City of Doncaster and Templestowe Heritage Study (Context Pty Ltd, Peterson R & Stafford B, 1991)
Theme 7: A Place To Live
Domestic buildings contribute by far the largest number of buildings included in this study.'A place to live' is the primary requirement before settlement can take place in any area. In the earliest days of settlement, accommodation was provided in the form of tents, such as those erected at the newly pro¬ claimed goldfields at Andersons Creek by the hundreds of prospectors that flocked there in 1851.
The earliest permanent buildings to be erected were the simple wood and bark cabins inhabited by the first squatters and settlers. Although none of the earliest buildings remain, Ben Atkins' house at the Schramms Reserve (see Theme 5.01 'Squatters, Selectors and Small Farmers'), is a similarly primitive two-roomed wooden structure. It is thought that the remnant of an original slab and bark hut, built in the 1880s by James Russell during the early gold rush at Warrandyte, still remains inside the house at 8 Russell Road (see Theme 4.02 on 'Gold' Houses).
Of the more durable buildings that have survived, a larger proportion of those that are of historical interest are the homesteads associated with farms and orchards and whenever these associations are known they have been included in the relevant theme.
These include 'Pontville', a pioneering brick homestead built in around 1847 (see Theme 5.01 'Squatters, Selectors and Small Farmers'); and 'Friedensruh', another early house with an original wattle and daub section dating from 1853 (see Theme 5.02 'Orchards and Market Gardens').
Timber was the most commonly used building material for the earlier buildings, with brick and stone being used in most cases only for larger and more opulent residences. Schram.ms Cottage, built in stone in 1875, is an early exception to this, possibly because it was intended to serve a dual purpose as a school.
The range of housing covered in this theme begins with simple wooden cottages, such as that at the Daws Community Kindergarten, a basic, functional structure with no ornamentation. Others, such as the cottage at 185 Park Road, Donvale, have a simple verandah to provide shade. Some of the houses of the Victorian and Edwardian periods have rudimentary Italianate details, for example the house at 17 Parker Street, Templestowe.
By the inter-war period more sophisticated levels of design were being introduced and the vernacular threshold was pushed back. The Californian Bungalow style, as exemplified by the house on the comer of High Street and Linton Avenue in Lower Templestowe, was especially popular. Other comtemporary trends include the “English Cottage style” style (albeit less common) which is illustrated by Westerfolds Manor, and the “Spanish Mission” style illustrated by “the Chalet” at Park Orchards.
The post-war years are represented by various planned and landscaped suburban developments, such as the Milgate Park Estate, and a number of notable architect-designed houses, - included in the 'Artists' and 'Architects' themes (8.01 and 8.02).
Theme 7.01 Subdivisions
Subdivision of the land into large areas of acreage or housing plots in a township, is the usual preliminary procedure before building can take place (the survey of land and town¬ ships have already been mentioned in the theme 'Taking over the Land'). In the City of Doncaster & Templestowe, the majority of the subdivisions (i.e the carving up of earlier and larger subdivisions into housing plots), have taken place in recent years.In the absence of earlier examples some of these are included in this theme, as being illustrative of innovative modem planning principles, rather than for the architectural merit of the individual houses.
These include the Milgate Park Estate which combines a rare implementation of traffic separation and communal ownership facilities, and the large 'circus' development at Park Orchards.
A number of other subdivisions reveal some elements of the 'garden city' design, and of the innovative space layouts proposed by Burley Griffin in Eaglemont, Mount Eliza and Avondale Heights. Examples noticed during the study include two subdivisions in Bulleen (Millicent Avenue and Riverview Terrace), and one in Templestowe (Tasker Street).
Many land developers and surveyors would have drawn on the work of outstanding designers such as Griffin, but failed to recognise that an overall design concept was essential.
Milgate Park Estate (1), Andersons Creek Road (at Landscape Drive) Doncaster East (194.29)
There is an extremely generous allocation of parkland and waterways on the estate which with facilities such as two tennis courts, a net¬ ball court, football ground and playing facilities is owned by the residents through a Home Owners' Association. Pedestrian and vehicular traffic is completely separated. There is no through traffic and only Landscape Drive is not a cul-de-sac. There are no overhead powerlines, footpaths and very few fences. House numbers are in the kerbs. Sites are slightly smaller than usual to compensate. Maintenance of the estate is of an extremely high standard. No individual houses are of interest.
Milgate Park Plan of area
The developer was Jim Hedstrom who died about a year ago. His company was Disco! Developers Pty Ltd, a family concern. It was a very personal project to Hedstrom. He bought a number of one acre blocks cheaply, Residential D, and resold them. The profit was used to buy three orchards of approximately 120 acres for Milgate. The design is derived from the idea of Radbum, New Jersey. The designer of the estate is Peter Mulcahy (Peter Mulcahy & Associates Pty Ltd).
A "Home Owners' Association" was formed, the first in Victoria, forerunner of today's body corporates. Owners pay an annual fee towards maintenance of the open space and community facilities.
The Home Owners' agreement was drawn up by Geoffrey R. Taylor, solicitor of Doncaster Road. Occasionally owners fail to contribute the annual fee, but this is enforced. There was also some buyer resistance because the blocks are smaller. It received the RAIA Community Design Award Citation in 1976.
The design is influenced by the W B & MM Griffin sub-divisions at Eaglemont c1905 and comparable to Merchant Builders estates at Winter Park and Elliston, Rosanna.
Of State significance as a rare implementation of the planning principles of the Radburn traffic separation idea with communal ownership of community facilities and very extensive community parkland in an extremely successful development.
It was a bold scheme using an innovative 'circus' design, with the design by surveyor Saxil Tuxen. Tuxen (1885-1975) was responsible for some of the largest planned subdivisions in Melbourne. He was a member of the Victorian Town Planning Association from its inception and was appointed to the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission in 1923 (2).
The land was to be subdivided into half acre blocks, and purchasers would become members of the 'country club'. Gates were put at the entrance way and covenants placed on the land to ensure the development remained residential.
A typically 1950s/60s suburban subdivision, except for large mature Monterey Pines in many gardens forming a dominant canopy.
At the eastern end of the subdivision, garden plantings change to Australian native and exotic species, compromising the pine woodland character.
This compromise is reinforced by recent planting of a single Norfolk Island Pine bordered by Prunus species in the turnabout.
Of local significance for its pine woodland character.
All of those included in this theme are of timber construction. It is often difficult to assign a date to these buildings, owing to their utilitarian appearance which owes little to fashionable influences.
It is a symmetrical timber cottage with a gable roof across the site. The windows have been unsympathetically replaced with aluminium picture windows. It has square edge weatherboards. The verandah is recent.
Of local interest.
(1) Maris Taylor, pers comm
An Edwardian gable-roofed timber cottage, symmetrical about a central doorway. There are exposed rafters at the eaves. This small timber building is now part of the kindergarten.
The cottage dates from post World War II (probably c1947) and was lived in by Edwin Daws (2).
Of local interest.
(2) Irvine Green, Pers comm.
The appearance of the cottage gives no evidence of the date it was built. It could be any time between the 1860s and the 1920s.
Of local interest as a typical rural timber cottage that may be early.
Nothing is known of the history of the cottage.
Of local interest. Worthy of further research.
Continual additions are swamping the original building.
