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Citation Report, Hermes Id #149924, Accessed Electronically, 18 June 2012 City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Citation No: 2387 While mostly conventional in its form and detailing it is also significant for how the render has been used as a decorative device on the front elevation. (Criterion E) Thematic context Victoria’s framework of historical themes 6. Building towns, cities and the garden state: 6.3 Shaping the suburbs, 6.7 Making homes for Victorians Port Phillip thematic environmental history 5. Settlement: growth and change: 5.4 Depression and recovery: the inter-war years History The land within the block now bounded by Alma, Lansdowne, Dandenong, and Orrong roads was in the nineteenth century occupied by ‘Oakleigh Hall’ a grand mansion built around 1864 for Ambrose Kyte. The main entrance to the estate was from Dandenong Road, where there was a gatehouse, and there was a secondary entrance from Alma Road. Sir Samuel Wilson was a later owner and he began subdividing the estate in the late nineteenth century when Hughenden Road and Wando Grove (the latter following part of the original carriage drive) were formed. Later subdivisions reduced the grounds further and created other streets including Te-Arai Avenue, which the mansion fronted. ‘Oakleigh Hall’ survived until 1964 when it was demolished. The subdivision of the ‘Oakleigh Hall’ estate created suburban building allotments along the north side of Alma Road. The opening in 1911 of the electric tramway along Dandenong Road encouraged development, and between 1910 and 1915 more than one dozen houses were built along the north side of Alma Road between Lansdowne Road and Orrong Road (SM). One of them was this house, which was constructed by Clarence B. Sims, a carpenter, in 1912 as his own residence. It was described as a ‘concrete villa’ (BP). Mr. Sims remained the owner of this house (which was later rented out) until his death in 1957 (LV). References Cooper, J.B., 1931, The History of St Kilda. From its settlement to a city and after. 1840 to 1930, Volume 1 Heritage Alliance, Elwood Heritage Study, 2005 Land Victoria (LV) Certificate of title Vol. 3664 Fol. 734 Lewis, Miles, ‘Australian building: A cultural investigation. Section Seven: Cement and concrete’ viewed online at http://www.mileslewis.net/australian-building/ on 30 June 2016 Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) Detail Plan No. 1411, dated 1900 Port Phillip Heritage Review (PPHR) Volume 1, Version 17, September 2015 St Kilda Council Building Permit (BP) No. 1747 issued 25 September 1912 Sands & McDougall directories (SM), 1900-1920 Description This house has rendered concrete walls and a hip tile roof with a central gablet at the front. The render to the front walls has ‘fish scale’ detailing below a band of textured render set between a stringcourse and the eaves. There is a box bay window and tall double-hung timber windows. The entrance is via a typical Page 2 City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Citation No: 2387 Edwardian style high-waisted timber door with an arched window and flanked by sidelights and highlighted located at one end of the inset porch, which has sinuous Art-Nouveau style timber frieze. The front elevation appears to be mostly intact. A new window has been inserted in the west side wall adjacent to the driveway. The house has been extended at the rear where it connects to a new multi- dwelling development. These additions are generally concealed behind the house. Comparative analysis Reinforced concrete, using a number of locally developed or imported systems of reinforcement and formwork, was being used by several architects and builders in Australia from the early 1900s for commercial buildings and civil engineering structures, as well as for houses. The first reinforced concrete houses began to appear in Australia from c.1907 and several pioneer examples were built in Adelaide around that time by builder W.C. Torode, who developed a method of in situ concrete cavity walling. A Melbourne builder, H.R. Crawford, patented his own system in 1907, and, over the next seven years, erected concrete houses at Camberwell, Canterbury, East Malvern and Balwyn. Another important early example was that built by John Monash at 4 Ray Street Beaumaris in 1912, but unfortunately demolished in 1999. In the 1920s, S.B. Marchant built houses in Adelaide using his ‘Monolyte’ system, and the State Savings Bank of Victoria experimented with the system in 1925-6 on a small housing estate at Sunshine. Also in the 1920s, A.C. Matthews developed the ‘Self-Form’ system, which produced cavity walls (Heritage Alliance 2005). Probably the most prolific designer and builder of concrete houses in Melbourne, from about 1914 until the 1930s, was the Melbourne architect Lesley M. Perrott. In 1923 with the assistance of G.W. Green Perrott published a book on the subject Concrete Homes. In it he explains that reinforced concrete is “the most suitable building material