Moorabbin and of construction of the Picnic Point railway. He was a founding member of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Abbott later purchased additional land around his home, subdividing it in 1886. In 1908, he sold Coggeshall to Elisha de Garis, an agent. In the 1920s, de Garis in turn sold the property to the Sandringham Club, who made various alterations, including the installation of tennis courts and bowling greens where the garden had been. The club still occupies the building

Description The house at 92 Beach Road is a single-storey Victorian brown brick villa with a hipped slate roof supported on brackets at the eaves line. The wide return verandah has a concave corrugated iron roof supported on timber posts. Window openings along the verandah line are tall and narrow, and contain timber-framed double-hung sashes. A red gabled structure has been added to the south side of the house, probably in the 1960s. The former gardens are now occupied by tennis courts and a bowling green. According to Graeme Disney, the prominent stone wall was constructed from ferriginous sandstone quarried from the locals cliffs.2

Comparative Examples Beltana, 6 Allee Street, Brighton Hazelhurst, 59 Halifax Street, Brighton Hazelwood, 15-19 Barnett Street, Brighton Colombo, 417 New Street, Brighton 400 Bay Street, Brighton Lumeah, 85 Outer Crescent, Brighton 9 Black Street, Brighton Thanet Cottage, 2 Southey Street, Brighton Grutle, 57 Halifax Street, Brighton Toiyabe, 42 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Coggeshall, at 92 Beach Road, Sandringham is of historical significance. Although substantially altered, it is important as a surviving example of a Victorian gentleman’s seaside villa. Its association with David Abbott, a solicitor who was prominent in local affairs, is also of interest. The ironstone wall is an important element.

Source Andrew Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books, 1876, 1877. 2 Graeme Disney, pers. comm.

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Building: Rosherville Significance: B

Address: 130 Beach Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 F9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1903

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[ ] P[x] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Rosherville, at 130 Beach Road, Sandringham, was built on Lot 2 of the Picnic Estate in 1903. The rate books for 1902 and 1903 (prepared in February of those years) show Marie Krecklow of Metung, Gippsland, as the owner of Lot 2, valued at £10.1 In 1904, the rate books list Krecklow as the owner of a nine-room brick house on Lots 2 and 14, with an NAV of £60.2 The house, known as Rosherville3, was occupied by Krecklow until at least 1908.4 Andrew F Hendry occupied Rosherville from at least 1908 at least 1941, when he is listed as the occupant (presumably the proprietor) of Rosherville Guest House.5 MMBW Map No. 2324 (40’ to 1”), dated 1909, shows the unusual footprint of the building, which may be contrasted with the more conventional footprint of the adjacent house, Moncastel, as indicated on the plan.

Description Rosherville is a large double-storey Edwardian brick house with a gambrel roof. The front elevation, to Beach Road, has at ground level two canted bays flanking a recessed porch, which in turn is set beneath a full-width first-floor verandah. The bullnose-profile corrugated iron verandah roof is supported on turned timber posts with iron brackets. The roof is penetrated by tall ribbed chimneys with glazed pots and has louvered gable ends. The house has undergone some alterations. The roof appears to have been re-tiled, and the verandah may have been rebuilt, although the profile of its roof is appropriate to the style of the house and the corrugated iron roofing appears to be early.6 In addition, Council building permit files record that the alterations were made to the house, including the replacement of the first floor windows on the front elevation7, in 1978, and a fence constructed in 1980.8

Comparative Examples Camelot, 11 Tennyson Street, Brighton

Significance Rosherville, at 130 Beach Road, Sandringham, is of historical significance. It is a demonstrative of the type of seaside mansions that were erected around the turn of the century when Sandringham was a popular beach resort. Rosherville is one of few surviving examples of early beach front residences in Sandringham, and provides a picture of the past, particularly of residential settlement of the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1902, 1903. 2 Rate Books 1904. 3 Sands & McDougall directory 1905, 1908, 1914, 1920. 4 Sands & McDougall directory 1905, 1908. 5 Sands & McDougall directory 1914, 1920, 1926, 1932, 1941. 6 Sandringham and District Historical Society. Datasheet, 130 Beach Road, Sandringham. 7 Sandringham Historical Society Datasheet for 130 Beach Road, Sandringham. 8 City of Bayside Building Permit Records (Microfilm Copy).

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 451 Beach Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 E9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1956

Architect: Mockridge, Stahle & Mitchell Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at 451 Beach Road was designed for G A Johnson by architects Mockridge, Stahle & Mitchell in 1956.1 The principal of the firm, John Mockridge (1916-1994), trained at the Gordon Institute, now Deakin University, in Geelong. In 1948, he established the firm with two other young architects, Ross Stahle and George Mitchell. The work of the practice was largely residential and institutional, and included the Roman Catholic churches in Ivanhoe and Heidelberg, the Anglican Church of St Faith’s in Burwood and work in several private schools including Brighton Grammar, Haileybury, Geelong College and Ivanhoe Grammar.2 The house was one of several residences designed by architects in Beaumaris in the 1950s and ‘60s. According to architect Robin Boyd, the suburb contained “the highest concentration of first class modern domestic architecture in Australia.3”

Description The house at 451 Beach Road is a double-storey timber residence with a skillion roof that has wide overhanging eaves to the west elevation. To accommodate the sloping site, the house is elevated, forming an open garage at ground level. The upper level of the west elevation comprises large areas of timber-framed glazing which open onto a steel balustraded balcony and horizontal strip windows with vertical timber boarded spandrels. The timber construction method of the house is expressed: rafter ends, floor joists and their connections to the regularly spaced coupled timber columns are exposed.

Significance The house at 451 Beach Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is one of many mid- twentieth century architect-designed buildings in the municipality, reflecting contemporary design of the period. The house was designed by the important Melbourne architectural firm, Mockridge, Stahle and Mitchell; of note is its expressed timber construction and bold skillion-profiled roof.

Source Homebuilders’ Handbook

1 Homebuilders’ Handbook, p. 55. 2 Obituary, The Age, Tuesday 6 December 1994, p. 18. 3 The Age, 24 August 1949, quoted from Robin Boyd in the Victorian Architectural Students’ paper Smudges.

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Building: Former Great Southern Hotel Significance: B

Address: 471 Beach Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 E8

Building Type: Hotel Construction Date: 1888

Architect: James Birtwhistle Builder: Thomas Oliver (W Melbourne)

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[ ] P[x] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History On 5 February 1889 the Directors of the Great Southern Hotel Co. Ltd reported that the site for their hotel had been purchased and was most admirably situated ‘ with a magnificent frontage to The Esplanade. ..This splendid area will admit of the making of tennis courts, and ample pleasure grounds’.1 Harold Sparks, who was a Moorabbin Shire councillor, and Charles Henry James, a manager, becoming involved in his land dealings which also included Beaumaris Park, the Sandringham Coffee Palace, the Beaumaris Tramway Co. and the Beaumaris Hall Co. Ltd. The hotel was designed by prominent late Victorian architect James Birtwhistle. The foundation stone was laid on 17 May 1888 at a lunch presided over by Thomas Bent, and completion of the new building was anticipated in March 1889.

Description The former Great Southern Hotel is a substantial double-storey rendered brick Italianate style building, considerably altered and obscured by later additions. Only parts of the original first floor exterior survive, including the projecting rectangular bays articulated with rendered pilasters, moulded architraves and the bracket moulded entablature. A steel post verandah with a corrugated galvanised steel roof has been constructed to the north, and a glazed single storey extension in the corner. Along the south elevation to Bodley Street is a double-storey wing constructed in c.1980s.

Comparative Examples Hampton Hotel, 56 Beach Road, Hampton Milano’s Brighton Beach Hotel, 4-6 The Esplanade, Brighton

Significance The former Great Southern Hotel, at 471 Beach Road, Beaumaris, is of historical significance. Although altered, it has associations with the land boom in Sandringham in general, and particularly with investors Harold Sparks and Charles James. It is the last and most spectacular remnant of the investment activity of Sparks and James, which also included the Beaumaris house tramway, Beaumaris Hall and the Sandringham Coffee Palace. As an example of the work of architect James Birtwhistle, the hotel is of some interest.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First Half Yearly Report for the period ending 30.9.1888.

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Structure: Moysey Monument Significance: B

Address: Beach Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 F9

Building Type: Cairn Construction Date: 1962

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition:

G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History James Bickford Moysey and his wife, Susannah Brown Moysey, emigrated from England in 1844, with their cousin Nicholas Bickford Moysey. After settling briefly in Melbourne, they both leased land in the Parish of Moorabbin, covering part of what is now Black Rock, Beaumaris, Mentone and Cheltenham, and were amongst the earliest settlers.1 A wattle and daub cottage was built on the cliff, with a fruit and vegetable garden. A cairn, opposite the Beaumaris Hotel in Beaumaris, now marks the location of Moysey’s cottage.2 Moysey purchased land in the 1852 government land sales and established a permanent farm. In the 1850s he left briefly to search for gold, supported by his wife who would transport vegetables to him. In c.1870s James and Susannah left the farm to move to Narre Warren where they remained until James’ death in 1889. Susannah died six years later in Cranbourne.3

Description The Moysey Monument is a small cairn constructed of random coursed ironstone, square in plan and tapering slightly as it rises. A small bronze plaque affixed to the cairn bears the following inscription: ON THIS SPOT IN 1844 STOOD THE HOME OF THE FIRST WHITE SETTLERS OF THIS LOCALITY JAMES BICKFORD MOYSEY AND HIS WIFE SUSANNAH VIDE THE BEAUMARIS NEWS LETTER AUG. AND SEPT. 1962 IN LOCAL LIBRARY AND NEWSPAPER ROOM STATE LIBRARY

Significance The Moysey Monument, at Beach Road, Beaumaris, is of historical significance, commemorating the location of the cottage built by James and Susannah Moysey, early settlers of Beaumaris.

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1 G Disney & V Tarrant, Bayside Reflections: History and Heritage of Sandringham, Hampton, Black Rock and Beaumaris, Sandringham (Vic) 1989, p. 18. 2 This location is the nearest approximation given the dramatic change of the cliff line in the past century. It has been said that the actual location is a few miles out to sea. Graeme Disney, pers. comm. 1998. 3 G Disney & V Tarrant, Bayside Reflections: History and Heritage of Sandringham, Hampton, Black Rock and Beaumaris, Sandringham (Vic) 1989, p. 18.

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Building: David Bergin House Significance: B

Address: 2 Belle Avenue, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1952

Architect: Robin Boyd Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The David Bergin House was designed by influential twentieth century architect Robin Boyd in 1952, the construction completed the same year.1 Boyd designed the Bergin House in the year he wrote Australia’s Home (1952). In Australia’s Home he was searching for the ‘central discipline’ of the Modern movement and explored his belief that the basis of Australian design originated in the suburban house block.2

Description The David Bergin House belongs to the ‘shed roof’ category of houses designed by Boyd. It is a single-storey timber residence, asymmetrically planned with low-pitched skillion roofs and there are large areas of full-height timber-framed windows. The roof extends at the side of the house to form a carport.

Comparative Examples Lloyd House, 2 Newbay Crescent, Brighton (Robin Boyd 1969) Foy House, 2 Deauville Street, Beaumaris (Robin Boyd 1956)

Significance The David Bergin House is of aesthetic significance. The house is one of many mid-twentieth century architect-designed buildings in the municipality, reflecting contemporary design of the period. The house was designed by notable architect and critic, Robin Boyd; of note is its shed-like appearance, typical of many of Boyd’s houses of this period.

Source Transition, No. 38 (Special Issue: Robin Boyd), Melbourne, 1992.

1 Transition, No. 38 (Special Issue: Robin Boyd), Melbourne, 1992, p. 200. 2 Transition, No. 38, pp. 28-29.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E9

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1904

Architect: Unknown Builder: Edgar Bleckly

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1904, Edgar Bleckly, a carpenter, owned Lots 21 and 22 in Berwick Street, on which he built a five-room weatherboard dwelling in 1905-06 as his own residence.1 Directories indicate that he was still living there in late 1940s.2

Description The house at 3 Berwick Street is a double-fronted asymmetrical Edwardian timber villa with a block- fronted street facade and conventional weatherboarding elsewhere. The corrugated iron roof, which is penetrated by painted brick chimneys, is hipped over the main portion of the house, with a subsidiary gable facing the street. The gable end is infilled with diagonal timber straps and roughcast render, with a bargeboard that is curved at the lower end and supported on timber brackets. The verandah has a convex corrugated iron roof, supported on turned timber posts with a timber frieze in the form of a miniature arcade. The windows along the street frontage consist of pairs of narrow timber-framed double-hung sashes.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton 176 New Street, Brighton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 3 Berwick Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historic importance. It is a typical and substantially intact example of an Edwardian timber villa, of which there are many in Brighton. The carved timber detailing is of some interest.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1905, 1906. 2 Sands and McDougall Victorian Directory. 1947.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 5 Birdwood Avenue, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1929

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Birdwood Street is located just north of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton council in 1870.1 5 Birdwood Street was built in 1929 for owner-occupier Eileen Minnie Grant, a married woman. The brick house, with a Net Annual Value of £60, comprised nine rooms.2

Description The house at 4 Birdwood Avenue is a large, double-storey residence designed in the Spanish Mission style. The house is asymmetrically planned, with rendered walls and hipped roofs clad in Cordoba terracotta tiles. An arcaded screen with tiled cappings and Solomonic Corinthian columns leads to the entrance. Some of the first floor windows have semi-circular arched heads, also with Solomonic columns, and there is a wrought iron Juliet balcony to the west. Curved and stepped Baroque gables penetrate the roof. Chimneys are rendered, with terracotta tiled cappings. The front garden contains a conifer and palm tree, probably original. The high rendered front fence appears to be recent.

Comparative Examples 1 Bay Street, Brighton 17 North Road, Brighton Okataina Flats, 33 Chelsea Street, Brighton 135 Park Road, Cheltenham

Significance The house at 5 Birdwood Avenue, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a particularly good and substantially intact example of the inter-War, American-inspired, Spanish Mission style, and features many intact elements characteristic of the style such as Cordoba roof tiles, Baroque gables, decorative wrought ironwork and Solomonic Corinthian columns. The house is enhanced by its mature exotic front garden.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Brighton City Council rate book, 1929.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 1 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c 1911

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891, Edward Gordon, a doctor of medicine, owned an eight-room house, stables and land on the site of the present building. By 1905 it had passed to a Mr Townsend, who had demolished his buildings there by 1910.1

Description The house at 1 Black Street is a substantial Edwardian tuckpointed red brick residence with some Victorian Survival characteristics. Like a nineteenth century house, it is symmetrical and double- fronted, with a verandah. The verandah has a skillion roof with a projecting gablet over the front door, and is supported on pairs of turned timber posts with a carved timber frieze between. The hipped roof is clad with slate and has terracotta ridging. The roof has a second gablet over the front door, with decorative panel below and a turned timber finial. Further emphasis is created by a third gablet at the ridge line.

Significance The house at 1 Black Street, Brighton is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is a particularly fine example of a house showing the transition between the Victorian and the Edwardian styles. The house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street, which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 6 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1906

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History In 1905, Jessie Murdoch owned land 60’ x 157’ on the south-west side of Black Street, between Carpenter and St Andrews Streets. In 1906 a seven-room brick dwelling was built by Jessie Murdoch as her own residence.1

Description The house at 6 Black Street is a single-storey Edwardian tuckpointed red brick residence with symmetrical elevation to Black Street comprising a central recessed entrance flanked by projecting wings. The terracotta tiled roof is hipped over the main part of the house, with subsidiary gables over the side bays. The two gable ends are infilled with vertical timber straps and roughcast render, and have bargeboards ornamented with paterae. Each of the two bays has a window opening with a segmental arched head, and containing tripartite timber-framed sashes. The window openings are flanked by red brick pilasters. The recessed porch between the bays has a fretted timber frieze, and a front door with particularly wide sidelights.

Comparative Examples Le Grange, 13 Linacre Road, Hampton

Significance The house at 6 Black Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is an Edwardian house of unusual composition which displays some interesting decorative detail derived from Classical sources. The house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street, which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1906, 1907.

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Building: Elwin Significance: B

Address: 8 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1890 Thomas a’Beckett, a gentleman, owned 68’ land on south-west side of Black Street between St. Andrews and Carpenter Streets. In 1891, a brick dwelling was built there, owned and occupied by Edward a’Beckett, an artist. A’Beckett continued to reside there in 1905 at which time the property had a frontage of 158 feet and was known as Elwin. 1

Description Elwin is an asymmetrical double-storey Gothic red brick house with a steeply pitched gabled roof. The Gable ends have vents with pointed arches, and timber bargeboards with king post finials. The windows are timber-framed casements; those to the projecting gabled section on the street elevation are embellished with rendered hood moulds. Alterations include the addition of a bay window to the west, a front porch, and extensions to the rear. The garden contains a large mature oak tree.

Significance Elwin, at 8 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is an interesting example of a simplified nineteenth century Gothic style, unusual in the municipality. Its association with the a’Beckett family are of interest. The house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street, which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1890, 1891, 1906.

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Building: Pierrepont Significance: B

Address: 9 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1880

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Black Street is one of the streets indicated on the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey, within the town reserve. The house at 9 Black Street, formerly known as Pierrepont, was built c.1880.

Description The house at 9 Black Street, Brighton, is a double-fronted, single-storey, bichromatic brick Italianate villa, with a hipped slate roof. A verandah supported on cast iron columns runs across the street elevation, and has a concave profiled corrugated iron roof and cast iron lacework frieze. The brown brick walls are enlivened by cream brick quoining and voussoirs to the window and door openings. The panelled entrance door is flanked by double-hung sash windows. The chimneys are of brick and have moulded caps. The house is largely concealed from the street by mature vegetation. The cast iron front fence is not original.

Comparative Examples Beltana, 6 Allee Street, Brighton Hazelhurst, 59 Halifax Street, Brighton Hazelwood, 15-19 Barnett Street, Brighton Colombo, 417 New Street, Brighton 400 Bay Street, Brighton Lumeah, 85 Outer Crescent, Brighton Coggeshall, 92 Beach Road, Hampton Thanet Cottage, 2 Southey Street, Brighton Grutle, 57 Halifax Street, Brighton Toiyabe, 42 Were Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 9 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is a good and substantially intact example of bichromatic brick villa. As a typical house of the Boom period, it demonstrates a key phase in the residential settlement of Brighton.

Identified By Bayside City Council

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Building: Bramber Significance: B

Address: 10 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1888

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History In 1888, Thomas a’Beckett, a barrister, built a thirteen-room brick dwelling on land with 66’ frontage onto the south-west side of Black Street1. By 1896 the property was in the hands of the Executors of Thomas a’Beckett and remained so in 1905. During that time the property was leased to various tenants. By 1906 it was known as Bramber.2 T T a’Beckett was a prominent member of late Victorian Brighton Society, being a pew holder at St. Andrew’s Church, member of the Brighton Horticultural Society and Rechabite. He was also a member of the provisional committee of the St. Kilda and Brighton Railway Co., formed in 1857 by Members including other Brighton landowners.

Description Bramber is a substantial double-storey Italianate rendered brick residence with an asymmetrical double-fronted composition. It has a hipped slate roof supported at the eaves line by timber brackets which have paterae ornamentation between. A cast iron roof forms a balcony at the upper level and a verandah at the lower, supported on iron columns and with a cast iron lacework frieze and balustrade. The projecting wing has a canted bay window at both levels. The exterior is marred by inappropriate rendering and painting, although this is reversible.

Comparative Examples Bendurb, 18 Montclair Avenue, Brighton

Significance Bramber, at 10 Black Street, Brighton, is of historical significance. It has associations with the final years of T T a’Beckett’s life and thus is important for its links with one of Brighton’s most prominent citizens. It is indirectly connected with the history of the Brighton Beach railway, and in particular, the pier tunnel portal and is a dominant element in the Black Street precinct. The house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street ,which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1888. 2 Rate Books 1896, 1906.

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Building: Gisland Significance: B

Address: 13 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre 1875

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Peter Curran, described as a gentleman, was in residence here in 1875, where he remained, as the owner/occupant in 18821. By 1890 2, ownership had passed to Jane Curran, and by 1905 Gisland was owned by William Carrick, gentleman 3.

Description Gisland is a double-fronted symmetrical Victorian rendered brick villa with a hipped slate roof that is supported at the eaves line by paired timber brackets. The verandah has a shallow concave corrugated iron roof with a distinctive groin vaulted portion above the front door, and is supported on wrought iron trellises with timber valence between. The original outbuildings are in situ.

Comparative Examples St Leonards, 20 Agnew Street, East Brighton Myrtle Bank, 153 New Street, Brighton 45 Agnew Street, East Brighton Westella, 356 New Street, Brighton Benarty, 40 Bay Street, Brighton 101 South Road, Brighton 441 Bay Street, Brighton Clonaig, 230 North Road, East Brighton Lauriston, 457 Bay Street, Brighton Stonehaven, 12 Thomas Avenue, Moorabbin Carolside, 60 Halifax Street, Brighton Woodcliffe, 87 Well Street, Brighton 9 Gordon Street, Hampton Stanton, 3 Wellington Street, Brighton 11 Hoyt Street, Hampton

Significance Gisland, at 13 Black Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. The house is particularly noteworthy for its unusual verandah design, incorporating a barrel vaulted section, timber valance and distinctive trellis supports. The garden and fencing are also of note and enhance this intact building. The house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street, which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book. 2 Rate Book 1891. 3 Rate Book.

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Building: Craigie Lea Significance: B

Address: 14 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1910

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History In 1905, William Carrick owned land 132’ x 165’ on the south-west side of Black Street between Carpenter and St. Andrews Streets.1 In 1910 the land had been subdivided into two blocks each 66’ x 165’. The land nearer Carpenter Street, 14 Black Street, was sold to Thomas Cunningham, a civil servant, who built a seven-room weatherboard dwelling for his residence in 1910. In 1911, the property was known as Craigie Lea.2.

Description Craigie Lea is a single-storey Edwardian timber villa with a terracotta tiled roof that is hipped over the main part of the house, with subsidiary gables over projecting bays to the front and side elevations. The gable ends are infilled with timber straps and roughcast render. Exterior walls are clad in weatherboard to dado height, with roughcast render above.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton 176 New Street, Brighton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance Craigie Lea, at 14 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic historical significance. It is a substantially intact example of an Edwardian villa. Typical Edwardian architectural elements include roughcast upper walls, complex roof plan and timber-framed window hoods. The house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street, which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1906. 2 Rate Book 1911, 1912.

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Building: Former Congregational Church, Significance: A Organ and Memorial Lych Gate

Address: 17 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Church Construction Date: 1875, 1954 Architect: Charles Webb Builder: James Bonham

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History The Reverend Henry Kidgell established regular services at Brighton in a tent, in Carpenter Street, following his move to Brighton in 1853. In September, 1857, the present site was purchased and a timber chapel erected during the following year, at a cost of eight hundred pounds. The Minister was the Reverend W R Lewis, later founder of the Brighton Mechanics’ Institute. He was succeeded in 1868 by the Reverend John Legge. In 1869 Dr Von Mueller, director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, donated some trees for the church grounds, and the Honourable James Balfour laid the foundation stone of the present building on 15 June 1875. The building was designed by architect and local resident Charles Webb. The construction cost was 2,826 pounds and 17 shillings and the first service was held on 2 December 1875. S P Simmonds, a prominent local real estate agent, served a deacon of the church for forty five years. The lych gate was erected in 1954 in memory of A and M E Jack. The architect is unknown, but the builder was Davidson & Chilman. The Jack family had a long association with the church, some serving as deacons. Andrew Jack had purchased a paper bag manufacturing business in 1865 and became one of Melbourne’s most distinguished merchants. Jack, who died in 1912, lived at Kilkerran at 2 William Street, Brighton.

Description The former Congregational church is a polychromatic brick building in the Early English Gothic manner. The street facade is divided by two octagonal towers which rise above the parapet to form rendered turrets. Between the two towers is an unusual rose window, with a raked arcaded corbel table along the parapet above. The main entry takes the form of a compound pointed arch with a gable above, topped with a fleuron and flanked by rendered quatrefoils. At the extremities of the front elevation are narrow lancet windows with rendered surrounds which include collonettes with foliated capitals. These windows are repeated along the side elevations, alternating with buttresses. A vestry has been added at the rear of the church. Inside, the floor is ramped down to the raised sanctuary, the walls are rendered and painted and six decorated king post trusses support the varnished pine lined ceiling which follows the form of the slated gable roof. The paintwork includes elaborate stencilling in the form of a dado border and double borders to windows and door openings, and to the ceiling line. The narthex is separated from the nave by means of an arcaded timber screen, with quatrefoil lights. Memorials record the names of former deacons, ministers and prominent citizens of Brighton. The Fincham organ of 1884, although since electrified, retains its original mechanical action. There is also stained glass by the noted firm of Ferguson and Urie. The lych gate is a timber-framed structure of rough timber posts, with arch braces, which support a series of miniature king post trusses. These, in turn, support a gabled roof clad in terracotta shingle tiles. The grounds of Trinity Uniting Church contain a number of significant mature trees. These trees include a Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) and three Bhutan Cypress (Cupressus torulosa) donated by Baron von Mueller in 1869 to improve the church grounds. These trees have all been recorded on the National Trust (Victoria) Register of Significant Trees. There are two unsealed driveways into the church grounds, with a small parking area beside the church building. Garden beds are defined by basalt edging, and consist of plantings contemporary in style.

Comparative Examples St Finbars Catholic Church, 90 Centre Road, East Brighton St Cuthberts Presbyterian Church, 10 Wilson Street, Brighton

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Significance The former Congregational Church, organ and lych gate at 17 Black Street, Brighton, are of outstanding historical and aesthetic significance. The church is a good example of an Early English Gothic style in polychromatic brick. Its interior is substantially intact and is noteworthy for its stencil work, Fincham organ, and stained glass. The Church is important as an example of Charles Webb’s ecclesiastical work, whilst its links with the people of Brighton and its role as a place of worship within the Brighton community are significant. The lych gate is important, and its associations with the long-established Jack family are of interest. Trinity Uniting Church is of local significance to the City of Bayside for its historical association with Baron von Mueller, who in 1869 donated a number of trees. The trees represent typical churchyard plantings of the nineteenth Century and contribute to the character of the precinct.

Sources Andrew C Ward & Associates National Trust (Victoria) Register of Significant Trees

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Building: Buccleugh, later Vierville Significance: B

Address: 18 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1885

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History According to the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory of 1885, there was only one house, occupied by a Mrs H Smith, on the west side of Black Street, between Carpenter and St Andrew’s Streets. The rate books for 1886 indicate that an eight room brick house had been erected along that stretch. It was owned and occupied by John P Wilson, a doctor, who was still living there in 1900.1 By 1905, Dr Wilson was renting the house to James Minifie, the founder of James Minifie and Co., Flour Millers.2 At that time, the house was identified as Buccleugh. When Minifie moved to Bonleigh, the house in Black Street was acquired by Philip de Crespigny, bank inspector. He renamed the house Vierville, and was still living there as late as 1917.3 He apparently died in the 1920s, and the house, under the ownership of the executors of his estate, was leased to Ellen Paice, a widow, by 1930.4 The dwelling at 18B Black Street is a dual occupancy, of relatively recent origin, at the rear of the site.

Description Viervill is a double-storey symmetrical Victorian brick villa with a hipped slate roof that is supported on paired timber brackets at the eaves line. The side walls are red face brickwork, while the street front is rendered, with incised ornament. The double-storey verandah has a skillion corrugated iron roof, supported on slender iron columns with cast iron lacework frieze and balustrade. There are canted bay windows at the lower level, and the front door is at the side of the building to which a porch has recently been added. The centrally-placed oversized chimney is a prominent element.