The remainder of the property has been con¬ verted to a golf course, however a number of earlier features remain. These include timber stables with brick end walls. Some earlier windbreaks and a dam system remain.
Fitzgerald purchased the land (76 acres - originally part of the Carlton Estate) in 1886. He lived there only at weekends and holidays, and kept racehorses in the stables. In 1909 'Tullamore' was sold to William Stott (formerly a Shire Councillor and an M.P.), and it remained in the family for over forty years.
Architecturally, this building can be compared to (for example) site no. 192.5
The house "Tullamore", the stables and some plantings and site features are of local historical significance as remnants of · the 'country property' established in 1887 by Thomas Fitzgerald, demonstrating the lifestyle available to professional men in the nineteenth century, and later for its association with William Stott.
(1) Doncaster Templestowe HistoricaI Society Newsletter. November 1974.
Flower beds have been destructively con¬ structed against the front walls, and the building is covered with signs associated with its current function.
The Corbetts were early settlers in the area and bought this land probably in the 1860s (2).
It is shown as theirs on the Plan of Bulleen. County of Bourke, cl 873.
Of local historical significance for its associations with the Corbetts, early settlers in Doncaster, and as one of the few nineteenth century buildings remaining in this locality.
(2) Irvine Green, pers. comm
After arriving in Melbourne during the gold rush, Zelius initially worked in Melbourne before purchasing the steamer "Lady of the Lake" and trading the Gippsland Lakes and coastal routes. He built a house in Bairnsdale, and apparently used a similar plan for this house (2).
"Plassey" has an M-profile, slate roof, with decorative scalloped scales, with a cast-iron fence cresting and wrought iron finials on the ridge and three deeply moulded chimneys. There are cornice panels between bracket pairs, with rosettes between. There is a hip verandah with a cast-iron lace valance, brackets and Corinthian posts. The four-panelled door has fan and side lights in leadlight, with Decorated Gothic labels over. Between these and the window pairs are round-headed niches. There are bluestone steps.
Unfortunately, the brickwork is painted and this should be expertly removed.
There is a geometric encaustic tile verandah pavement and the garden design partly survives, including edging terracotta tiles and chamfered edging bricks. The basework of a former conservatory survives. At the rear are two symmetrical square pavilion wings.
The building remains intact and in good condition although development must be considered a threat. It can be compared with 783 Doncaster Road.
A fine and particularly intact Italianate house of regional architectural significance. It has all of the characteristics of the style, albeit in a symmetrical disposition, including residual garden .elements and former conservatory basework. The unusual plan is also significant.
(1) Listing citation, The Register of the National Estate
(2) Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter. 4 ( 4), May 1971, p. 2.
The house is still owned by the Sheahan family who built it in c1890s. Patrick Sheahan was the licensee of the Templestowe Hotel (formerly Sheahans) from 1871 to 1916. His wife continued to run the hotel until her death in 1931 (1).
Older garden plantings include a Cypress windbreak on the east side;
Architectural!y, this building can be compared to (for example) site nos. 173.15; 174.18; 174.4; 173.35; 173.36.
Of local historical significance for its associations with the Sheahan family, and as one of three early buildings remaining within the surveyed Templestowe township.
(1) Keogh, Graham. The History of Doncaster and Templestowe. (Doncaster, Vic. City of Doncaster and Templestowe, 1975, p9
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"Kembla", Tills Drive, Warrandyte (155.04)
"Kembla" was built in the 1890s by Mr E. P. Lewis, who purchased 14 acres of land from Captain Selby just prior to building the house.
E. P. Lewis was the Lewis of Kelly and Lewis, the largest pump manufacturers in the southern hemisphere. Lewis was at one stage the manager of Thompsons engineering works at Castlemaine (est. 1875) which specialised in hydraulic gold dredging and sluicing equipment (1).
The original section of the house is reputedly built around a central chimney using a steel frame.
Steel members support the floor joists (2). The timber used in the first floor construction was reused from a quartz crusher from the local area. The original internal lining was an imported German cement sheet product. Seaweed was used as insulation in the walls and ceiling (3).
The outdoor pool was built during the 1930s depression to provide employment for some of the staff of Kelly and Lewis. The pool's pumping system saved the house from destruction in the 1939 fires which devastated the surrounding areas and much of the whole State.
It is a plain, steep hip roofed, double storey, bungalow, with the central gable projecting as an attic. The central chimney, is on a 45 degree angle and appears to have sloping sides. There is a cantilevered first floor balcony, with a balustrade, on three sides. There appear to be extensions at the rear. There is a 1920s wire mesh vehicular gate at the road, linked to the house by a sweeping drive through a pine plantation. The whole house is now inappropriately painted white.
The style of this building can be compared to 'Journeys End' Bridge Street, Bulleen.
Of regional significance for the use of unusual building technology, and for its close association with E.·P. Lewis.
(1) Brian Carroll The Engineers; 200 years at work in Australia. 1988 , p.53; although local reputation suggests he was involved with the construction at Port Kembla (NSW) it was Essington Lewis that was involved with these early years at BHP c.1904, and Kembla cl 915, Carroll (pp.164-167)
(2) If the building dates from the 1890s and, in fact has a steel frame, it is likely to be highly significant; further physical investigation of the building is required.
(3) Information about the history and construction of the building is from Lance Vizard, owner during the 1960s.
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Schramms Cottage, Victoria Street, Doncaster East (193.18)
Schramms Cottage dates from 1875. It is an asymmetrical cottage, built of local sandstone, with hip slate roof and twelve pane windows. The openings have rendered quoins (but not the comers).
It was built for Max von Schramm, a German immigrant, for use as a house and a Lutheran (denominational) school. Von Schramm had formerly been school master at the Lutheran School, built in 1864 on Doncaster Hill (1). Following the Education Act in 1872, it became a Common School. Von Schramm, wanting to continue providing education in the Lutheran tradition, decided to build and run his own school. In 1876 von Schramm was appointed the. first Lutheran Pastor in Doncaster, and he continued to teach at his school until 1884 (2).
The cottage was originally located in Doncaster Road, near the present Council offices, and was moved to this site following the decision to widen Doncaster Road. The former site of the church and cemetery was donated by Trinity Lutheran Church for the re-erection of the cottage, (it was in the former Waldau Church on this land that von Schramm had held his very first classes). The process of dismantling and re-erecting the building took place between 1971 and 1975, using largely voluntary labour, with funding provided by the State Government. Schramm's Cottage was opened as an historical centre on 14th February 1976 (3).
Of considerable local significance for its historical associations with the early Lutheran settlement.
Its significance has been reduced by the relocation of the building.
(1) Keogh, Graham. The History of Doncaster and Templestowe. (Doncaster, Vic. City of Doncaster and Templestowe, 1975, p.46.
(2) National Trust of Australia (Victoria) file,
(3) National Trust of Australia (Victoria) file: Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter. March I986.
The house has a high elevation on the front (north) and faces the spectacular view over the Yarra valley towards Eltham. A rear (south) verandah has turned Edwardian posts. There are red brick chimneys and the roof is painted red. There is a double garage, contemporary with the house. The fences are post and wire with metal droppers. The drive is lined with eucalypts and the garden has other residual plantings from the 1920s. The central hip-roofed section seems earlier in form, but there is no physical evidence of this.
