Federation Arts and Crafts Architecture of Harold Desbrowe-Annear
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| With thanks to Harriet Edquist "Harold Desbrowe-Annear, A Life in Architecture" The architectural masterpieces, urban planning projects, and bohemian existence that characterized the life of Australian architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear are examined in this tribute to a major proponent of the arts and crafts movement in architecture.
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Architecture of Harold Desbrowe Annear | |
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Arts and Crafts Houses |  |
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Notable projects
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1. Federation Arch, Princes Bridge 1901
The ephemeral triumphal arch erected on Princes Bridge by the City of Melbourne was designed by Desbrowe-Annear in 1901 to mark the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York for the Federation celebrations. It was influenced by Beaux-Arts civic design and the 'Arc de Triomphe' in Paris.[3]2. Chadwick Houses, Eaglemont 1903
The three houses that Desbrowe-Annear erected in Eaglemont were commissioned by his father-in-law James Chadwick in 1903.
- They were 36–38 The Eyrie, built as a residence for the architect and his family;
- 32–34 The Eyrie, known asChadwick House and
- 55 Outlook Drive, known as the Officer House.
While relatively modest in size, their design indicates that the architect was prepared to grasp the issue of the "small home" as one of the most challenging of the 20th century.
They embody the principles of William Morris in their truth to materials and place, structural 'honesty', functionalism and celebration of the builder's craft.36–38 The Eyrie - They are weatherboard with rough cast and half-timbering and exhibit many technological innovations including wall recessed, sliding window sashes, modular wall-framing and convection heating vents to fireplaces.
- Each house was thoughtfully positioned on the slope of the hill, with increasing setbacks from the street, so as not to block the views from within.
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The Springthorpe Memorial in the Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, was Desbrowe-Annear's first Arts and Crafts venture.
- The design was influenced by William Lethaby’s writings on the iconography of the domed temple form in “Architecture: Mysticism & Myth”.
- Consequentially the architecture is symbolic.
- The geographic alignment of the tomb ascertains that the intense light of the afternoon sun lights up the temple with brilliant colour. It explores the idea of the hoped-for union of souls.[1]
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4. Inglesby, South Yarra 1915
Inglesby, also called the Francis house, in South Yarra was one of Desbrowe-Annear's most famous houses, identified by Robin Boyd as an example of Melbourne's 'pioneer modernism'.
- It was timber-framed with plain white roughcast walls inspired by Californian architect Irving Gill. The plan of Inglesby centred on a large hall entered from the porch.
- It was flanked either side by the dining room and the living room accessed through sliding doors which when opened extended into a huge living area across the front of the house. Inglesby's low ceilings and horizontal flow aligned it also to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.[1]
Arts and Crafts Houses
Harold Desbrowe Annear was one of Australia's leading and most innovative Arts and Crafts architects of the early twentieth century. The house at 38 The Eyrie, Eaglemont, designed for himself and his wife Florence, is highly representative of the architect's work during this period, and is possibly his most inventive. 38 The Eyrie is part of an important group of three houses at this location, all designed by Annear. Of the three houses, this one demonstrates the greatest attention to detail and contains a space in the downstairs area that was used as Annear's studio.
Annear moved to Eaglemont in 1901 where he was able to develop his Arts and Crafts principles through a number of commissions. The most well known of these are the three houses he built for his father-in-law James Chadwick in The Eyrie of which this is one. The Chadwick houses or Eyrie houses as they are known form a unique collection and are fine examples of the architect's work as well as highly realised expression of the architect's ideas. In these three related houseshe was able to explore variations in concepts and detailing. These houses are considered to be the best and clearest expression of Annear's Arts and Crafts designs.
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Notable Desbrowe-Annear Buildings
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1. Desbrowe Annear House
Harold Desbrowe Annear was one of Australia's leading and most innovative Arts and Crafts architects of the early twentieth century. The house at 38 The Eyrie, Eaglemont, designed for himself and his wife Florence, is highly representative of the architect's work during this period, and is possibly his most inventive. 38 The Eyrie is part of an important group of three houses at this location, all designed by Annear. Of the three houses, this one demonstrates the greatest attention to detail and contains a space in the downstairs area that was used as Annear's studio.38 The Eyrie is a medium sized residence built on two levels utilising the fall of the land. Built in 1903, The Annear house was built using a timber balloon frame and incorporates a number of elements for which Annear is recognized. These include characteristic window designs, built in furniture, a square corner bay window, a verandah space cum outdoor living area that Annear called a piazza, the simple use of materials, the expression of structure and a planning layout that is a clear departure from the traditional layout of compartmentalised rooms off a linking hall way toward an open plan.The Chadwick houses or Eyrie houses as they are known form a unique collection and are fine examples of the architect's work as well as highly realised expression of the architect's ideas. In these three related houseshe was able to explore variations in concepts and detailing. These houses are considered to be the best and clearest expression of Annear's Arts and Crafts designs.
- 38 The Eyrie contains a higher degree of attention to detail than is usually found in his houses of this period. This is demonstrated by overlaid elements of the red pine fretwork as lintel ornamentation in the internal openings and in the work of the various brass door, overmantles and sideboard fittings.
- The house exhibits an irregular though carefully realised external articulation which is the result of a design approach where the building's exterior was derived from its plan form.
2. The Annear House
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- The house was designed by prominent architect Harold Desbrowe Annear for himself and his wife Florence in 1903.
- The house is a notable example of his early arts and crafts mode, featuring many of his characteristic elements such as half-timbered and roughcast walls, weatherboarded plinth and horizontal groupings of casement windows with timber bracketed window hoods.
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3. Katanga
Katanga was commenced in 1931 and completed in early 1933, just before the death of its architect Harold Desbrowe Annear.Katanga is a fascinating example of Desbrowe Annear's final manner, functional, somewhat eccentric and essentially theatrical in its combination and use of elements.
- It is more florid and richly decorated than most of Annear's work and the combination of 18th century decoration in the manner of Robert Adam (1728-1792) with 1930s functionalism is most unusual.
- Desbrowe Annear's Arts and Crafts inspiration and commitment to architecture as an art form is evident in the design of the house as the core of a total environment, which includes the garden and garden wall, garage and ancillary outdoor spaces and buildings, the interior decoration, and built-in furniture.