Comparative Examples Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton Shirley, 2 Manor Street, Brighton Craigmilla, 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton Eling, 139 North Road, Brighton 166-168 Church Street, Brighton Coonara, 17 Roslyn Street, Brighton Ashleigh Lodge, 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton Dunvegan, 5 Seymour Grove, Brighton Farleigh, 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton Craig Hall, 2 South Road, Hampton Tanderagee, 70 Halifax Street, Brighton Ebrington, 23 South Road, Brighton Thornleigh Lodge, 9 Willansby Avenue, Brighton Edgecome, 134 Were Street, Brighton Jesmond, 66 Hanby Street, Brighton Kilkerran, 6 William Street, Brighton

Significance Viervill, at 18 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a substantially intact example of the villa type characterised by double-storey double-fronted design. Its association with the founder of the eminent firm of James Minifie & Co. is of some interest. This prominent house makes an important contribution to the overall streetscape of Black Street, which contains a mix of late Victorian and Edwardian building stock. The dwelling at 18B Black Street is of no heritage significance.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1886, 1888, 1897, 1900. 2 Rate Book 1905. 3 Rate Book 1910, 1917. 4 Rate Book 1930.

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Building: Ightham Significance: B

Address: 21 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1883

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History There was a small two-room brick cottage on this site by 1882, valued at £25 and owned by a Robert Gorman. No entry can be found in the rate books for 1883, but a six-room brick house, valued at £50, suddenly appeared the following year.1 It had no occupant, and the owner was identified as the Executors of the late Mrs Limbrick. According to the Victorian Probate Index, a Mrs Mary Limbrick, widow, died in Brighton on 16 December 1883. It would appear that Mrs Limbrick erected the large brick house on the corner of Black and Carpenter Streets, possibly for her own use, but died before the property was rated. The house remained in the possession of Mrs Limbrick’s executors for many years, and was occupied by a succession of tenants. The first was Alexander Ferris, an accountant, who lived there until 1889.2 The next occupant was Andrew Shaw, an importer, who lived there in 1890. This was in fact the same Andrew Shaw who built the mansion ‘Invermay’ on the corner of Hampton and Stanley Streets (see seperate datasheet). Invermay was completed in 1891, so Shaw was obviously renting in nearby Black Street while his new house was under construction.3 In 1891, the house at 21 Black Street was occupied briefly by Clara David, a teacher. James Harbison, a medical practitioner, became the next tenant, and lived there until 1899. He then moved to Tanderagee at 70 Halifax Street. (see separate datasheet). He was no doubt a relative of William Harbison, who arrived in Brighton in the 1850s and became a prominent timber merchant and councillor. William Harbison’s business was located on the corner of Cochrane and Bay Street, where he erected Burgess House in 1862 (see seperate datasheet). According to the rate books for 1899, the house at 21 Black Street was occupied, as well as owned, by the Executors of the late Mrs Limbrick. By 1905, the house had been purchased by Alfred Holtiz, who was renting it to Sophia Hoffman, a widow. At that time, the house was known as Ightham, and was described as a seven-room timber dwelling on a 66’ by 142’ allotment, valued at £36.4

Description The house at 21 Black Street is a single-storey, asymmetrical bichromatic brick Victorian villa with a hipped slate roof. The walls are of brown brick with cream brick quoining and dressings to openings. The front elevation comprises a symmetrical section, with a door flanked by single windows, beside a projecting canted bay. The return verandah has simple square-section timber posts, and a corrugated iron skillion roof. Garden plantings include several Phoenix canariensis.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Ightham, at 21 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a particularly intact example of an unusually-composed asymmetrical Victorian villa employing a somewhat unsophisticated use of bichromatic brickwork. The house is also of interest for its passing associations with important Brighton residents William Harbsion and Andrew Shaw.

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1 Rate Book 1882, 1883, 1884. 2 Rate Book 1885-89. 3 Rate Books, various. 4 Rate Book 1899, 1905.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 33 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1920

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History Black Street is one of the streets indicated on the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey, within the town reserve. 33 Black Street was built c.1920, at which time the property was occupied by Arthur Moss.1

Description The house at 33 Black Street Brighton is an unusual single-storey bungalow constructed of red and clinker brick. The house is rectangular in plan, with a corner entrance porch supported on clinker brick piers. A distinctive rendered hood encircles the house, supported on rendered brackets. The low pitched roof is concealed behind a red brick parapet on the street elevation, which has curved rendered copings and rendered piers. One of the piers is also a chimney: an unusual feature. Windows on the street elevation are paired double-hung sashes, with leadlighted upper panes. The concrete driveway may be original.

Comparative Examples 49 Victoria Street, Sandringham 1 Lorac Avenue, Brighton 23 Bamfield Street, Sandringham

Significance The house at 33 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The composition and details of this inter-War bungalow are particularly unusual; of note are the distinctive bracketed hood and the parapet chimney.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, 1920.

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Building: Wyuna Significance: B

Address: 35-37 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1874, 1875

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History By 1872, the solicitor, Edward Gibbs owned land and a three-room brick and weatherboard residence on this site. In 1874 or 1875, this small house had been demolished to make way for a ten-room brick mansion, known as Wyuna. By 1885, it was owned by George Brind, warehouseman. He sold it that year to George W Hay, squatter, who was still living there in 1899.

Description Wyuna is a large double-storey Italianate rendered brick mansion with a hipped slate roof. The main portion of the house is double-fronted and asymmetrical, with a skillion roofed return verandah supported on iron columns with a narrow frieze of cast iron lacework. The projecting room has tripartite round arched window openings at both levels, with pilasters and moulded architraves. On the other side of this bay is a four-storey square tower with a hipped slate roof, supported on brackets at the eaves line and topped with an iron weathervane. There is much decorative detail in the form of quoining, pilasters, paterae and incised ornament.

Comparative Examples Cluden, 4 Archer Court, East Brighton Parana, 7 Bagley Street, Brighton Ratho, 29 Heithfield Road, East Brighton Landcox, 1-7 Mavis Avenue, East Brighton Gallia, 65 South Road, Brighton St Leonards, 163 South Road, Brighton Chevy Chase, 203 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Wyuna, at 37-39 Black Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is a good and substantially intact example of a tower mansion, of which there are several in Brighton. The ornate decorative detail on the tower is of particular interest.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Spurling House Significance: A

Address: 38 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1888

Architect: John Horbury Hunt Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History The house at 38 Black Street, Brighton, was designed by John Horbury Hunt (1838-1904), who was one of the first important North American architects to practice in Australia. Born in Nova Scotia, Hunt trained as an architect in Boston. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Hunt hoped to escape it by travelling to India, but when his ship stopped over in Sydney, he was so impressed with the employment opportunities that he decided to settle there. There, he worked with important local architects Edmund Blacket and John Hilly, before setting up his own practice. He soon became known for his eccentric personality and fierce dedication. He was described by his biographer, Max Freeland, as a fiery, turbulent, impetuous bantam fighting-cock of a man, a perpetually tightly wound spring of energy, an egotist, an individualist and, with it all, an excellent architect.1 Hunt’s output was quite small, and he completed only about eighty buildings during his thirty year career in Australia. In the early years of his career, he built residences in the Queen Anne style, and numerous brick churches. In 1888, his style changed as he began to be influenced by the so-called Shingle Style then popular in the United States, which was characterised by the use of stained split shingles as wall cladding. This distinctive style would not become generally fashionable in Australia until the first decade of the twentieth century, with the work of architects such as Oakden & Ballantyne.2 The first in Hunt’s series of remarkable Shingle-style houses was built in 1888 at 38 Black Street, Brighton, for Miss Phyllis Spurling. It is one of less than ten such houses that he built before his career foundered after the 1890s depression, and it is also the only building that the Sydney-based Hunt ever built in Victoria. Max Freeland has identified the five best examples of Hunt’s shingle style, but notes that ‘none of the [other] four is quite so brilliant and breathtaking as the little Spurling House in Black Street, Brighton’.3

Description The Spurling House is a double-storey face brick dwelling with an dominating gabled slate roof. The external walls of the attic storey are clad in stained shingles. At the lower level is a recessed verandah supported on square timber posts with struts. Distinguishing features include a substantial corbelled dark brown brick chimney, visually linked with the brick faced ground floor level walls. The double-hung windows are shuttered and hooded with shingles, whilst the recessed front verandah is carried on a bracketed timber post.

Comparative Examples Du Faur House, Warrawee, New South Wales (John Horbury Hunt, 1888) Horden House, Waitara, New South Wales (John Horbury Hunt, 1891) Martin House, 686 Toorak Road, Toorak (Oakden & Ballantyne, 1908; demolished) Significance The Spurling House, at 38 Black Street, Brighton, is of outstanding historical and aesthetic significance. It is a seminal example of the so-called Shingle style which was popular in the United States in the 1880s but almost unknown in Australia until the 1910s. It is one of the best examples of the residential work of John Horbury Hunt, who was one of the first important North American architects to practice in Australia. It is also extremely rare as the only example in Victoria of the work of this Sydney-based architect.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 J M Freeland, ‘John Horbury Hunt’ in Howard Tanner (ed) Architects of Australia. p 79. 2 D L Johnson, Australian Architecture 1901-51: Sources of Modernism. pp 53-58 3 Ibid. p 83.

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Building: St Ronan’s Significance: B

Address: 41 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1880

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Black Street is one of the streets indicated on the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey, within the town reserve. St Ronan’s was built c.1880; the first occupant was Edward Gibbs. Gibbs is first listed in Black Street in 1876, at which time Black Street is not listed by street number. St Ronan’s is the only house listed between the railway line and Male Street until c.1920. The house passed through the Gibb family: in c.1910 it was occupied by C H Gibbs; in c.1915-30 it was occupied by Dr Norman Gibbs. It 1950 it was occupied by Frank R Sinclair, it was then one of two houses between the railway line and Male Street.1

Description St Ronan’s is a large, single-storey nineteenth century villa situated on a large corner block, designed in the Italianate style. The house is rendered and has a hipped slate roof. The entrance elevation is asymmetrical, with a projecting bay to the east terminating the cast iron verandah. The verandah has ornate cast iron lacework and a concave profiled corrugated iron roof. The west elevation features a similar cast iron verandah and a double-storey tower with a parapeted mansard roof surmounted by a small balustraded widow’s walk and flagpole.

Comparative Examples Otley, 1 Clive Street, East Brighton Totnes, 36 Middle Crescent, Brighton Bronte, 2 Sussex Street, Brighton Lozelle, 36 Roslyn Street, Brighton

Significance St Ronan’s, at 41 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is a good example of the late nineteenth century Italianate style; of particular note is the parapeted tower with its slated mansard roof. As a substantial house from the Boom period, it demonstrates a key phase in the residential settlement of Brighton.

Identified By Bayside City Council

1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 42A Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1880

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Black Street is one of the streets indicated on the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey, within the town reserve. 42A Black Street appears to have been built c.1880.

Description The house at 42A Black Street, Brighton, is a double-fronted, single-storey, symmetrical villa. Walls are of rendered brickwork, and the hipped slate roof has timber bracketed eaves. The central entrance door has narrow sidelights and a highlight, and is flanked by semi-octagonal bay windows with double-hung sashes extending to floor. The verandah is supported on cast iron Corinthian columns and has ornate lacework with a fern motif, and an ornate tessellated tiled floor. The verandah breaks forward to accommodate the two bay windows. Chimneys are rendered, with moulded caps.

Comparative Examples Cleavemont, 57 Bay Road, Sandringham Andover, 165 Church Street, Brighton 28 Cromer Road, Beaumaris Kotska Hall, 47 South Road, Brighton Rathgar, 24 Tennyson Street, Brighton Lochiel, 80 Were Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 42A Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is a good example of a late nineteenth century villa, distinguished by its particularly ornate cast iron verandah. As a substantial house from the Boom period of the 1880s, it demonstrates a key phase in the residential settlement of Brighton.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 52 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1912

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Black Street is one of the streets indicated on the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey, within the town reserve. 52 Black Street was built in 1912 for owner-occupier William Hiscocks, a newsagent. The brick house, with a Net Annual Value of £60, comprised seven rooms on land 100 feet by 50 feet.1

Description The house at 52 Black Street, Brighton, is a single-storey polychromatic brick villa, with hipped and gabled slate roofs with rendered coved eaves. The house is asymmetrically planned. A gabled section projects from the entrance elevation and has a semi-octagonal bay with double-hung sashes. To the south is a return verandah with a bullnose profiled corrugated iron roof, cast iron columns and cast iron lacework. The red face brick walls have contrasting cream brick quoining, diaperwork and moulded string course beneath the eaves. Windows have cream and black brick voussoirs, and a cream and black brick string course runs across the street elevation. The chimney is of red and cream brick, with unusual scrolled and swagged ornamentation. The front fence is not original.

Comparative Examples Waverley, 63 Bay Road, Sandringham West Craig, 75 Champion Street, Brighton Mount Pleasant, 73 Champion Street, Brighton Corra Lynn, 28 Elwood Street, Brighton Ingleside, 845 Hampton Street, Brighton Glynn, 42 New Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 52 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. As an unusual Edwardian villa featuring some Victorian Survival characteristics, the house has numerous interesting decorative details; of particular note are the lively use of polychromatic brickwork and the unusual moulded chimney cap.

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1 Brighton City Council Rate Book, 1912-13.

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Building: Ronbaix Significance: B

Address: 55 Black Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1889

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Black Street is one of the streets indicated on the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey, within the town reserve. 55 Black Street, formerly known as Ronbaix, was built in 1889 for Edwin Epon, a superintendent;1 the first occupant was Charles Robertson, a publican. It was described in Rate Books of that year as an eight-room brick and weatherboard house, with a Net Annual Value of £75.2 Later occupants were Mrs Francis Peyton (1890-1920s), Thomas Judd (1920s-1930s) and Alan D Rock (1950s).3

Description The house at 55 Black Street, Brighton, is a single-storey, polychromatic brick Italianate villa. Asymmetrically planned, the house has a hipped roof, probably originally slated but now clad in glazed terracotta tiles. Walls are of brown brick, with contrasting cream brick quoining, diaperwork and frieze beneath the bracketed eaves. The ornate cast iron verandah has a skillion corrugated iron roof. Windows are double-hung sashes; those to the semi-octagonal bay have round arched heads with alternating cream and red brick voussoirs.

Comparative Examples 2 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Kainga, 4 Allee Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Dunottar, 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Toxteth, 66 Champion Street, Brighton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Engadine, 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Bulow, 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 55 Black Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is a good and relatively intact example of the nineteenth century Boom style, and thus demonstrates a key period of residential settlement in Brighton. Of note is the lively use of polychromatic brickwork. The appearance of the house has been marred by the replacement of the original roofing material.

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1 Brighton City Council Rate Book, 1889. 2 Brighton City Council Rate Book, 1889. 3 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Black Rock Baby Health Centre Significance: B

Address: 51 Bluff Road, Black Rock Melway Map Ref: 85 K3

Building Type: Health Centre Construction Date: 1939

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The foundation stone of the Black Rock Baby Health Centre was laid in August 1939 by the Mayor of Sandringham, Cr Fred L Yott J P. The building cost £1,750, and was opened by the Mayoress, Mrs A J Steel, in November of the same year. The City of Sandringham employed Sister Margaret Ada Bowie to attend to all the mothers and babies in the suburb between 1924 and 1943.1

Description The Black Rock Baby Health Centre is a small, single-storey, Moderne style building constructed of cream brick, with a flat roof concealed behind a brick parapet. The building is asymmetrically composed, and has a projecting semi-circular bay with floor-to-ceiling steel-framed windows beneath a projecting concrete hood. The name of the building in steel letters is affixed to the parapet above the hood. The building has a manganese brick base and two manganese brick string courses at parapet level. According to a contemporary account in the Argus, the building had a playground at the rear and, internally, a waiting room, consulting room, test feed room, sisters’ room and kitchen.2

Comparative Examples Residence, 9 Lefevre Street, Sandringham Brighton Maternal & Child Health Centre, Parliament Street, Brighton Elizabeth Bleazby Baby Health Centre, Palmer Avenue, East Brighton Hampton Baby Health Centre, 483 Hampton Street, Hampton

Significance The Black Rock Baby Health Centre, at 51 Bluff Road, Black Rock, is of aesthetic and historical significance. The Moderne style of the building is characteristic of the health centres constructed during this period, displaying typical features such as cream brickwork, steel-framed windows, a cantilevered concrete hood and steel lettering.

Source National Trust of Australia (Victoria)

1 C Crockett, The History of the Baby Health Centre Movement in Victoria 1917-1976. January 1997, p. vii. 2 Argus, 28 August 1939, quoted in C Crockett, The History of the Baby Health Centre Movement in Victoria 1917-1976. January 1997, p. vii.

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Building: Sandringham Metropolitan Fire Significance: B Station Address: 264 Bluff Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 77 A11

Building Type: Fire Station Construction Date: 1924

Architect: Cedric Ballantyne Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Until the late nineteenth century fire fighting was undertaken by volunteer fire brigades, often established under the auspices of local municipal councils. In 1891 these volunteer brigades were disbanded and all fire-fighting activity became the responsibility of the newly established Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board. The 1890 Fire Brigades Act gave the board the authority to form fire fighting units, to train and house firemen, and to accommodate their fire vehicles in purpose- designed buildings. In the 1890s and early twentieth century numerous fire stations were erected by the MFB in the suburbs of Melbourne, designed by a variety of well-known architects.1 In the early twentieth century, the MFB engaged the practice of Oakden and Ballantyne to design its stations, including Richmond (1917), Glenhuntly (1919), Ivanhoe (1911), Abbotsford (1916), Ascot Vale (1927), Essendon (1930) and Oakleigh (1931).2 The former Sandringham Metropolitan Fire Station No. 36, situated in the ‘D’ District of Melbourne, was constructed in 1924 to Ballantyne’s design, replacing an existing station which had opened in 1901.3 Oakden and Ballantyne, known after 1920 as Oakden Ballantyne and Hare, was a prolific practice whose work included offices, shops and factories as well as many houses designed in the popular bungalow styles. Its principal partner, Cedric Ballantyne, is best known for his design for the Regent Theatre in Collins Street, completed in 1929.4 The fire station designs for the MFB were a particular speciality, usually characterised by the use of red brick work with contrasting bands of render and bearing the MFB crest. These buildings contrast with the stations erected in the 1930s which were designed in the cream brick Moderne style by architects Seabrook and Fildes.5

Description The former fire station is a double-storey red brick building, situated at the corner of Bluff and Holloway Roads. The Bluff Road elevation is symmetrical and has a central projecting section with a hipped terracotta tiled roof and a central brick pediment containing the crest of the MFB. The words METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADE are inscribed in raised rendered lettering in the frieze between the two storeys, and the otherwise plain red brick walls are relieved by soldier courses and diaper patterns. Windows are double-hung with multi-paned upper sashes and moulded sills. The original large openings at ground floor level which accommodated the fire engines have been infilled with red brick walls, each with a multi-paned double-hung sash window. The fenestration of the side elevations is irregular, and open staircases at the rear provide access to the original residential staff accommodation. The former Sandringham Metropolitan Fire Station is nearly identical in design to the Coburg No. 6 Station, on Sydney Road, constructed in 1925 (demolished).6

Significance The former Sandringham Metropolitan Fire Station at 264 Bluff Road, Sandringham, is of historical interest and aesthetic significance. The fire station, erected in 1924, was one of many constructed by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board following the implementation of the 1890 Fire Brigades Act. The Sandringham Fire Station is a typical example, originally incorporating both a fire engine house and staff quarters. The building was designed by Cedric Ballantyne, prolific Melbourne architect who was engaged by the MFB to design numerous other stations from the early twentieth century until the late 1920s. The free classical revival style building belongs to a group of suburban fire stations of the 1920s which illustrate Ballantyne’s stylistic preference for a domestic appearance, and which contrasts with the later Moderne style stations designed by Seabrook and Fildes.

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1 Summarised from: Allom Lovell & Associates, Former Metropolitan Fire Brigade Building 636-640 Swanston Street, Carlton, Preliminary Heritage Appraisal, 1997, p. 2. 2 S Wilde, Life Under the Bells, pp. 109-111. 3 S Wilde, Life Under the Bells, p. 110. 4 Summarised from: Allom Lovell & Associates, Former Metropolitan Fire Brigade Building 636-640 Swanston Street, Carlton, Preliminary Heritage Appraisal, 1997, p. 2. 5 Summarised from: Allom Lovell & Associates, Former Metropolitan Fire Brigade Building 636-640 Swanston Street, Carlton, Preliminary Heritage Appraisal, 1997, p. 2. 6 S Wilde, Life Under the Bells, p. 84.

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Building: Summerhill Significance: B

Address: 270-272 Bluff Road, Melway Map Ref: 77 A11 Sandringham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891?

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Prior to 1891 the history of the occupancy of Summerhill is unclear in the Sands & McDougall directories. In this year Frank Curtayne is first recorded as the occupant of the property on Bluff Road to the south of Melbourne Road, now Bay Road, and by 1899 he is listed as the resident of the only property between Bay Road and Tent Street, now Holloway Road: presumably Summerhill.1 By 1905 Peter A Mills was occupant, who continued to reside there until 1919. After 1920 and until the 1950s the house was occupied by Alured S M Gray, and the house is still recorded as the only property between Bay Road and Tent Street until at least 1925.2 In 1937 the house was listed as No. 92 Bluff Road, but by the 1950s had been renumbered No. 270.3

Description Summerhill is a large, single-storey, block-fronted weatherboard Italianate style villa, asymmetrically planned with a hipped corrugated iron roof with bracketed eaves. A verandah with a concave corrugated iron roof returns around the north and west elevations, supported on cast iron Corinthian columns and with an ornate timber and cast iron frieze. The verandah is terminated by a canted bay on the side (north) elevation; unusually, the entrance door is also situated on the side elevation. Windows are double-hung sashes with moulded timber architraves and chimneys are rendered, with moulded caps.

Comparative Examples 14 Coape Street, Cheltenham Coronet Hill, 10 Coronet Grove, Beaumaris Stokeavilly, 109-11 Park Road, Cheltenham Thule, 25 Tennyson Street, Brighton Claramae, 141 Weatherall Road, Cheltenham

Significance Summerhill, at 270-272 Bluff Road, Sandringham, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a large and substantially intact example of a nineteenth century Italianate style villa, characterised by block- fronting and ornate cast iron verandah details.

Identified By Bayside City Council

1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various. 3 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, 1937, 1956.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton Melway Map Ref: 76 F4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1936

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at 35 Bolton Avenue was constructed in 1936 with Frank Perry being the occupant. In the early 1940s Leslie Downie occupied the house, while Mrs Margaret Syme was the resident during the Second World War. In 1950, the house was occupied by Allan Hattam.1

Description The house at 35 Bolton Avenue is a double-storey inter-War Old English style residence, with a steeply pitched gabled roof clad in glazed terracotta tiles. The lower floor is of clinker brick, with a half-timbered upper level, and windows are double-hung with multi-paned upper sashes. A sympathetic double-storey addition exists to the east, with three garages at ground floor level and matching half-timbering at first floor level.

Comparative Examples 6 Bay Street, Brighton 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris Culverkeys, 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham 188 Church Street, Brighton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton The Gables, 7 Brandon Road, Brighton

Significance The house at 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a good example of the inter-War Old English style which was prominent in Australia during the 1930s. The residence features picturesque elements such as a steep gabled roof, half-timbering to the upper storey and multi-paned sash windows which are all characteristic of the style.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Bonleigh Significance: B

Address: 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1871 or earlier

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Bonleigh is first listed in the rate books in 1871.1 Described as an eight room brick house with lodge and stables, it was owned and occupied by Frederick Taylor, a gentleman, and valued at £275.2 The following year, the property had been acquired by Henry Loughnan, a squatter, who owned and occupied it until 1876.3 From 1877 until 1890, the property was owned and occupied by John R Ross, listed from 1877 until 1881 as a banker, in 1883 as an accountant. and thereafter as a gentleman. An amendment to the rate book entry in 1891 shows John Ross to have been followed as occupier by Isabella Ross, with the property owned by the executors of the estate of John Ross.4 The rate books list neither the owner or occupier of the property in 1894, but from 1895, it was owned variously by the London Bank5 and the Standard Bank.6 During these Depression years, occupants included Robert Hay, a grazier (1893)7, Richard Hodge Francis, a gentleman (1895)8 and Mary Petchey (1896).9 From 1896 until at least 1904, the house was occupied by Arthur Champion Groom, listed variously as an agent and an auctioneer.10 The property is first named Bonfield in the Sands & Mc
Dougall directories and the rate books of 1901.11 Prior to 1901, the property was rated to St Kilda Street, and stretched from St Kilda Street to the beach. The extent of the property is indicated on the MMBW map12, which also shows the stone sea wall which formed the western boundary of the land, and into which a timber picket fence was set.13 From 1900, the rate books and directories list to property in Martin Street.14 The description of the property in the rate books varies considerably over the years to 1901. From 1871 until 1874, the house itself was listed as having eight rooms, rising to ten rooms in 1879, twelve from 1880 until 1883 and fourteen from 1885.15 The gate lodge is mentioned most years, and the stables several times, although the rate books are highly inconsistent in their rating of the land area of the property, with the house and its immediate grounds sometimes being rated separately from the remaining 5 acres.16 Consequently, the rate books shed little light on the date of construction of the prominent double-storey front verandah. Interestingly, in 1872 the property, on over four acres, had a Net Annual Value of £275, and in 1893 £250; however this had fallen to only £75 in 1894, in the depth of the economic Depression.17 A map dated 1908 shows the subdivision of the Bonleigh estate into 12 allotments, four fronting St Kilda Street and eight, including Bonleigh, which retained Lot 12, a two acre site measuring 428’ by 180’, fronting Martin Street.18 The Bonleigh gate lodge, a four room brick building19 which straddled the boundary of Lots 6 and 7, was apparently demolished at this time.20 A photograph taken c.1917 after the ‘cyclone’ which hit Brighton shows a damaged, heavy timber- framed verandah with paired columns framing extensive areas of lattice panelling on the west elevation, with a convex-profile corrugated iron roof at first floor level, which had finer timber balustrading.21 In 1923-24, the property was further subdivided. A new street, the curving Bonleigh Avenue, was created between the house and the beach frontage, and the remaining land carved into small lots. In 1930, the rate books show that the 14-room Bonleigh, then owned by Augusta Pitt and valued at £14, was one of two developed lots in the new street, with five vacant lots still undeveloped.22 During World War Two, Bonleigh was apparently used as a boarding house; it was occupied by members of the Pitt family until 1962. These included Gertrude Augusta Pitt (1950), Henry Arthur Pitt (1956) and John Augustine Pitt (1962). In 1962, the property was acquired by Keith and Lorraine McLaren, and later still by the Lightfoot family.23

Description Bonleigh is a substantial double-storey Victorian rendered brick residence with a gabled slate roof. The street elevation has rusticated piers at the corners, but is otherwise dominated by a wide portico over both levels. At the ground level, the portico, which is a later addition (c.1919-2324), acts as a

216 Allom Lovell & Associates City of Bayside Heritage Review: Building Citations porte-cochère, with compound piers and round arched openings to the street. At the upper level, thick Tuscan piers support a heavy cornice and parapet. Council building permit files record that the carport and swimming pool date from 1978.25

Comparative Examples Viervill, 18 Black Street, Brighton Shirley, 2 Manor Street, Brighton Craigmilla, 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton Eling, 139 North Road, Brighton 166-168 Church Street, Brighton Coonara, 17 Roslyn Street, Brighton Ashleigh Lodge, 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton Dunvegan, 5 Seymour Grove, Brighton Farleigh, 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton Craig Hall, 2 South Road, Hampton Tanderagee, 70 Halifax Street, Brighton Ebrington, 23 South Road, Brighton Thornleigh Lodge, 9 Willansby Avenue, Brighton Edgecome, 134 Were Street, Brighton Jesmond, 66 Hanby Street, Brighton Kilkerran, 6 William Street, Brighton

Significance Bonleigh, at 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. Historically, the house remains an important remnant of one of Brighton’s extensive nineteenth century sea front estates. Aesthetically, the house is a substantially intact example of the type of seaside mansion which was extremely common in Brighton in the nineteenth century, but of which only a few examples remain.

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Notes Mr J E Langton-Bunker’s report on his property states that Bonleigh comprises two adjoining houses. The first, at the rear, was built for Robert Lawrence between 1852 and 1856. The ‘larger and grander house’, it is claimed was built for Lawrence Cockburn in 1862. In 1865, it was apparently offered for sale in substantially its current form. This information is not obvious from the rate books.