The land was originally part of "Longridge Farm". Dr. and Angela E.J. Booth purchased an allotment of 16 acres 9 perches in 1919 from Alexander Fraser. The house ("Nilja") was apparently moved here in 1919 from its original site in Port Melbourne, by Angela Booth. Booth was the first woman councillor in the municipality (for Warrandyte Riding) from 1926 to 1933, and was only the third woman councillor elected in Victoria. She was also an advocate of women's rights and equal pay, and served as a justice of the peace (1). Angela Booth was highly regarded for her untiring efforts to obtain reticulated electricity for Warrandyte (2).
After the Second World War "Nilja" was owned and occupied by the Rutledge family. Dorothy Rutledge married George Reid in 1973; Sir George Reid was Attorney-General in the Bolte State Government from 1955 to 1972 (3).
Of local significance for its historical associations with Angela Booth; and architecturally as a particularly intact, simple, Edwardian timber house in a spectacularly beautiful setting, perhaps surrounding an earlier cottage, with residual plantings of the same period.
(1) Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter, Nov. I973; Irvine Green, undated notes; B. Bence Sir George and Lady Reid. Warrandyte Historical Society Monograph.
(2) Cranfield, p.117.
(3) Warrandyte Historical Society. Sir George and Lady Reid. monograph.
Of Local interest.
No information is currently available on the history of this building.
Architecturally some comparisons include 330 Cotham Road, Kew (recently demolished - 1990) c1923, 34 Elliott Avenue, Balwyn (1929), and 30 Laurel Bank Parade, Newtown.
Of local interest.
(1) John Clare The Federation House in Melbourne Bungalow and Vernacular Revival Styles J90Q-!930. unpublished thesis, 1984 p. 79.
The house was sold to Charles Hemsworth in 1923.
This Edwardian, hip-roofed, triple-fronted timber house is located on a hill top, near the edge of Warrandyte township. The roof is Marseilles terracotta tiles, with terracotta cresting and finials, and exposed rafters at the eaves. The chimneys have corbelled Mansard tops. The verandah returns around the angle, under the main roof. It has a fine cast-iron valance and brackets, between turned timber posts. Windows are casement pairs. There is a timber attached outbuilding. The fence is recent. Colours are also recent, but generally appropriate.
The Holy Trinity Vicarage, Church Road; Trinity Lutheran Church Manse, Victoria Street, 71 Yarra Street, are some comparisons.
Yarra Lodge is of local significance for its historical associations with Blair, and architecturally as an intact example of a finely detailed Edwardian house.
(1) Correspondence from Rita Langham, daughter of F. & J. Blair, to the present owners.
To date no information has been discovered concerning the history of this building.
This building is fairly intact and of local significance for its architectural merit.
The landscape of the area is a significant survivor of 1920s-1960s Templestowe, relatively intact and highly evocative. The house "Journeys End" is a good large characteristic Craftsman Bungalow common in Camberwell and Malvern East, but rare in this municipality. The alterations are reversible and should be rectified.
A comparison is Tills house in Tills Drive (155.48).
Of local architectural significance. Information on the whole area is included in Theme 1.04 (172.4).
The large pine and palm trees in the garden also date from the 1920’s (1).
It is a timber hip-roofed house. The front faces to the left-hand side, with a gable projecting to the right. The upper gable is shingled and the windows have hoods. There is a verandah in the angle. The garden is mature and includes a date palm and a large pine.
Of local interest.
(1) Laurence Gedye, pers. comm.
It was built for Lindsay Turner, a Melbourne solicitor on the land that was formerly (1863- 1936), part of a large dairy farm belonging to the Smith family (1).
Of local significance as a large well designed English Cottage style building
(1) Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter. March, 1985.
There is a major gable across the site with a minor gable facing the centre. This projects as the verandah. It is clad with shingles with post pairs and geometric fretwork brackets. There are large mature trees including a date palm.
Of local interest.
Of local interest.
Of local interest.
The house has a perfect period garden setting, behind a crimp-wire fence, with a half keratin letter box on the gate post. A high cypress hedge isolates the side block with a diamond rail timber fence between. A remarkable period piece!
Comparatively, there is a no more complete bungalow ensemble in the municipality.
Of local significance as the most intact or complete Californian Bungalow and its setting in the City.
There is a large date palm in front, and the large garden allotment also has ash, birch and other trees of the period. The front red brick fence is unsympathetic.
The house, intact and in excellent condition, can be compared to 194.25, 175.5, 213.6 and 213.12.
The property is owned by Mrs Petty, one of the family of orchardists who have made a substantial contribution to the shaping of the area.
Of local interest.
There are mature plantings and bush remnants.
There is also another early timber house, possibly 1930s, behind the garage.
Of local interest.
There is a fine bush garden including some exotics.
Of local interest, particularly for its garden setting.
A group of three 1940/50s double-fronted weatherboard houses. Similar in form, all the houses have terracotta tiled hipped roofs, are intact and in excellent condition. Some substantial plantings include the house gardens, pine trees along the road and no. 231 with an overgrown pittosporum hedge.
Of local interest as a group of 1940s/50s houses, possibly reflecting the start of suburbanisation.
Of local interest.
In Warrandyte the use of local stone as a structural and facing material has a long tradition.
The stone, a fine-grained sandstone, has been quarried near Warrandyte for many years. Two quarries remain within the Warrandyte State Park (Whipstick Gully), and another is on Husseys Lane. A disastrous landslip in 1934 led to the closure of the latter quarry (1); two houses were built by the Warrandyte community for the families of the men killed.
The use of this stone, particularly within the township, contributes to the special character of Warrandyte. The stone is featured on retaining walls, e War Memorial (both the work of Kevin Sloan, a local stonemason), and bus shelter, as well as on a number of houses. Natural outcrops of the stone add to the charm of the town centre.
Houses built using this material are included in this theme, quarries in Theme 6.04, Alexa Goyder's house in Theme 8.02, the former Warrandyte fire station in Theme 6.01 and the Inge and Graham King house in 8.02.
All local stone buildings are of value today because quarrying in the area ceased in the 1950s, and there are no more houses being created from it. The last quarry to close was on the road next to the Aumann nursery.
(1) Cranfield p116
Of local significance for its associations with Violet Hawkes, and for its use of local stone.
(1) Shirley Rotheram. pers. comm
It was built by Kevin Sloan, a local stonemason, who was responsible for a number of buildings, and assisted Alexa Goyder with the construction of the stonework in her houses.
The Selby Store was operated as a local general store by Daisy Hawkes. It later became "The Stonehouse".
It is a simple, random rubble, sandstone shop, facing into the street with a skillion verandah. The hipped roof terminates with a gable shop front. The upper gable is clad in asbestos cement sheet and the left-hand verandah end is enclosed with lattice. The side windows are Gothic with dressed stone sills.
A comparison is the Gospel Chapel (155.08).
Of local significance for its associations with Daisy Hawkes, its social value in community life, and for the stone craft skills displayed.
It is intact and in good condition.
Of local interest. An example of the use of local stone for the walls of a typical triple¬ fronted house of the 1940s.
A "Home Owners' Association" was formed, the first in Victoria, forerunner of today's body corporates. Owners pay an annual fee towards maintenance of the open space and community facilities.