- Katanga is an architectural testament to the owners' social and cultural aspirations, as it is believed that the Inces were heavily involved in its design.
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- Built for Mr Wesley Ince and his wife, it is a two storey stuccoed house with a central porte-cochere, set before a pedimented breakfront.
- On either side is an assortment of windows, including large six paned sashes, arched windows and circular oeils-de-boeuf, the latter strung with moulded stucco garlands.
- Internally the rooms display a curious mixture of 20th century functionalism and comfort with 18th century detail.
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4. Bray House - 234 Rosanna Road Rosanna
The home at 234 Rosanna Road is of considerable architectural significance. Externally largely intact, 234 Rosanna Road is one of a number of houses in the municipality designed by prominent architect Harold Desbrowe Annear in his early Arts and Crafts mode.- The house is a notable example of this style, featuring many of his characteristic elements such as half-timbering and roughcast walls, weatherboarded plinth and horizontal groupings of casement windows with timber bracketed window hoods.
5. Macgeorge House
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- Externally largely intact, 25 Riverside Road is one of a number of houses designed by prominent architect Harold Desbrowe Annear in his early Arts and Crafts mode.
- The house features typical characteristics of this style such as roughcast walls, tapered roughcast chimneys, groupings of casement windows, timber verandah balustrading, built-in furniture and innovative open planning principles.
6. Peroomba House
Peroomba is a typical though not as distinguished example of the Arts and Crafts style of prominent architect Harold Desbrowe Annear. |
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- The house features many of his characteristic elements, evident in a number of houses in Heidelberg and Ivanhoe constructed in the early twentieth century, such as half-timbered and roughcast walls, terracotta tiled gabled roofs and horizontal groupings of casement windows with timber bracketed window hoods.
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7. The Chadwick House
The home at 32-34 The Eyrie is of considerable architectural and historical significance.- Substantially intact, 32-34 The Eyrie is one of three houses constructed on the Eaglemont Estate and designed by prominent architect Harold Desbrowe Annear in his early Arts and Crafts mode.
- The house is a notable example of this style, featuring many of his characteristic elements such as half-timbered and roughcast walls, weatherboarded plinth and horizontal groupings of casement windows with timber bracketed window hoods.
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East View, 16 Martin Street, Heidelberg is a medium sized residence built on two levels that utilise the fall of the land. East View is a particularly fine example of the early work of Harold Desbrowe Annear. Built in 1903, for local shire engineer Herbert Tisdale, who was a champion of the architect's work.
- East View was built using a timber balloon frame and incorporates a number of elements for which Annear is recognized.
- These include characteristic window designs, built in furniture, a square corner bay window, a verandah space cum outdoor living area that Annear called a piazza, the simple use of materials, the expression of structure and a planning layout that moves away from the more traditional form of compartmentalised rooms off a linking hall way toward a more open plan.
- This is the most intact example of the architect's work.
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9. Chadwick House
Heritage Listing (VIC) - 32-34 The Eyrie Eaglemont, Banyule CityChadwick House, 32-34 The Eyrie, was designed in 1904 by the architect Harold Desbrowe Annear for his father-in-law, James Chadwick. The house is a two-storey, Medieval inspired Arts and Crafts style building with half-timbered roughcast walls, a hipped and gabled Marseilles-patterned tile roof, arcaded chimney stacks and cantilevered gables. Internally the house has extensive timber panelling with built-in furniture and storage space.
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- Chadwick House has the half-timbered rough- cast walls the hipped and gabled marseilled-pattern tile roof arcaded chimney stacks and cantilevered gables.The swagged and ogee-arch slatted balustrading to its balconies and the overall picturesque disposition of elements have been borrowed from northern European 14th and 15th century domestic styles.
- These are exemplified in the white rough cast and black stained timbering (i.e. black and white houses) both internally and externally it may be seen as an early example of medieval revival style unique to Heidelberg.
- Chadwick House is significant for architectural reasons. Chadwick House is architecturally significant as an outstanding example of the work of eminent and influential architect Harold Desbrowe Annear.
- Annear was instrumental in introducing the open plan form into Australian domestic architecture and Chadwick House, along with 28-30 The Eyrie and 36-38 The Eyrie, is an early example of his work which demonstrates this Modernist doctrine.
- Through its incorporation of Modernist ideas and Medieval-inspired design principles, Chadwick House was influential in the developmentof the Art and Crafts movement in Australia and embodies the cultural dogma of domestic architecture in Australia through its utilisation of the open-plan form.
- Chadwick House is important as an intact and notable example of the work of Annear and as one of the prototype forms which remained peculiar to his work.
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10. Officer House - 55 Outlook Drive Eaglemont
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Built in 1903, 55 Outlook Drive, Eaglemont, often referred to as the Officer House, is a residence designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear. Annear moved to Eaglemont in 1901 where he was able to develop his Arts and Crafts principles through a number of commissions. The most well known of these are the three houses he built for his father-in-law James Chadwick in The Eyrie of which this is one.
The Chadwick houses or Eyrie houses as they are known form a unique collection and are fine examples of the architect's work as well as highly realised expression of the architect's ideas.
- These houses are considered to be the best and clearest expression of Annear's Arts and Crafts designs. The house is referred to as the Officer House after a George Officer who rented the place from James Chadwick after it was built.
- Officer House, 55 Outlook Drive is a medium sized residence built on two levels utilising the fall of the land.
- The house was built using a timber balloon frame and incorporates a number of elements for which Annear is recognized.
- These include characteristic window designs, built in furniture, a square corner bay window, a verandah space cum outdoor living area that Annear called a piazza and the simple use of materials, albeit in a highly decorative manner externally.
- The house exhibits a somewhat irregular though carefully realised external articulation which is the result of a design approach where the building's exterior was derived from its plan form.
Desbrowe-Annear City works
1. Church Street Bridge
The Church Street Bridge, completed in 1924, is one of the five major metropolitan bridges over the Yarra River.
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- The crossing between Chapel Street and Church Street was negotiated by punt until a narrow single span iron box-girder bridge was erected in the 1850s.
- By the early twentieth century the bridge was inadequate in terms of structure and traffic capacity, and furthermore an upgrade was needed to provide a tramway connection across the river.