1 See the notes at the end of the datasheet. 2 Rate Books 1871. 3 Rate Books 1872 (No. 742), 1873 (No. 782), 1874 (No. 145), 1875 (No. 147), 1876 (No. 155). 4 Rate Books 1877-1892. 5 Rate Books 1895, 1900, 1901. 6 Rate Books 1896, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899. 7 Rate Books 1893. 8 Rate Books 1895. 9 Rate Books 1896. 10 Rate Books 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901. Sands & McDougall directories 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904. 11 Sands & McDougall directories 1901; Rate Books 1901. 12 MMBW Map No. 1800. 140’ to 1”. Undated. Held at the University of Melbourne. 13 Rosalind Landells. ‘Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton, 3184.’ 27 November 1989. Typescript held by the Brighton Historical Society. 14 Rate Books 1871-1901. Sands & McDougall directories 1900, 1901, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1920. 15 Rate Books 1871-1901. 16 Rate Books 1871-1901. 17 Rate Books 1872, 1893, 1894. 18 Plan of Crown Allotment 4, Parish of Prahran, dated 11 June 1908. 19 Rate Books 1890 passim. 20 Plan of Crown Allotment 4, Parish of Prahran, dated 11 June 1908. 21 Photograph held by the Brighton Historicical Society. 22 Rate Books 1930.

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23 David Bick & Rosalind Landells. ‘Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton, 3184.’ 27 November 1989. Typescript held by the Brighton Historical Society. 24 D Langton-Bunker. Submission 54 to Bayside Planning Scheme Panel Hearing. p 7. 25 City of Bayside Building Permit Records (Microfilm Copy).

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Building: City of Brighton Council Significance: A Offices Address: 15 Boxshall Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E10

Building Type: Library Construction Date: 1959

Architect: Oakley & Parkes & Partners (K Builder: Unknown F Knight)

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History After the end of World War Two, the Brighton Council experienced financial difficulty, struggling to balance its books in the face of strong inflation.1 As a result, expenditure on many desirable projects such as new health centres and pre-schools was curtailed in favour of more ‘essential’ services such as roads, reserves and garbage collection. By the 1950s, however, the situation had improved greatly. The municipality of Brighton was due to celebrate its centenary in 1959, and it was decided to erect new council offices as a lead-up to the celebration. The foundation stone was laid on 13 February 1959. The commission was entrusted to the architectural firm of Oakley & Parkes. The founding partner of the firm, Percy Allport Oakley (1883-1955) had served as a Brighton city councillor from 1919 to 1925, with a brief tenure as mayor in 1923.2 Oakley established his architectural firm with Stanley Parkes in 1926 after being in partnership with Alec Eggleston for a decade. Oakley & Parkes soon established themselves as an important and influential firm. In 1932, they were responsible for the design of Yule House in Collins Street, a glass-fronted Moderne office block which quickly became one of the most influential and imitated buildings of that decade.3 Oakley & Parkes had remodelled the Brighton Town Hall in 1933.4 Although Percy Oakley himself had died a few years before the new municipal offices were commissioned, his firm was obviously the sentimental favourite to design the building. The firm’s design architect, K F Knight, came up with a design that was strongly influenced by the work of important American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). In the years prior to, and immediately after, Wright’s death, his work became extremely fashionable and influential among young architects around the world. Many young Australian architects of the late 1950s and early 1960s were influenced by Wright’s work, including Chancellor & Patrick, David Godsell and Geoffrey Woodfall. The former City of Brighton council offices are now used as the Brighton branch of the City of Bayside Municipal Library.

Description The former City of Brighton council offices are a substantial red brick and concrete public building. The main compositional element is the distinctive cylindrical drum, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York (1946-59). Above ground level, the drum comprises three bands of face brickwork, each one projecting out slightly over the one below. The bands are divided by narrow concrete trim, and the drum is topped by a splayed concrete cornice, with a small projecting brick balcony marked by two flagpoles. Inside the cylindrical portion is a high circular public space with a spiral ramp (again derived from the Guggenheim Museum) which leads up to a semi-circular public lobby at first floor level giving access to the Mayor’s room and committee rooms. The remaining portion of the building has a strong horizontal composition. The ground floor has plain concrete columns, with full-height glazing between, supporting a flat concrete roof. The upper level has planes of glazing and face brickwork, the latter also with strip windows at the cornice line. The flat concrete roof has pierced eaves, and a projecting belvedere with strip windows. Much of this detail is derived from the later residential work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Located within the grounds of the Former Municipal Offices is a significant tree. The specimen, a mature Cork Oak (Quercus suber) with a wide-spreading canopy is in excellent condition and makes a very impressive contribution to the landscape. It is currently classified on the National Trust Register of Significant Trees, where it is noted as a dominant feature of the landscape.

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Comparative Examples Former Sandringham Municipal Offices, Sandringham (Bates, Smart and McCutcheon, 1966; altered) Former Nunawading Municipal Offices, Nunawading (Gert and Renate Block, 1965) Former Camberwell Civic Centre, Camberwell Road, Camberwell (Mockridge, Stahle & Mitchell, 1971)

Significance The former City of Brighton Council Offices at 15 Boxshall Street, Brighton, are of outstanding aesthetic and historical significance. It is a particularly fine and unusual example of a building in the then-fashionable style of the important American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, whose local influence was common in residential work at the time, but considerably rarer in large public buildings such as this one. It is also important as an example of the work of the established firm of Oakley & Parkes, and for its associations with municipal activity in Brighton. The distinctive building had landmark qualities enhanced by its landscaped setting The mature Cork Oak (Quercus suber) is significant for its size, canopy spread and its overall contribution to the landscape and amenity value of the surrounding area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Weston Bate. A History of Brighton. p 417. 2 Weston Bate. A History of Brighton. pp 440, 442. 3 D L Johnson, Australian Architecture 1901-51: Sources of Modernism. p 96. 4 Argus. 5 May 1933.

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Building: The Gables Significance: B

Address: 7 Brandon Road, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1911

Architect: Ashworth & Oakley Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Gables, at 7 Brandon Road, Brighton was designed in 1911 by architects Ashworth & Oakley for G Herbert. The house was thought by architectural historian Jon Clare to be ‘ahead of its time’ for its use of a ‘high set cross-ridged roof and small windows puncturing the white stuccoed wall surfaces’ rather than following the trend of low pitched roofs and broad bands of windows. The building was designed in the English Cottage idiom, a precursor to the architectural fashion of the 1920s.1

Description The Gables is a double-storey Arts & Crafts style cottage of red face brickwork, with a steep gabled terracotta tiled roof supported on corbelled brackets at the gable ends, which are infilled with horizontal boards. A gabled porch projects on the front elevation, supported on plain timber posts with diagonal struts. The small windows are multi-paned, being variously casement or double-hung sashes, and have brick sills and flat arches.

Comparative Examples 6 Bay Street, Brighton 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris Culverkeys, 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton 188 Church Street, Brighton

Significance The Gables, at 7 Brandon Road, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. Constructed in 1911, it is a particularly early example of the English Cottage style, and is important as a precursor to the English Domestic Revival style of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Source Jon Clare, ‘The post-Federation House in Melbourne, Bungalow and Vernacular Revival styles 1900- 1930’, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne, 1984.

1 J Clare, 'The post-Federation House in Melbourne: Bungalow and Vernacular Revival styles 1900-1930', Research Report, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne, October 1984, pp. 49-50.

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Building: Star of the Sea Catholic College Significance: B

Address: 5 Brickwood Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E6

Building Type: College Construction Date: 1887

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Founded on 22 March 1883, the Star of the Sea convent was first located in a rented house named Turret Lodge. In October 1884, the Presentation Sisters became the owners, and the Hayball brothers, local builders, carried out renovation works. The school’s first stone building was erected in 1887, forming the southern wing of the present structure, and in 1888 boarders were accepted. It accommodated the preparatory and Grade 1 children’s classrooms. In 1901, the Most Reverend T J Carey presided at the opening of the northern wing, which includes the tower base, and in 1917 the three-storey rendered brick building to the north was erected. In 1936 the northern wing of the tower, connecting it with the 1917 building was completed in a similar style. The balance of the College has been built since that date.

Description The Star of the Sea Catholic College is a double-storey Gothic Revival rusticated sandstone building on a bluestone plinth, being the southern portion of a proposed symmetrical design which was never completed. The steeply gabled slate roof has parapets at the gable ends, which contain circular blind windows with curving label moulds. The stonework is trimmed, with dressed work to the arcade arches, balustrading and foliated columns, and to the windows, parapet and gable ends. Windows have splayed sills and reveals, segmental arched heads, and contain multi-paned double-hung sashes. The central three-storey tower marks the entrance, approached through a lancet archway at its base. The garden statue of Mary and brick fence to Brickwood Street are of interest.

Significance The Star of the Sea Catholic College at 5 Brickwood Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It is important as part of the Catholic Church complex at this location, and for its association with the order of Presentation Sisters order, which founded convents elsewhere in Victoria and New South Wales during the nineteenth century.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Truro Significance: B

Address: 36 Brickwood Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1911-12

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History Brickwood Street is located north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton council in 1870.1 36 Brickwood Street was built in 1911-12 for Rachel Sampson, a married woman; the first occupant was William E Sampson, who was probably her husband. The six-room weatherboard house, with a Net Annual Value of £25, was known as Truro.2 William Sampson remained there until at least the 1930s. He had presumably died by 1950, when the occupant of the house was listed as Mrs Rachel Sampson.3

Description Truro is a double-storey timber residence in the English Tudor Revival style. The timber framing is exposed externally, and is infilled with fibrous cement sheeting to create a half-timbered effect. Some of the panels have decorative curved and diagonal timber bracing. The transverse gabled roof is clad in terracotta pantiles, and there is a subsidiary gambrel roof over the projecting bay at the upper level. This bay contains a row of double-hung sash windows with quatrefoil fretwork above. Other windows are variously double-hung or casement sashes, and all glazing has leadlighting in a lozenge pattern.

Significance Truro, at 36 Brickwood Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. Constructed in 1911-12, the house is an early and interesting example of the English Tudor Revival style, displaying several features which anticipate the inter-War English Domestic Revival style such as half-timbered walls, leadlight double-hung sashes and the use of terracotta pantiled gabled roof.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Brighton City Council Rate Book, 1911-12. 3 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Ellesmere, later Dunottar Significance: B

Address: 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Melway Map Ref: 76 G8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre Oct 1886

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History The land on which 31-33 Bridge Street was built was the subdivision of portion 21 known as Gipsy Village in 1852. This house is shown on the October 1886 Shire of Moorabbin plan. In 1892 Constable Mills was occupant of a brick house on lots 177 to 183 (350 feet frontage) north side of Bridge Street between Hampton Street and the railway line.1 The house was originally called Ellesmere, and Mother Mary McKillop stayed there in the late nineteenth century while convalescing.2

Description Dunottar is a double-fronted asymmetrical Victorian bichromatic brick villa with a hipped slate roof penetrated by matching brick chimneys. The return verandah, which is a recent reconstruction, has a corrugated iron skillion roof supported on timber posts. Window openings have cream brick quoining and voussoirs, segmental arched heads and bluestone sills. The openings contain timber-framed double-hung sashes, with those in the projecting bay being in a tripartite arrangement.

Comparative Examples 2 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Kainga, 4 Allee Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Ronbaix, 55 Black Street, Brighton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Toxteth, 66 Champion Street, Brighton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Engadine, 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Bulow, 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance Dunottar, at 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton, is of historical significance. It is a rare surviving bichromatic brick villa in the Hampton area. As an early residence associated with the 1852 Gipsy Village subdivision, it demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the municipality.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First entry Sands & McDougall Directory 2 Pers. comm. Cr Gavin Disney,

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Building: Heatherleigh Significance: B

Address: 9 Campbell Street, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1896?

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History The land on which No. 9 Campbell Street stands forms part of the Picnic Point Park Estate, which was released in January 1887. William Chambers, a manufacturer, had purchased Lots 23 and 26 of this estate by 1896. That year, he erected a large residence for himself, described in the rate books as being of timber construction.1 By 1900, the property was known as Heatherleigh. Mary Chambers, presumably wife of William, was listed as the owner and occupant of the house by 1916. At that time, it was rated as a nine room timber house.2 Although repeatedly described in the rate books as a timber house, it appears that the house erected by William Chambers in 1896 is the same. It was not unknown for a brick house to be described as timber in the rate books if it had half-timbered elements, as this house does. The style of the house seems to support this contention: the overall form of the building is typical of the Queen Anne style of the 1890s, although certain details such as the entry porch and bay window suggest that the house may have been remodelled in the early twentieth century. In any event, the house remained in the possession of the Chambers family for many years. The Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory for 1947 lists the occupant as Miss D W Chambers.

Description Heatherleigh is a large, double-storey, Queen Anne villa, constructed of red brick with steeply pitched terracotta tiled gabled roofs. Asymmetrically composed, a rectangular bay window with multi-paned sash windows projects on the south side and a verandah supported on simple timber posts exists to the north. Rendered string courses run across the facade. A segmented arched opening within a red brick porch marks the entrance. The gable ends are half-timbered in the Queen Anne style, and the tall chimneys are red brick with cement rendered Art Nouveau ornament and terracotta pots. A bracketed hood extends from the main gable over two of the first floor windows. The red brick fence is not original, and a double garage has been constructed on the front boundary.

Comparative Examples Heath Cliff, 37 Willis Street, Hampton

Significance Heatherleigh, at 9 Campbell Street, Sandringham, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial and relatively late example of the red brick Queen Anne style, retaining intact typical elements of the style including bracketed window hoods, half-timbered gable-ends and tall red brick chimneys. Unusual elements include the red brick entrance porch and the rectangular bay window with multi-paned sash windows.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 First entry Rate Book and Sands & McDougall Directory. 2 Rate Books 1895, 1896, 1900, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directories 1895, 1896. Parish Plan Moorabbin 1887.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 15 Campbell Street, Melway Map Ref: 76 H10 Sandringham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1905

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History The land on which No. 15 Campbell Street stands forms part of the Picnic Point Park Estate, which was released in January 1887. Subsequent development was slow, and Campbell Street is not listed at all in the Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory for 1894. In the 1901 edition, only two properties listed in Campbell Street. The house at the Southey Street end was occupied by William Chambers, while the one at the Tennyson Street end, known as Tooronga, was occupied by Fred Row. Chamber’s house, now No. 9 Campbell Street, had been erected in 1896 (see separate datasheet). The house at No. 15 Campbell Street appears to have been in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Description The house at 15 Campbell Street is a double-fronted single-storey asymmetrical Edwardian timber cottage with a hipped roof. The projecting room has a gabled roof, with a half-timbered infill and plain bargeboards supported on fretted brackets. The main roof hip extends down to form a continuous verandah roof, supported on turned timber posts, with a solid timber curved frieze between. The projecting room has a canted bay with a narrow timber-framed double-hung sash window on each of the three facets.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton 176 New Street, Brighton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance The house at No. 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is an interesting example of an early twentieth century timber villa which combines the stylistic influences of both the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As an early surviving house associated with the Picnic Point Estate, the house demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in Sandringham.

Identified By Allom Lovell & Associates Note: During the course of this study, this building has been demolished.

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Building: Bristol House Significance: B

Address: 12 Carew Street, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 G8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1900-01

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

Existing Heritage Listings: Recommended Heritage Listings:

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History In 1852 the land on which No. 12 Carew Street was built was released as part of Gipsy Village. In 1900 Charles Ellis owned lots 142 and 143 in Carew Street west side between Georgiana and Bridge Streets, on which he commenced building a house. By February, 1901 the house was completed and occupied by Ellis, a painter. By 1906 Charles Ivey, a police constable, lived there and the house was described as wood with seven rooms. The 1907 Sands & McDougall Directory lists the property as the Sandringham Police Station.1

Description Bristol House is a block-fronted asymmetrical single-storey villa with hipped corrugated iron roofs with timber bracketed eaves. The house has a return, skillion-roofed verandah with a cast iron lacework frieze, terminated at each end by projecting hipped-roof wings. Windows are double-hung sashes with timber moulded architraves. The tall chimneys are rendered, with moulded cappings.

Comparative Examples Newington, 28 Georgiana Street, Sandringham Luap, 13 Gordon Street, Hampton Coombe, 6 King Street, Sandringham Hazel Dell, 50 Middle Crescent, Brighton Clarence Gate, 391 New Street, Brighton 9 Parliament Street, Brighton Mirramarno, 16 Service Street, Hampton Mindoro, 23 William Street, Brighton

Significance Bristol House, at 12 Carew Street, Sandringham, is of aesthetic and historic significance. The building, constructed on the Gipsy Village subdivision, functioned as a police station during the early twentieth century. The house is a good and substantially intact example of an Italianate villa, retaining intact its ashlar patterned boarding, timber bracketed eaves and moulded chimney stacks.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1900, 1901, 1906. Sands & McDougall Directory 1907.

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Building: Former Brighton Courthouse Significance: B

Address: Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Courthouse Construction Date: 1936

Architect: Percy Everett, Public Works Builder: W A Medbury Department

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History William Wilson, father of Thomas Wilson, a councillor and a land speculator, owned land on the north side of Boxshall Street which extended to St Andrews Street. He sold land on the corner of Wilson and Carpenter Streets to the Council for its Town Hall. The first council offices and courthouse was held in an existing weatherboard shop at the corner of Carpenter & Wilson Streets. By 1861, the council had purchased this land and built a brick courthouse. The land was permanently reserved for the council in 1871. In 1886 a permanent Town Hall was erected in 1886, one year before the formation of the Town of Brighton in 1887. The hall, chamber and offices were remodelled in 1933. The third Brighton Courthouse was built in 1936 to the design of Percy Everett, the Chief Architect of the Public Works Department. It was built by W A Medbury in 1936 at a cost of £2,595.1 Percy Everett had been appointed Chief Architect in 1934, having previously been employed as headmaster of the Brighton Technical School. As Chief Architect, he made himself responsible for all designs leaving the department, including all the State’s public buildings—courthouses, police stations, prisons, mental hospitals, sanatoriums, schools and tertiary institutions. According to Frances O’Neill, his biographer, ‘In their siting and insistently three-dimensional character, his buildings were statements of civic importance.’2 The courthouse is currently vacant.

Description The former Brighton Court House is a symmetrical single-storey Moderne rendered brick building with a hipped terracotta tiled roof concealed behind a parapet. The principal elevation is symmetrical, with a series of receding planes and stripped Classical mouldings. The civic function of the building is denoted by a decorative crest in the centre of the parapet. The main facade has a row off five windows, containing multi-paned, double-hung sashes and contrasting clinker brick spandrels.

Comparative Examples Cobden Courthouse (Percy Everett, 1939) Dandenong Courthouse (Percy Everett, 1939) Sandringham Courthouse (Percy Everett, 1944)3

Significance The former Brighton Court House is of aesthetic and historical significance. The small civic building is a good example of the Moderne style of Public Works Chief Architect, Percy Everett. Of note are the cubic stepped forms with restrained use of rendered mouldings and the symmetrical and axial composition. As the third courthouse to be built in Brighton, it has associations with the administration of justice in the municipality.

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1 ‘Courthouses in Victoria: A Survey.’ Unpublished report, held at Heritage Victoria. 2 F O’Neill, ‘Percy Edgar Everett (1888-1967)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 14: 1940-1980, Di- Kel, Carlton (Vic) 1996, p. 118. 3 ‘Courthouses in Victoria: A Survey’.

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Building: Addieville Significance: B

Address: 9 Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1901-02

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The rate book for 1900 indicates that Lots 3 to 6 on the north-west side of Carpenter Street, between New and Well Streets, were owned by the London Bank of Australia Ltd. This land had a frontage of 202’ and probably extended north and south of Charvasse Street. In 1901 Charles Youren, a railway employee owned 37’ x 135’ block, the third property south of Well Street, on which he was building a five-room weatherboard house. Youren completed the house in 1902, and it was known as Addieville 1.

Description Addieville is a double-fronted asymmetrical Victorian Survival timber villa with steeply gabled corrugated iron roof penetrated by a rendered brick chimney. The street elevation is block-fronted, and has a bullnose verandah with a frieze of cast iron lacework. The projecting bay has a gable end infilled with ornament including unusual vermiculated panels, and has particularly ornate carved timber bargeboards. The window in the bay is a timber-framed double hung sash with narrow sidelights.

Comparative Examples 215 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris Langi, 37 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham Homebush, 59 Carpenter Street, Brighton Omeath Villa, 664 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton Jesmond, 17 Georgiana Street, Sandringham 97 Park Road, Cheltenham 6 Grant Street, East Brighton

Significance Addieville, at 9 Carpenter Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a typical early Edwardian villa, retaining some Victorian characteristics. It is particularly notable for its unusual decorative detail including ornate carved bargeboards and vermiculated panels.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1900, 1902, 1903.

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Building: Ingleside Significance: B

Address: 11 Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1882

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at No. 11 Carpenter Street first appears in the rate books of 1883, described as a four-room timber house, valued at £161. It was owned by John Edmunds, a gardener, and was one of a pair of similar houses which Edmunds had erected on adjacent lots on the west side of Carpenter Street. The house at No. 11 was first occupied by Elisha Holland, also a gardener, who lived there until 1888. John Duff then moved into the house, being variously described as a cab driver or labourer in the rate books over the next few years. The house was briefly occupied by George Seymour, a railway employee, in 1893. The owner, John Edmunds, then resided there himself for two years. Over the next few years, there were a succession of tenants, including William Clark, a hairdresser, in 1896, Ambrose Enticknap, a bootmaker, in 1898, and Emma Marment, a widow, in 1899. By that time, the original owner, John Edmunds, had since died, and the house was in the possession of his executors.2 In 1900, the house was purchased by Edgar Chambers, a clerk, as his own residence. He was still living there in 1905, when the house was identified as ‘Ingleside’, a five-room timber dwelling valued at £24 and occupying a 20’ by 135’ allotment.3

Description The house at 11 Carpenter Street is a single-storey symmetrical Victorian weatherboard house. The front elevation comprises a central door flanked by tripartite timber-framed double-hung windows beneath a bullnose-profile verandah with cast iron columns and a cast iron lacework frieze. The hipped roof is clad in slate, has paired eaves brackets and is penetrated by rendered brick chimneys with moulded caps.

Comparative Examples Shenval, 47 Bayview Crescent, Black Rock 8 Sydney Street, Cheltenham Sevenoaks, 13 Carpenter Street, Brighton 10 Sydney Street, Cheltenham 174 Highett Road, Highett 9 Warriston Street, Brighton 11 Carpenter Street, Brighton 171 Were Street, Brighton 8 Parliament Street, Brighton Dunlop, 19 Willansby Avenue Toowong, 19 Stanley Street, Brighton Doonside, 19 William Street, Brighton

Significance Ingleside, at 11 Carpenter Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a symmetrical Victorian villa. The combination of simple weatherboard cladding on all elevations with a slate, rather than corrugated iron, roof is relatively unusual. With the similar house at No. 13, the house is an important element in the Carpenter Street streetscape.

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1 Rate Books 1882, 1883. 2 Rate Books 1892-99. 3 Rate Books 1900, 1905.

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Building: Sevenoaks Significance: B

Address: 13 Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1882

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at No. 13 Carpenter Street first appears in the rate books of 1883, described as a four-room timber house, valued at £16.1 It was owned by John Edmunds, a gardener, and was one of a pair of similar houses which Edmunds had erected on adjacent lots on the west side of Carpenter Street. The house at No. 13 was first occupied by William Hall, who remained there until 1895. He is variously identified in the rate books as a labourer and a gardener, and he may well have been a colleague of the owner, John Edmunds.2 The house at No. 13 became occupied in 1986 by John Chilman, a carpenter. The owner of the house, John Edmunds, appears to have died in around 1898, as the rate books for the following year list the owner as the Executors of the late J Edmunds. Chilman was still living there at that time, and he purchased the house himself. He was still there in 1915, at which point the house was identified as ‘Sevenoaks’, a five-room timber dwelling on an 61’ by 135’ allotment.3

Description The house at 13 Carpenter Street is a single-storey symmetrical Victorian weatherboard house. The front elevation comprises a central door flanked by tripartite timber-framed double-hung windows beneath a concave-profile verandah with cast iron columns and a cast iron lacework frieze. The hipped roof is clad in slate, has paired eaves brackets and is penetrated by rendered brick chimneys with moulded caps.

Comparative Examples Shenval, 47 Bayview Crescent, Black Rock 8 Sydney Street, Cheltenham Ingleside, 11 Carpenter Street, Brighton 10 Sydney Street, Cheltenham 174 Highett Road, Highett 9 Warriston Street, Brighton 91 Martin Street, Brighton 171 Were Street, Brighton 8 Parliament Street, Brighton Dunlop, 19 Willansby Avenue Toowong, 19 Stanley Street, Brighton Doonside, 19 William Street, Brighton

Significance Sevenoaks, at 13 Carpenter Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a symmetrical Victorian villa. The combination of simple weatherboard cladding on all elevations with a slate, rather than corrugated iron, roof is relatively unusual. With the similar house at No. 11, the house is an important element in the Carpenter Street streetscape.

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1 Rate Books 1882, 1883. 2 Rate Books 1885-95. 3 Rate Books 1900, 1905.

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Building: Itasca, later Craigmillar Significance: A

Address: 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre 1861

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1862, James Thompson owned a house and brewery at 58 Carpenter Street, leasing it to James Kirkland. This is probably the same house and brewery owned and occupied by George Vear in 1861. As this was the date of the earliest Brighton rate book, the house at 58 Carpenter Street would therefore predate 1861. The house was still owned by Thompson in 1866, although with a Mrs Hammond as tenant. The brewery ceased to be listed. By 1872, the seven-room brick dwelling was owned, as well as occupied, by Sarah Hammond. Ownership changed repeatedly over the next few years. By 1874, the house was owned by the Reverend Kane. Three years later, Thomas Bent was the owner, and then Mrs Bent by 1882. William Darvall, a solicitor, purchased the property for his residence in 1887. Darvall was still the owner and occupant in 1905, at which time the property was known as Itasca 1.

Description Craigmilla is a double-storey symmetrical Victorian rendered brick house with a hipped corrugated iron roof penetrated by a pair of wide, rendered brick chimneys. The front elevation has a double- storey verandah with a skillion roof supported on square timber posts with curved timber brackets and shingled balustrading, elements which appear to date from the inter-War period. The centrally-placed front door has stained glass highlights and is flanked by single windows with moulded architraves and double-hung timber-framed sashes. At the rear of the house are various single-storey timber additions, and outbuildings which are early, and possibly original.

Comparative Examples Viervill, 18 Black Street, Brighton Shirley, 2 Manor Street, Brighton Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton Eling, 139 North Road, Brighton 166-168 Church Street, Brighton Coonara, 17 Roslyn Street, Brighton Ashleigh Lodge, 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton Dunvegan, 5 Seymour Grove, Brighton Farleigh, 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton Craig Hall, 2 South Road, Hampton Tanderagee, 70 Halifax Street, Brighton Ebrington, 23 South Road, Brighton Thornleigh Lodge, 9 Willansby Avenue, Brighton Edgecome, 134 Were Street, Brighton Jesmond, 66 Hanby Street, Brighton Kilkerran, 6 William Street, Brighton

Significance Craigmilla, at 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton, is of outstanding historical significance. It is one of very few surviving houses which predate the first Brighton rate book of 1861. As such, it demonstrates a significant and very early phase of residential settlement in the area. It is also important for its associations with important Brighton resident Sir Thomas Bent, and with James Thompson’s brewery.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1861-66, 1872, 1874, 1877, 1882, 1887, 1906.