The Home Owners' agreement was drawn up by Geoffrey R. Taylor, solicitor of Doncaster Road. Occasionally owners fail to contribute the annual fee, but this is enforced. There was also some buyer resistance because the blocks are smaller. It received the RAIA Community Design Award Citation in 1976.
The design is influenced by the W B & MM Griffin sub-divisions at Eaglemont c1905 and comparable to Merchant Builders estates at Winter Park and Elliston, Rosanna.
Of State significance as a rare implementation of the planning principles of the Radburn traffic separation idea with communal ownership of community facilities and very extensive community parkland in an extremely successful development.
(1) Peter Mulcahy. 15.4.91 pers. comm.; Estate plan brochure; July 1986, p.7:Sunday Herald, 21 April 1991, p.81.
A uniquely grand suburban street layout with two concentric 'circuses' and a central open space, reminiscent of English Georgian planning as illustrated by St. Vincents Place, South Melbourne. However, at Park Orchards the undulating topography warps the planar geometry, producing an informality which is not expected from the plan form.
The dominant planting of Monterey Pines gives a North American landscape character especially when seen in conjunction with Poplars, as in Brucedale Crescent.
During the early 1900s the Park Orchards area was turned into orchards by Tom Petty. Some of the present landscape character, including pine plantings, dates from this period.
In 1925 Australis Sharp and John Taylor, timber merchants of South Melbourne, purchased 559 acres at Park Orchards; they already had many land holdings including the Ranelagh Country Club Estate at Mt Eliza (designed by Walter Burley Griffin). At Park Orchards they launched a similar 'Country Club' concept.
Milgate Park Estate, Doncaster East
Park Orchards Country Club Estate (1)
Brucedale, Ennismore, Dirlton and Hopetoun Crescents and adjoining streets (see map), Park Orchards (195.19) and 'The Chalet' (195.21)A uniquely grand suburban street layout with two concentric 'circuses' and a central open space, reminiscent of English Georgian planning as illustrated by St. Vincents Place, South Melbourne. However, at Park Orchards the undulating topography warps the planar geometry, producing an informality which is not expected from the plan form.
The dominant planting of Monterey Pines gives a North American landscape character especially when seen in conjunction with Poplars, as in Brucedale Crescent.
During the early 1900s the Park Orchards area was turned into orchards by Tom Petty. Some of the present landscape character, including pine plantings, dates from this period.
In 1925 Australis Sharp and John Taylor, timber merchants of South Melbourne, purchased 559 acres at Park Orchards; they already had many land holdings including the Ranelagh Country Club Estate at Mt Eliza (designed by Walter Burley Griffin). At Park Orchards they launched a similar 'Country Club' concept.
Park Orchards plan - central Trees
It was a bold scheme using an innovative 'circus' design, with the design by surveyor Saxil Tuxen. Tuxen (1885-1975) was responsible for some of the largest planned subdivisions in Melbourne. He was a member of the Victorian Town Planning Association from its inception and was appointed to the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission in 1923 (2).
The land was to be subdivided into half acre blocks, and purchasers would become members of the 'country club'. Gates were put at the entrance way and covenants placed on the land to ensure the development remained residential.
The use of curved roads was favoured as part of the 'garden suburb' concept, although Tuxen was known to prefer 'a series of properly arranged short straight lines'3• His choice of a central 'circus' form suggests the influence of Walter Burley Griffin, with whom Tuxen had worked previously.
The club house (the Chalet) (195.21) and other facilities were built c1928. The Chalet is a large Spanish Mission building, with single and double-storey sections·. It has a number of features typical of this style including a terracotta tile roof and roughcast render walls. The golf course was built in 1931.
The estate failed to attract buyers during the Depression of the 1930s. To help recover financial losses much of the land was cleared and planted with pines to provide future timber for the timber yards of Sharp and Taylor.
By 1950 the area had only 25 families, and it was not until the late 1950s that the land started to be developed. By then it had already been sold to Edments (a Melbourne company).
Of regional significance. A unique combination of topography, site layout and planting, in the 'garden suburb' tradition, and reflecting the work of Saxil Tuxen, an influential Melbourne surveyor in the overall layout and road patterns. The Chalet is an unusual Spanish Mission style building, probably also of regional significance.
(1) Irvine Green & Beatty Beavis Park Orchards
(2) Freestone, R. Model communities: the garden city movement in Australia. Nelson,
Melbourne, 1989, p.75.
(3) Freestone, R. Model communities: the garden city movement in Australia. Nelson,
Melbourne, 1989, p89
Built by Merchant Builders and developed in two stages because of difficulties in having the subdivision accepted and because of the capital cost. The site planning was completed by David Yenken in association in stage one with Graham Gunn, of Gunn Hayball Pty Ltd., architect for the project and in stage two with Robert Whyte, architect from Merchant Builders. The landscape architect was Ellis Stones, Winter Park probably being his last major project. The gardens have since been overplanted with species not included in the original design (1).
The subdivision was an attempt to use experience gained in townhouse development to obtain freedom from the constraints of conventional subdivision. It preceded the Cluster Titles Act and was significant in influencing change in subdivision legislation (2). Five houses were built in an initial cluster followed by three more such clusters.
Winter Park won an RAIA Housing Award Citation in 1975.
Of State architectural and historical significance as a pioneer cluster title subdivision designed by David Yencken (later Secretary for Planning Victoria and Professor of Landscape Architecture, Melbourne University), Graham Gunn (architect), of Gunn Hayball Pty Ltd., and Ellis Stones (landscape architect).
(1) July 1986. p.7; Cross Section. Oct - Nov. 1970.
(2). David Yencken, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Melbourne, pers. comm.. and correspondence 4 July 1991.
The club house (the Chalet) (195.21) and other facilities were built c1928. The Chalet is a large Spanish Mission building, with single and double-storey sections·. It has a number of features typical of this style including a terracotta tile roof and roughcast render walls. The golf course was built in 1931.
The estate failed to attract buyers during the Depression of the 1930s. To help recover financial losses much of the land was cleared and planted with pines to provide future timber for the timber yards of Sharp and Taylor.
By 1950 the area had only 25 families, and it was not until the late 1950s that the land started to be developed. By then it had already been sold to Edments (a Melbourne company).
Of regional significance. A unique combination of topography, site layout and planting, in the 'garden suburb' tradition, and reflecting the work of Saxil Tuxen, an influential Melbourne surveyor in the overall layout and road patterns. The Chalet is an unusual Spanish Mission style building, probably also of regional significance.
(1) Irvine Green & Beatty Beavis Park Orchards
(2) Freestone, R. Model communities: the garden city movement in Australia. Nelson,
Melbourne, 1989, p.75.
(3) Freestone, R. Model communities: the garden city movement in Australia. Nelson,
Melbourne, 1989, p89
Park Orchards: trees in central section to be protected by planning measures
Winter Park, 137-141 High St. Doncaster (193.28)
Winter Park: Heritage Area
The subdivision was an attempt to use experience gained in townhouse development to obtain freedom from the constraints of conventional subdivision. It preceded the Cluster Titles Act and was significant in influencing change in subdivision legislation (2). Five houses were built in an initial cluster followed by three more such clusters.
Winter Park won an RAIA Housing Award Citation in 1975.