- The new bridge was to be 66 feet (20.1m) wide with a 44 foot (13.4m) carriageway and two 11 foot (3.4m) footpaths. The waterway was to be 300 feet (91.5m) wide to accommodate the reappraisal of flood levels in a contemporary Yarra Floods Board report.
- A three arch design was called for, following the lead of the earlier Princes Bridge.
A competition for a design for the bridge was won by Harold Desbrowe-Annear and engineers J.M. Ashworth and A.lL. Galbraith.
- The architects Harold Desbrowe Annear and Thomas Ramsden Ashworth and engineer John Albert Laing (who had also made an entry in the competition) in conjunction, were commissioned to design a bridge based on the winning entry, but adapted to the requirements of the competition adjudicators .
- The bridge was constructed by the Reinforced Concrete and Monier Pipe Construction Company. The bridge was opened by the Governor, the Earl of Stradbroke, on 8 July 1924.
2. The Menzies Hotel (1909-1911)
140 William Street Melbourne Vic (demolished)The Menzies Hotel, south-east corner of Bourke and William Streets. Built in 1867 to accommodate the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh, the Menzies was another of Melbourne's most impressive luxury hotels. Among the famous guests who stayed there; Sarah Bernhardt, Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain (who helped stoke the hotel boilers as part of his fitness regime), Herbert Hoover and General Douglas Macarthur. The grandeur of the Menzies Hotel in William St was another architectural humiliation in the eyes of city planners who wanted to turn a city they saw as a large country town with a collection of hotels into a modern metropolis. In 1969 it was demolished to make way for the BHP Plaza. |
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Desbrowe-Annear Town Houses
1. Greenwich House alterations (1918-1920)
Greenwich House is a large Toorak mansion built in 1869 for the merchant and politician James Lorimer, probably to the design of the architect Leonard Terry. The two storey house is an Italianate style bay-fronted mansion of eighteen rooms, notable for the central Roman Doric portico and restrained ornamentation.
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- Greenwich House is of historical significance as one of the oldest surviving Toorak residences. Its associations with a number of important figures and its changes in use over a long period make it a valuable historical document through which many social and economic transformations can be traced.
- Greenwich House is of architectural significance as an example of the residential work of the prominent architects Leonard Terry and to a lesser extent Harold Desbrowe Annear.
- Terry (1825-1884), who is likely to have been the original architect, was the designer of many bank and church buildings in Victoria from the 1850s to the 1880s.
- Desbrowe Annear (1865-1933), who carried out substantial alterations to the house in 1918-20, was one of Melbourne's most innovative architects, making a significant contribution to the development of a uniquely Australian style of architecture in the early decades of the 20th century.
The house was one of the first built on the early close sub-divisions in the Toorak district, at a time when the area was becoming keenly sought after as a site for residences of the wealthy. Its original owner, James Lorimer, moved from the house in 1876 as his growing status demanded a more substantial residence.
- Subsequent owners made their own alterations, expanding the house with additions such as a ballroom, extended servants' quarters and more bedrooms. But by the 1920s its years as a family residence were numbered. Like many of Melbourne's mansion houses, Greenwich House underwent many changes of use in the 20th century, reflecting changing social and economic conditions. Much of its original grounds were subdivided and built upon, the house itself was converted to flats and then to hostel accommodation for the Navy, before becoming the Chinese consulate in the 1980s.
2. Kaye House, 1 Heyington Place Toorak (1921-1925)
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- The entrance is dominated by a large, even over-scaled Palladian porch and porch chamber.
- An oval window decorated with swags in the Adam manner fills the tympanum of the pediment
- The treatment of the porch and chamber was an exercise in classical correctness
- Although the porch chamber was an English motif, Desbrowe-Annear here articulates it as a temple front and transforms it into a Palladian motif.[1]
3. Baillieu House House 729 Orrong Road Toorak (1927)
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Among Desbrowe-Annear's grandest designs is the mansion at 729 Orrong Road, built in 1925 and retained for four generations by members of the Baillieu family.
- The home's current owner, Good Guys founder Andrew Muir, made headlines in 2007 when he appointed an agent to knock on the door of the then owner, comedian turned radio commentator Steve Vizard, to make an offer despite it not being on the market.
FALLEN businessman Steve Vizard has set a Melbourne house price record by selling his Toorak mansion for about $18 million.
- Mr Vizard, who has owned the eastern suburbs property since 2003, has more than doubled his money by selling the Orrong Road mansion to an undisclosed Chinese buyer, who reportedly knocked on the door and made an offer the former television comedian couldn't refuse.
- The sale price of the mansion, built by the blueblood Baillieu family more than 80 years ago, easily eclipses the former Melbourne house price record held by Toll Holdings chief Paul Little, who paid $16million for Toorak mansion Coonac in 2002.
Muir offered $17.75 million reportedly because he admired from afar.
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- for the largely unaltered residence which retains unpainted tapestry brickwork and cement render, and the design of which is an accomplish mix of classically-derived elements used with a Baroque exuberance;
- for the layout, design and major planting of the garden; this aspect illustrates a prevailing enthusiasm for Italian and Mediterranean
influenced gardens and this is amongst the best surviving examples in Victoria of this style, especially given the complementary ensemble of house and garden and the general intactness of the design; - for the design and workmanship of its architectural landscape elements, including retaining walls, garden walls, steps, balustrades, tennis court, the
- drive and pathways; the external masonry wall is of special importance for its design (which incorporates architectural elements of the residence and has oculi with wrought iron bars permitting vistas into and out of the garden);
- for its planting, especially the mature trees and cypress hedges, and the tradition of planting the perennial borders.
- for its aesthetic qualities, principally derived from the vistas within the garden, changes of level, mature planting and consistent use of masonry for architectural elements of the garden;
- for the survival of the plan by Harold Desbrowe Annear, a towering figure in the history of Australian architecture and design; his garden plans are extremely scarce and this plan communicates ideas not fully realised in the property;"
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4. Cloyne, 611 Toorak Road Toorak Vic (1926-1929)
The five bedroom, five bathroom Harold Desbrowe-Annear-designed house, with prominent port corchere, last sold in 2011 at around $3.5 million. It now comes with a $4.8 million asking price.Cloyne is one of the few substantially intact homes designed in the 1920s by Harold Desbrowe Annear.