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Building: Homebush Significance: B

Address: 59 Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1889

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[ ] P[x]

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History The rate books for 1886 indicate that there was an unspecified amount of vacant land on the west side of Carpenter Street in the vicinity of the Post office and Town Hall. The following year, a three-room timber cottage, valued at £18, had appeared. It was owned and occupied by Alfred Gardener, a bootmaker.1 By 1890, the house had been acquired by William Croft, an agent, who seems to have extended it. The rate books for that year show that the number of rooms had increased by one, and the Net Annual Value jumped from £22 to £31. Croft’s first tenant was Harold Groundwater, a bookkeeper. Croft then moved in himself, and occupied the house for about three years. From 1894, Croft rented the house to a succession of tenants. These included Charlotte Beurett, a widow, in 1894, Uriah Robins, a carpenter, in 1895, and Mary Anderson, also a widow, in 1896.2 In 1897, the house was acquired from Croft, or more likely repossessed, by the Argus Personal Building and Insurance Society. The next tenant was Joseph Mansfield, a labourer, who remained there until at least 1900. By 1905, the house had been acquired by Charles Littlewood, a painter, for his own residence. At that time, the house was identified as Homebush, and was described as a five- room timber dwelling with a 40’ frontage to Carpenter Street.3

Description Homebush is a single-storey asymmetrical early Edwardian-style timber house with a rusticated weatherboard facade. The front elevation comprises a projecting gabled bay with a canted bay window with its own hipped slate roof, beside a bullnose-profile verandah. Windows are timber- framed double-hung sashes. The hipped and gabled roof is clad in corrugated iron, and is penetrated by rendered brick chimneys with moulded caps. The verandah posts have been replaced with patterned cast iron lattice-style supports, probably in the post-War period.

Comparative Examples 215 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris 6 Grant Street, East Brighton Addieville, 6 Grant Street, East Brighton Langi, 37 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham Homebush, 59 Carpenter Street, Brighton Omeath Villa, 664 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton Jesmond, 17 Georgiana Street, Sandringham 97 Park Road, Cheltenham

Significance Homebush, at 59 Carpenter Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a relatively intact example of a rusticated weatherboard house which incorporates both Victorian and Edwardian-style architectural elements. The gabled bay and verandah profile are Edwardian, whilst the chimneys and front door retain a Victorian flavour.

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1 Rate Books 1886-1890. 2 Rate Books 1891-96. 3 Rate Books 1900, 1905.

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Building: Morningside Significance: B

Address: 62 Carpenter Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1888-89?

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In the first Brighton rate book of 1861, the house at 62 Carpenter Street was described as a brick house with gardens, owned and occupied by George Marsack. By 1875 the property had passed to Mrs Marsack, presumably George’s wife or widow. Thomas Bent had purchased it, by 1877, leasing it to William Porter, a contractor. 1 By 1882 George Benney, an engine driver, was listed as both owner and occupant. In 1888, it was owned and occupied by Mary Bond, and rate books for that year describe it as an eight-room house of brick and wood. Thereafter, it was listed just as wood. James Swinbourn, a timber merchant was owner/occupant in 1891. In 1900, the house was owned by Catherine D’alton, who was probably a relative of the same Mr D’alton who had served as the Brighton City Engineer in the 1890s. She was still the owner of the house in 1905, by which time it was known as Morningside. 2

Description Morningside is a single-storey asymmetrical Victorian timber villa with a hipped corrugated iron roof concealed behind an unusual timber parapet. Below the parapet is a cornice supported on paired timber brackets with paterae between. The block-fronted facade has a verandah with a shallow convex corrugated iron roof supported on posts, with a frieze of cast iron lacework. The centrally- placed front door has stained glass sidelights and top light, and is flanked by windows with timber- framed double-hung sashes.

Significance Morningside is of aesthetic and historical significance. It predates the first Brighton rate book of 1861, and thus represents a significant and early phase of residential settlement in the area. It is also important for its associations with prominent Brighton resident Sir Thomas Bent, as well as for its unusual architectural detail.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1861, 1875, 1877. 2 Rate Books 1882, 1888, 1889, 1891, 1900, 1906.

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Building: St Ives, later Elgin Significance: B

Address: 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1906

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1905 John Claydon, a boot dealer, acquired vacant land in Centre Road, designated as Lots 62 and 63, which had a combined dimension of 110’ x 140’. The following year, Claydon built a six-room brick house for himself. The property was known as St. Ives. In 1906 Claydon also purchased the adjoining land, Lot 64, from Mrs Morrison, thus giving his property a 160’ frontage. 1

Description Elgin is a double-fronted asymmetrical Edwardian red brick villa with a steep hipped terracotta tiled roof, penetrated by matching brick chimneys. The roof is gabled over the projecting bay, and the gable end has plain timber bargeboards and a half-timbered infill. The return verandah has a bullnosed corrugated iron roof. The verandah supports appear to have been altered in the 1920s, as the timber posts are carried on cement columns and brick piers in the California Bungalow manner. The timber fretwork is unusual and incorporates lattice decoration.

Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance Elgin, at 83 Centre Road, East Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic importance. It is a good example of an early Edwardian villa which retains some transitional Victorian characteristics. The verandah, which appears to have been remodelled in the 1920s, is also of some interest. In this way, the house demonstrates the influences of three consecutive architectural styles.

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1 Rate Books 1906, 1907.

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Building: St Finbars Catholic Church Significance: A

Address: 90 Centre Road, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 H11

Building Type: Church Construction Date: 1871-2 (1882, 1889)

Architect: J B Denny (Reed & Barnes, Builder: Unknown Charles Webb)

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The site of St Finbar’s Church has been occupied by a church since 1848, when the weatherboard Brighton Catholic Chapel, was erected. Much of the local money contributed for its erection was raised by ‘Richard Martin, a queer old market-gardener of Little Brighton’.1 The building was built on land donated by Jonathon Binns Were, who donated land to a number of denominations with the proviso that a church building was to be constructed immediately. This offer was only taken up by the Catholic, Anglican and Methodist churches.2 The first mass was celebrated in this church 30 April 1848. This church was the second Catholic church to be built in Victoria after St Francis, Melbourne, and was the first church in Victoria to be dedicated to St Patrick. The church was asked to change its name from St Patricks to St Finbars at the time of construction of St Patricks Cathedral in East Melbourne.3 It was described as ‘the religious rendezvous for Catholic pioneers residing in such widely-dispersed and far flung centres as Sorrento, Cowes and Pakenham’.4 The present church, St Finbar’s, was built in 1871-72 to the design of architect J B Denny at a cost of £2,500. The church was dedicated to St Finbar, patron Saint of Cork, on 29 September, 1872. Alterations to the church occurred in two stages. The tower and spire, and sundry repairs, were completed by in 1882.5 Five years later, further work on the tower was completed by Charles Webb.6 In the 1880s, St Finbar’s came under the control of St James’ Church, Elsternwick, becoming a ‘chapel-at-ease’, with Mass celebrated in the building only once a month. It later moved under the control of St Joan of Arc’s when that church was promoted to parish headquarters.7 The earliest burial in the adjacent graveyard occurred in 1848, the last in 1871.

Description St Finbars Catholic Church is a large bichromatic church with a gabled slate roof. The walls are of brown handmade body bricks with an ironstone plinth. There are cream brick dressings to the pointed arched windows, the parapets, and the quoining on the tower. The walls have staged buttresses and the square bell tower has a pyramidal roof. A side porch faces east. The church has undergone some alteration, particularly to the fenestration and entrance doors. Two cemetery gravestones mark the burial place of the Catholic Pioneers (erected 29 October 1922) and of Honora Mackay.8 Mackay’s gravestone is of sandstone, with a cross and circle motif symbolic of Christ, the Trinity and infinity.

Comparative Examples Former Congregational Church, 17 Black Street, Brighton St Cuthberts Presbyterian Church, 10 Wilson Street, Brighton

Significance St Finbars Catholic Church, 90 Centre Road, East Brighton, is of outstanding historical and aesthetic significance. Historically, the church occupies the site of the second Catholic Church in Victoria, and the first in Victoria to be dedicated to St Patrick. The site of the church also has important historical associations with important Brighton figure J B Were. Aesthetically, the building is notable for its relatively early use of bichromatic brickwork, and its particularly distinctive bell tower. The appearance of the church has been marred by twentieth century alterations. The gravestones are also important elements on the site.

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1 Garryowen (pseud. E Finn), The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 2 vols, 1888, (Facsimile Edition, 3 volumes, Today's Heritage, Melbourne 1976), p. 143. 2 'St Finbar's Church (A Historical Survey).' National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 3768. 3 Graeme Disney, pers comm. 4 'St Finbar's Church (A Historical Survey).' National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 3768. 5 M Lewis (ed.), Australian Architectural Index: Argus, 9 August 1882, p. 3. 6 M Lewis (ed.), Australian Architectural Index: Argus, 27 January 1887, p. 3. 7 Weston Bate. A History of Brighton. Second edition, 1983. p 312. 8 d. 16.12.1853

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Building: Toxteth Significance: B

Address: 66 Champion Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 G3

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History An undated plan of subdivision in the Map Collection at the State Library of Victoria describes a residential estate bordered by Were Street, Roslyn Street, Hampton Street and Grant (now Peacock) Street. The estate was bisected by Champion Street, and the 84 allotments had frontages to that street as well as to the parallel Roslyn and Hampton Streets. By the 1890s, a seven room house had been erected on Lot 40, on the west side of Champion Street near the intersection of Grant (now Peacock) Street.1 It was owned by Maryann Soffe, and occupied by William Adams, a civil servant. This arrangement remained constant until at least 1900. By 1905, the house had been acquired by Charles Roberts, a packer, for his own residence. At that time, it was known as Toxteth.2 Roberts was renting the house to Henry Wells, gentleman, by 1910. Wells was still the tenant in 1917, although the house itself had been acquired by Florence Criddle, married woman.3 At that time, the house was addressed as 21 Champion Street. By 1930, it had been renumbered as No. 66.4

Description Toxteth is a single-storey brick Victorian villa. The front elevation has a projecting bay with paired double-hung sash windows. The hipped roof is clad in slate with fish scale patterning, has paired eaves brackets and is penetrated by rendered chimneys with moulded caps.

Comparative Examples 2 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Kainga, 4 Allee Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Ronbaix, 55 Black Street, Brighton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Dunottar, 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Engadine, 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Bulow, 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance Toxteth, at 66 Champion Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a typical example of a brick Victorian villa incorporating characteristic Italianate elements including fish scale patterned slate roofing and ornate chimneys.

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1 Rate Books 1898, 1899, 1900. 2 Rate Books 1905. 3 Rate Books 1910, 1917. 4 Rate Book 1930.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 68 Champion Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 G3

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1910

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History An undated plan of subdivision in the Map Collection at the State Library of Victoria describes a residential estate bordered by Were Street, Roslyn Street, Hampton Street and Grant (now Peacock) Street. The estate was bisected by Champion Street, and the 84 allotments had frontages to that street as well as to the parallel Roslyn and Hampton Streets. Lot 41, on the east side of Champion Street, near the intersection with Grant (now Peacock) Street, was still vacant in 1900. At that time, the 60’ by 140’ block was owned by Elizabeth Peacock. The house on Lot 41, now known as 68 Champion Street, appears to have been built around 1910.

Description The house at 68 Champion Street is a single-storey asymmetrical Edwardian house. Walls are clad in weatherboard. The front elevation has a rectangular bay window beneath a half-timbered and roughcast gable end. The double-pitched roof encompassed a return verandah with arched timber fretwork and decorative timber posts. The hipped and gabled roof is clad in terracotta tiles and is penetrated by red brick chimneys with rendered ribbing and rendered moulded caps.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham 176 New Street, Brighton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 68 Champion Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is an intact example of an asymmetrically-planned early twentieth century house with several typically Edwardian elements including a complex roof plan, gabled bay and timber fretwork.

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Building: Mount Pleasant Significance: B

Address: 73 Champion Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 G3

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History An undated plan of subdivision in the Map Collection at the State Library of Victoria describes a residential estate bordered by Were Street, Roslyn Street, Hampton Street and Grant (now Peacock) Street. The estate was bisected by Champion Street, and the 84 allotments had frontages to that street as well as to the parallel Roslyn and Hampton Streets. The rate book for 1890 identifies Horace Lewis, a salesman, as the owner of Lot 44 on the west side of Champion Street. The following year, he built a six-room brick and timber house. Lewis still owned the property in 1905, leasing it to Aubrey Smith, a civil servant. At that time the property was known as Mount Pleasant.1

Description Mount Pleasant is a double-fronted asymmetrical Victorian bichromatic brick villa with a steep gabled slate roof penetrated by a prominent chimney with an unusual tessellated tile panel. Distinctive details include the cast iron corner verandah with Greek key pattern frieze, dogs tooth ornamentation to gable ends with oculus vents and with rendered pedimented heads to tripartite windows.

Comparative Examples Waverley, 63 Bay Road, Sandringham 52 Black Street, Brighton West Craig, 75 Champion Street, Brighton Corra Lynn, 28 Elwood Street, Brighton Ingleside, 845 Hampton Street, Brighton Glynn, 42 New Street, Brighton

Significance Mount Pleasant, at 73 Champion Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact late Victorian villa, notable for its distinctive chimney stack and unusual window surround ornamentation.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1890, 1891, 1906.

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Building: West Craig Significance: B

Address: 75 Champion Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 G3

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1896

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History An undated plan of subdivision in the Map Collection at the State Library of Victoria describes a residential estate bordered by Were Street, Roslyn Street, Hampton Street and Grant (now Peacock) Street. The estate was bisected by Champion Street, and the 84 allotments had frontages to that street as well as to the parallel Roslyn and Hampton Streets. In 1891, Horace Lewis erected a brick house for himself on Lot 44, now 73 Champion Street (see separate datasheet). According to the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory for 1894, Lewis’ house was the northernmost house on the west side of that street. To the north of Lewis’ house was a vacant allotment, Lot 43, on the south-west corner of Champion and Grant (now Peacock) Streets. By 1898, a six-room brick house, valued at £40, had been built on this site.1 It was occupied by William Taylor, a clerk, with the actual owner listed as Margaret Taylor, presumably his wife. William Taylor appears to have died by 1905, when the owner was listed as Margaret Taylor, widow. At that time, she was renting the property to Stonewall Rochussen, an importer. By 1917, the owner was Margaret Bruce, married woman, with Gustavus Mayer as tenant. The house was then known as West Craig, and was addressed as No. 18 Champion Street. By 1925, it had been renumbered as No. 75 Champion Street, and it was owned and occupied by John O’Connor. By 1930, O’Connor was renting his house to Harry Lake, a clerk.2

Description West Craig is a large asymmetrical late Victorian bichromatic brick villa. The hipped slate roof is penetrated by brick chimneys with rendered caps, and is supported at the eaves line by ornate brackets. The projecting rooms at the front and side of the house have subsidiary gabled roofs with plain bargeboards. Window openings have dark brown brick dressings and segmental arched heads. There is no verandah.

Comparative Examples Waverley, 63 Bay Road, Sandringham 52 Black Street, Brighton Mount Pleasant, 73 Champion Street, Brighton Corra Lynn, 28 Elwood Street, Brighton Ingleside, 845 Hampton Street, Brighton Glynn, 42 New Street, Brighton

Significance West Craig, at 75 Champion Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a substantially intact example of a late Victorian villa notable for its somewhat unusual bichromatic brickwork and unusual plan. Occupying a prominent corner site, the house is an important element in both the Champion and Peacock Street streetscapes.

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1 Rate Book 1898. 2 Rate Book 1930.

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Building: Cheltenham Cemetery Significance: B Administration Building

Address: Charman Road, Cheltenham Melway Map Ref: 86 H2

Building Type: Administration Building Construction Date: 1915

Architect: Mr Peek Builder: Mr Cardwell

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Prior to the construction of the Cheltenham Cemetery Administration Building in 1915, meetings of the cemetery’s Trustees had been held at the Mechanics Institute on the Nepean Highway. In 1914 it was decided to erect a new office building within the cemetery’s grounds. An architect, Mr Peek of Mordialloc, was engaged to prepare the plans and specifications of the building. These were approved by the Trust in early 1915, and the works tendered. The price of £210 was accepted from builder, Mr Cardwell. The first Trustees’ meeting in the new building was held on 10 November 1915, during which the Trustees declared that they were ‘most satisfied’ with the results, and approved payment to the builder.1

Description The Cheltenham Cemetery Administration Building is a small, single-storey building constructed of red brick with a steeply pitched, cross-ridged gabled roof with exposed rafter ends. Gable ends have deep overhanging eaves and bargeboards embellished with decorative king post trusses, finials and curved brackets. A roughcast rendered friezes encircles the building at eaves level. Windows are casements with diagonally patterned leadlighting and rendered surrounds. A public toilet block has been constructed to the north.

Significance The Cheltenham Cemetery Administration Building is of aesthetic significance. The building is a distinctive example of the Queen Anne style with particularly decorative timber gable ends and deep overhanging eaves. Substantially intact, the building is a picturesque element within the cemetery grounds.

Identified By Bayside City Council

1 Research notes from John Campbell, head of the Trustees of Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries Trust.

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Building: Cheltenham Primary School No. Significance: B 84 Address: Charman Road, Cheltenham Melway Map Ref: 86 H2

Building Type: School Construction Date: 1911

Architect: Public Works Department Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The first Charman Road school was erected in 1869, comprising a two-room brick building intended as a classroom and dwelling. However, both rooms were used as classrooms. This building was on the site of the present staffroom at Cheltenham Primary School. The school was then known as Beaumaris No. 84. By the early 1870s attendance’s were too great for the capacity of the school and extra classes were held in the local Protestant Hall. Communication between principal and the government brought about the construction of a new building in 1878. The work was carried out by Mr George Evans at a total cost of £1,161.26.4. The school was constructed with FERNLEAF bricks, made at the corner of Wickham and Chesterville Roads. In 1884 the name of the school was changed to Cheltenham No. 84. In 1894 the school amalgamated with State School 2950 Mentone. In 1911 plans were prepared by the Public Works Department for a new building. The contract was let for £2,163. New rooms, ‘Bristol’ buildings, were added in 1925, 1937 and c.1946.1

Description Cheltenham Primary School is a long, single-storey building of brick construction with a transverse gabled slate roof. The building has been extended at various dates. The centre section, presumably the 1878 building, is constructed of brown English bond brickwork with a rendered moulded string course at dado level, and has multi-paned, double-hung sash windows arranged in groups of three. A gabled section projects to the south, also with multi-paned double-hung sash windows, bearing the name of the school in raised letters. The additions to the north are of red English bond brickwork, and continue the string course across the elevation. A large semi-circular arched opening contains the entrance which is part glazed to match detailing of windows on either side. A further extension to the north is also of red brickwork, but has a parapeted roof.

Significance The Cheltenham Primary School is of historical and aesthetic significance. The building is a largely externally intact example of a nineteenth century school, with later sympathetic additions. Of interest is the use of local handmade bricks in its construction. A school has continuously occupied this site on Charman Road and has served the local community since 1869; its subsequent expansion reflects the growth of the suburb.

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1 K Brownbill, Cheltenham Primary School, 1855-1995, Cheltenham 1995, passim.

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Building: Cheltenham Railway Station Significance: B

Address: Charman Road, Cheltenham Melway Map Ref: 86 H2

Building Type: Railway Station Construction Date: 1882

Architect: Victorian Railways Department Builder: Davies & Batty

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The railway from Caulfield to Mordialloc, built in 1881, was another of Thomas Bent’s achievements while Minister of Railways. There were eight stations, including Highett and Cheltenham. Bent also dictated the use of the uncommon ‘cottage style’ stations, which were more expensive than station buildings elsewhere. The last remaining ‘cottage-style’ station on the line is at Highett.1 The Cheltenham Railway Station, on the now Melbourne-Frankston line, was erected the same year by builders Davies & Batty.2

Description The Cheltenham Railway Station comprises two station buildings: the east platform building, a small nineteenth century weatherboard building with gabled slate roofs, king post gable ends and a canopy supported on timber posts, and the west platform building, also of weatherboard but with a hipped corrugated iron roof and cantilevered canopy. The east building has a bichromatic brick chimney with a moulded brick cap. The west building has bracketed eaves and rendered chimneys with rendered moulded caps. All of the original openings have been altered. A concrete block building containing toilets has been constructed to the south, and the original lamp room and toilets have been demolished.

Comparative Examples Highett Railway Station, Highett Road, Highett

Significance The Cheltenham Railway Station is of historical and aesthetic significance. The station is associated with Thomas Bent, Minister of Railways in the late nineteenth century who was responsible for the construction of the line from Caulfield to Mordialloc in 1882, now the Frankston line. The design of the station directly reflects the influence of Bent, who insisted on the use of the ‘cottage’ style on this line: the earliest example of a standard design being developed for suburban use.3 It is one of the more intact stations of this group, retaining its slate roof and king post gable ends; the original lamp room and toilets, however, have been demolished.

Sources National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 5840. A Ward & A Donnelly, Victoria’s Railway Stations: An Architectural Survey. Volume 3: The Great Railway Age, 1880-1900, March 1982.

1 J Cribbin, Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, 1862-1994, City of Kingston 1988, p. 77. 2 A Ward & A Donnelly, Victoria’s Railway Stations: An Architectural Survey. Volume 3: The Great Railway Age, 1880-1900, March 1982, p. 93. 3 A Ward & A Donnelly, Victoria’s Railway Stations: An Architectural Survey. Volume 3: The Great Railway Age, 1880-1900, March 1982, p. 90.

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Building: Villa Filippa-Anna Significance: B

Address: 181 Charman Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 H4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1958

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at No. 181 Charman Road, Beaumaris, was first listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory for 1959, when the occupant was listed as Frank Catanese. He was still living there in 1970.

Description The Villa Fillipa-Anna is a large triple-fronted cream brick house with a hipped roof of glazed terracotta tiles. The most prominent element is the projecting wing with curved walls and windows. To one side is a narrow entry porch with a concrete canopy, and to the other is a wide terrace. Both are finished in terrazzo, and have mild steel balustrades of curvilinear design. This detailing is also carried through to the matching front and rear driveway gates. Windows have glazed brown brick sills, and contain steel-framed sashes.

Significance Villa Fillippa-Anna, at 181 Charman Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. It is an extremely intact example of a large post-War brick residence, retaining some Art Deco influences.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 183 Charman Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 H4

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1952

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In the early 1950s, there were no houses on the west side of Charman Road, between Gordon and Keith Streets. The first house along here appears in the Sands & MacDougall Victorian Directory for 1953, designated as No. 169 with the occupant listed as ‘not available’. This description was repeated the following year, but in 1955, Charman Street was renumbered. The house became No. 183, and the occupant was identified as Jacob Arya. The following year, the house became occupied by R B Bennett, who remained there until the early 1960s. It was subsequently occupied by E H Archer until at least the early 1970s.

Description The house at 183 Charman Road, Beaumaris, is a large double-storey salmon brick house with a flat roof behind a parapet. A projecting wing faces Charman Street frontage, and a single-storey round- ended wing faces Keith Street, forming a terrace at the upper level. The terrace has a flat roofed canopy supported on thin iron columns at the front, and by the projecting chimney at the rear. The terrace has a horizontal balustrade of thin steel pipes. There are several corner windows with splayed sills, which contain multiple narrow steel-framed sashes. Projecting stretcher bricks form a simple string course at the window sill, head and parapet lines.

Comparative Examples 1 Clonmult Avenue, Highett 571 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris 666 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton 725 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton 64 Union Street, East Brighton

Significance The house at 183 Charman Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. It is a good, if late, example of the moderne ‘Ocean Liner’ style common in the 1930s and ‘40s. As one of many large post-War dwellings in Charman Road, it demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

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Building: Lorne Significance: B

Address: 203-205 Charman Road, Melway Map Ref: 86 H3 Cheltenham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1910

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Previously on Reserve land in the Parish of Moorabbin, adjoining Crown Portion 50 which originally belonged to Stephen Charman, Coape Street was offered for sale as part of the Charman Estate in 1888. The Charman Estate was one of Cheltenham’s first major land sales following the laying of the railway line in 1882. The property, Allotments 6 and 7, had a combined 100 foot (30 metre) frontage to Charman Road.1 Lorne, at 203-205 Charman Road was built c.1910, at which time it was occupied by Mrs Kitz, a nurse. Later occupants included Jason Rodda (c.1915-1920), Alfred A King (c.1930) and Mrs Emily Varty (c.1950).2

Description Lorne is an asymmetrically planned, single-storey inter-War bungalow, situated on a corner block at the intersection of Sydney Road. The house is constructed of red brick and has gabled and hipped terracotta tiled roofs. A broad gable faces Charman Road, with clinker brick diaperwork in the gable end. The entrance porch is supported on brick piers, between which are semi-elliptical arches and has clinker brick voussoirs. Windows are double-hung sashes grouped together, with geometric leadlighting, heavy moulded sills and bracketed hoods. Chimney stacks are red brick, with clinker brick cappings. The low bluestone front fence is not original.

Significance Lorne, at 203-205 Charman Road, Cheltenham, is of historical interest and aesthetic significance. One of a small number of houses constructed in the suburb during the inter-War period, it is a good example of the bungalow style. Of particular note is the decorative use of clinker brickwork.

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1 J Cribbin, Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, 1862-1994, City of Kingston (Vic) 1984, p. 66. Charman Estate, Cheltenham. 24 March 1888, Plimpton & Noall, surveyors. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Shalimar Significance: B

Address: 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham Melway Map Ref: 86 H3

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1885

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Previously on Reserve land in the Parish of Moorabbin, adjoining Crown Portion 50 which originally belonged to Stephen Charman, Coape Street was offered for sale as part of the Charman Estate in 1888. The Charman Estate was one of Cheltenham’s first major land sales following the laying of the railway line in 1882. The property, Allotments 1 and 2, had a combined 120 foot (36 metre) frontage to Coape Street.1 Dr George Scantlebury was a well-known and respected doctor who practised in Cheltenham from the 1880s until the 1920s. He built a house c.1885 on the corner of Charman Road and Coape Street, which remained in use as medical clinic after his death. Dr Scantlebury’s wife was a pioneer president of the Cheltenham Red Cross c.1915.2 Dr Scantlebury also had the distinction of purchasing in 1903, Cheltenham’s first motor car.3 From the 1930s at least until the 1950s the house was occupied by Miss C M Barrow, who ran a private hospital there.4

Description Shalimar is a single-storey, bichromatic brick nineteenth century residence, situated on a large corner block. The house is asymmetrically planned, with a hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves. Semi octagonal bay windows project on the east and north elevations, and a cast iron verandah encircles the house. Windows are double-hung sashes with bluestone sills. Chimneys are brick, with cement rendered moulded cappings. A turret like extension has been constructed at the rear. The timber picket fence is not original.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Shalimar, at 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham, is of historical and aesthetic significance. One of a few nineteenth century houses surviving in Cheltenham, it demonstrates an early and important phase of residential settlement of the area. The house is a good example of the late nineteenth century boom style, featuring bichromatic brickwork, slate roofs and cast iron verandah. The house was the residence and practice of the locally well-known doctor, George Scantlebury.

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1 J Cribbin, Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, 1862-1994, City of Kingston (Vic) 1984, p. 66. Charman Estate, Cheltenham. 24 March 1888, Plimpton & Noall, surveyors. 2 Information from the Moorabbin Historical Society. Newspaper Cutting: Moorabbin News, 12 May 1965. 3 Cribbin, Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, p. 80. 4 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Okataina Flats Significance: B

Address: 33 Chelsea Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D10

Building Type: Flats Construction Date: 1933

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Okataina Flats were built in 1933. The Sands & McDougall directory for that year list a “house being built” at 33 Chelsea Street.1 The following year, the directory lists Okataina Flats at No. 33.2

Description The Okataina Flats is a double-storey rendered brick block of flats in the Spanish Mission style. The front elevation is dominated by a high, curved parapet with a semi-circular ventilating panel and a curved panel bearing the words OKATAINA in low relief. The slightly projecting central section is flanked by deep porches and first floor balconies which are in turn reached by prominent external staircases at either end of the building. The hipped roof is clad in glazed terracotta tiles. The low front fence appears to be original.

Comparative Examples 1 Bay Street, Brighton 5 Birdwood Avenue, Brighton 17 North Road, Brighton 135 Park Road, Cheltenham

Significance Okataina Flats, 33 Chelsea Street, Brighton, are of aesthetic significance. The building is a sophisticated example of the Spanish Mission style, which was particularly commonly used in the design of beachside flats in the inter-War period.

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1 Sands & McDougall Directory, 1933. 2 Sands & McDougall Directory, 1934.