Of State architectural and historical significance as a pioneer cluster title subdivision designed by David Yencken (later Secretary for Planning Victoria and Professor of Landscape Architecture, Melbourne University), Graham Gunn (architect), of Gunn Hayball Pty Ltd., and Ellis Stones (landscape architect).
(1) July 1986. p.7; Cross Section. Oct - Nov. 1970.
(2). David Yencken, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Melbourne, pers. comm.. and correspondence 4 July 1991.
Wembley Gardens, Donvale (214.23)
A cul-de-sac with a large grassed turnaround at its northern end, and its sloping topography, falling eastwards. The street trees are Tristania and Prunus.A typically 1950s/60s suburban subdivision, except for large mature Monterey Pines in many gardens forming a dominant canopy.
At the eastern end of the subdivision, garden plantings change to Australian native and exotic species, compromising the pine woodland character.
This compromise is reinforced by recent planting of a single Norfolk Island Pine bordered by Prunus species in the turnabout.
Of local significance for its pine woodland character.
Wembley Gardens: Heritage Area
Theme 7.02 Cottages
The most basic of the domestic structures, cottages are the least likely to survive for any great length of time, being in most cases erected as quickly and cheaply as possible, and being particularly liable to rebuilding on account of their size.All of those included in this theme are of timber construction. It is often difficult to assign a date to these buildings, owing to their utilitarian appearance which owes little to fashionable influences.
Cottage, 228 Bulleen Road, Bulleen (172.09)
This single-storey, double-fronted cottage was lived in, in the 1930s, by Jimmy Heffernan, gardener for Sunday and John Reed (1).It is a symmetrical timber cottage with a gable roof across the site. The windows have been unsympathetically replaced with aluminium picture windows. It has square edge weatherboards. The verandah is recent.
Of local interest.
(1) Maris Taylor, pers comm
Cottage, Daws Community Kindergarten, SE cnr George & Daws Rds, Doncaster East (194.21)
An Edwardian gable-roofed timber cottage, symmetrical about a central doorway. There are exposed rafters at the eaves. This small timber building is now part of the kindergarten.
The cottage dates from post World War II (probably c1947) and was lived in by Edwin Daws (2).
Of local interest.
(2) Irvine Green, Pers comm.
"Thyme Cottage", 29 - 31 Monckton Rd. Templestowe (154.07)
A symmetrical double-fronted timber cottage. It has a gable roof with a skillion at the rear. There is a skillion verandah with a simple rail valance and a scalloped valance at the left end. It has a four-panelled door.The appearance of the cottage gives no evidence of the date it was built. It could be any time between the 1860s and the 1920s.
Of local interest as a typical rural timber cottage that may be early.
Cottage, Mullens Road, Warrandyte (155.31b)
This is a tiny gable-fronted timber cottage with later extensions and a verandah. It has 'Cyclone' vehicular gates and a post and wire fence.
Nothing is known about the history of the cottage; it is of interest for its size.
Of local interest.
This cottage could be dated anywhere between 1860 - 1940. There is no evidence of anything early, and the chimney pot is 1930s.
Architecturally, this building can be compared to (for example) 2 Russell Road, 29-31 Monckton Rd, 108 Whittens Lane etc.
Of local interest as a typical symmetrical double-fronted gable-roofed cottage.
Little is known of the history of this cottage, but it is thought to date from at least the 1870s.
This cottage can be compared to 29 - 31 Monckton Rd, 185 Park Road and 322 Yarra Street.
Of local significance as a typical early cottage, much altered about 1910 and 1940, but retaining much of its earlier form.
Nothing is known about the history of the cottage; it is of interest for its size.
Of local interest.
Cottage, 185 Park Road, Donvale (215.11)
A very simple cottage, double-fronted, symmetrical, with a gable roof across, a skillion verandah and a skillion extension at the rear. It has an external chimney with a glazed ceramic pot.This cottage could be dated anywhere between 1860 - 1940. There is no evidence of anything early, and the chimney pot is 1930s.
Architecturally, this building can be compared to (for example) 2 Russell Road, 29-31 Monckton Rd, 108 Whittens Lane etc.
Of local interest as a typical symmetrical double-fronted gable-roofed cottage.
Cottage, 2 Russell Road, Warrandyte (155.31c)
An early timber, double fronted, gable-roofed cottage. It has a later (Edwardian?) bull¬ nosed verandah with chamfered posts, and a recent balustrade. The verandah returns on the right hand side where it is infilled. There is a timber finial. The doors and windows were replaced in the 1940s.Little is known of the history of this cottage, but it is thought to date from at least the 1870s.
This cottage can be compared to 29 - 31 Monckton Rd, 185 Park Road and 322 Yarra Street.
Of local significance as a typical early cottage, much altered about 1910 and 1940, but retaining much of its earlier form.
Cottage, 2 Russell Road, Warrandyte
House (timber cottage), 335 Warrandyte-Ringwood Road Warrandyte (155.44)
A single-storey, double-fronted, timber cottage in an intact but badly dilapidated condition, situated on a large allotment.Nothing is known of the history of the cottage.
Of local interest. Worthy of further research.
Cottage, 335 Warrandyte-Ringwood Road, Warrandyte
Theme 7.03 Victorian Houses
"Tullamore" (The Eastern Golf Club), Doncaster Rd, Doncaster (193.02)
Built in 1887 as the country home of Melbourne surgeon Thomas Fitzgerald (1), this painted brick house is now used as a golf club. It is a double-fronted, two storey, Italianate house with a slate hipped roof. The chimneys have heavy mouldings and mansard tops. The frieze has brackets, regularly spaced between panels over a cornice mould. There is a flat string course band at first floor level and flat quoins. The projecting left-hand bay combines a hipped roof section, with a steeper gable-roofed projection, and side windows with pointed segmental heads and panels below.Continual additions are swamping the original building.
The remainder of the property has been con¬ verted to a golf course, however a number of earlier features remain. These include timber stables with brick end walls. Some earlier windbreaks and a dam system remain.
Fitzgerald purchased the land (76 acres - originally part of the Carlton Estate) in 1886. He lived there only at weekends and holidays, and kept racehorses in the stables. In 1909 'Tullamore' was sold to William Stott (formerly a Shire Councillor and an M.P.), and it remained in the family for over forty years.
Architecturally, this building can be compared to (for example) site no. 192.5
The house "Tullamore", the stables and some plantings and site features are of local historical significance as remnants of · the 'country property' established in 1887 by Thomas Fitzgerald, demonstrating the lifestyle available to professional men in the nineteenth century, and later for its association with William Stott.
(1) Doncaster Templestowe HistoricaI Society Newsletter. November 1974.
“Tullamore”, Eastern Golf Club, Doncaster Road, Doncaster
“Tullamore” stables remain within the golf course.
House (now "The Homestead" Sandwich Bar), 562 Doncaster Rd. Doncaster (213.15)
Built in 1887 by David Corbett, this is a Classical double-fronted, rendered brick house with a hipped roof. It has vermiculated quoins and a cornice moulding. The facade is asymmetrical, with a setback of about 1/4 bay one bay deep on the right-hand side. The windows are tripartite.Flower beds have been destructively con¬ structed against the front walls, and the building is covered with signs associated with its current function.
The Corbetts were early settlers in the area and bought this land probably in the 1860s (2).