- It was built at 611 Toorak Road, Toorak in 1926 for Louis Nelken, reputedly a former Royal family butler, who married into the establishment Baillieu family. He was a director of Australian Knitting Mills.[2]
Cloyne at 609 Toorak Road (1929), which has a jewel-like quality and is unified by the judicious repetition of a Venetian window motif.
- Such excellent buildings as Cloyne have unjustly been presented as an embarrassment by some of Annear's later admirers, but he believed those who argued for a utilitarian architecture were asking for a non-architecture: they 'did not know definitely what architecture consists of'. In fact he pursued throughout a tempered eclecticism.[3]
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- The iconic Hollywood-style Toorak mansion Cloyne is on the market with an A-list price tag. The swish property has a distinctive Georgian portico façade.
- With a turquoise swimming pool and cabana, five bedrooms, a ballroom with gilded cornices, a grand entrance hall and curving staircase, the home is one of Toorak’s most recognisable properties and has a history of decadence.
Cloyne was designed by prominent early-twentieth century Victorian architect Harold Desbrowe Annear and built in 1926 for Melbourne identity Louis Nelken, who married into the influential Baillieu family.
- Mr Nelken hosted famously flamboyant charity fundraising parties for politicians, celebrities and socialites at the Toorak Road home through the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
- Cloyne’s owner in the 1960s was the late playboy businessman Don Busch, who commissioned much of the glamorous renovations.
- Agent Greg Herman of Sotheby’s International Realty said Cloyne is reminiscent of a Hollywood Hills mansion.
“It is an iconic Toorak home that, being on a main road, many people have driven past for years and taken notice of,” he said.
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Ornate details are a feature inside, including decorative cornices and ceiling roses, parquetry floors and fluted columns.[4]
The expansive floorplan includes an array of living zones around the elegant curved staircase, a guest wing and timber-panelled study.
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Desbrowe-Annear Country Houses
1. Mount Martha's iconic Glynt Manor
- 10 Greenslade Court, Mount Martha VIC 3934 $3,250,000
- The coastal home was designed by architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear for the Henty family. When it was completed in 1914, it was a single-storey farmhouse. The castle-like 2nd-storey was a later addition.
Mount Martha's iconic Glynt Manor has hit the market, again, with a private sale price of $6.5 million.
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- The Manor originally stood on 28 hectares and was expected to fetch close to $7 million when it hit the market in March. It is now listed for private sale at $6.5 million.
- Glynt was built as a single-storey farmhouse in 1910 and later extended to its current form. It was constructed for the Henty family, descendants of Victoria's first European settlers.
Believed to have been designed by noted architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear, it bears a striking similarity to another of his designs, Delgany at Portsea.
- Later owners included the Buxton family — Dame Rita Buxton lived there for more than 60 years — and adventure-travel pioneer, Bill King.
- Evocative of a Scottish castle, the 19-room mansion at 10 Greenslade Court has bay views, battlements and a tower, the top of which houses a B&B suite with a glass pyramid ceiling and an indoor/outdoor bathroom. The glass ceiling has electronic blinds to block out the midday sun and the outdoor bathroom has a spa hidden behind the turret's battlements.
Mark Callan and William Gilchrist bought the property in 1997 and commissioned Yarraville architect Hugh Basset to create the glass ceilinged bedroom and indoor/outdoor bathroom.
- The couple had the extraordinary luck of finding the home's original gardener, Bob Barker, who started work at Glynt in 1927, living nearby and with his help undertook a major renovation of the gardens.
- They sold the property in November of 2000 for $2.35 million to move on to a new luxury accommodation project in the area.
- The Manor opened in 2008 and has been run as a glamorous boutique hotel since.
- The buildings have undergone a major renovation over the past two years and the current sale offers the option to either continue the boutique hotel business or use the building as a private home.
- The interior features unique, luxury period pieces. A grand formal lounge and dining room allow for large-scale entertaining. There is also a large breakfast room — with arched windows — that has garden views.
The house and gardens have extensive views of Port Phillip Bay.
2. Macgeorge House (1911)
Built in 1911, the Macgeorge House (also known as Fairy Hills) is situated at the intersection of the Yarra River and Darebin Creek in Ivanhoe.- A substantial bungalow, it is roughcasted externally with some half timbering to gables.
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- The interior is comprehensively finished in a variety of natural and dark stained timbers, with very fine hand crafted detailing to fittings and furnishings. The house remains largely intact to its original appearance and character to both exterior and interior.
- While demonstrating a number of features typical of his work at this time, such as his love of roughcasted and half timbered bungalow forms and richly detailed Arts & Crafts interiors, it shows his broad tendency in this period toward simplification and abstraction of form and details, factors important to the notable character of his later work.
- The associated gardens are an integral part of the original conception of the site by the Macgeorges and their architect. Vestiges of the original formal garden adjacent the house and of the bush garden along the river make an important contribution to the appreciation of the site and of the tastes of the Macgeorges.
- Following the bequest to the University of Melbourne by the Macgeorges,the association with the arts community as accommodation for artists in residence from the University of Melbourne.
2. 'ALLANVALE', Allanvale Road, Great Western (1919)
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Taken up by John Sinclair in 1841, the property was originally known as Sinclair's Run and soon after as Allanvale during the occupation of John Allan. A legacy of this period is possibly the outbuilding built of drop slab construction. Allanvale has significance for its long-term associations with three generations of the Kilpatrick family.Allanvale Homestead off the Allanvale Tuckershill Road at Great Western, has significance as a moderately intact example of a 19th century sheep station with the evolution of the property reflected in the various building developments dating from the mid 19th century until the early-mid 20th century.
- In 1919, W.A. and Helen Kilpatrick commissioned the eminent Melbourne architect, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, to design the main house, which survives as a highly intact legacy of his architectural achievements.
- Other buildings that contribute to the significance of the place include the stables, woolshed, shearers' quarters and the rammed concrete motor garage that reflects the wide use of concrete construction at Allanvale in the early 20th century.