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Building: Lauriston Significance: B

Address: 10 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1880s

Architect: Charles Webb Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Lauriston is believed to have been constructed in the 1880s, to the design of Charles Webb, a prominent nineteenth century Melbourne architect and Brighton resident. The house was one of five properties designed by Webb situated at the intersection of Church, New and St Andrews Streets, the others being Claremont, Chelmer and a pair of shops.1 Although Webb owned Lauriston until his death in 1898, he never actually lived there himself. His own residence was Farleigh, at 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton (see separate datatsheet). It is presumed that Webb erected and owned Lauriston solely as a speculative or investment property. Charles Webb was a prolific Melbourne architect who has been described as the ‘first really sophisticated architect to appear in Melbourne.’2 Webb’s brother James arrived in 1839 and settled in Brighton, where he established a successful building practice in partnership with John Allee. Charles followed in 1849, and the two brothers went into partnership as architects. After James returned to England in 1854, Charles carried on the practice. Over the next thirty years, he designed many notable buildings in and around Melbourne, including Royal Arcade, the Grand (now Windsor) Hotel, Wesley College, the Alfred Hospital, and the South Melbourne Town Hall.3 In 1910, Lauriston was occupied by Mrs Florence Cordner for several years, and then by Mrs Ellen Dunkley.4 In 1915 and 1916, the house was occupied by George B Leith, another noted Melbourne architect and founder of the firm Leith & Bartlett. From 1917, William Watkins lived in the house, and he remained there until at least the 1940s.5

Description Lauriston is a single-storey asymmetrically planned Italianate villa, of rendered masonry construction with a hipped slate roof. The eaves have moulded rendered brackets, as do the chimney caps, and external corners are quoined. The skillion-roofed verandah which returns around the two street elevations has been considerably altered. The timber posts and cast iron lacework are not original, and it has been enclosed with a series of timber-framed windows on the south-east elevation. A canted bay with double-hung sash windows projects on the north-east elevation, and timber louvered shutters have been added to the window beneath the verandah. To the north-west is a small weatherboard wing with a timber block-fronted elevation to Church Street and a hipped corrugated iron roof: this sections appears on an 1895 MMBW plan.6 The glazed door appears to date from the inter-War period. The building is presently used as medical consulting rooms. The low rendered front fence is not original.

Comparative Examples 10 Agnew Street, East Brighton Elrona, 11 Murphy Street, Brighton Eloc, 52 Bay Street, Brighton Esmerelda, 32 Park Street, Brighton Aldgour, 192 Church Street, Brighton 1 Seymour Grove, Brighton Former Watchhouse, 743 Hampton Street, Brighton Weeroona, 17 South Road, Brighton South Leigh, 907 Hampton Street, Brighton Winmarleigh, 20 Were Street, Brighton Normanby, 11 Manor Street, Brighton South Lodge, 43 Were Street, Brighton Wangararu, 23 Marriage Road, East Brighton Euloura, 130 Were Street, Brighton 59 Milroy Street, East Brighton Mia Mia, 22 William Street, Brighton Roslyn, 61 Milroy Street, East Brighton Florence Court, 26 William Street, Brighton Heim Ruke, 63 Milroy Street, East Brighton

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Significance Lauriston, at 10 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. The house is a surviving example of the later work of Charles Webb, an important architect in the history of Melbourne, and also a Brighton resident. The house is a relatively intact Italianate villa, typical of Boom period development in Brighton, displaying characteristic features of the style including the hipped slate roof, rendered quoining and moulded eaves brackets.

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1 Bryce Raworth, Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton, December 1998, p.2. 2 Quoted in Bryce Raworth, Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton, December 1998, p.2. 3 Bryce Raworth, Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton, December 1998, p.2. 4 Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory, various. 5 Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory, 1917, 1947. 6 Bryce Raworth, Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton, December 1998, p.2.

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Building: St Andrew’s Church Significance: A

Address: 38 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D11

Building Type: Church, cemetery, lych gate Construction Date: Church: 1856-7 Additions: 1962 Architect: Church: Charles Webb Builder: Unknown Additions: Louis R Williams

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Anglican services were initially conducted in Brighton from 1842, in the home of Dr Wilmot, the Melbourne coroner. The present church reserve on the corner of Church and New Streets was conveyed to the Bishop of Australia on 24 October, 1843 by Henry Dendy, Robert Deane, Jonathan B Were, George Were, and Robert S Dunsford. It was initially used as a cemetery, with the first internment taking place on 6 November 1844. In 1849, the Reverend William Brickwood, who ran a local school, was ordained priest by Bishop Perry. The following year, Perry laid the foundation stone of an ironstone church. Around 1852, Samuel Taylor became incumbent of the parish, remaining there for 37 years. In 1855, the ironstone church was relocated to its present site on the church reserve, where it was used as a parish school. Two years later, work began on a new bluestone church, designed by Charles Webb, and it was consecrated in 1862. In 1885 a contract was let to build transepts and a new sanctuary, designed by architect Lloyd Tayler. These additions were opened on 5 August, 1886. In February 1961, a fire destroyed these additions, and substantially damaged the original building. The present main building was built in 1962 to a design by Louis R Williams, and incorporates the original nave as a transept.1 The original graveyard was used throughout the nineteenth century, with the prevailing custom being to provide memorials, with actual interments occurring elsewhere. Noted local families represented include the Bents, Weres, Foots and Higinbothams. The most recent memorial is to Charles B Were, installed in 1944. The memorial lych gate was built by the Jack family to the memory of George Jefferson, grandfather of Brighton resident, Mr Donald Jack. Jefferson was a vestryman at St Andrews, honorary solicitor and was instrumental in the transfer of Brighton Grammar from the Crowther family to the Church of England.

Description St Andrew’s Church is a bluestone Gothic Revival church with a central porch topped by a bellcote. The lancet arched windows have angled stone reveals, whilst the bellcote is balanced by stone pinnacles. This building forms a side transept to the main church, which is a tall face brick structure with a shallow gabled roof, surmounted by a narrow copper spire. The entry facade has a tall, deep niche with a pointed arched head, containing the main door. It has glazing above, with distinctive rendered tracery in an abstracted curvilinear style. The interior is substantially altered, original elements including the decorated timber queen post trusses, the sanctuary end, and a portion of the nave, the balance having been removed. A mural by noted artist Mervyn Napier Waller, c. 1960s, is situated above the former church entrance, and depicts the early days of Brighton and construction of St Andrew’s Church. The former entrance porch retains its beaded ceiling linings and stained glass work. A painting depicts the original bluestone church with the late Victorian addition, and was executed in 1915 by Frank Elsworth. The memorial lych gate is rustic timber structure on short brick piers. The hipped roof of terracotta pantiles is surmounted by a copper cross. The small cemetery to the north of the main church contains tombstones of some of Brighton’s earliest pioneers, and of others prominent in Melbourne’s history. Some inscriptions have been weathered over time and are now illegible. In 1986, residences were erected along its western edge.

Significance The St Andrews Church complex is of outstanding historical and aesthetic significance. The site, granted to the church in 1843, has been variously used for worship, education and burial since 1843. As such, the entire complex has strong associations with the history of one of the oldest parishes in Melbourne. The church itself is a good example of a Gothic Revival building, and is important for its connection with architect Charles Webb. The 1962 addition is typical of modern church architecture of the 1950s

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Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Lewis, Miles. Victorian Churches. National Trust of Australia, Melbourne, 1991.

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Building: St Andrew’s Parish School Significance: A

Address: 38 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D11

Building Type: School Construction Date: 1850

Architect: Charles Webb Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Anglican services were initially conducted in Brighton from 1842, in the home of Dr Wilmot, the Melbourne coroner. The present church reserve on the corner of Church and New Streets was conveyed to the Bishop of Australia on 24 October, 1843 by Henry Dendy, Robert Deane, Jonathan B Were, George Were, and Robert S Dunsford. It was initially used as a cemetery, with the first internment taking place on 6 November 1844. In 1849, the Reverend William Brickwood, who ran a local school, was ordained priest by Bishop Perry. The following year, Perry laid the foundation stone of an ironstone church. Around 1852, Samuel Taylor became incumbent of the parish, remaining there for 37 years. In 1855, the ironstone church was relocated to its present site on the church reserve, where it was used as a parish school. Two years later, work began on a new bluestone church, designed by Charles Webb, and it was consecrated in 1862. The original ironstone building remained in use as the parish school.

Description The former St Andrew’s Parish School is a single-storey ironstone Gothic Revival building with a gabled slate roof penetrated by rendered chimneys. The principal facade is symmetrical, terminating at each end with projecting bays with gabled parapets topped with finials. These bays have corner buttresses, square windows, raked string courses and small blind lancet windows with label moulds, and much of the detailing is cement rendered. Between the two bays is a small porch, with an arched doorway surmounted by a rendered label mould and a blind oculus. It also has also corner buttresses, and a cruciform finial. Inside, the timber lined ceiling has exposed king post trusses.

Significance The former St Andrew’s Parish School at 38 Church Street, Brighton, is of outstanding historical and aesthetic significance. As the original St Andrew’s Church, it has strong associations with the history of one of the oldest parishes in Melbourne. It is a rare example of an ironstone building, and a particularly fine example of the collegiate Gothic Revival style. It is also important as an example of the work of local architect Charles Laing.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Shop Significance: B

Address: 60 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Shop Construction Date: c.1923

Architect: Unknown Builder: John Chilman?

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[ ] P[x] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The shop at 60 Church Street was formerly designated as No. 40. In 1920, there was an allotment of vacant land, measuring 16’ by 155’, on the south side of Church Street between the shops at Nos. 38 and 42. According to the rate book for that year, this vacant land was owned by John Chilman, a builder, and was valued at £12. By 1925, a one-room brick shop had been erected, valued at £104. It was owned by Robert Bartholomew, a wire worker, and occupied by Theresa Tatchell, a married woman. By 1930, Thomas Scott, a grocer, had become Bartholomew’s tenant.

Description The building at 60 Church Street is a single-storey brick shop. At roof level there is a semi-circular pedimented parapet. The shop has been substantially altered. The shopfront has been replaced, the cantilevered awning is either not original or very altered, and the face brick sections of the parapet have been painted.

Comparative Examples Shops, 95-97 Church Street, Brighton

Significance The shop at 60 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. Although altered, the shop is a representative example of an inter-War shop which retains its characteristic semi-circular pedimented parapet.

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Building: Brighton Post Office and Significance: B Automatic Exchange Address: 71 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Post Office and Exchange Construction Date: 1912-13

Architect: Commonwealth Department of Builder: Unknown Works and Railways

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The first Post Office in Brighton was built in 1871 on a site that had previously been reserved for the proposed court house. The new building included a telegraph service, and a telephone exchange was added in 1890 as a result of petitioning by Tommy Bent.1 The present Brighton Post Office was erected between 1912 and 1913.2 The land, on the east corner of Church and Carpenter Streets, was vacant in 1911, with the owner identified as The King (ie. the Crown).

Description The Brighton Post office is a bichromatic brick building, comprising a one-storey portion along Church Street, which contains the telephone exchange, and a double-storey along Carpenter Street, housing the post office proper. Both portions have shallow hipped slate roofs with rafters exposed at the eaves line; the telephone exchange roof is penetrated by plain brick chimneys, while the post office roof has a timber-framed fleche with a circular vent. The distinctive entry porch on the corner is flat-roofed and partly rendered. It has two round-arched openings with keystones and curving string courses and cornices. The windows along both elevations have flat arched heads, with a distinctive pattern of voussoirs in red and cream brick.

Significance The Brighton Post Office at 71 Church Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. It demonstrates the development of important services in Brighton in the early years of the twentieth century. Its bold bichromatic brickwork and, particularly, its unusual corner treatment are of interest, and make the building a prominent feature in this commercial streetscape.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Weston Bate. A History of Brighton. p 275. 2 Rate Books 1912, 1913.

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Building: Munro’s Buildings Significance: B

Address: 76-90 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Shops Construction Date: 1888-89

Architect: Unknown Builder: David Munro

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History By 1887, two blocks of vacant land in Church Street, designated as Lots 1 and 2, had been acquired by a local contractor, David Munro. At that time, the two adjacent blocks, Lots 3 and 4, were owned by Mark Moss, a prominent Melbourne financier and property developer. In 1888, Munro acquired Moss’ land, and erected four 5-room brick shops on Lots 1 and 2. The four shops were all leased that same year, so Munro proceeded to build an additional three brick shops on Lots 3 and 4 in 1889. That same year, Munro erected Caledonian Hall, which was at the rear and accessed by a covered laneway between the two blocks of shops.1 This took its name from the Caledonian Land Bank Ltd, one of several land development companies that Munro had founded. The three shops and the hall were owned by the General Finance and Guarantee Co. and the remaining four shops by the Bank of Australasia. All properties had tenants. By 1892, the Pacific Property and Agency Co. Ltd owned the entire block of eight properties; ownership changing again by 1900 when the Australian Widow’s Fund Life Assurance Society Ltd became the owner.2

Description Munro’s Buildings is a terrace of seven two-storey Victorian rendered brick shops with a central covered laneway. The original shops fronts have been altered, but the facades at the upper levels remain intact. The facades are almost identical, each having a pair of windows with pedimented aedicules, flanked by Corinthian pilasters with paterae and fluting. Between the pilasters is a heavy cornice supported on brackets, with a Greek fretwork frieze below. The parapet has scrolled brackets and broken pediments. The facade above the covered laneway has only one window, and a large curved pediment, inscribed with the year 1888 and topped with an urn.

Comparative Examples Rose’s Buildings, 135-147 Church Street, Brighton

Significance Munro’s Buildings, at 76-90 Church Street, Brighton, are of aesthetic and historical significance. They are a substantial and intact group of Victorian shops which unusually combine a central covered laneway to the rear. Like most shops of their vintage, the original shop fronts are no longer intact. The building is of interest for its association with David Munro, a local contractor and land developer of some distinction.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1887 to 1889. 2 Rate Books 1891, 1892, 1900.

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Building: Shops Significance: B

Address: 95-97 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Shops Construction Date: c.1910

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History By 1910, this site was occupied by a pair of six-room brick shops owned by Thomas Butler, an agent. One of the shops, valued at £100, was occupied by Mortimer Parden, a baker, while the other, valued at £65, was occupied by Thomas Butler himself. He still owned the pair in 1917, when they were identified in rate books as Nos. 95 and 97 Church Street. The former was then occupied by Basil Connor and Frank Alfred, agents, while the latter was occupied by George Trevarton and Albert Austee, grocers. In 1930, Trevarton and Austee’s grocer shop still occupied No. 97, but the other shop had become tenanted by Edward Wells, an agent.

Description The buildings at 95-97 Church Street are Edwardian shops, No 95 being single-storey, and No. 97 double-storey. The first floor of No. 97 has a distinctive oriel window set within a slightly recessed semicircular arch. The buildings have been substantially altered. The shopfront of No. 97 has been incorporated with the adjacent shop at No. 95. The cantilevered awning is either not original or very altered. The red face brickwork at the first floor level of No. 97 has been painted.

Comparative Examples Shops, 60 Church Street, Brighton

Significance The pair of shops at 95-97 Church Street, Brighton, are of aesthetic and historical significance. As early twentieth century shops, they demonstrate an important phase in the commercial development of Church Street. They are typical of Edwardian commercial architecture and, although altered, No. 97 still retains a distinctive oriel window at first floor level.

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Building: Former Melbourne Savings Significance: B Bank

Address: 118 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Bank Construction Date: 1890

Architect: Wright & Lucas Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The Melbourne Savings Bank was founded in 1841, and its headquarters were established at 70 Collins Street West. By 1885, there were eight suburban branches including ones at Fitzroy, Prahran, Richmond, Carlton and South Melbourne. The bank continued to expand during the prosperous Boom period of the late 1880s, and there were more than a dozen branches by 1890.1 In May of that year, architects Wright & Lucas called tenders for the new Brighton branch of the Melbourne Savings Bank.2 The rate book for 1891 indicates that ‘brick banking chambers’ valued at £140 had been erected on the south side of Church Street, beside the railway crossing. The occupant was listed as John Alsop, actuary, and James Cogswell, manager. Alsop was in fact the actuary for the entire Melbourne Saving Bank Limited. The rate books for 1898 provide more detailed information: a six room banking chamber on land with a 30’ frontage to Church Street. By 1917, the property had been designated as No. 92 Church Street, and was owned by the State Savings Bank. By 1930, ownership had passed to the Commercial Bank of Australia, who still maintained the building as a branch in the late 1940s.3 By that time, the address of the bank had been renumbered as No. 118 Church Street.

Description The former bank at 118 Church Street is a double-storey Italianate rendered brick building. At first floor level, the facade comprises three bays with highly ornamented windows, the central one with a semi-circular arched head, the flanking windows with segmental arched pediments set between swagged Ionic pilasters. A dentillated cornice sits below a simple, panelled parapet. The ground floor facade has been substantially altered. Although the three-bay composition has been retained, the windows have been replaced and all ornamentation removed.

Comparative Examples Former Melbourne Savings Bank, 118 Church Street, Brighton

Significance The former bank at 118 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. As a branch of the now-defunct Melbourne Savings Bank, the large and ornate building demonstrates the prosperity of financial institutions in the Boom period prior to the financial crisis of the early 1890s. Stylistically, the building is a fine example of the Italianate style as applied to commercial buildings. and is typical of many banks of the period. Although altered, the building remains a notable element in the Church Street streetscape, occupying a prominent site adjacent to the railway lines.

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1 Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory. 1885, 1890. 2 Australiasian Builders and Contractors’ News. 10 May 1890. p 1016. 3 Rate Book, 1930. Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory, 1947.

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Building: Rose’s Buildings Significance B

Address: 135-147 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E12

Building Type: Shops Construction Date: 1893-95

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891 Thomas Rose, a gardener, owned land with a 116’ frontage to Church Street, between the railway line and Male Street. Susan Rose, probably his wife, was identified as the owner of the land in 1893, and a five-room brick shop had been built on part of it. The following year, this shop had been completed, along with five others, each with five rooms and a 14’ frontage. At that stage, the northernmost shop had been leased. The block of land on the corner of Church and Male Streets was still vacant, and the seventh shop was built there in 1895. Susan Rose, now identified as a widow, was still the owner in 1905. By that time, the corner shop had been combined with the adjacent shop to form the single premises for a grocery, operated by Samuel Lancaster and George Thompson. The other five shops remained occupied individually. 1

Description Rose’s Buildings are a terrace of seven two-storey Victorian rendered brick shops. The original shops fronts have been altered to various extents, but the facades at the upper levels remain intact. These facades are similar but not quite identical, each having a pair of windows with narrow pilasters. Above the windows are decorative panels which contain, alternately, festoons and quilting. There is a heavy dentillated cornice above, surmounted by a balustraded parapet. The shops at Nos. 135, 141 and 147 also have panels bearing the name ROSE’S BUILDINGS, topped by a miniature cornice, acroterion and scrolled consoles.

Comparative Examples Munro’s Buildings, 76-90 Church Street. Brighton

Significance Rose’s Buildings, at 135-147 Church Street, Brighton, are of aesthetic and historical significance. They are a substantial and intact group of Victorian shops, with some interesting decorative details. Like most shops of their vintage, the original shop fronts are no longer intact, although Nos. 139, 141 and 143 retain some original features.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1906.

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Building: Hartsyde, later Marama Significance: A

Address: 161 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1887

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1886, vacant land with a frontage of 64’ to Church Street, designated as Lot 5, was owned by Robert Craig,1. The following year, a ten-room brick dwelling had been erected on the site, with Alfred Harston, a successful stationer, identified as the owner and occupant.2. Alexander Macadam purchased the property for his own residence in 1888. In 1891 the house was listed as having six rooms and by 1896, the north frontage of the property had increased by 15’.3 Macadam, a grocer, continued as owner and occupant in 1905, at which time the property was known as Hartsyde.4

Description Marama is a substantial double-storey polychromatic brick residence with three-storey tower. Of asymmetrical composition, the various portions of the house have distinctive jerkinhead slate roofs, supported at the eaves line on paired timber bracket. The skillion roof verandah is supported on iron columns, with a cast iron lacework frieze. Windows have round arched head with cream brick voussoirs and rendered keystones, and oculus vents on the wall above. The main room facing the street has a bay window at the ground level, with a cast iron railing forming a narrow balcony at the upper level.

Comparative Examples Invermay, 18 Stanley Street, Brighton Calabria, 167 Church Street, Brighton Goombah, 186 Church Street, Brighton Blair Athol, 5 Leslie Grove, Brighton Kiaora, 81 South Road, Brighton Hazelwood, 66 Wilson Street, Brighton Woodlands, 69 Woodlands Avenue, North Essendon (1888), Oakden, Addison & Kemp

Significance Marama, at 161 Church Street, Brighton, is of outstanding aesthetic and historical significance. The imposing house, which still occupies its original large allotment, combines a range of varied stylistic elements and details in a picturesque composition. Its large size and overblown architectural style is typical of the huge mansions built during the Boom period. To a large extent, the house still evokes the wealth and lifestyle of those who lived in the prosperous years just before the Depression of the 1890s.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1884-1886. 2 Rate Book 1887. 3 Rate Book 1888, 1891, 1896. 4 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Andover Significance: B

Address: 165 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1886

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1885, land with a 64’ frontage to the north side of Church Street, designated as Lot 4, was owned by John Moodie. By the following year, an eight-room brick house had been built there, owned and occupied by Charles Criswick, a warehouseman, 1. By 1896 Henry Burston, an importer, had purchased the property for his residence,2 and by 1906 it was owned and occupied by Frederick Harrison.3

Description Andover is a symmetrical Italianate bichromatic brick villa a hipped slate roof supported at the eaves line by cream brick brackets. The plinth, which forms the base of the verandah terrace, is of axe- finished bluestone. The verandah itself surrounds three sides of the house, and has a shallow skillion roof supported on paired iron columns, with a cast iron lacework frieze. The central doorway is flanked by canted bay windows in cream brick, which contain full-height double-hung sashes.

Comparative Examples Cleavemont, 57 Bay Road, Sandringham 42A Black Street, Brighton 28 Cromer Road, Beaumaris Kotska Hall, 47 South Road, Brighton Rathgar, 24 Tennyson Street, Brighton Lochiel, 80 Were Street, Brighton

Significance Andover, at 165 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a fine and substantially intact example of a large Victorian bichromatic villa in the Italianate style. Along with the nearby houses at Nos. 161 and 167, Andover makes an important contribution to the streetscape as one of a group of similar houses that are large and contemporaneous in date, and thus demonstrate residential development during the prosperous Boom period of the late 1880s.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1885, 1886. 2 Rate Book 1896. 3 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Narbethong and Marathon Significance: A

Address: 166-168 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residences Construction Date: 1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1889, vacant land with a 66’ frontage to the south side of Church Street, between Halifax and Male Streets, was owned by Susannah Black. The following year, she built two 7-room brick houses on this site. By 1891 these two houses were leased to William Byrne and Jeanette Millin. Mrs. Black, a widow was still the owner in 1905, at which time Robert Murphy, an accountant, leased number 168, known as Marathon, and Christina Vines, a married woman, leased number 166, known as Narbethong.

Description Marathon and Narbethong are an attached pair of double-storey Italianate rendered brick houses. The hipped slate roof is supported on brackets at the eaves line, and divided by a rendered partition wall which culminates in a dominant twin-stack chimney at the ridge line. The verandah extends around three sides of the building, and has a corrugated iron skillion roof supported on iron columns which are paired at the corners. The verandah has a frieze of cast iron lacework at both levels, and a matching balustrade along the upper level balcony. On the street facade, each of the houses has a wide window at each level, flanked by narrow sidelights

Comparative Examples Viervill, 18 Black Street, Brighton Shirley, 2 Manor Street, Brighton Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton Eling, 139 North Road, Brighton Craigmilla, 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton Coonara, 17 Roslyn Street, Brighton Ashleigh Lodge, 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton Dunvegan, 5 Seymour Grove, Brighton Farleigh, 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton Craig Hall, 2 South Road, Hampton Tanderagee, 70 Halifax Street, Brighton Ebrington, 23 South Road, Brighton Thornleigh Lodge, 9 Willansby Avenue, Brighton Edgecome, 134 Were Street, Brighton Jesmond, 66 Hanby Street, Brighton Kilkerran, 6 William Street, Brighton

Significance Marathon and Narbethong, at 166-168 Church Street, Brighton, are of outstanding aesthetic significance. Built at a time when paired houses were almost always in the form of terraces, the building is extremely unusual as twin dwellings designed to look like a single large mansion with a continuous enveloping verandah. In this way, the building represents a residential type that is unique in the municipality, and rare elsewhere in Victoria.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Wilton, later Calabria Significance: A

Address: 167 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1887

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1885, vacant land with a 90’ frontage to the north side of Church Street, designated at Lot 3, was owned by John Moodie. The following year, John Nicholson, an importer, had purchased the land and erected a twelve-room brick house.1. Nicholson was still the owner in 1905, although it was then occupied by Emma a’Beckett. At that time the house was known as Wilton 2.

Description Wilton is a substantial double- storey red brick residence with engaged three storey tower and pointed slate roof. Its asymmetrical form is expressed by the two storey cast iron verandah with Gothic motifs in its lacework set back from the prominent parapeted and bayed projecting wing. Window openings are single point segmental, emphasised by blackened bricks and the tall chimney stacks are prominent elements.

Comparative Examples Marama, 161 Church Street, Brighton Invermay, 18 Stanley Street, Brighton Goombah, 186 Church Street, Brighton Blair Athol, 5 Leslie Grove, Brighton Kiaora, 81 South Road, Brighton Hazelwood, 66 Wilson Street, Brighton Woodlands, 69 Woodlands Avenue, North Essendon (1888), Oakden, Addison & Kemp

Significance Calabria, at 167 Church Street, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. The house is important as a large and picturesque late Victorian Gothic styled residence, comparable with Kiora, South Road. Its exploitation of Gothic elements is of interest and contrasts with the round arched openings of the tower. Wilton’s importance is enhanced at the local level for its position on the sought after Church Street hill and for its association with the a’Becketts, one of Brighton’s notable families. Its ownership by the importer, Nicholson, is also of interest and is representative of the prominent homes built by importers locating in Brighton.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1885-1887. 2 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Ashurst, later Danubia Significance: B

Address: 172 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1896

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Church Street is within the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. The house now known as No. 172 Church Street was erected in 1896 for George Porter, a grazier. The seven-room brick house, with a Net Annual Value of £60, occupied land measuring 66’ by 330’.1 By 1898, the house was occupied by Edward M Etheridge, a gentleman, and was named Ashurst. By 1910 the occupant was Arthur Strauss, who renamed the property Danubia. Later occupants included Mrs Rea Parson (1910s), John T Crebbin (1920s-1940s) and Mrs Esther Crebbin (1950s).2

Description Danubia is a symmetrical Victorian rendered brick residence with a hipped slate roof penetrated by rendered chimneys. The entrance elevation has a central projecting porch with an arched opening ornamented with compound pilasters and a keystone, and it is surmounted by a pedimented parapet with cement urns. The porch bisects the cast iron verandah, which is supported on iron columns with a cast iron lacework frieze. Windows have wide window openings, containing a double-hung timber- framed sash flanked by narrow sidelights.

Comparative Examples Danubia, 172 Church Street, Brighton Guernsey House, 11 Guernsey Avenue, Moorabbin Linton, 81 Outer Crescent, Brighton Kalimna, 14 William Street, Brighton

Significance Danubia, at 172 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is a good example of a nineteenth century Italianate villa, featuring decorative render and cast iron work; of particular note is the classically detailed entrance porch. As an example of a post-Boom era house, it demonstrates a particular phase of residential settlement in the area.