It is shown as theirs on the Plan of Bulleen. County of Bourke, cl 873.
Of local historical significance for its associations with the Corbetts, early settlers in Doncaster, and as one of the few nineteenth century buildings remaining in this locality.
(2) Irvine Green, pers. comm
''Plassey”, 891 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster East (213.33)
This brick rendered, double-fronted symmetrical Italianate house was built in around 1886/8 for Martin Zelius, a Norwegian emigrant (1).After arriving in Melbourne during the gold rush, Zelius initially worked in Melbourne before purchasing the steamer "Lady of the Lake" and trading the Gippsland Lakes and coastal routes. He built a house in Bairnsdale, and apparently used a similar plan for this house (2).
"Plassey" has an M-profile, slate roof, with decorative scalloped scales, with a cast-iron fence cresting and wrought iron finials on the ridge and three deeply moulded chimneys. There are cornice panels between bracket pairs, with rosettes between. There is a hip verandah with a cast-iron lace valance, brackets and Corinthian posts. The four-panelled door has fan and side lights in leadlight, with Decorated Gothic labels over. Between these and the window pairs are round-headed niches. There are bluestone steps.
Unfortunately, the brickwork is painted and this should be expertly removed.
There is a geometric encaustic tile verandah pavement and the garden design partly survives, including edging terracotta tiles and chamfered edging bricks. The basework of a former conservatory survives. At the rear are two symmetrical square pavilion wings.
The building remains intact and in good condition although development must be considered a threat. It can be compared with 783 Doncaster Road.
A fine and particularly intact Italianate house of regional architectural significance. It has all of the characteristics of the style, albeit in a symmetrical disposition, including residual garden .elements and former conservatory basework. The unusual plan is also significant.
(1) Listing citation, The Register of the National Estate
(2) Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter. 4 ( 4), May 1971, p. 2.
House, 17 Parker Street, Templestowe (173.26)
This symmetrical, double-fronted Italianate timber house has a corrugated iron hipped roof and a 1920s skillion verandah on two sides. The verandah posts are in pairs with fretwork brackets on roughcast brick piers.The house is still owned by the Sheahan family who built it in c1890s. Patrick Sheahan was the licensee of the Templestowe Hotel (formerly Sheahans) from 1871 to 1916. His wife continued to run the hotel until her death in 1931 (1).
Older garden plantings include a Cypress windbreak on the east side;
Architectural!y, this building can be compared to (for example) site nos. 173.15; 174.18; 174.4; 173.35; 173.36.
Of local historical significance for its associations with the Sheahan family, and as one of three early buildings remaining within the surveyed Templestowe township.
(1) Keogh, Graham. The History of Doncaster and Templestowe. (Doncaster, Vic. City of Doncaster and Templestowe, 1975, p9
House, 17 Parker Street, Templestowe
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"Kembla", Tills Drive, Warrandyte (155.04)
"Kembla" was built in the 1890s by Mr E. P. Lewis, who purchased 14 acres of land from Captain Selby just prior to building the house.
E. P. Lewis was the Lewis of Kelly and Lewis, the largest pump manufacturers in the southern hemisphere. Lewis was at one stage the manager of Thompsons engineering works at Castlemaine (est. 1875) which specialised in hydraulic gold dredging and sluicing equipment (1).
The original section of the house is reputedly built around a central chimney using a steel frame.
Steel members support the floor joists (2). The timber used in the first floor construction was reused from a quartz crusher from the local area. The original internal lining was an imported German cement sheet product. Seaweed was used as insulation in the walls and ceiling (3).
The outdoor pool was built during the 1930s depression to provide employment for some of the staff of Kelly and Lewis. The pool's pumping system saved the house from destruction in the 1939 fires which devastated the surrounding areas and much of the whole State.
It is a plain, steep hip roofed, double storey, bungalow, with the central gable projecting as an attic. The central chimney, is on a 45 degree angle and appears to have sloping sides. There is a cantilevered first floor balcony, with a balustrade, on three sides. There appear to be extensions at the rear. There is a 1920s wire mesh vehicular gate at the road, linked to the house by a sweeping drive through a pine plantation. The whole house is now inappropriately painted white.
The style of this building can be compared to 'Journeys End' Bridge Street, Bulleen.
Of regional significance for the use of unusual building technology, and for its close association with E.·P. Lewis.
(1) Brian Carroll The Engineers; 200 years at work in Australia. 1988 , p.53; although local reputation suggests he was involved with the construction at Port Kembla (NSW) it was Essington Lewis that was involved with these early years at BHP c.1904, and Kembla cl 915, Carroll (pp.164-167)
(2) If the building dates from the 1890s and, in fact has a steel frame, it is likely to be highly significant; further physical investigation of the building is required.
(3) Information about the history and construction of the building is from Lance Vizard, owner during the 1960s.
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Schramms Cottage, Victoria Street, Doncaster East (193.18)
Schramms Cottage dates from 1875. It is an asymmetrical cottage, built of local sandstone, with hip slate roof and twelve pane windows. The openings have rendered quoins (but not the comers).
It was built for Max von Schramm, a German immigrant, for use as a house and a Lutheran (denominational) school. Von Schramm had formerly been school master at the Lutheran School, built in 1864 on Doncaster Hill (1). Following the Education Act in 1872, it became a Common School. Von Schramm, wanting to continue providing education in the Lutheran tradition, decided to build and run his own school. In 1876 von Schramm was appointed the. first Lutheran Pastor in Doncaster, and he continued to teach at his school until 1884 (2).
The cottage was originally located in Doncaster Road, near the present Council offices, and was moved to this site following the decision to widen Doncaster Road. The former site of the church and cemetery was donated by Trinity Lutheran Church for the re-erection of the cottage, (it was in the former Waldau Church on this land that von Schramm had held his very first classes). The process of dismantling and re-erecting the building took place between 1971 and 1975, using largely voluntary labour, with funding provided by the State Government. Schramm's Cottage was opened as an historical centre on 14th February 1976 (3).
Of considerable local significance for its historical associations with the early Lutheran settlement.
Its significance has been reduced by the relocation of the building.
(1) Keogh, Graham. The History of Doncaster and Templestowe. (Doncaster, Vic. City of Doncaster and Templestowe, 1975, p.46.
(2) National Trust of Australia (Victoria) file,
(3) National Trust of Australia (Victoria) file: Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter. March I986.
Schramms Cottage, Vitoria Street, Doncaster East.
Theme 7.04 Edwardian Houses
"Nilja", Alexander Road, Warrandyte (154.05)
"Nilja'' is a single-storey timber house, perched high above the Yarra River at Warrandyte. It is a hip-roofed timber house surrounded by an enclosed verandah which is very wide. This has walls in some places and flyscreens in others. The weatherboards are creosoted. The windows are casements as triples or French doors. The sashes are painted cream in green frames. Presumably these are all colours original to the 1920s.The house has a high elevation on the front (north) and faces the spectacular view over the Yarra valley towards Eltham. A rear (south) verandah has turned Edwardian posts. There are red brick chimneys and the roof is painted red. There is a double garage, contemporary with the house. The fences are post and wire with metal droppers. The drive is lined with eucalypts and the garden has other residual plantings from the 1920s. The central hip-roofed section seems earlier in form, but there is no physical evidence of this.