Allanvale homestead
The main house at Allanvale is architecturallysignificant at a STATE level. It demonstrates several original design qualities that include the two prominent gables (having boxed eaves) forming two major axes, and the lower hipped roof forms that project from these gables.
- Other intact or appropriate qualities include the predominantly single storey height, roughcast brick wall construction, tiled roof cladding, stepped rectangular stuccoed Art Deco-like chimneys, oval windows, Serliana under the entrance gable, Tuscan porte cochere, and the wide eaved colonnade that curves around the perimeter of the western and southern sides of the house.
- Internally, the small hall and the double-height living room panelling to the door tops in local timber are also significant. Other significant internal qualities include the long, low fireplace dominated and built-in display cases and drawer in the living room, banks of sash windows with separate fly-screens, timber stairs that lead to the room above the hall, dining room panelled passages, and the bedrooms fitted with timber circular built-in corner cupboards.
3. Mulberry Hill (1920)
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Mulberry Hill is remembered as the home of Sir Daryl (1889-1976) and Joan Lindsay (d.1984) and as a place frequented by other members of the famous Lindsay family and some of Australia's most illustrious businessmen, politicians and artists.
- Sir Daryl was well known as an artist, gallery director and as a founder and early leading figure in the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).
- Joan Lindsay was equally well known as the author of such books as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Time Without Clocks.
With the advice of their friend the architect Harold Desbrowe Annear the Lindsays developed what had been a simple late nineteenth century weatherboard cottage into a stylish and original residence including a studio, wooden stables and an impressive scenic circular porch with slender white columns and long wooden shutters.
- Some of the detailing was purchased from Whelan the Wrecker. Daryl Lindsay himself developed the garden.
When Joan Lindsay died in 1984 the property was left to the National Trust with which the Lindsays were closely associated. The Trust has since maintained Mulberry Hill as a museum dedicated to the Lindsays.
4. Longacres (1924)
Longacres constitutes a house and gallery, a painting studio, a caretakers residence and several outbuildings arranged in an informal garden on approximately 5 acres of land.
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- “Longacres” is a two-storey timber house on about 5 acres of garden built by Sir Arthur Streeton in 1924 at Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria.
- The house, original artist’s studio, gardener’s cottage and garden are registered by Heritage Victoria and classified by the National Trust due to their historical significance.
- The avenue of Linden trees, the Algerian oak and the Spruce forest are individually registered by Heritage Victoria.
- Not all buildings were completed at the one time but they were built for the famed Australian artist (Sir) Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) in 1923-24.
- There is evidence to suggest that Harold Desbrowe Annear, a close friend of Streeton's was consulted in the design of the buildings on the property.
- The house (with an attached gallery constructed in 1939) is in an arts and crafts bungalow style. Much of the garden was created by Streeton, who was also a knowledgeable gardener, and he planted many North American species including oaks, lindens, tulip trees, conifers, rhododendrons, fruit trees and alpine plants in the rockery below the studio .
5. Westerfield (1924)
Westerfield was a 45 hectare property purchased in 1920 by Russell and Mabel Grimwade as a farm and rural retreat, in an area which became popular in the 1920s for the holiday houses of Melbourne's most prominent families.
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- Russell Grimwade (1879-1955) was one of Australia's outstanding industrialists, scientists and philanthropists. He was trained in science, was chairman of numerous chemical companies, including the family pharmaceutical business, Felton Grimwade & Co, which later became Drug Houses of Australia, and of the Victorian Board of Scientific and Industrial Research.
- His interests included arboriculture, carpentry, photography and forestry, and he was an enthusiast for native plants who published an Anthology of Eucalypts in 1920. At Westerfield he began to plant what became a collection of more than fifty species of gums, as well as acres of lavender and roses, from which oil was distilled.
A house designed by the fashionable Melbourne architect Harold Desbrowe Annear was built at Westerfield in 1924. Nearby was a terraced lawn, a garden and pergola, probably also designed by Annear, an orchard and vegetable garden, and a timber windmill (now demolished) designed to generate electricity for the house.
- An area of natural bushland east of the house was retained.
- With the onset of World War II Australia's supply of many essential plant-derived drugs was cut off, and Grimwade, with the aid of the Federal Government, obtained seed from England and cultivated at Westerfield crops of poppies, foxgloves, deadly nightshade, henbane and colchicum. He constructed a drying shed, and with the resources of the family firm's laboratories developed extraction techniques to produce many of the drugs essential for Australia's war effort.
- The poppy seed grown at Westerfield was distributed to farms around Australia, and was able to satisfy all of Australia's morphine requirements until after the war. Grimwade was knighted in 1950. The property was sold and subdivided after his death.
The Westerfield estate is now on 14 hectares and incorporates a house, garden, paddocks, dam and bushland. The two storey Arts and Crafts style house has ground floor walls of uncoursed locally-quarried granite rubble and a half timber and stucco upper floor.
- However, the significance of Westerfield lies not only with its architecture but also its owners and its place in a particular Melbourne culture of the 20th century.
- Conceived as a working farm as well as a retreat, Westerfield's grounds are planted with the eucalypt species Grimwade cultivated and recorded in a photographic study.
- With his friend Charles Lane-Poole, first Principal of the School of Forestry at Canberra, Grimwade was ahead of his time in matters of conservation and land use, seeking a workable alliance with industry.
- During the war, the property was given over to growing crops for medicinal drugs; poppies, lavender, foxglove and belladonna. The house, garden and grounds are included in the classification of Westerfield which is considered to be of national significance.
6. Delgany (1925)
Delgany, Nepean Highway, Portsea is a large limestone building with prominent castellated parapets and towers incorporating an eclectic mix of Gothic and Medieval elements.
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- The original parts of the castle-like limestone home were built in 1925 for the Armytage family, and other parts were added in 1953 and 1968.
Created by Harold Desbrowe Annear to be one of the Peninsula’s grandest country homes, Delgany is set on nine acres.
- The property’s role as a boarding school for 40 years is of historical significance, as is its ties to grazier Harold Armytage — whose ghost has been rumoured to walk the halls.
- It cost 30,000 pounds to build, but Armytage died not long after it was finished and had little opportunity to enjoy the beautiful property.
- His sisters lived there until the 1940s, when it became an Army hospital.