known to us, and that it lends itself readily to effective architectural treatment”. A newspaper article about the book opines: Quite rightly he objects to any attempt being made to disguise concrete - that is to try to make it pass for some other material - seeing that in capable hands it has a character of its own. (The Argus, ‘New Books’, 17 December 1923, p.3) The nearby house at 200 Alma Road, St Kilda East, constructed in 1915 (PPHR citation no.291, HO23), is one of three early concrete houses in Melbourne designed by Perrott. The first was his demonstration concrete house at Pascoe Vale Road, Essendon (1914, demolished 2017) and the W. Thackray house, Canterbury Road, Canterbury (1914, demolished?). In terms of form and design, this house at 226 Alma Road is typical of most early reinforced concrete houses that followed established styles and were distinguished from conventionally built houses mainly by details such as rounded wall corners (e.g., 52 Clark Street, Port Melbourne, PPHR citation 628, Significant within HO1 precinct). This house while mostly conventional in its form and detailing is distinguished for the way the render has been used as a decorative device on the front elevation. The conventional and somewhat old-fashioned design of most early concrete houses contrasts with the concrete houses designed in the 1910s by Perrott, which overlaid elements of the newly fashionable Californian Bungalow style onto verandahed Federation bungalow forms. The hipped roofed house at 200 Alma Road, and other Perrott houses of the 1920s departed further from the picturesquely gabled Federation and Californian Bungalow styles (Lewis). There appear to be an unusually large number of early concrete houses in the City of Port Phillip. The earliest appears to be a house at 4 Blessington Street, erected in 1911 (PPHR citation 25, HO60) in the highly unusual form of a Victorian villa, with mock ashlar façade (although this may have been constructed of concrete blocks rather than reinforced concrete). 226 Alma Road is one of four built in 1912-13 – the others are at 2, 4 & 6 Browning Street, Elwood (PPHR citation 2325, HO411). The others were constructed in 1915 (200 Alma Road, St Kilda East, 52 Clark Street, Port Melbourne & 21 Mozart Street, St Kilda – PPHR citation 744, Significant within HO7 precinct), and in 1922-23 (10 Wimbledon Avenue, Elwood, Significant, HO7 precinct). Page 3 City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Citation No: 2387 Assessment This place has been assessed in accordance with the processes and guidelines outlined in the Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Heritage Significance (The Burra Charter) 2013, using the Hercon criteria. Recommendations Include in the Heritage Overlay Schedule and map as an individual place. Because of the constraints of this site it would be impossible for a first floor rear addition to comply with the sightline requirements of the Port Phillip Local Heritage Policy Clause 22.04. For this reason, a first floor addition may be considered if it is situated within the area shown in yellow on the aerial plan below and has a minimum 300mm setback from the front of the hip roof ridge. Note: this plan is indicative only and does not take account of other considerations in the Port Phillip Planning Scheme such as Rescode, which may affect the design and location of an addition. Primary source Helms, David, HO6 St Kilda East Precinct heritage review, 2016 Other studies None Page 4 City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Citation No: 2387 Other images Page 5 City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Place name: House Citation No: Other names: - 20 Address: 186 Alma Road, St Kilda East Heritage Precinct: St Kilda East: Murchison Street & Wavenhoe Avenue Category: Residential: House Heritage Overlay: HO391 Style: Interwar: American Bungalow Graded as: Significant Constructed: 1928 Victorian Heritage Register: No Designer: Stanley H. Thompson Amendment: C29, C142 Comment: Revised citation Significance What is significant? The house, designed by Stanley H. Thompson and constructed in 1927-28, at 186 Alma Road, St Kilda East is significant. It is a picturesque Californian Bungalow with characteristic prominent gable roofed porch supported on heavy pillars and balanced by a window bay with sunhood in this instance formed by an extension of the terra cotta tiled roof and carried on timber brackets. Materials are shingles in the gable ends, clinker bricks to the plinth and front fence, carried up the sides of the window bay and rough cast for the walls. The porch balustrade is given visual interest with a cross braced balustrade. The windows are double hung with glazing bars in the upper sashes and there is a sympathetic garage to one side and towards the rear of the block. The front garden is terraced with the levels resolved by means of a low clinker brick fence having wrought iron panels repeating the cross braced motif of the porch.
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