The land was originally part of "Longridge Farm". Dr. and Angela E.J. Booth purchased an allotment of 16 acres 9 perches in 1919 from Alexander Fraser. The house ("Nilja") was apparently moved here in 1919 from its original site in Port Melbourne, by Angela Booth. Booth was the first woman councillor in the municipality (for Warrandyte Riding) from 1926 to 1933, and was only the third woman councillor elected in Victoria. She was also an advocate of women's rights and equal pay, and served as a justice of the peace (1). Angela Booth was highly regarded for her untiring efforts to obtain reticulated electricity for Warrandyte (2).
After the Second World War "Nilja" was owned and occupied by the Rutledge family. Dorothy Rutledge married George Reid in 1973; Sir George Reid was Attorney-General in the Bolte State Government from 1955 to 1972 (3).
Of local significance for its historical associations with Angela Booth; and architecturally as a particularly intact, simple, Edwardian timber house in a spectacularly beautiful setting, perhaps surrounding an earlier cottage, with residual plantings of the same period.
(1) Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter, Nov. I973; Irvine Green, undated notes; B. Bence Sir George and Lady Reid. Warrandyte Historical Society Monograph.
(2) Cranfield, p.117.
(3) Warrandyte Historical Society. Sir George and Lady Reid. monograph.
House, 724 Doncaster Road, Doncaster (213.19)
Built in the early 1900s, this is a triple¬ fronted, hip-roofed, timber Edwardian house. The left-hand bay and right-hand side rear wing project as gables. The upper gable is roughcast timbered and jetties. In the left is a rectangular skillion roofed bay window. The upper gable and dado have bands of decoratively scalloped weatherboards. The verandah is around the angle, under the main roof with timber fretwork brackets and straight and curved valance rail.Of Local interest.
House (1), 181 Foote St. Templestowe (173.16)
A triple-fronted, hip-roofed Edwardian timber house, transitional to Californian Bungalow style. Minor gables project to the right-hand front and left-hand side, and there is a further hip-roofed rear wing. The upper gables are timbered roughcast. The bargeboards have carved pendants in the manner of Japanese bungalows of the 1920s. The 1950s pergola is unsympathetic.No information is currently available on the history of this building.
Architecturally some comparisons include 330 Cotham Road, Kew (recently demolished - 1990) c1923, 34 Elliott Avenue, Balwyn (1929), and 30 Laurel Bank Parade, Newtown.
Of local interest.
(1) John Clare The Federation House in Melbourne Bungalow and Vernacular Revival Styles J90Q-!930. unpublished thesis, 1984 p. 79.
''Yarra Lodge'' (former Hemsworth House), 18 Yarra St. Warrandyte (175.17)
This house was built in 1906 by William Gribble for Joseph and Florence Blair. Joseph had made his fortune in gold mining in Western Australia and retired here. The house was then known as "Koh-i-noor" (1).The house was sold to Charles Hemsworth in 1923.
This Edwardian, hip-roofed, triple-fronted timber house is located on a hill top, near the edge of Warrandyte township. The roof is Marseilles terracotta tiles, with terracotta cresting and finials, and exposed rafters at the eaves. The chimneys have corbelled Mansard tops. The verandah returns around the angle, under the main roof. It has a fine cast-iron valance and brackets, between turned timber posts. Windows are casement pairs. There is a timber attached outbuilding. The fence is recent. Colours are also recent, but generally appropriate.
The Holy Trinity Vicarage, Church Road; Trinity Lutheran Church Manse, Victoria Street, 71 Yarra Street, are some comparisons.
Yarra Lodge is of local significance for its historical associations with Blair, and architecturally as an intact example of a finely detailed Edwardian house.
(1) Correspondence from Rita Langham, daughter of F. & J. Blair, to the present owners.
"Yarra Lodge", 18 Yarra Street, Warrandyte
House (now River Clay Shop), 230 Yarra St. Warrandyte (155.23)
This is a small Edwardian, fibrous cement¬ clad timber house, with a right-hand side skillion and a gable roof facing the street. The gable is fronted with a minor gable¬ roofed porch, decorated with roughcast and fine, sinuous curved, Art Nouveau influenced, fretwork valance and brackets. There are triple posts at corners, with a balustrade. The windows have nine-pane upper sashes, and there is a contemporary timber outbuilding. Some minor modifications have been made and the house is in fair condition.'To date no information has been discovered concerning the history of this building.
This building is fairly intact and of local significance for its architectural merit.
River Clay shop (former house), Yarra Street, Warrandyte
Theme 7.05 Houses of the 1920s-1930s
"Journeys End", 22 - 40 Bridge St. Bulleen
"Journey's End" is a timber double-storey Craftsman Bungalow. There is a dominant gable facing the drive with a cantilevered room (the former balcony) under the gable. Timber shingles clad the soffits and upper gables. A minor gable projects on the right¬ hand side. The roof is clad with Marseilles terracotta tiles. There is a verandah in the angle. All is now white painted. There is a serpentine drive lined by an avenue of cypress pines and an old post and wire fence on the south boundary with Bridge Street.The landscape of the area is a significant survivor of 1920s-1960s Templestowe, relatively intact and highly evocative. The house "Journeys End" is a good large characteristic Craftsman Bungalow common in Camberwell and Malvern East, but rare in this municipality. The alterations are reversible and should be rectified.
A comparison is Tills house in Tills Drive (155.48).
Of local architectural significance. Information on the whole area is included in Theme 1.04 (172.4).
House, 23 Daly St. Doncaster East (213.27)
The earliest section of this house, a two roomed cottage, was built in the 1870s. It was extended by Rupert Gedye (father of the present owner) in the 1920s using timber from the Tower Hotel. Further additions were made to the front of the house in the 1930’s.The large pine and palm trees in the garden also date from the 1920’s (1).
It is a timber hip-roofed house. The front faces to the left-hand side, with a gable projecting to the right. The upper gable is shingled and the windows have hoods. There is a verandah in the angle. The garden is mature and includes a date palm and a large pine.
Of local interest.
(1) Laurence Gedye, pers. comm.
Westerfolds Manor, Westerfolds Park, Fitzsimmons Lane, Templestowe (173.04)
Built in 1936, this is a double-storey, asymmetrical brick house in the English Cottage style, with Medieval elements. The plan is 'L'¬ shaped with minor gables projecting, to enrich the massing. The gable roof is break¬ pitch with Marseilles terracotta tiles and elaborate Tudor chimneys. The windows are generally double-hung pairs with nine-pane upper sashes. One window has a four¬ centered (Tudor) head, over the porte cochere with similar openings.It was built for Lindsay Turner, a Melbourne solicitor on the land that was formerly (1863- 1936), part of a large dairy farm belonging to the Smith family (1).
Of local significance as a large well designed English Cottage style building
(1) Doncaster Templestowe Historical Society Newsletter. March, 1985.
Westerfolds Manor, Westerfolds Park, Templestowe
House, 50 George St. Doncaster East (194.22)
Intact and in excellent condition this single¬ storey, double-fronted, Californian Bungalow has a gable roof.There is a major gable across the site with a minor gable facing the centre. This projects as the verandah. It is clad with shingles with post pairs and geometric fretwork brackets. There are large mature trees including a date palm.