- Four years later the Dominican Sisters took over the property and opened a special school for children with hearing disabilities. Almost twenty years were to elapse before Delgany was extensively upgraded as a restaurant and luxury country retreat., know as the Peppers Resort.
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- It is set in an expansive and largely informal landscaped setting.
- The building was built in three stages; the original house in 1925 with additions in 1953 and 1968.
- Delgany was designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear as a large country house for Harold Armytage and his sisters.
- Melbourne's establishment families constructed many large country houses on the Mornington Peninsula as rural retreats and Delgany in its prominent location, was intended to be one of the grandest of these.
- In 1947 Delgany was sold to the Dominican Sisters who converted (and extended) the house for use as a deaf school with on-site dormitory facilities. The building was again sold in 1985, undergoing conversions to open in 1988 as a restaurant and luxury country retreat.
- The entrance to the site is off the Nepean Highway (also known as Point Nepean Road) where a serpentine drive leads to the building through a treed landscape. Originally the main entrance was a little further to the west but this was moved in the mid 1950s to its current location.
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- To facilitate this change a new section of driveway and the tear drop shaped turning circle were also built. The tear shaped turning circle replaced the original driveway layout, which with the garage formed an integral unit, as the garage was designed for the drive to pass through it. It is unclear where the current gates and gate post came from but is thought that they may have been the gates to a large house built on the site during the1880s by the judge Sir Thomas a'Beckett.
- This eclecticism is augmented by the addition a number of Annear's signature details including sliding sash windows recessing into the wall space and a distinct chimney design.
- The external walls are unusually thick (incorporating limestone, reinforced concrete and concrete bricks).
- The 1953 and 1968 wings are faced in limestone and match the castellated style of the original structure. While not of any particular architectural merit in themselves, the later components come together with the original building to form a largely coherent whole.
- The interiors of all sections of the main building have been altered, although the 1925 wing retains some of its original plan form and principal spaces. The 1925 garage is a key element of the original Desbrowe Annear design, and retains a formal relationship to the main house.
7. Mawarra, (1925-1927)
- Heritage Listing (VIC) - 6 Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke, Yarra Ranges Shire
- Sold for $1,820,000 Wed 07-Apr-10
- Architectural Style: Federation/Edwardian Period (1902-c.1918) Arts and Crafts
- Whilst both house and garden have undergone extensive restoration and modernisation their historic significance has always remained at the forefront of thinking.
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The property Mawarra, Sherbrooke comprises a house designed in 1925-27 and attributed to the architect Harold Desbrowe-Annear and a garden designed by the prominent and influential garden designer, Edna Walling, in 1932.
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- They appear to have commissioned noted architect, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, to design a large house in the mid-1920s and some five years later they engaged Edna Walling to design extensive gardens.
- By the time of their involvement at The Grove, both Desbrowe-Annear and Walling had established themselves as fashionable and prolific designers.
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- The garden has a woodland character and uses a diverse variety of trees and shrubs, herbaceous plants and bulbs, evergreen, deciduous and conifer plants, many displaying spectacular autumn colour, and a variety of leaf shapes and variegations, and plant forms.
- The planting is dominated by maples, oaks, beeches, magnolias, silver birches, tulip trees, linden, lilly pilly, Douglas firs, and dogwoods.
- The dense planting creates a series of garden rooms between the terraces, through which the pathways pass to give a sense of discovery.
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| Mawarra entrance, Sherbrooke |
- These include a pond area, a silver birch stand under planted with bluebells, an orchard, herbaceous border, Wendy Cottage and formal garden, nursery and tennis court. Along the main garden axis are pairs of plants, beginning with upright Irish Yews, Kalmia latifolia, Cedrella sinensis, and the uncommon Pearl Bush (Exochorda racemosa), a pair of large Purple Beech at the top of the stairs which are framed by dwarf conifers, azaleas, mollis azalea, Japanese maples and camellias.
- The garden features many of Walling's signature plants, including Viburnum, Philadelphus, Spiraea, Berberis, Cotoneaster, Mahonia, Corylus, Camellia, Aucuba, Amelanchier, Malus, Kolkwitzia, Clethera, Rhododendron and Hydrangea.
- It is a timber and cement-sheet house with tiled roof, half timbering, windows contained within the strapping, random-coursed stone chimneys and a bowed north wall.
- An east-facing cantilevered balcony, supported on over-sized brackets, is positioned to provide a panoramic view of the countryside and garden.
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- Whether you are coming to the Dandenong Ranges for a night or a week, you will receive a warm welcome at Edna Walling Cottage, the perfect spot for a break from the hassles of city life.
- Beautiful vistas and rare plantings reflect the love that has been lavished on “The Grove” over the years with many beautiful paths traversing the grounds quaintly known as “Garden Walk”, “The Reclining Boy Walk”, “Birch Walk” and “Cottage Walk”. Wander through and find the croquet lawn, a cottage garden and an orchard/nursery highlighted by a model Tudor village.[6]
8. Cruden Farm, Murdoch House, Langwarrin (1928)
After his marriage to Elisabeth Greene, Murdoch commissioned Desbrowe-Annear to enlarge and modernise the original Edwardian house.- The renovation far exceeded the brief. The main impact of the alterations was to re-orient the house by moving the entrance.
- The new entrance was dignified by a giant order Tuscan collonade, with slender tapering columns fronting the new living rooms.
- The old part of the house remained behind, creating the impression that the house had evolved over time, gradually modernising from the front to the back.
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| Glorious Cruden Farm Cruden Farm was the pride and joy of the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. This point is evidenced by the love and hard physical work Dame Elisabeth applied to her precious garden over eighty years.
| How It Began In 1928 journalist and newspaper executive Keith Murdoch gave his 19-year-old bride, Elisabeth Greene, a small farm as a wedding present.