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1 Brighton City Council rate book, 1896-99. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Goombah Significance: B

Address: 186 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 F1

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1891

Architect: Phillip E Treeby Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891, Dr William Macansh owned vacant land on the corner of Church and Halifax Streets, designated as Lot 1 and measuring 108’ x 180’. By the following year, he had erected a thirteen-room brick house as his own residence, designed by prominent local architect Phillip Treeby.1 Treeby, who commenced his practice in 1883, designed many notable buildings in the area, including the ES&AC Bank branch in Bay Street, the Oriental Coffee Palace, buildings at Brighton Grammar School, and Mark Moss’ vast mansion, Norwood, on The Esplanade. Dr Macansh was a prominent local medical practitioner who later served as the Municipal Health Officer in Brighton. He was still the owner and occupant of the house in 1900. However, by 1914 he was leasing the property, then known as Goombah, to William Mitchell, a gentleman.2

Description Goombah is a substantial double-storey Queen Anne red brick villa with a hipped slate roof. The main elevation is asymmetrical but balanced, having a projecting room at each end. One has a half- timbered gable end while the other bay is canted. Between these two bays is a projecting canted porch with stylised Corinthian columns at the ground level and a wide rendered band above. Windows have rendered heads and splayed sills and contain multi-paned double-hung sashes. The Church Street elevation has a recessed verandah at both levels with turned timber posts, and a half- round one-storey bay with an arcaded balustrade forming a balcony at the upper level. The other side elevation has a small projection with a castellated parapet. All elevations have rendered ornament in the form of dressings, string courses, cappings and, most notable on the front facade, a panel with foliation and a shield motif bearing the year 1891.

Comparative Examples Marama, 161 Church Street, Brighton Invermay, 18 Stanley Street, Brighton Calabria, 167 Church Street, Brighton Blair Athol, 5 Leslie Grove, Brighton Kiaora, 81 South Road, Brighton Hazelwood, 66 Wilson Street, Brighton Woodlands, 69 Woodlands Avenue, North Essendon (1888), Oakden, Addison & Kemp

Significance Goombah, at 186 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It a substantial brick residence with some particularly fine Queen Anne details, and is an early and sophisticated example of this style in Victoria. The building is important for its association with medical practitioner, Dr William Macansh, and also as an example of the work of prominent local architect Phillip Treeby.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 ‘Residence in Brighton for Dr Macansh’. Building, Mining and Engineering Journal. 9 May 1891. p 179. 2 Rate Books 1891, 1892, 1900, 1900, 1915.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 188 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 G12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1940

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Church Street was within the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. The house at No. 188 Church Street was built c.1940, and the first occupants were listed as Miss Catherine Sprigg and Miss H G Ogg. In the 1950s, the house was occupied by William N Gibbon and Miss Jessie Morris .1

Description The house at 188 Church Street is a double-storey residence designed in the inter-War English Domestic Revival style. Asymmetrically planned, the clinker brick house has gabled terracotta tiled roofs, tripartite double-hung sash windows with leadlight glazing, and a semi-circular arched entrance porch with brick voussoirs. The gable end facing the street has mock half-timbering, infilled with crazy patterned brickwork. The low clinker brick hit-and-miss front fence is original.

Comparative Examples 6 Bay Street, Brighton 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris Culverkeys, 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton The Gables, 7 Brandon Road, Brighton

Significance The house at 188 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a good example of the inter-War English Domestic Revival Style; of note is the decorative use of clinker brickwork such as crazy pattern brickwork in the gable end and the hit-and-miss brick front fence.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Aldgour Significance: B

Address: 192 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 F1

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1892

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891, vacant land in Church Street, designated as Lot 4, was owned by William Bray. The following year, a nine-room brick dwelling was built there, the owner and occupant identified as William McLean, an accountant. He still lived there in 1905, at which time the house was known as Aldgour.1

Description Aldgour is a substantial single-storey late Victorian Italianate rendered brick villa with a hipped slate roof penetrated by dominant rendered brick chimneys with heavy cornices. The verandah extends around three sides of the house, and has a convex corrugated iron roof supported on turned timber posts. The street facade has a canted bay window which retains its window valances with sun blinds.

Comparative Examples 10 Agnew Street, East Brighton Elrona, 11 Murphy Street, Brighton Eloc, 52 Bay Street, Brighton Esmerelda, 32 Park Street, Brighton Lauriston, 10 Church Street, Brighton 1 Seymour Grove, Brighton Former Watchhouse, 743 Hampton Street, Brighton Weeroona, 17 South Road, Brighton South Leigh, 907 Hampton Street, Brighton Winmarleigh, 20 Were Street, Brighton Normanby, 11 Manor Street, Brighton South Lodge, 43 Were Street, Brighton Wangararu, 23 Marriage Road, East Brighton Euloura, 130 Were Street, Brighton 59 Milroy Street, East Brighton Mia Mia, 22 William Street, Brighton Roslyn, 61 Milroy Street, East Brighton Florence Court, 26 William Street, Brighton Heim Ruke, 63 Milroy Street, East Brighton

Significance Aldgour, at 192 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. It is a large and substantially intact Italianate villa which is of interest for its Queen Anne characteristics such as turned timber verandah posts. As a typical example of a large house built in the immediate post-Boom era, it demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1891, 1892, 1906.

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Building: Kilmarnock Significance: B

Address: 193 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F12

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1888

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History By 1887, there was only one house on the north-east side of Church Street, between Halifax Street and Belle Avenue. A second house, built on the actual corner of Halifax and Church Street, first appears in the Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory for 1889. The occupant was identified as John Peacock, who remained living until 1893. The house was then occupied briefly by a person with the surname Malcolm.1 From 1894 to 1906, Richard Buckley Whitaker, an architect, lived in the house.2 It was apparently vacant between 1907 and 1909, before being taken over by Henry Bucher in 1910. Bucher, a civil servant, named the house Kilmarnock, and remained living there until at least 1920.3

Description The house at 193 Church Street is a large, single-storey rendered brick Victorian villa. The front elevation comprises a projecting hipped-roof bay adjacent to a small, parapeted porch. The long return verandah has a concave-profile roof. The hipped slate roof is penetrated by rendered brick chimneys with moulded caps. The house is obscured by a high rendered brick fence.

Comparative Examples Kantara, 54 Bay Street, Brighton Wotonga, 67 St Andrews Street, Brighton Charlton, 34 Drake Street, Brighton 98 St Andrews Street, Brighton 14 Lynch Street, Brighton Merrow, 316 St Kilda Street, Brighton Melville, 32 Middle Crescent, Brighton 22 Seymour Grove, Brighton Cathkin, 43 Middle Crescent, Brighton Osiris, 28 Seymour Grove, Brighton Milverton, 82 New Street, Brighton Doon, 8 Stanley Street, Brighton 285 New Street, Brighton Chilton, 1 Wellington Street, Brighton Finchal, 299-305 New Street, Brighton Cathcart, 19 Wellington Street, Brighton Corowa, 389 New Street, Brighton Oyanna, 22 Wellington Street, Brighton Tullavin, 453 New Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 193 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a somewhat unusually-planned Victorian villa which, despite its high fence, makes a positive contribution to the Halifax Street streetscape.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory. 1894. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory. 1894 to 1906; Brighton electoral rolls, 1903. 3 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory. 1910 to 1920; Brighton electoral rolls, 1914.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 203 Church Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 76 F1

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1880

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Church Street was within the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. In 1880, the Sands & McDougall directories did not list the residents of Brighton by individual street address. By 1885, the directories listed six houses on the east side of Church Street, between Dendy and Belle Streets. This had increased to ten houses by 1890.1 The style of the house at 203 Church Street suggests that it was built c.1880.

Description The house at 203 Church Street is a single-storey asymmetrical Italianate bichromatic brick villa, with a hipped slate roof penetrated by banded brick chimneys with moulded caps. The projecting room is canted, with round-arched window openings containing double-hung sashes. The return verandah has a concave corrugated iron roof, and is supported on distinctive paired iron columns with a frieze of cast iron lacework. Cream brick highlights are used for decorative effect at the eaves lines, window surrounds, corner quoining and chimney caps.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton Neangar, 30 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 203 Church Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance and historical interest. The house is a good and substantially intact example of a nineteenth century Italianate villa, and is of particular note for its bold pattern of bichromatic brickwork, and its distinctive verandah. As a typical example of a modest house built in the Boom period of the 1880s, it demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the area.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Otley Significance: A

Address: 1 Clive Street, East Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 K11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1887

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Otley was built for Elizabeth Brownscombe in 1887. It is described in the rate books as a six-room brick house with stables and tower, on Lots 11-17 (2.2.0 acres) in Mill Street, between Union Street and Point Nepean Road. The first occupant was John Bowden.1 By 1890 the property was owned by Sarah Thorn. David Thorn, a wine and spirit merchant, was the occupant. By 1896 the property had been purchased by the National Mutual Life Association of Victoria, which owned Otley until at least 1905.2.

Description Otley is a large single-storey rendered brick Italianate villa with a three storey tower. There is a cast iron convex-roofed verandah to the south and west elevations, running around a projecting bayed wing. The hipped slate roof has bracketed eaves and is penetrated by rendered chimneys with corbelled caps.

Comparative Examples St Ronan’s, 41 Black Street, Brighton Totnes, 36 Middle Crescent, Brighton Bronte, 2 Sussex Street, Brighton Lozelle, 36 Roslyn Street, Brighton

Significance Otley, at 1 Clive Street, East Brighton, is of outstanding aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a large Italianate villa, notable for its landmark three-storey tower and restrained ornamentation.

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1 Rate Books 1886, 1887. 2 Rate Books 1890, 1896, 1906.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 1 Clonmult Avenue, Highett Melway Map Ref: 77 D10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1950s

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History 1 Clonmult Avenue is within Crown Portion 36, purchased by James Murphy in the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. In c.1920 there was no Clonmult Street, Highett listed in the Sands & McDougall directory. By c.1930-c.1940 there were, in total, 2 houses in Clonmult Street between Cloyne Street and Middleton Street. 1 Clonmult Avenue (north side) was built c.1950, by which time development had begun in earnest—there were 5 houses (two being built) on the north side of Clonmult Street between Cloyne Street and Middleton Street; there were three on the south side (two being built).1

Description The house at 1 Clonmult Avenue, Highett, is a single-storey residence designed in the Waterfall style of the 1950s. Asymmetrically planned, the house has rendered walls with contrasting manganese brickwork used for the plinth, chimney and window sills and heads, and a glazed terracotta tiled hipped roof with boxed eaves. The house has curved corners, curved steel-framed windows and a stepped and curved chimney. The cantilevered corner entrance canopy is also curved, flanked by decorative brick pilasters. The front fence is of matching manganese brickwork and render, with a wrought iron gate at the corner.

Comparative Examples 183 Charman Road, Beaumaris 571 Balcombe Road, Beaumaris 666 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton 725 Hawthorn Road, East Brighton 64 Union Street, East Brighton

Significance The house at 1 Clonmult Avenue, Highett, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a distinctive example of the Waterfall style popular in the post-War period. Of note are the decorative use of ironwork, contrasting manganese brickwork and the Waterfall style elements such as the curved steel- framed windows, curved entrance canopy and stepped chimneys.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 14 Coape Street, Cheltenham Melway Map Ref: 86 H3

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1899

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Previously on Reserve land in the Parish of Moorabbin, adjoining Crown Portion 50 which originally belonged to Stephen Charman, Coape Street was offered for sale as part of the Charman Estate in 1888. The Charman Estate was one of Cheltenham’s first major land sales following the laying of the railway line in 1882. The property, probably Allotment 39, had a 60 foot (18 metre) frontage to Coape Street.1 14 Coape Street was built c.1899; the first occupant was John F Taylor. The house was at that time the only building on the north side of Coape Street; it remained the sole house until at least the early 1920s. By 1935 it was one of two and by 1950 it was one of four. Later occupants of 14 Coape Street included Charles Dwight (mid-1900s), Walter Burr (1910s), William J Henderson (1920s), William J Bloxom (1930s) and Wilson B Thomas (1950s).2

Description The house at 14 Coape Street is a single-storey, nineteenth century block-fronted cottage, asymmetrically planned with a hipped slate roof with timber bracketed eaves. A semi-octagonal bay window with double-hung sashes is located to the east. The timber post verandah with cast iron lacework appears to be a recent reconstruction. The six-panelled entrance door has narrow sidelights and a highlight with flashed glass. Chimneys are of unpainted ruled render, with moulded caps. The eaves have carved timber brackets, between which are raised and fielded panels.

Comparative Examples Summerhill, 270-272 Bluff Road, Sandringham Coronet Hill, 10 Coronet Grove, Beaumaris Stokeavilly, 109-11 Park Road, Cheltenham Thule, 25 Tennyson Street, Brighton Claramae, 141 Weatherall Road, Cheltenham

Significance The house at 14 Coape Street, Cheltenham, is of historical and aesthetic significance. One of a small number of surviving nineteenth century houses in Cheltenham, it demonstrates an early and important phase of settlement of the area. The house is a relatively intact example a block-fronted cottage.

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1 J Cribbin, Moorabbin: A Pictorial History, 1862-1994, City of Kingston (Vic) 1984, p. 66. Charman Estate, Cheltenham. 24 March 1888, Plimpton & Noall, surveyors. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: St Stephen’s Anglican Church Significance: B

Address: Cochrane Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F8

Building Type: Church Construction Date: 1927-28

Architect: Louis R Williams Builder: McBain Brothers

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The first Anglican church in the Brighton area had been erected in the 1850s, and it continued to adequately serve the needs of its congregation for many decades. After World War One, the increasing population in some of the previously less developed parts of Brighton led to the need for additional churches. St Luke’s Anglican Church in Bay Street was given the full stature of a parish in 1920, and this was followed by the establishment of several new churches in the area throughout the 1920s.1 A new Anglican church was proposed in Cochrane Street, at the extreme north of the municipality, and the foundation stone was laid on 10 March 1928 by the Right Reverend Arthur Vincent Green LLD.2 The church was designed by Louis Williams, who was then at the beginning of his prolific career as an ecclesiastical architect. At that time, his church designs were very much in the Gothic Revival tradition, often with an Arts & Crafts influence. In his later career, Williams rejected this style, once stating that ‘it is a mistake to go back and copy Gothic architecture of the various periods. That is long since dead and gone.’3

Description St Stephen’s Anglican Church is a small red brick building on a traditional cruciform plan, with a steep gabled roof clad in terracotta tiles. The projecting entry porch and transepts have shallow pointed arch doorways surmounted with labels moulds with bosses at each end. The nave has a series of narrow lancet windows, with false-arched heads, which contain leadlight glazing.

Comparative Examples Church of Christ Hall, Wilson Street, Brighton Holy Trinity Church, Thomas Street, Hampton Hampton Uniting Church, Service Street, Hampton Sandringham Uniting Church, Trentham Street, Sandringham

Significance St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Brighton, is of historical and aesthetic significance. As one of many new churches constructed in the area during inter-War period, the church demonstrates an important phase in the development and settlement of the municipality. It is important as a focus of religious activity in this part of Brighton since 1928. It is also of importance as a particularly early example of the work of noted ecclesiastical architect Louis Williams, who later rejected the Gothic style in favour of an abstracted modernist approach.

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1 Weston Bate. A History of Brighton. p 393. 2 Foundation Stone, St Stephen’s Church, Cochrane Street, Brighton. 3 Quoted in Gerald Devine, ‘The Vital Church’. Sun, 30 May 1959.

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Building: Surbiton & Lilydale Significance: B

Address: 25 & 27 Cochrane Street, Melway Map Ref: 67 F8 Brighton

Building Type: Residences Construction Date: 1892

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1892, George Higgins, a carter, erected two four-room brick dwellings on land with a 48’ frontage to Cochrane Street. The house at No. 25, known as Surbiton, was rented to Bridget McLaughlin, a spinster, while No. 27, known as Lilydale, became occupied by John McEarchern, a cabinetmaker.1 By 1905, both houses were owned by George Borrow, a stoker. Surbiton was occupied by James Miller, a civil servant, and Lilydale was occupied by John Burrows, a produce merchant.2 By the 1940s, the two houses were occupied respectively by Frank Borrow and Mrs M E Borrow.

Description Surbiton and Lilydale are a pair of identical single-fronted late Victorian bichromatic brick cottages with hipped slate roofs that are supported at the eaves line by paired brick brackets, and penetrated by matching brick chimneys at the ridge line. The respective verandahs are separated by a brick fire wall, and have skillion corrugated iron roofs supported on iron columns with a narrow lacework frieze.

Comparative Examples Clyde & Carlton, 50 & 52 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Surbiton and Lilydale, 25 & 27 Cochrane Street, Brighton, are of aesthetic and historical significance. They are a good and substantially intact pair of semi-detached brick terrace houses, a typology which, although common in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, is unusual in Brighton. The bold polychromatic brickwork and sophisticated composition and detailing are also of interest

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Book 1892. 2 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: Engadine Significance: B

Address: 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre-1900

Architect: Unknown Builder: William Jarman?

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1900, the property on the north-east corner of Cochrane Street and Oak Grove had a frontage of 110 feet. On this site was an eight-room brick and wood dwelling, occupied by Joseph Wearne, a carrier. The owner was not listed, as was often the case when a property was changing hands. In 1901, William Jarman, a contractor, was identified as both the owner and occupant. The following year, the land was subdivided into two blocks and Jarman erected another seven-room brick dwelling. This house, now designated as No. 50, completed in 1902. In that year, Arthur Woodfall, a manager was occupant of the original house at No. 48.1 The house was later the home of the Sanderson family, R R Sanderson being the sometime Chairman of the Brighton Grammar School Council and Prue Sanderson being a well-known conservation architect.

Description Engadine is a double-fronted asymmetrical Italianate polychromatic brick villa with hipped slate roof, supported on paired brick brackets at the eaves line, and penetrated by two banded brick chimneys. On the street facade, the projecting room has a pair of windows with segmental arched heads, which contain double-hung sashes. The verandah has a corrugated iron roof, supported on iron columns with a wide frieze of cast iron lacework. Cream bricks are used to decorative effect on the window surrounds, arch voussoirs, eaves line, quoining and chimneys. The house is identical to the adjacent house, Bulow, at 50 Cochrane Street.

Comparative Examples 2 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Kainga, 4 Allee Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Ronbaix, 55 Black Street, Brighton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Dunottar, 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Toxteth, 66 Champion Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Bulow, 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance Engadine, at 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is an intact example of a richly decorated Italianate bichromatic villa of a standard design. Along with the identical house at No. 50, it forms a distinctive pair of detached very late Victorian dwellings which demonstrate a particular phase of residential development in the area.

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1 Rate Book 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1861 - 1900.

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Building: Bulow Significance: B

Address: 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1902

Architect: Unknown Builder: William Jarman?

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at 50 Cochrane Street was erected in 1902 on land owned by William Jarman. The large block, on the corner of Cochrane Street and Oak Grove, was already occupied by a double-fronted bichromatic brick villa which had been erected by a previous owner. Jarman subdivided his property in 1902 to create two frontages to Cochrane Street, and erected the second house to an identical design. It is conceivable that Jarman, a contractor, erected the second house himself, copying the design from the first one.

Description Bulow is a double-fronted asymmetrical Italianate polychromatic brick villa with hipped slate roof, supported on paired brick brackets at the eaves line, and penetrated by two banded brick chimneys. On the street facade, the projecting room has a pair of windows with segmental arched heads, which contain double-hung sashes. The verandah has a corrugated iron roof, supported on iron columns with a wide frieze of cast iron lacework. Cream bricks are used to decorative effect on the window surrounds, arch voussoirs, eaves line, quoining and chimneys. The house is identical to the adjacent house, Engadine at 48 Cochrane Street.

Comparative Examples 2 Allee Street, Brighton 26 Gordon Street, Beaumaris Kainga, 4 Allee Street, Brighton Arbuthnot, 41 Middle Crescent, Brighton Ronbaix, 55 Black Street, Brighton Delville, 83 Outer Crescent, Brighton Dunottar, 31-33 Bridge Street, Hampton Esperance, 11 Warriston Street, Brighton Toxteth, 66 Champion Street, Brighton 75 Well Street, Brighton Engadine, 48 Cochrane Street, Brighton

Significance Bulow, at 50 Cochrane Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is an intact example of a richly decorated Italianate bichromatic villa of a standard design. Along with the identical house at No. 48, it forms a distinctive pair of detached very late Victorian dwellings which demonstrate an particular phase of residential development in the area. Of interest is the fact that two houses are identical, even though they were built some time apart.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Melwyn, later Ashleigh Lodge Significance: B

Address: 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1879

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History David Prath built an eight-room brick dwelling here in 1879. He lived there with Robert Bear, a gentleman, who purchased the property himself in 1880.1 The house had several tenants over the next few years before being purchased in 1889 by John Purse, a gentleman, as his own residence. Purse had died by 1894, and ownership passed to his widow, Alison, who continued to reside there. By 1906, Isabella Watson was owner and occupant of Melwyn, the house being noted at that date as having twelve rooms.2

Description Ashleigh Lodge is a large double-storey Victorian rendered brick residence with a hipped roof penetrated by rendered chimneys with bracketed caps. The verandah extends around two elevations, and has a corrugated iron skillion roof supported on unusual paired iron column with a frieze of cast iron lacework. A timber-framed stairway has been added to provide access to the balcony along the side elevation. The main elevation has a central doorway, flanked by a pair of windows with prominent architraves, and containing double-hung sashes.

Comparative Examples Viervill, 18 Black Street, Brighton Shirley, 2 Manor Street, Brighton Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton Eling, 139 North Road, Brighton Craigmilla, 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton Coonara, 17 Roslyn Street, Brighton 166-168 Church Street, Brighton Dunvegan, 5 Seymour Grove, Brighton Farleigh, 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton Craig Hall, 2 South Road, Hampton Tanderagee, 70 Halifax Street, Brighton Ebrington, 23 South Road, Brighton Thornleigh Lodge, 9 Willansby Avenue, Brighton Edgecome, 134 Were Street, Brighton Jesmond, 66 Hanby Street, Brighton Kilkerran, 6 William Street, Brighton

Significance Ashleigh Lodge, at 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a large and substantially intact Victorian residence, notable for it conservative decoration and distinctive verandah treatment. As a typical large house built during the years leading up to the Boom period of the 1880s, it demonstrates an important phase in the residential settlement of the area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1880. 2 Rate Books 1906.

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Building: Hartley Significance: B

Address: 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1914

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In the early twentieth century, Andrew Cochrane owned vacant land on the south-west corner of Cochrane and Cole Streets, measuring 132’ by 198’. Andrew Cochrane, identified as a dairyman, was presumably also a descendant of James Cochrane, the blacksmith and Brighton pioneer after whom Cochrane Street was named. In 1914, Andrew Cochrane’s land had been subdivided into four blocks. Each of the blocks fronted Cochrane Street, and all of them had been built on by November of that year. A five-room timber house had been erected on the corner site, and was occupied by Thomas White, an accountant. At that time, the house was known as Hartley 1.

Description Hartley is a substantial single-storey Edwardian timber villa with a hipped slate roof and terracotta ridging. There are projecting wings to the Cochrane Street and Cole Street frontages, with a linking gablet on the diagonal axis. The gable end to Cochrane Street has roughcast infill. The verandah has a ladder framed frieze.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham 176 New Street, Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Bellview, 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance Hartley, at 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a good and substantially intact example of an Edwardian timber villa, displaying the characteristics typical of the period. As one of four houses built on Andrew Cochrane’s dairy property in 1914, the house demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in northern Brighton in the early twentieth century.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1914, 1915.

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Building: Umfra Significance: B

Address: 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 F6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre 1906

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1906, the house at No. 144 Cochrane Street was owned and occupied by Emma Thacker, a spinster, who also owned an adjoining house and vacant lot. The house, known as Umfra, became occupied by Richard Langslow in 1910. Miss Thacker sold the house in 1917 to Andrew Cochrane. He was a dairyman, and presumably also a descendant of James Cochrane, the blacksmith and Brighton pioneer after whom Cochrane Street was named. In 1914, Andrew Cochrane had subdivided and sold off a vast tract of land on the corner of Cochrane Sand Cole Streets prior, and presumably purchased Umfra with the profits. By 1924, Umfra was owned and occupied by Andrew Wishart, a retired farmer.

Description Umfra is a single-storey asymmetrical Edwardian red brick residence with an attic storey. The terracotta tiled roof is hipped over the main part of the house, with a subsidiary gable to the street, and a distinctive conical roofed turret at the corner. The main roof also encloses a return verandah, which is carried on turned timber posts and is decorated with fretwork common to this style, terminated at front and side (north) with projecting gable ended wings. The roof has decorative ridging, and is penetrated by dormer window at the attic level, and a brick chimney with corbelled caps.

Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance Umfra, at 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a good and substantially intact example of a Federation style house, displaying typical characteristics such as the picturesque roof composition incorporating the distinctive turret. As one of several early twentieth century houses in the immediate vicinity, the house demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in this part of Brighton.

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Building: Prendagga Significance: B

Address: 21 Cole Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1913

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Cole Street is located north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton council in 1870.1 Before 1912, the land on the north side of Cole Street, between the beach and St Kilda Street, was vacant. That year, a single house has been built, occupied by Leonard Bannister. In 1913, six more houses were constructed, including the one now designated as No. 21 Cole Street. It was identified in the rate books as Prendagga, and described as a five-room brick house, with a Net Annual Value of £45, occupying land measuring 40 feet by 150 feet.2 The first owner and occupant was Leslie Leeming, a boot dealer, who remained living there until at least the 1930s. After the War, the house was occupied by Miss Irene Williams.3

Description Prendagga is a large Edwardian Queen Anne style residence, constructed of red brick with hipped and gabled slate roofs with terracotta ridge cresting and finials. Asymmetrically planned, the house has a semi-circular bay window with leadlighted casements, a timber post verandah with a decorative timber fretwork frieze, tall roughcast rendered chimney stacks and half-timbered gable ends. A garage has been recently constructed on the east side of the house, and a double-storey addition to the rear, also of red brickwork with slate roofs. The roof has been disfigured by the insertion of skylights.

Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance Prendagga, at 21 Cole Street, Brighton, is of individual aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial and good example of the Edwardian Queen Anne style, displaying typical features including leadlighted bay windows, half-timbered gables and timber verandah fretwork. Substantially intact, the house is an important element in the streetscape.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Brighton City Council rate books, 1913-14. 3 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 32 Cole Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1920

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Cole Street is located north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton council in 1870.1 Since the 1880s, the vacant land on the south side of Cole Street had been owned by John F Hamilton. By 1916, seven houses had been built there, and an additional four by 1921. The house at No. 32 Cole Street appears to date from about 1921. This contention is supported by the Sands and McDougall directory for that year, which lists eleven houses on the south side of Cole Street, and three under construction.2

Description The house at 32 Cole Street, Brighton, is a large, roughcast timber bungalow with an attic storey. The broad gabled concrete tile roof is penetrated by an unusually tall chimney and by a large dormer-type wing at one side, clad with shingles. The gable end to the street has a projecting bay window at the upper level with a matching jerkinhead roof. Below this is the entrance porch, which is flanked by bay windows with multi-paned double-hung sashes.

Comparative Examples 29 Dawson Avenue, Brighton Tandara, 25 Seymour Grove, Brighton 33 Martin Street, Brighton 10 South Road, Hampton 11 Rennison Street, Beaumaris Boselman House, 62 South Road, Hampton 26 St Ninians Road, Brighton

Significance The house at 32 Cole Street, Brighton, is of individual aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial and good example of the American-derived inter-War bungalow style, displaying typical features including the broad gabled roof, symmetrical composition and shingling. The house is substantially intact and contributes to the character of the street. Historically, the house is demonstrative of the more substantial houses which were constructed in the area between the Wars.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Perrott Lyon Mathieson Pty Ltd, in association with Andrew Ward (Architectural Historian), City of Brighton: Urban Character and Conservation Study, 1986, p. 115.

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Building: Adlez Significance: B

Address: 40 Cole Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1920

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Cole Street is located north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton council in 1870.1 Since the 1880s, the vacant land on the south side of Cole Street had been owned by John F Hamilton. By 1916, seven houses had been built there, and an additional four by 1921. The house at No. 32 Cole Street appears to date from about 1921. This contention is supported by the Sands and McDougall directory for that year, which lists eleven houses on the south side of Cole Street, and a further three under construction.2

Description Adlez is a single-storey asymmetrical Federation style red brick house with a picturesque roofline composed of hipped and gabled sections clad in terracotta tile. The projecting room to the street has a half-timbered gable end with a tall tapered rendered chimney and a faceted bay window, surmounted by an unusual coved metal roof. The main roof extends to form a verandah, which is supported on timber posts on red brick piers. There is a similar faceted bay window under the verandah, containing casement sashes with leadlight glazing. The attic storey at the side of the roof is a recent, although sympathetic, addition.

Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance Adlez, at 40 Cole Street, Brighton, is of individual aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial and good example of the Edwardian Queen Anne style, displaying typical features including leadlight bay windows, half-timbered gables and tall chimney stacks. Substantially intact, the house contributes to the character of the streetscape.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Perrott Lyon Mathieson Pty Ltd, in association with Andrew Ward (Architectural Historian), City of Brighton: Urban Character and Conservation Study, 1986, p. 115.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 85 Cole Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1914

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1914, Sylvester O’Kane, a tobacco worker owned land 40’ x 132’ on the north-east corner of Cole and Murphy Streets, facing Cole Street. By November 1914 a five-room brick dwelling had been built there, owned and occupied by John Mitchell, a grocer. 1

Description The house at 85 Cole Street is a single-storey asymmetrical Edwardian red brick house. The roofline is picturesque, comprising a hipped portion with a subsidiary gable to Cole Street, and a small gablet over the main corner entry on the corner. The roof is continuous to form a return verandah, supported on turned timber posts. The gable end is half-timbered with roughcast infill. The slate roof has terracotta ridging and red brick chimneys with corbelled caps and roughcast rendered banding.

Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 85 Cole Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a good and substantially intact example of a large Edwardian villa. As one of many houses erected in Cole Street in the early twentieth century, it demonstrates an important phase of residential settlement in the immediate area. It is a key element in this streetscape of Edwardian and inter-War houses.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1914, 1915.

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Building: Coronet Hill Significance: B

Address: 10 Coronet Grove, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 B7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1880s

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Coronet Hill, at 10 Coronet Grove, is located within Crown Portion 31, purchased by James Atkinson in the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. Coronet Hill appears to have been built after 1876. Before this date the property extended from Balcombe Road to the north to Beach Road (then The Esplanade) to the south, and from Haydens Road to the east to the ‘late Mr Ebden’s Estate’ (aligning with present Keating Street) to the west. No building at the location of Coronet Hill is shown on a lodged plan dated 1876, although a number of small huts are shown near the south boundary. The property was subdivided into 19 allotments, the present property at 10 Coronet Grove being located within lot No. 4 fronting The Esplanade.1 In 1887 the property was owned by Mrs Helen Haydon.2 Mrs Haydon may have given her name (with a different spelling) to the adjacent street, although Haydens Road was known as George Street until at least the early 1920s.3 In 1908 Coronet Hill was purchased by Dr Abramowski for use as a sanitarium. Patients were invited to recuperate on the 13 acre property to benefit from its elevated bayside location. The grounds of the sanitarium contained expansive lawns, a vegetable garden, a look-out platform fitted with a telescope and six ‘ideal sun parks’ concealed by evergreen hedges, where free from the prying of curious eyes, the patient may bathe in the rays of the sun in as little clothing as their fancy or the advice of the Medical Superintendent directs. Spacious, well- fitted tents are pitched in the parks, and serve as shelter by day and sleeping places by night.4 Dr Abramowski, who held degrees in medicine and surgery, was a dietician specialising in natural, drug-free therapies. According to a contemporary account, the purpose of the sanitarium was “not merely to cure, but to reproduce the ordinary surroundings of home and so teach the patient how to live and prevent the return of complaint.”5 Sleeping quarters were provided, and meals were prepared by Dr Abramowski’s wife. Amongst the early owners of the property were the Stawell family, including Sir Rupert Stawell, a Collins Street surgeon who used the house as a holiday retreat.6 In 1921 William Stawell, a solicitor, resided in George Street, which may have been Coronet Hill.7 In 1928 ownership of the property passed to Thomas Davies.8 Suburban subdivision occurred in 1950 when Coronet Grove was laid out and the property divided into 12 allotments.9 Coronet Grove was situated on the largest of these, lot No. 6: a 1 acre property which was further subdivided the following year.10

Description Coronet Hill is a single-storey, timber block-fronted nineteenth century villa, constructed on a large elevated site. Asymmetrically planned, the house has a projecting section to the west with a semi- octagonal bay window with double-hung sashes. The remainder of the windows on the front elevation are non-original double-hung sashes. The roof is gabled and clad in galvanised corrugated steel. The verandah is supported on timber posts with timber brackets; early photographs of the house show the verandah with a cast iron lacework frieze and columns.11 To the rear, a flight of brick steps in the garden are thought to be original or early, providing access to the kitchen, now demolished.

Comparative Examples Summerhill, 270-272 Bluff Road, Sandringham 14 Coape Street, Cheltenham Stokeavilly, 109-11 Park Road, Cheltenham Thule, 25 Tennyson Street, Brighton Claramae, 141 Weatherall Road, Cheltenham

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Significance Coronet Hill, at 10 Coronet Grove, Beaumaris, is of historical and aesthetic significance. The house was one of the few nineteenth century residences constructed in Beaumaris prior to suburban subdivision, and demonstrates an early and important phase of residential settlement in the area. The large block on which the house is situated reflects its early rural origins, and the use of the property as a sanitarium by Dr Abramowski in the early twentieth century is of interest. The form of the house— a timber block-fronted villa—is unusual in the suburb, and it is relatively intact externally.

Source National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 5551.

1 Lodged Plan No. 228, dated 1876, with later amendments. Land and Survey Information Centre. 2 Certificate of Title Vol. 1937, Fol. 387,307. Copy held by the present owner. 3 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, 1921, and 1887 Certificate of Title Vol. 1937, Fol. 387, 307. 4 ‘A Visit to the Sun-Sanitarium, Coronet Hill’, reprinted from Australian Success: A Magazine Devoted to the Development of Mind, Body and Spirit. July 1909. 5 ‘A Visit to the Sun-Sanitarium, Coronet Hill’, reprinted from Australian Success: A Magazine Devoted to the Development of Mind, Body and Spirit. July 1909. 6 National Trust of Australia (Vic), File No. 5551. 7 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, 1921. 8 Certificate of Title dated 1928, Vol. 6020, Fol. 1203906. Copy held by the present owner. 9 Lodged Plan No. 20138, declared 1 August 1950. Land and Survey Information Centre. 10 Lodged Plan No. 25994, declared 4 September 1951. Land and Survey Information Centre. 11 Photographs held by the present owner.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 28 Cromer Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 F6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1843, James Bickford Moysey and Nicholas Moysey obtained a government lease for their run ‘Beaumaris’, which then comprised around 3,200 acres (1,320 hectares). This run took up most of the land not leased by the Kings and Alexander McDonald, and it encompassed the areas now known as Black Rock (to the Nepean Highway), Mentone (west of Warrigul Road) and Beaumaris.1 After Port Phillip was severed from New South Wales, Moysey’s lease was terminated, and the land was subdivided into 100 acre (40 hectares) allotments for the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. The house now known as 28 Cromer Road is located on the western border of Crown Portion 49E, purchased by Henry Wells. James Moysey purchased Crown Portion 49B. In c.1885 there was no listing for Cromer Street in the Sands & McDougall directory. By 1890, there were, in total, eight houses in Cromer Street, Beaumaris. Of these, two each were occupied by the Neal, Rose and Smith families. The house now known as No. 28 Cromer Street was probably one of these. In the following decade, the number of houses increased to eleven between Beach Road and Balcombe Road: eight houses (four occupied by members of the Rose family) on the east side and three on the west.2

Description The house at 28 Cromer Road is a single-storey Italianate villa situated on a large block. The house is rendered, and has a hipped roof with bracketed eaves. The front elevation has three semi-octagonal bay windows with double-hung sashes. Between two of the bays is the main entrance, to which a porch supported on Corinthian columns has been added at a later date. There is another bay window on the south elevation. The roof, probably originally slated, has been reclad in terracotta tiles. Chimneys are rendered, with moulded caps.

Comparative Examples Cleavemont, 57 Bay Road, Sandringham 42A Black Street, Brighton Andover, 165 Church Street, Brighton Kotska Hall, 47 South Road, Brighton Rathgar, 24 Tennyson Street, Brighton Lochiel, 80 Were Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 28 Cromer Road, Beaumaris, is of historical and aesthetic significance. One of a very small number of surviving nineteenth century houses in Beaumaris, it demonstrates an early phase of residential settlement in the area. The house is a substantial and relatively intact example of a nineteenth century boom style Italianate villa, which still occupies a particularly large site. Its appearance has been marred by the replacement of the original roofing.

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1 Andrew Ward & Assoc, City of Sandringham Heritage and Conservation Study, p. 19. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 74 Cromer Road, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 F6

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1965

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History James Bickford Moysey and Nicholas Moysey obtained a government lease for their run ‘Beaumaris’ in the 1843, comprising around 3,200 acres (1,320 hectares). This run took up most of the land not leased by the Kings and Alexander McDonald and encompassed the areas now known as Black Rock (to the Nepean Highway), Mentone, west of Warrigul Road, and Beaumaris.1 After Port Phillip was severed from New South Wales, Moysey’s lease on his run Beaumaris was terminated and the land was divided into 100 acre (40 hectares) allotments for the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. The house now numbered as 74 Cromer Road is located on the western border of Crown Portion 49E, purchased by Henry Wells. In c.1950, there were six houses in total on the east side of Cromer Street between Beach Road and Balcombe Road. A decade later, there were three houses between Mariemont Street and Folkestone Avenue, with 31 in total between Beach Road and Balcombe Road. The present house at 74 Cromer Road was built in c.1965. The Sands & McDougall Directory for 1966 identifies the occupant as R K Rinna.

Description The house at 74 Cromer Road is a large double-storey residence, situated on an elevated corner site. The house is rectangular in plan; the lower ground floor is constructed of cream brick and first floor walls are clad in shiplap boarding, painted white. A continuous wall of metal framed glazing opens onto the cantilevered first floor balcony which runs across the north elevation. The balcony has a box-like form, recalling the early work of architect Harry Seidler who was a pioneer of the European Modern style in Australia. The house is approached by a flight of concrete steps at the corner, and there is a low cream brick retaining wall along both street frontages. Dense vegetation obscures most of the house.

Significance The house at 74 Cromer Road, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a good example of residential architecture from the late 1950s/early 1960s showing the influence of European Modernism, featuring white painted cubic forms contrasting with its garden setting.

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1 Andrew Ward & Assoc, City of Sandringham Heritage and Conservation Study, p. 19.

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Building: Residences Significance: B

Address: 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Melway Map Ref: 67 C5 Brighton

Building Type: Residences Construction Date: 1914-15

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Dawson Avenue is north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton Council in 1870.1 The land bordered by Head, Cole and St Kilda Streets, which included Dawson Street, was subdivided in 1911 into 53 residential allotments, mostly 70’ by 150’ in size.2 In 1914 the north side of Dawson Avenue was still entirely vacant land, except for Maygannon, a seven-room brick house adjacent to the beach reserve. By November 1914 Valentine Robertson, a merchant had commenced building two five-room brick houses on two adjacent 35 x 150 foot blocks he owned in Dawson Avenue, north side. They were completed in 1915. The property continued to be owned by Robertson. David Watson, a gentleman was tenant.

Description The houses at Nos. 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue form a semi-detached pair of single-storey Edwardian red brick houses. The hipped slate roof has terracotta ridging and finials, with a wide gable end to the street and gablet over a small bay window at the corner. The gable ends are half-timbered with roughcast infill, and have plain bargeboards supported on timber brackets. The central gable end has a recessed verandah with a steep skillion slate roof supported on turned timber columns. The two front doors are within the verandah, and to one side is an unusual circular window with rendered surround.

Comparative Examples Higham Grange, 18 Asling Street, Brighton Keyham, 60 New Street, Brighton Ballara, 47 Bay Street, Brighton Huia, 358 New Street, Brighton Elgin, 83 Centre Road, East Brighton Windarra, 54 North Road, Brighton Umfra, 144 Cochrane Street, Brighton Meanyet, 27 Outer Crescent, Brighton Prendagga, 21 Cole Street, Brighton Carinya, 387 St Kilda Street, Brighton Adlez, 40 Cole Street, Brighton Milloo, 4 South Road, Brighton 85 Cole Street, Brighton 42 Sussex Street, Brighton 14 Gordon Street, Hampton 54 Sussex Street, Brighton 332 Hampton Street, Hampton Inglewood, 37 Tennyson Street, Sandringham Omah, 896 Hampton Street, Hampton Eulo, 33 Warleigh Grove, Brighton 7 Inner Crescent, Brighton 2 Webb Street, Brighton Emohruo, 18 Linacre Road, Hampton 7 Webb Street, Brighton 22 Martin Street, Brighton Mucklebar, 10 Wellington Street, Brighton 17 New Street, Brighton

Significance The houses at Nos. 12 & 14 Dawson Avenue, Brighton, are of aesthetic and historical significance. As an example of semi-detached Edwardian houses, they demonstrate a typology that is unusual in Brighton. Some of the detailing is of particular interest, including the circular window and the distinctive verandah with its steep skillion-profile slate roof.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Lodged Plan 5607, declared 19 October 1911. Land Survey and Information Centre.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 29 Dawson Avenue, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C5

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1923

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Dawson Avenue is north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton Council in 1870.1 The land bordered by Head, Cole and St Kilda Streets, which included Dawson Street, was subdivided in 1991 into 53 residential allotments, mostly 70’ by 150’ in size.2 29 Dawson Avenue was built in 1923 for owner-occupier Frank Faithfull, a manufacturer. The brick house, with a Net Annual Value of £125, comprised seven rooms. The following year the house had been sold to August Di Gilies, also owner-occupier.3 Later occupants included Jason McColl (early 1930s), J K Nunan (mid-1930s), Francis V Poynton (late-1930s to 1950s).4

Description The house at 29 Dawson Avenue is a large, double-storey Craftsman style bungalow, with a single- ridge, shallow-pitched gabled roof clad in terracotta tiles. Walls are roughcast rendered, with bold raking buttresses at the corners. A plain string course divides the double-storeys. At ground floor level, a canted porch projects at the west end, supported on squat columns; to the east is a series of three double-hung sash windows with a corbelled sill and hood. The first floor level, by contrast, is symmetrical, having a central bay window with a tiled roof flanked by segmental arched openings supported on squat columns. The bay window is shingled, as is the gable end. The front gate is marked by tall rendered brick piers supporting a timber fascia with carved ends; a similar arrangement of piers flanks the driveway.

Comparative Examples 32 Cole Street, Brighton Tandara, 25 Seymour Grove, Brighton 33 Martin Street, Brighton 10 South Road, Hampton 11 Rennison Street, Beaumaris Boselman House, 62 South Road, Hampton 26 St Ninians Road, Brighton

Significance The house at 29 Dawson Avenue, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historic significance. The house is an interesting example of the inter-War Craftsman style bungalow, notable for its well-composed entrance elevation, simple gabled roof form, and original matching gate piers. Historically the house is demonstrative of the more substantial houses which were constructed in the area between the Wars.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Lodged Plan 5607, declared 19 October 1911. Land Survey and Information Centre. 3 Brighton City Council rate book, 1923-24. 4 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 36 Dawson Avenue, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C5

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1927

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Dawson Avenue is north of the boundary of the 1842 H B Foot survey of the Brighton Estate, Henry Dendy’s Special Survey. This area of Elwood and Elsternwick was annexed by the Brighton Council in 1870.1 The land bordered by Head, Cole and St Kilda Streets, which included Dawson Street, was subdivided in 1911 into 53 residential allotments, mostly 70’ by 150’ in size.2 In 1920, P G O’Day owned six adjacent lots of vacant land on the north side of Dawson Avenue. The rate book for 1925 identifies Patrick O’Day, merchant, as the owner of Lots 8 and 9, each of which measured 55’ by 151’. By 1930, a six-room brick house, valued at £145, had been erected on Lot 9, now addressed as 36 Dawson Street. The owner and occupant was listed as Alma and Kate Edwards, spinsters and presumably sisters.

Description The house at 36 Dawson Avenue is a single-storey inter-War villa. Walls are of roughcast rendered brick with smooth rendered dressings to openings. The front elevation is dominated by a wide gable end with three arched openings to an entrance porch. The gable end has simple swagged and geometric patterned ornamentation, which is flanked by small hipped roofs with deep, timber brackets. Windows on the front elevation are tripartite double-hung sashes with simple leadlit upper panes and unusual corbelled sills. The hipped and gabled roof is clad in concrete tiles. The fence appears to be original, although it may be been slightly altered.

Comparative Examples 648 Hampton Street, East Brighton 135 North Road, Brighton

Significance The house at 36 Dawson Avenue, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a good substantially intact example of a simple inter-War villa incorporating restrained Classical Revival details. Of particular note are the gable end composition and the corbelled window sills.

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1 W Bate, A History of Brighton, Melbourne 1983 (1966), p. 215. 2 Lodged Plan 5607, declared 19 October 1911. Land Survey and Information Centre.

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Building: Foy House Significance: B

Address: 2 Deauville Street, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 G7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1956

Architect: Robin Boyd Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The house at 2 Deauville Street was designed for W B Foy by the influential twentieth century architect and critic Robin Boyd. It was designed in 1953, although not constructed until 1956.1 An initial proposal for the house utilised an arch to frame it as it ‘steps up and over a small sandy hill’.2 This design was later used in Boyd’s Richardson House in South Yarra. Boyd designed the Foy House between the years he wrote Australia’s Home (1952) and The Australian Ugliness (1957-). In Australia’s Home he was searching for the ‘central discipline’ of the Modern movement and explored his belief that the basis of Australian design originated in the suburban house block. He sought in the following decade a ‘plainer, purer architecture’ which did not rely on the architectural standard of the Glass Box.3 The Foy House was one of several residences designed by Boyd and other architects in Beaumaris in the 1950s and 60s. According to Boyd, the suburb contained “the highest concentration of first class modern domestic architecture in Australia.4”

Description The Foy House belongs to the ‘shed roof’ category of houses designed by Boyd. The house has a rectangular plan, constructed on a slightly sloping site on the east side of Deauville Street. The house has a skillion roof, which extends on the north side to form a verandah. There are large areas of timber-framed windows: those on the north elevation have a diagonal transom dividing the window sashes and highlights. The skillion roof form is echoed in the attached carport, facing the street.

Comparative Examples Lloyd House, 2 Newbay Crescent, Brighton (Robin Boyd 1969) David Bergin House, 2 Belle Avenue, Brighton (Robin Boyd 1952)

Significance The Foy House at 2 Deauville Street, Beaumaris, is of aesthetic significance. The house is one of many mid-twentieth century architect-designed buildings in the municipality, reflecting modern design of the period. The house is a particularly fine example of the work of notable architect and critic, Robin Boyd. Of note is its shed-like appearance, typical of many of Boyd’s houses of this period, and sensitive orientation and siting.

Source Transition, 38 (Special Issue: Robin Boyd), 1992.

1 Transition, No. 38 (Special Issue: Robin Boyd), Melbourne, 1992, p. 204. 2 Transition, Volume 2, No. 3/4, September/December 1981, p. 37. 3 Transition, No. 38, pp. 28-31. 4 The Age, 24 August 1949, quoting Robin Boyd in the Victorian Architectural Student's paper, Smudges.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris Melway Map Ref: 86 G7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1935

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History James Bickford Moysey and Nicholas Moysey obtained a government lease for their run ‘Beaumaris’ in the 1843, comprising around 3,200 acres (1,320 hectares). This run took up most of the land not leased by the Kings and Alexander McDonald and encompassed the areas now known as Black Rock (to the Nepean Highway), Mentone, west of Warrigul Road, and Beaumaris.1 After Port Phillip was severed from New South Wales, Moysey’s lease on his run Beaumaris was terminated and the land was divided into 100 acre (40 hectares) allotments for the second Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales on 28 January 1852. The house now numbered as 18 Deauville Street is located on the western border of Crown Portion 49E, purchased by Henry Wells. James Moysey purchased Crown Portion 49B. The Sands & McDougall Directories are ambiguous. In 1940, Deauville Street was not listed at all in the directories. By 1950, there were four houses on the east side between Harfleur Street and Valmont Avenue, three of which were under construction. On the west side of the street were five houses, one of which was being built.2 The style of No. 18 Deauville Street suggests that it was built in the 1930s, so it presumably predates the residential subdivision which created Deauville Street. This supposition is given credence by the fact that Deauville Street actually bends around the site of No. 18. The elevated siting and prominent westerly aspect of the house also suggest that it originally fronted Cromer Street.

Description The house at 18 Deauville Street, known locally as ‘The Castle’, is a three-storey clinker brick mansion designed in the inter-War English Domestic Revival style and situated on a large, elevated site. The house is asymmetrically planned, with steeply pitched gabled roof clad in pan tiles. A circular corner turret is located at the north corner, and has a conical roof and slit windows. A gabled section projects at the centre of the street elevation, containing an oriel window with a Tudor arched entrance porch below, which opens onto a balustraded terrace with an arcaded loggia underneath. Windows are in groups of double-hung and fixed sashes, and contain leadlighted glazing in the lozenge pattern.

Comparative Examples 6 Bay Street, Brighton The Gables, 7 Brandon Road, Brighton Culverkeys, 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton 188 Church Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 18 Deauville Street is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantial example of the inter- War English Domestic Revival style, displaying typical features of the style such as clinker brick work, steeply pitched gabled roofs and leadlighted casements. One of several such houses in the immediate area, this is the largest and most prominent, with its imposing scale and elevated siting making it something of a local landmark.

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1 Andrew Ward & Assoc, City of Sandringham Heritage and Conservation Study, p. 19. 2 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Florence Ville Significance: B

Address: 31 Drake Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1909

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1905 the west side of Drake Street was all vacant land. In 1907 Alfred Agg, a barrister, owned land 70 x 146 feet between Martin and Cole Streets. In 1908, and eight-room brick dwelling was built with Florence Speakman, owner and James Speakman, a mining engineer, occupant. The property was known as Florence Ville at that time.1

Description Florence Ville is a single-
storey, symmetrical Edwardian villa, constructed of red tuckpointed brickwork with a hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge cappings. The roof extends to form a verandah which is supported on timber posts and is bisected by a gabled red brick porch on the front elevation. The porch has a semi-circular arched opening with rendered mouldings and a vermiculated keystone, and the gable above is half-timbered. The verandah has an ornate carved timber frieze, and returns along the side elevation, articulated by a gablet with fanned timber brackets. Windows are double-hung sashes, and the entrance door has narrow sidelights and a semi-circular arched fanlight. The timber picket front fence is recent.

Significance Florence Ville, at 31 Drake Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a distinctive example of an Edwardian villa, unusual for its symmetrical facade. Of particular note are the gabled entrance portico and decorative timber verandah details.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1906, 1907, 1909.

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Building: Charlton Significance: B

Address: 34 Drake Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: pre 1888

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In the 1870s, and 1880s, the Agg family owned property in Drake Street. In 1888 Louisa Agg owned a four-room brick house on one acre of land on the east side of Drake Street between Cole and Martin Streets. In 1889 there was a ten-room brick house on the site, Louisa Agg was owner/occupant and remained so in 1900.1 In 1905, Agg, Woods and Shaw, all married women, owned and occupied the property which was known as Charlton.2

Description Charlton is an asymmetrical, single-storey villa with a hipped slate roof which continues over the verandah along the front elevation. Walls are rendered, as are the chimneys which have incised decoration. There is a projecting bay at one end, with a hipped roof with bracketed eaves. The metal picket front fence is not original.

Comparative Examples Kantara, 54 Bay Street, Brighton Wotonga, 67 St Andrews Street, Brighton 193 Church Street, Brighton 98 St Andrews Street, Brighton 14 Lynch Street, Brighton Merrow, 316 St Kilda Street, Brighton Melville, 32 Middle Crescent, Brighton 22 Seymour Grove, Brighton Cathkin, 43 Middle Crescent, Brighton Osiris, 28 Seymour Grove, Brighton Milverton, 82 New Street, Brighton Doon, 8 Stanley Street, Brighton 285 New Street, Brighton Chilton, 1 Wellington Street, Brighton Finchal, 299-305 New Street, Brighton Cathcart, 19 Wellington Street, Brighton Corowa, 389 New Street, Brighton Oyanna, 22 Wellington Street, Brighton Tullavin, 453 New Street, Brighton

Significance Charlton, at 34 Drake Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a relatively intact example of a nineteenth century Italianate villa which incorporates a particularly unusual slate roof which encompasses the front verandah.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1870-1889, 1900. 2 Rate Book 1906.

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Building: St Margarets Significance: B

Address: 17 Dudley Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C8

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1915

Architect: Eggleston & Oakley Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1913, Elizabeth Beazby, a married woman, owned most of Dudley Street, which at that time was all vacant land. In 1914, Victoria Beauchamp, a married woman, owned a six-room brick dwelling that had been built in Dudley Street, south side with a 100 foot frontage. The house was designed by architects Eggleston & Oakley.1 In 1917, Beauchamp continued as owner. Horatio Beauchamp, an auctioneer was occupant. The property was listed as having eight rooms and was known as St Margarets.2 By 1951, it was occupied by Alfred Sayce.3

Description St Margarets is a substantial double-storey villa with a steeply pitched gabled slate roof, rough cast rendered walls with a red brick plinth, flat roofed dormer window and a distinctive projecting pavilion supported on slender columns. The adjacent gabled section has an expressed chimney with diaper patterned rendered decoration. Windows are double-hung sashes, with diagonal patterned leadlight and sliding timber shutters. The brick and timber front fence is not original.

Comparative Examples

Significance St Margarets, at 17 Dudley Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a large and substantially intact innovative villa, architect-designed by the noted firm of Eggleston & Oakley. The house displays a variety of unusual details; of note are the decorative chimney breast, the sliding timber shutters and the projecting pavilion.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 J Clare, 'The post-Federation house in Melbourne. Bungalow and Vernacular Revival styles 1900-1930', Research Report, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne, October 1984, p. 50. 2 Rate Books 1913, 1914, 1918. 3 Sands & McDougall Directory.

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Building: Ebden Castle or Black Rock Significance: A House Address: 34 Ebden Avenue, Black Rock Melway Map Ref: 85 K5

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1856-1858

Architect: Clauscen and Becker Builder: John & Patrick Barrow (stonemasons) James Horan (carpenter)

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Charles Ebden, pastoralist on the Carlsruhe run, which he named, was the member for Brighton in the Legislative Assembly. He commenced building Black Rock House in 1856, which he named after Black Rock Castle near Dublin. Its design, however, is believed to be influenced by South African precedent where Ebden lived for a period. Shortly after completion it was occupied for six months by Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria, 1856-63. By 1871 William Taylor, gentleman, occupied the house which remained in possession of Ebden's executors. At that time it had eleven rooms and was situated on 114 acres facing Beach Road. By 1880 J D Robertson, gentleman, was in residence and by 1919 G. Stubbs owned the building and operated it as a guest house. In 1931 it passed to Prof Peter MacCallum and in 1943 to Mr & Mrs Nutting. In 1974 it was purchased by the City of Sandringham.

Description Black Rock House is a brick and timber-lined bungalow with a verandah to two elevations carried on distinctive slender, plain iron columns. The beaded lining boards have a sand/paint finish with small louvered windows whilst the eaves have decorated fascias. The front entrance has a classical inspired door of unusual design with pilasters and entablature, whilst the double gable slated roof is accentuated by a round arched pair of double doors at the valley. A cellar is of local stone construction. The landscape surrounding Black Rock House provides an example of garden plantings associated with a late nineteenth century house. The site is currently maintained by the City of Bayside, with the gardens open to the public and the historic house open on Sundays. Remnant on the site are two Moreton Bay Figs (Ficus macrophylla) one of which, at the front of the property, is recorded on the National Trust (Victoria) Register of Significant Trees. The balance of the garden consists of more recent plantings. The entrance to the property and the small brick front fence also appear to be recent additions to the property.