Of local interest.
House, High St. (cnr Linton Ave), Lower Templestowe (173.40)
A large brick double-fronted, Californian Bungalow, with the major Marseilles terracotta tiled gable roof across the site. A minor gable projects forward at the left, and it is decorated with timbering and roughcast. The major roof sweeps past as a verandah, supported by pre-cast Tuscan columns on a brick solid balustrade. The colours are appropriate (possibly early). The wire-mesh fence panels are between brick piers. This house is intact and in excellent condition.Of local interest.
Hobbs House, 92 King St. Templestowe (194.17)
Hobbs House is a single high hip-roofed, timber, Californian Bungalow house. The right¬ hand bay is set forward as a gable. This is decorated with weatherboards and timber brackets. A gable verandah is in the angle. There is a roughcast band on the chimneys. The garden plantings are of interest.Of local interest.
''Cariaga'', 1 Monckton Road (NW cnr Websters Road) Templestowe (174.19)
This house and its setting are extraordinarily well cared for and intact. It is a double¬ fronted Californian Bungalow with major and minor gables facing the street. The minor gable on the right-hand side is set forward and the verandah is in the angle with a skillion roof. The verandah post pairs have fretwork brackets on brickwork plinths. There are shingles on the gables and a lattice set on joists, skillion window hoods and chimneys with tall pots. Curiously, there are double-hung Victorian windows with perimeter glazing bars.The house has a perfect period garden setting, behind a crimp-wire fence, with a half keratin letter box on the gate post. A high cypress hedge isolates the side block with a diamond rail timber fence between. A remarkable period piece!
Comparatively, there is a no more complete bungalow ensemble in the municipality.
Of local significance as the most intact or complete Californian Bungalow and its setting in the City.
"Caringa", 1 Monckton Road, Templestowe
House, 34 Wilsons Road, Doncaster (213.3)
A double-fronted Californian Bungalow with major and minor gables facing the street. The minor gable is set forward on the right-hand side and the verandah is in the angle, its roof extending past both gables. The verandah roof is supported on square section Tuscan pylons on a brick balustrade. The upper gables jetty forward, clad with shingles.There is a large date palm in front, and the large garden allotment also has ash, birch and other trees of the period. The front red brick fence is unsympathetic.
The house, intact and in excellent condition, can be compared to 194.25, 175.5, 213.6 and 213.12.
The property is owned by Mrs Petty, one of the family of orchardists who have made a substantial contribution to the shaping of the area.
Of local interest.
Theme 7.06 Houses of the 1940s-1950s
“Urara” , Park Rd. (SE cnr Lisbeth Ave), Donvale (214.13)
Situated on a very large allotment, "Urara" is a single storey, double-fronted, 1950s L¬ shaped red brick house. It has a terracotta tiled hipped roof, and there is a contemporary tennis court and swimming pool.There are mature plantings and bush remnants.
There is also another early timber house, possibly 1930s, behind the garage.
Of local interest.
House, 40 Thomas St. Doncaster East (214.06)
A double-fronted, rectangular pavilion plan timber house, with a gable roof of Marseilles tiles. Situated on a large allotment this simple house, with six pane casement windows, was neatly built without comer steps on weatherboard. This house is intact and in excellent condition.There is a fine bush garden including some exotics.
Of local interest, particularly for its garden setting.
Houses (group), 225, 227, 231 Warrandyte Rd. Ringwood North, (216.2)
A group of three 1940/50s double-fronted weatherboard houses. Similar in form, all the houses have terracotta tiled hipped roofs, are intact and in excellent condition. Some substantial plantings include the house gardens, pine trees along the road and no. 231 with an overgrown pittosporum hedge.
Of local interest as a group of 1940s/50s houses, possibly reflecting the start of suburbanisation.
House, 105 Whittens Lane, Doncaster (213.35)
A 1940/5Os single-storey, double-fronted, brick house. The garden, plantings and fence are all of interest.Of local interest.
Theme 7.07 Warrandyte Stone
In Warrandyte the use of local stone as a structural and facing material has a long tradition.
The stone, a fine-grained sandstone, has been quarried near Warrandyte for many years. Two quarries remain within the Warrandyte State Park (Whipstick Gully), and another is on Husseys Lane. A disastrous landslip in 1934 led to the closure of the latter quarry (1); two houses were built by the Warrandyte community for the families of the men killed.
The use of this stone, particularly within the township, contributes to the special character of Warrandyte. The stone is featured on retaining walls, e War Memorial (both the work of Kevin Sloan, a local stonemason), and bus shelter, as well as on a number of houses. Natural outcrops of the stone add to the charm of the town centre.
Houses built using this material are included in this theme, quarries in Theme 6.04, Alexa Goyder's house in Theme 8.02, the former Warrandyte fire station in Theme 6.01 and the Inge and Graham King house in 8.02.
All local stone buildings are of value today because quarrying in the area ceased in the 1950s, and there are no more houses being created from it. The last quarry to close was on the road next to the Aumann nursery.
(1) Cranfield p116
Violet Hawkes Cottage, Tills Drive, Warrandyte (155.49)
This small hip-roofed stone cottage, recently added to at the rear by the present owners, was built around 1940 for Violet Hawkes, sister of Daisy Hawkes, after the 1939 bushfires destroyed Daisy's guest house further north along Tills Drive. The stone was quarried from Whipstick Gully (1).Of local significance for its associations with Violet Hawkes, and for its use of local stone.
(1) Shirley Rotheram. pers. comm
Violet Hawkes cottage, Tills Drive, Warrandyte
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"The Stonehouse Craft Shop", Cnr Tills Dve & Yarra St. Warrandyte (155.24)
This building, originally the Selby Store, was built in 1939 for Daisy Hawkes at the entrance to what had been Captain Selby's estate. She inherited land on Tills Drive from Captain Selby, for whom she had kept house for many years.It was built by Kevin Sloan, a local stonemason, who was responsible for a number of buildings, and assisted Alexa Goyder with the construction of the stonework in her houses.
The Selby Store was operated as a local general store by Daisy Hawkes. It later became "The Stonehouse".
It is a simple, random rubble, sandstone shop, facing into the street with a skillion verandah. The hipped roof terminates with a gable shop front. The upper gable is clad in asbestos cement sheet and the left-hand verandah end is enclosed with lattice. The side windows are Gothic with dressed stone sills.
A comparison is the Gospel Chapel (155.08).
Of local significance for its associations with Daisy Hawkes, its social value in community life, and for the stone craft skills displayed.
"Stonehouse" craft shop (former Selby Store), Yarra Street, Warrandyte
House, 64 Yarra St (Nth side), Warrandyte (155.30)
Built in the 1940s, after World War 2, for Dr Adelaide Gault, this single storey, triple¬ fronted house was built from local sandstone as random rubble, by stonemason Ralph McAuley. It has a cement Marseilles tile hipped roof, a corner window, and the right- hand bay set forward as a gable. The wrought iron gates are contemporary with the house and the fence is also stone.It is intact and in good condition.
Of local interest. An example of the use of local stone for the walls of a typical triple¬ fronted house of the 1940s.
Source: City of Doncaster and Templestowe Heritage Study (Context Pty Ltd, Peterson R & Stafford B, 1991) Published online with permission of Manningham Council (May2020)
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