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Dame Elisabeth Joy Murdoch AC DBE, previously styled as Lady Murdoch, was an Australian philanthropist. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of American international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch. DAME Elisabeth Murdoch was a wife, mother, grandmother and matriarch of one of the world's great media families. She was an extraordinary woman who changed the way we saw the world through her spirit, strength and care for others. | As it stands today the garden is the creation of Dame Elizabeth Murdoch it was her who planted the now famous avenue of Eucalyptus citriodora and gave the garden its shape and pleasing character. Dame Elisabeth devoted her life to her family and in service to others. "Be optimistic - and always think of other people before yourself," she said in an interview to mark her centenary in 2009. Six hundred family and friends gathered at Cruden Farm to help her celebrate with music and song. | ||||
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| Country classic...the view across the man-made lake to the main house, designed by Harold Desbrowe-Annear. Cruden Farm was the Property of Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, on the Mornington Peninsula South of Melbourne. Photo: Andrew Quilty, 2006. |
In 1927-28 Keith Arthur Murdoch, (later Sir Keith Murdoch), managing editor of The Herald newspaper, purchased the Cruden Farm property from Mrs M.E. Payne of Langwarrin.
- The old farmhouse on about 85 acres was situated on the Cranbourne Road within Crown Allotments 50A and 50B, Parish of Langwarrin.
- Murdoch had already purchased a town residence at 225 Walsh Street, South Yarra.
- Geoffrey Serle writes in the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' (ADB) that Annear designed renovations for both Murdoch houses and Miles Lewis repeats this in his unpublished work, 'Miegunyah'
- 1986 Dame Elisabeth Murdoch confirms Annear's involvement in Cruden Farm but not in the renovations of the South Yarra house.
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Desbrowe-Annear Gardens
Ref: The architect as garden designer : The gardens of Harold Desbrowe-Annear in Victoria 1901-1933Edquist, H 2001, 'The architect as garden designer : The gardens of Harold Desbrowe-Annear in Victoria 1901-1933', Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 54-65.
1. M.H. Baillieu Residence And Garden
The former M.H. Baillieu residence and garden, 729 Orrong Road, Toorak, designed by noted architect H. Desbrowe Annear in 1925 and retained in family ownership for over four decades, is of State cultural significance:
- for the largely unaltered residence which retains unpainted tapestry brickwork and cement render, and the design of which is an accomplish mix of classically-derived elements used with a Baroque exuberance;
- for the layout, design and major planting of the garden; this aspect illustrates a prevailing enthusiasm for Italian and Mediterranean influenced gardens and this is amongst the best surviving examples in Victoria of this style, especially given the complementary ensemble of house and garden and the general intactness of the design;
- for the design and workmanship of its architectural landscape elements, including retaining walls, garden walls, steps, balustrades, tennis court, the drive and pathways; the external masonry wall is of special importance for its design (which incorporates architectural elements of the residence and has oculi with wrought iron bars permitting vistas into and out of the garden);
- for its planting, especially the mature trees and cypress hedges, and the tradition of planting the perennial borders.
- for its aesthetic qualities, principally derived from the vistas within the garden, changes of level, mature planting and consistent use of masonry for architectural elements of the garden;
- for the survival of the plan by Harold Desbrowe Annear, a towering figure in the history of Australian architecture and design; his garden plans are extremely scarce and this plan communicates ideas not fully realised in the property; and
- for the manner in which it demonstrates an important phase in the urban development of Toorak and South Yarra, long regarded as the elite residential area of Melbourne; it is linked in its significance to the nearby mansion Trawalla on whose garden it was developed.
2. Cranlana Garden (1932)
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- In 1932, additional land on the northern boundary of the estate was purchased by Mr Myer, which enabled the construction of a sunken formal garden. The massive property is hidden behind grand wrought iron gates.
- The garden, considered to be one of the finest in Victoria, includes vast lawns and open spaces, deciduous and evergreen specimen trees, colourful shrubs, clipped conifers and hedges, rows of Italian Cypress, water features, statues, ornaments and a Pin Oak tree lined driveway.
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- The first residence at Cranlana was erected in about 1903 and was purchased in 1921 by Sidney Myer who substantially remodelled it between 1929-1930 to designs prepared by HW and FP Tomkins, architects.
- Further alterations were made between 1937 and 1940 and again in 1982 after a fire upstairs. Sidney Myer resided at Cranlana until his death in 1934. Dame Merlyn Myer also resided there until her death in 1982. Cranlana continues to be owned and maintained by the Myer family.
- The landscape design has strong axial lines involving the main driveway, front door and windows of the residence and the garden, and pathways, and their relationship is a vital component of the design. These axial lines are highlighted by imported Italian marble statues, ornate urns, garden ornaments, paving and steps, and planting.
- The decorative wrought iron gates incorporating the Myer shield were hand wrought by Caslake's, Melbourne's premier iron founders of the period. After Annear's death in 1933 the garden was completed under the supervision of Yuncken, Freeman and Freeman by early 1934. A further scheme to the front entrance was prepared in 1937 by Yuncken, Freeman, Freeman and Griffith, and renovations in 1938 followed the general style of these plans.
- The major significant attributes of this outstanding landscape design are: the spatial relationship of the residence within the landscape, the sunken formal garden which is the finest example of its type in Victoria, the lawns and open spaces, the plantings with their excellent use of deciduous and evergreen specimen trees, colourful shrubs, clipped conifers and hedges, row of Italian Cypress, the water features, statues and ornaments, the changes of level, the gateway, the drive and turning circle with its centralQuercus palustris (Pin Oak), and the planting along the south side of the driveway.
- The formal axial driveway culminating in a roundabout leading to the main house links the two major sections of the ornamental garden and the residence. The western garden with its older tree plantings and open lawns provide an important balance and visual link to the sunken garden to the north of the house. The two sections of the garden and house combine to create the cultural heritage significance of the property.