Significance Black Rock House, at 34 Ebden Avenue, Black Rock is of national significance as the home of Charles Ebden and of State significance as a post gold rush marine villa associated with the first phase of settlement in this vicinity. The cast iron verandah columns are believed to be unique whilst the cellar and stable wing are of note for their use of local ironstone. The garden at Black Rock House is of local significance for its plantings associated with an historic house. The two mature Moreton Bay Figs (Ficus macrophylla), particularly that at the front of the property, are significant for their age, size, and contribution to the property as well as contributing strongly to the heritage and amenity value of the surrounding area. The garden setting, namely the mature trees, illustrate early garden fashions within the municipality.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Corra Lynn Significance: B

Address: 28 Elwood Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1893

Architect: Unknown Builder: Harry Berry

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1892 William Upton, a manufacturer, owned land lots 12 to 18 in Elwood Street, south side. In 1893 he sold 51 feet of this land to Harry Berry, a builder, who completed a five-room brick house on the site in the same year. Berry was owner/occupant of the house in 1900. However, by 1905 the property, known as Corra Lynn, had been purchased by George Cairns, a gentleman, for his residence. Harry Berry also built the adjacent house, Neangar, at No. 28 Elwood Street (see separate datasheet). It is identical in design, and appears to have been built as a residence for William Berry, possibly his brother.

Description Corra Lynn is a late Victorian bichromatic asymmetrical villa with bull-nose profile verandah and timber lattice and bracketed eaves with overhanging gable end to projecting wing.

Comparative Examples Waverley, 63 Bay Road, Sandringham 52 Black Street, Brighton West Craig, 75 Champion Street, Brighton Mount Pleasant, 73 Champion Street, Brighton Ingleside, 845 Hampton Street, Brighton Glynn, 42 New Street, Brighton

Significance Corra Lynn, at 28 Elwood Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a distinctive and substantially intact example of a large late Victorian villa displaying some stylistic characteristics of the Queen Anne style. It forms a distinctive pair with the adjacent house, Neangar, at No. 30 Elwood Street.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

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Building: Neangar Significance: B

Address: 30 Elwood Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 D7

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1892

Architect: Unknown Builder: Harry Berry

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1892 William Upton, a manufacturer, owned Lots 12 to 18 on the south side of Elwood Street. In 1893 he sold 51 feet of this land to Harry Berry, a builder. Berry erected the five-room brick house now known as No. 28 Elwood Street (see separate datasheet). It seems likely that Berry also built the adjacent house, now No. 30 Elwood Street, which is almost identical in design. This supposition is given further credence in the Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory for 1894. According to that source, there were only two houses on the south side of Elwood Street, between St Kilda and New Streets. The house closer to St Kilda Street was occupied by Harry Berry, while the one closer to New Street was occupied by a William Berry, probably a relative. By 1901, the house was occupied by James Fergus, and was identified as Neangar.1

Description Neangar is an asymmetrical double-fronted Victorian Survival bichromatic brick villa. It has a hipped slate roof, supported on paired brackets at the eaves line. The canted bay window in the projecting wing has its own truncated hipped roof with cast iron cresting. The verandah has a bullnose corrugated iron roof, supported on iron columns and with a cast iron lacework frieze. The front bay window has been considerably altered.

Comparative Examples Inverness, 8 Allee Street, Brighton 27 Halifax Street, Brighton Haverstock, 12 Agnew Street, East Brighton 29 Halifax Street, Brighton Nyora, 49 Bay Street, Brighton 767 Nepean Highway, East Brighton Irwell, 451 Bay Street, Brighton Concord, 79 Outer Crescent, Brighton Ightham, 21 Black Street, Brighton 50 Roslyn Street, Brighton Shalimar, 213 Charman Road, Cheltenham Methven, 8 South Road, Brighton 203 Church Street, Brighton

Significance Neangar, at 30 Elwood Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. It is a distinctive and substantially intact example of a large late Victorian villa displaying some stylistic characteristics of the Queen Anne style. It forms a distinctive pair with the adjacent house, Corra Lynn, at No. 28 Elwood Street.

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1 Sands & McDougall Melbourne Directory, 1901.

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Building: Clyde & Carlton Significance: B

Address: 50 & 52 Elwood Street, Melway Map Ref: 67 D7 Brighton

Building Type: Residences Construction Date: 1892

Architect: Unknown Builder: Hayball Brothers?

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1891 the Hayball Brothers owned vacant land on the south side of Elwood Street, east of New Street, designated as Lots 15 and 16. The following year, a pair of four-room brick dwellings had been erected on Lot 15, each property having a 25’ frontage. The house at No. 52 was owned and occupied by James Prendergast, a bricklayer and No. 50 was owned and occupied by Charles Scott, a carpenter. By 1900 Henry Chapman owned the properties and continued to do so in 1905. In 1905, Chapman lived at No. 52 named Carlton and Isabella Sheldon leased No. 50, known as Clyde.1

Description The houses at Nos. 50 & 52 Elwood Street form an attached pair of identical single-fronted Victorian brick cottages with gabled roofs concealed behind pedimented parapets with rendered dressings. Each cottage has a corrugated iron verandah supported on iron columns, with a narrow frieze of cast iron lacework. Each has a single window with narrow sidelights and timber-framed double-hung sash. The brickwork has been painted, and was probably originally bichromatic or polychromatic.

Comparative Examples Clyde & Carlton, 50 & 52 Elwood Street, Brighton

Significance Clyde and Carlton, at 50 & 52 Elwood Street, Brighton, are of historical and aesthetic significance. As a pair of attached single-fronted terrace houses, they demonstrate a typology that, although common in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, is somewhat rare in the Brighton area.

Source Andrew C Ward & Associates

1 Rate Books 1891, 1892, 1900, 1906.

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Building: Hobart Significance: B

Address: 5 Emily Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History Emily Street is not listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory until 1890. The rate book for 1891 reveals that a three-room timber house had been erected by Eliza Brown on the site with a 20’ frontage on the east side of the street. She rented it to Edward Trevithnick, a labourer, who was still living there in 1899.1 The following year, Mrs Brown rented it to George Willoughby, a grocer, and then to Arthur McKern, a baker, by 1905. Mrs Brown was living there herself in 1910. By 1917, she was again renting it, this time to John Kennedy, a salesman. At that time, the house was addressed as No. 5 Emily Street, and was known as Hobart.

Description Hobart is a single-storey single-fronted weatherboard late-Victorian cottage. The gabled roof is clad in corrugated iron and is penetrated by a central, red brick chimney with a rendered moulded cap. There is a timber-posted verandah with a corrugated iron skillion-profile roof across the front elevation.

Comparative Examples 25 Arkarkinga Crescent, Black Rock 15 & 17 Lynch Street, Brighton 17 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham 26 Nepean Avenue, Moorabbin 25 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham 4 Sims Street, Sandringham 27 Glebe Avenue, Cheltenham Barossa, 21 William Street, Brighton 5 Gordon Street, Hampton 15 Wright Street, Brighton Cornhill, 7 Lawrence Street, Brighton

Significance Hobart, at 5 Emily Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a substantially intact example of a small weatherboard cottage of a type relatively rare in Brighton.

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1 Rate Books 1891, 1897, 1899.

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Building: Leoua Significance: B

Address: 6 Emily Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[ ] P[x] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History Emily Street is not listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory until 1890. The rate book for 1891 reveals that Sydney Drew, a decorator, had erected a number of small timber cottages on adjacent blocks with 33’ frontages to the west side of the street.1 The house now known as No. 6 Emily Street was described as a four room timber house, and was occupied by Samuel Lambert, a gardener. By 1897, Sydney Drew was listed as both owner and occupant.2 The following year, Drew leased the house to William Hall, a labourer, who remained living there for several years.3 By 1905, the house was occupied by Jessie Powell, a married woman, who was still there in 1910.4 By that time, Sydney Drew had apparently died, as ownership had passed to Hannah Drew, widow. By 1917, Joseph Griffin, a labourer, was Mrs Drew’s tenant. At that time, the house was addressed as No. 6 Emily Street, and was known as Leoua.5

Description Leoua is a single-storey double-fronted weatherboard house with a transverse-gabled corrugated iron roof. The front elevation comprises a central front door flanked by windows with unusual timber architraves, which appear to date from the inter-War period. There is a single brick chimney with a corbelled cap. There is no verandah. The house may originally have been of the same design as that at 10 Emily Street (see separate datasheet), which retains a concave-profile verandah. Above the front door is a small, skillion-roofed porch which is not original.

Comparative Examples 10 Emily Street, Brighton 74 Outer Crescent, Brighton 22 Tweed Street, Highett 14 Warriston Street, Brighton 72 Outer Crescent, Brighton Dersley, 42 William Street, Brighton

Significance Leoua, at 6 Emily Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It forms a visual pair with the similar house at 10 Emily Street, and, although altered, makes a contribution to the Emily Street streetscape, which comprises a number of small timber houses from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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1 Rate Books 1891. 2 Rate Books 1897. 3 Rate Books, 1898, 1899. 4 Rate Books, 1905, 1910. 5 Rate Books, 1917.

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Building: Orient Significance: B

Address: 8 Emily Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Emily Street is not listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory until 1890. The rate book for 1891 reveals that Sydney Drew, a decorator, had erected a number of small timber cottages on adjacent blocks with 33’ frontages to the west side of the street.1 The house now known as No. 8 Emily Street was described as a four room timber house, valued at £25. It was occupied by John Grant, a cabman, who was still living there in 1905.2 Sydney Drew apparently died soon after, as ownership had passed to Hannah Drew, widow, by 1910. At that time, the house was occupied by Herbert Murrell, a plumber. By 1917, Ormond Jenkins was Mrs Drew’s tenant. At that time, the house was addressed as No. 8 Emily Street, and was known as Orient.3

Description Orient is a single-storey asymmetrical weatherboard house. The front elevation has a projecting gabled bay with a half-timbered and roughcast gable end. The bay has a pair of large, timber-framed double-hung windows beneath a timber-framed window hood with decorative brackets. The verandah, which has possibly been reconstructed, has coupled timber posts and a simple timber fretwork frieze. The gabled roof has paired eaves brackets is clad in corrugated iron and is penetrated by a red brick chimney a corbelled cap.

Comparative Examples Derfla, 9 Emily Street, Brighton

Significance Orient, at 8 Emily Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a relatively intact example of a simple, asymmetrical Edwardian-style house which makes a positive contribution to the Emily Street streetscape, which comprises a number of small Victorian and Edwardian timber houses.

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1 Rate Books 1891. 2 Rate Books, 1905. 3 Rate Books, 1917.

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Building: Whare, later Derfla Significance: B

Address: 9 Emily Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Emily Street is not listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory until 1890. The rate book for 1891 reveals that a three room timber house had been erected on a site with a 50’ frontage to the east side of the street. The house, valued at £3, was owned and occupied by James Fletcher, a gardener. By 1897, the house was been acquired by Walter Frederico, a grocer, and he was still living there in 1905. At that time, the house was known as Whare. By 1910, it had been acquired by Alfred Duncan, a pitcher setter, who renamed the house Derfla. Duncan was still living there in 1917, by which time the house had been addressed as No. 9 Emily Street.

Description Derfla is a single-storey asymmetrical Edwardian-style weatherboard house. The front elevation has a projecting gabled bay with a shingled gable end. The bay has a window opening with casement sashes beneath a timber-framed window hood with decorative brackets. The verandah has timber posts and a simple timber fretwork frieze, and is encompassed by the hipped and gabled main roof, which is clad in corrugated iron and penetrated by a red brick chimney a corbelled cap.

Comparative Examples Orient, 8 Emily Street, Brighton

Significance Derfla, at 9 Emily Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a relatively intact example of a simple, asymmetrical Edwardian-style house which makes a positive contribution to the Emily Street streetscape, which comprises a number of small Victorian and Edwardian timber houses.

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Building: Arcadia Significance: B

Address: 10 Emily Street, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 E11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1890

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[ ] F[x] P[ ]

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History Emily Street is not listed in the Sands & McDougall Victorian Directory until 1890. The rate book for 1891 reveals that Sydney Drew, a decorator, had erected a number of small timber cottages on adjacent blocks with 33’ frontages to the west side of the street.1 The house now known as No. 10 Emily Street was described as a three room timber house, valued at £18 and occupied by John Morris, a groom. A succession of tenants followed, including Charles Littlewood, a plumber, in 1897, James Sanders, a labourer, in 1898, and Jane Wilson in 1900.2 John Florist, a labourer, was living there in 1905. Sydney Drew apparently died soon after, as ownership had passed to Hannah Drew, widow, by 1910. At that time, the house was occupied by George Woodward, a driver. By 1917, Florence Coventry, a married woman, was Mrs Drew’s tenant. At that time, the house was addressed as No. 10 Emily Street, and was known as Arcadia.3

Description Arcadia is a single-storey double-fronted weatherboard house with a transverse-gabled corrugated iron roof. The front elevation comprises a central front door flanked by single timber-framed double- hung sash windows. The verandah, which may have been reconstructed, has a shallow hipped roof and cast iron lacework brackets. There is a single brick chimney with a corbelled cap. The house appears to have been of the same design as that at 6 Emily Street (see separate datasheet).

Comparative Examples Leoua, 6 Emily Street, Brighton 74 Outer Crescent, Brighton 22 Tweed Street, Highett 14 Warriston Street, Brighton 72 Outer Crescent, Brighton Dersley, 42 William Street, Brighton

Significance Arcadia, at 10 Emily Street, Brighton, is of aesthetic significance. It is a simple, Victorian house with minimal decoration which forms a visual pair with the similar house at 6 Emily Street. The house makes a positive contribution to the Emily Street streetscape, which comprises a number of small timber houses from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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1 Rate Books 1891. 2 Rate Books 1897, 1898, 1900. 3 Rate Books, 1917.

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Building: Farleigh Significance: B

Address: 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton Melway Map Ref: 67 C11

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1865

Architect: Charles Webb Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Charles Webb, a prominent Melbourne architect and resident of Brighton, initially of Chilton at No. 1 Wellington Street, built Farleigh, with a frontage to Park Street, in 1865. He initially owned the entire block facing Park Street, which was the northern boundary of Dendy’s Brighton Park estate, running west from St Kilda Street to New Street. Webb died in 1898, and members of his family lived there, although by 1900 it is noted as vacant in the Sands & McDougall Directory. By 1905, John Clayton was resident there, and in 1917 it was William Withers who occupied Farleigh during the subdivision of the original grounds. He was still there in 1930. In 1981, Farleigh, which had been occupied as two flats, passed into the ownership of Mr and Mrs McGeary.

Description Farleigh is a large double-storey Italianate rendered brick residence with a hipped slate roof supported on brackets at the eaves line. There is a balustraded double-storey tower at the rear and, on the side elevation, a canted bay window with balcony above. The main facade has a centrally-placed single- storey classical portico, flanked by windows. A moulded string course divides the two storeys, and external corners are quoined. Alterations include the reconstruction of the front verandah, the addition of a verandah at the north, and extensive alterations at the rear.

Comparative Examples Viervill, 18 Black Street, Brighton Shirley, 2 Manor Street, Brighton Bonleigh, 4 Bonleigh Avenue, Brighton Eling, 139 North Road, Brighton Craigmilla, 58 Carpenter Street, Brighton Coonara, 17 Roslyn Street, Brighton 166-168 Church Street, Brighton Dunvegan, 5 Seymour Grove, Brighton Ashleigh Lodge, 58 Cochrane Street, Brighton Craig Hall, 2 South Road, Hampton Tanderagee, 70 Halifax Street, Brighton Ebrington, 23 South Road, Brighton Thornleigh Lodge, 9 Willansby Avenue, Brighton Edgecome, 134 Were Street, Brighton Jesmond, 66 Hanby Street, Brighton Kilkerran, 6 William Street, Brighton

Significance Farleigh, at 6 Farleigh Grove, Brighton, is of aesthetic and historical significance. The house was the home of Charles Webb, prominent and prolific Melbourne architect during the latter half of the nineteenth century, whose notable works include the Windsor Hotel, Spring Street, and Tasma Terrace, East Melbourne. The house is one of a number of substantial houses designed by Webb in Brighton, and its main facade, reminiscent of earlier Regency style villas, is of particular note. The additions to the rear are of no significance.

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Building: Cascaes Significance: B

Address: 28 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 F10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1904

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1887 the land on which No. 28 Fernhill Road was built was released as part of the Picnic Point Park Estate. In 1904 Walter Jack, a manager built a nine-room wooden house for himself on lots 16, 17 and 18 at the north-west corner of Fernhill Road and Tennyson Street.1 By 1910 the property was owned and occupied by William B Grey Smith. Smith, an accountant, continued as owner/occupier in 1916 at which time the property was known as Cascaes.2

Description Cascaes is a large, weatherboard Queen Anne style villa, sited away from the road facing Port Phillip Bay to the west. The house has a symmetrically composed facade comprising projecting gabled bays flanking the central gabled entrance porch. Typical of the Queen Anne style, it has steeply pitched terracotta tiled roofs, half-timbered and roughcast gable ends, bracketed terracotta tiled window hoods and tall red brick chimneys with terracotta pots. The upper walls beneath the eaves are shingled. The first floor is a recent addition, constructed in a similar style with similar details.

Comparative Examples Tallandoon, 36 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Veronique, 49 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Warringah, 24 Georgiana Street, Sandringham 12 Nepean Avenue, Moorabbin

Significance Cascaes, at 28 Fernhill Road, Sandringham, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial Edwardian villa of distinctive symmetrical form and a prominent building in the streetscape.

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1 First entry Rate Book and Sands & McDougall Directory. 2 Rate Books 1904, 1905, 1910, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directories 1902-1905. Parish Plan Moorabbin 1887.

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Building: Bellview Significance: B

Address: 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1907

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1907 Francis Blondel built an eight-room wooden house on lot 62 on the north-east corner of Fernhill Road and Tennyson Street. Blondel, a clerk, continued as owner/occupier in 1916, at which time the property was known as Bellview.1

Description Bellview is a single-storey weatherboard Queen Anne style villa with a hipped and gabled terracotta tiled roof. Typical of the style, the house is a picturesque composition of half-timbered gable ends, projecting bay windows and tall red brick chimneys with terracotta pots. A timber verandah returns around the two street elevations, supported on turned timber posts and with an unusual timber fretted and arched frieze. The weatherboards are enlivened by notched board banding. A small turret penetrates the roof above a canted bay.

Comparative Examples Colonsay, 23 Albert Street, Brighton Sunne Brae, 15 Linacre Road, Hampton Craigie Lea, 14 Black Street, Brighton The Ramble, 10 Littlewood Street, Hampton Buxton, 54 & 56 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Marimo, 10 Menzies Avenue, Brighton 3 Berwick Street, Brighton Linn Mill, 7 Milroy Street, East Brighton 15 Campbell Street, Sandringham 176 New Street, Brighton 68 Champion Street, Brighton Warringa, 33 Service Street, Hampton Hartley, 115 Cochrane Street, Brighton Aghada, 35 Service Street, Hampton Balcomb, 11 Gillies Street, Hampton Cleeveland, 39 Service Street, Hampton 1 Hoyt Street, Hampton Nareenya, 10 Young Street, Brighton Myora, 6 Linacre Road, Hampton Elouara, 12 Young Street, Brighton

Significance Bellview, at 31 Fernhill Road, Sandringham, is of aesthetic significance. The house is a good example of the Edwardian Queen Anne style; of note are the distinctive timber verandah and diminutive turret.

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1 Rate Books 1907, 1908, 1916. Sands & McDougall Directories 1907-1909.

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Building: Hollyburton Significance: B

Address: 41-45 Fernhill Road, Melway Map Ref: 76 H10 Sandringham

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1908

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[ ] F[x] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History Hollyburton was built in 1908 for the Hon. J V Fairbairn MHR as the Fairbairn family’s summer retreat. The original building complex included a servant’s wing. The house was sold in the early 1920s to Mrs Mitchell, a local resident, who converted the house into a guest house. In the c.1960s Mitchell sold the house to Harold Parramore who demolished the servant’s wing and sprayed the building with concrete.1

Description Hollyburton is a large timber Edwardian bungalow residence set back on a large block with a wide frontage. The house is an asymmetrical composition of intersecting gabled roofs and has a wide verandah supported on timber posts. Rafter ends are exposed and the eaves have timber brackets. Windows are leadlighted casements, and there is a semi-circular bow window beneath the verandah adjacent to the entrance. Chimneys are rendered, with terracotta pots. The exterior has been recently finished with a roughcast rendered plinth and fibrous cement sheet cladding.

Significance Hollyburton, at 41-45 Fernhill Road, Sandringham, is of historical interest and aesthetic significance. The house is a good and substantially intact example of the transitional Edwardian bungalow style, displaying typical features of the style such as broad terracotta tiled gables and leadlighted casement windows. Constructed as a summer retreat, the house reflects the origins of Sandringham as a beachside resort.

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1 E Waters, Sandringham Sketchbook, Melbourne 1978, pp. 36-37.

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Building: Yambuc, now Veronique Significance: B

Address: 49 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: 1907

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History In 1905 G M Thomson owned lots 70 and 76 which were between Fernhill Road and Gladstone Street. In 1907 Thomson built a five room wood house on the block fronting Fernhill Road. E Lincoln Belyea leased the property.

Description Veronique is a symmetrical, single-storey Victorian/Edwardian transitional style villa. Typical of the Italianate style the house has a patterned slate hipped roof, while the red brick chimneys, with corbelled brick cappings, are characteristic of the Queen Anne style. Pairs of tall, narrow double- hung sash windows flank the central entrance door, which has narrow sidelights and a highlight. A verandah runs across the facade, bisected by a central gable, clad in corrugated galvanised steel and supported by timber posts. The house displays a range of unusual features including the ship lap timber boarding to the facade, coved roughcast rendered eaves, decorative timber fretwork to the verandah frieze and entrance porch and fluted timber pilasters flanking the window openings.

Comparative Examples Tallandoon, 36 Bamfield Street, Sandringham Cascaes, 28 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Warringah, 24 Georgiana Street, Sandringham 12 Nepean Avenue, Moorabbin

Significance Veronique, at 49 Fernhill Road, Sandringham, is of aesthetic importance. The house, largely intact, is a very unusual example of a transitional Edwardian/Victorian villa with distinctive decorative details. Of particular note are the coved roughcast rendered eaves, decorative timber verandah and gabled entrance porch.

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Building: Kamesburgh Significance: B

Address: 52 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1935

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History The land on which Kamesburgh was constructed, situated at the intersection of Fernhill Road and Masefield Avenue, is located within Crown Portion 24, purchased by David J Thomas in the Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales held on 28 January 1852. In c.1920-30 there was one house between Royal Avenue and Southey Street, on the west side of Fernhill Road. Masefield Avenue did not exist at this time. By c.1940 there were two houses and a block of flats between Masefield Avenue and Southey Street, and two houses between Masefield Avenue and Royal Avenue. Kamesburgh, on the west side of Fernhill Road, between Masefield Avenue and Southey Street, was probably built between 1930 and 1940.1

Description Kamesburgh is a large Arts and Crafts style, double-storey bungalow residence with broad terracotta tiled gabled roofs with exposed rafter ends. Typical of the Arts and Crafts style, the house has banks of multi-paned double-hung sash windows—some with shingled hoods—roughcast rendered walls and roughcast rendered chimney stacks. The house has a mature front garden, including several large palms.

Significance Kamesburgh, at 52 Fernhill Road, Sandringham, is of local aesthetic significance. The house is a good and substantial example of an Arts and Crafts inter-War bungalow; of particular note is the sweeping gabled roof form. The house is largely intact and is enhanced by its mature exotic garden.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Residence Significance: B

Address: 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham Melway Map Ref: 76 H10

Building Type: Residence Construction Date: c.1935

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham is located within Crown Portion 24, purchased by David J Thomas in the Parish of Moorabbin Land Sales held on 28 January 1852. 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham appears to have been built c.1935. In c.1930, there were no houses between Victoria Street and Royal Avenue on the east side of Fernhill Road. By c.1940 there was one house between Victoria Street and Royal Avenue; this was probably 65 Fernhill Road.1

Description The house at 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham is a large, double-storey inter-War English Domestic Revival style residence, situated on a large block on the corner of Fernhill Road and Kirkwood Avenue. The house features typical elements of the style, such as rendered walls, steeply pitched tiled gabled roofs, multi-paned double-hung sashes and tall clinker brick chimneys with decorative diaper-patterned brickwork. The windows have simple moulded surrounds. A half-timbered bay projects over the entrance. Part of the front fence is original, and has been extended in height at a later date.

Comparative Examples 6 Bay Street, Brighton The Gables, 7 Brandon Road, Brighton Culverkeys, 11 Beach Road, Beaumaris 18 Deauville Street, Beaumaris 35 Bolton Avenue, Hampton 4 Sussex Street, Brighton 188 Church Street, Brighton

Significance The house at 65 Fernhill Road, Sandringham, is of local aesthetic significance. The house is a substantial example of the English Domestic Revival style incorporating typical features of the style including steeply pitched gabled roofs, tall clinker brick chimneys and multi-paned double-hung sash windows. Of note is the projecting half-timbered first floor bay.

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1 Sands & McDougall, Melbourne Directory, various.

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Building: Bathing Boxes Significance: A

Address: Foreshore, between Dendy Melway Map Ref: 76 C1 Street and the Brighton Beach Gardens, Brighton

Building Type: Bathing Boxes Construction Date: 1870 onwards

Architect: Unknown Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition: G[x] F[ ] P[ ] G[x] F[ ] P[ ]

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History As early as 16 December 1844, the licensee of the Brighton hotel advertised that his Brighton baths (a wheeled bathing machine) were ready ‘for accommodation’. In 1862, a gardener, Mark Hollow, erected a bathing box on George Higinbotham’s land, whilst at the end of Bay Street, several boxes were in situ in 1870. In 1873, Beach Road was formed and on 30 March 1876, the Council purchased the beach reserve from Nicholas Were, and improvements to this area follow from that date.

Description There are 80 bathing boxes, all timber-framed and weatherboard clad with gabled roofs. They appear to have been rebuilt over the years but retain details suggesting that they date from the first two decades of this century.

Significance The Brighton Bathing Boxes are of historical significance and aesthetic importance. They recall a style of bathing which compares with the public sea baths of Brighton and also Brighton’s role as a Victorian seaside resort. They reflect on the manner in which the Brighton foreshore was developed, the northern portion being sold off to the high water mark and the southern ‘terrace’ passing to the Council for public use. Their tight grouping and bright colours assist in making them a foreshore feature and a popular subject for published ephemera. In many ways they are a Melbourne landmark and local icon inextricably associated with Brighton.

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Structure: Sea Wall Significance: B

Address: Foreshore, Brighton, Melway Map Ref: 76 F9 Sandringham and Black Rock

Building Type: Wall Construction Date: 1930 onwards

Architect: Not applicable Builder: Unknown

Intactness: Condition:

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History Construction of the bluestone sea wall along the foreshore was part of a public works initiative of the Sandringham City Council, established to relieve the chronic level of unemployment of the Great Depression. In 1929 funds were made available by the Department of Public Works for a range of civic improvement works, including the construction of a retaining wall to form a barrier against the strong waves that undermined the cliffs. Locally unemployed men, including trained masons, were engaged to undertake the work which commenced in the following year. Stone came from the old Courthouse at St Kilda and from the Old Melbourne Gaol, including the headstones of many hanged prisoners including that of the infamous nineteenth century bushranger, Ned Kelly. The stones from the gaol were part of a bluestone wall; as the prisoners were not permitted to have a marked grave, initials were carved into the bluestone blocks. The wall was demolished in the 1920s to allow for the extension of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Construction of the sea wall continued until 1941, when it was finally proposed to abolish the scheme.1

Description The sea wall along the foreshore reserve is a low retaining wall along the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay, extending from Brighton to Black Rock. The wall is constructed of dressed bluestone and has a moulded concrete projection at the upper level and a curved concrete capping.

Significance The sea wall is of historical and aesthetic significance. Constructed during the Great Depression as part of a public works programme to improve the foreshore reserve, the wall illustrates the role of local government in providing local employment opportunities. Of interest is the use of bluestone from other sources, including the headstone of Ned Kelly and other hanged prisoners from the Old Melbourne Gaol. Extending for a considerable length, the wall is an important foreshore feature.

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1 Information for this history came from G Disney & V Tarrant, Bayside Reflections: History and Heritage of Sandringham, Hampton, Black Rock and Beaumaris, Sandringham (Vic) 1989, p. 154, G Disney, pers. comm., and an unpublished research paper by Jan Withers, held at the Sandringham Historical Society

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