Photo feature:
Harold Desbrowe-Annear, one of Melbourne's most celebrated architectsDomain magazine of the SMH, Age and other newspapers
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| From the book "Harold Desbrowe-Annear: A life in Architecture" by Harriet Edquist |
References
- Biography - Harold Desbrowe //Annear// - Australian Dictionary of Biography
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/annear-harold-desbrowe-5036 - Harold Desbrowe-Annear: a life in architecture Author(s) Edquist, H,
published 2004 Publisher Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, Australia ISBN 0522850529 - Miles Lewis Lectures, University of Melbourne
http://mileslewis.net/lectures/11-local-history/toorak-mansions.pdf - http://mileslewis.net/lectures/10-australian-building/18-conservation.pdf
Heritage listed Desbrowe-Annear Projects
from the Heritage Victoria Database| Image | Name | Detail | Listing Authority | ||
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 | WESTERFIELD 72-118 ROBINSONS ROAD FRANKSTON SOUTH, FRANKSTON | Westerfield was a 45 hectare property purchased in 1920 by Russell and Mabel Grimwade as a farm and rural retreat, in an area which became popular in the 1920s for... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H2200 | ||
 | Myer Emporium & Napier Waller Mural 314 Bourke Street,MELBOURNE, Melbourne | The Myer Emporium holds a unique place in Melbourne's social and retail business history. The department store occupies a double site between Bourke and Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets... more |
National Trust | ||
 | Officer House 55 Outlook Drive,EAGLEMONT, Banyule | Group Statement with Annear & Chadwick Houses. A group of three houses is set out along a steeply sloping hillside at Eaglemont; each was to the design of Harold Desbrowe Annear... more |
National Trust | ||
 | Officer House 55 OUTLOOK DRIVE EAGLEMONT, BANYULE | Built in 1903, 55 Outlook Drive, Eaglemont, often referred to as the Officer House, is a residence designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear. Annear was one of Australia's... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H2082 | ||
 | DELGANY 3809 POINT NEPEAN ROAD and 2, 3 & 4 DESBROWE ANNEAR WAY and 2-28 ARMYTAGE DRIVE and 1-29 ARMYTAGE DRIVE and 20-22 DELGANY AVENUE PORTSEA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE | Delgany, Nepean Highway, Portsea is a large limestone building with prominent castellated parapets and towers incorporating an eclectic mix of Gothic and Medieval elements. It... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H2058 | ||
 | MACGEORGE HOUSE 25 RIVERSIDE ROAD IVANHOE, Banyule | Built in 1911, the Macgeorge House (also known as Fairy Hills) is situated at the intersection of the Yarra River and Darebin Creek in Ivanhoe. A substantial bungalow, it is...more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H2004 | ||
| CHURCH STREET BRIDGE CHAPEL STREET SOUTH YARRA and CHURCH STREET RICHMOND and CHURCH STREET CREMORNE, STONNINGTON, YARRA | The Church Street Bridge, completed in 1924, is one of the five major metropolitan bridges over the Yarra River. The crossing between Chapel Street and Church Street was...more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H1917 | ||
| Church Street Bridge Church Street / Chapel Street / Alexandra Ave,RICHMOND, Yarra | The Church Street bridge, completed in 1924, is historically, technically and aesthetically significant at State level. HISTORICALLY - Replacing an earlier iron bridge over this... more |
National Trust | ||
 | Longacres 15 Range Road,OLINDA, Yarra Ranges Shire | Longacres, built in 1924-25 as the residence of eminent artist Sir Arthur Streeton (1867-1943), is of national historical significance as the only surviving building associated with... more |
National Trust | ||
 | LONGACRES 15 RANGE ROAD OLINDA, Yarra Ranges Shire | Longacres constitutes a house and gallery, a painting studio, a caretakers residence and several outbuildings arranged in an informal garden on approximately 5 acres of land. Not...more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H1876 |
 | CRANLANA 62 and 62A CLENDON ROAD TOORAK, STONNINGTON | The property known as Cranlana was developed by the businessman and philanthropist Sidney Myer and his wife Dame Merlyn Myer. Russian-born Myer came to Australia in 1899 and was to... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H1293 | ||
 | CHADWICK HOUSE 32-34 THE EYRIE EAGLEMONT, Banyule | Chadwick House, 32-34 The Eyrie, was designed in 1904 by the architect Harold Desbrowe Annear for his father-in-law, James Chadwick. The house is a two-storey, Medieval inspired Arts... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H1156 | ||
 | EAST VIEW 16 MARTIN STREET HEIDELBERG, Banyule | East View, 16 Martin Street, Heidelberg is a medium sized residence built on two levels that utilise the fall of the land. East View is a particularly fine example... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H1033 | ||
| The Annear House 36 - 38 The Eyrie EAGLEMONT, BANYULE | Group Statement with Officer & Chadwick Houses. A group of three houses is set out along a steeply sloping hillside at Eaglemont; each was to the design of Harold Desbrowe...more |
National Trust | ||
| DESBROWE ANNEAR HOUSE 38 THE EYRIE EAGLEMONT, Banyule | Harold Desbrowe Annear was one of Australia's leading and most innovative Arts and Crafts architects of the early twentieth century. The house at 38 The Eyrie, Eaglemont,...more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H1009 | ||
 | KATANGA 372 GLENFERRIE ROAD MALVERN, Stonnington | Katanga was commenced in 1931 and completed in early 1933, just before the death of its architect Harold Desbrowe Annear. Built for Mr Wesley Ince and his wife, it is a two... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0935 | ||
 | Chadwick House 32 - 34 The Eyrie EAGLEMONT, BANYULE | Group Statement with Annear & Officer Houses. A group of three houses is set out along a steeply sloping hillside at Eaglemont; each was to the design of Harold Desbrowe... more |
National Trust | ||
 | Mulberry Hill 385 Golf Links Road LANGWARRIN SOUTH, FRANKSTON | What is significant ? Mulberry Hill was built as the country home of Sir Daryl and Lady Joan Lindsay in 1926-27. Sir Daryl was to become well known as an artist,... more |
National Trust | ||
 | MULBERRY HILL 385 GOLF LINKS ROAD LANGWARRIN SOUTH, Frankston | Mulberry Hill is remembered as the home of Sir Daryl (1889-1976) and Joan Lindsay (d.1984) and as a place frequented by other members of the famous Lindsay family and some of... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0745 |
 | GREENWICH HOUSE 75-77 IRVING ROAD TOORAK, Stonnington | Greenwich House is a large Toorak mansion built in 1869 for the merchant and politician James Lorimer, probably to the design of the architect Leonard Terry. The two storey... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0693 | ||
 | SPRINGTHORPE MEMORIAL, BOROONDARA GENERAL CEMETERY 430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA | The Springthorpe Memorial within the Boroondara Cemetery (VHR0049)commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected in 1897 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0522 | ||
| Springthorpe Memorial- Bertram Mackennal Cnr High Street and Parkhill Road,KEW, Boroondara | A free composition in the Greek Doric style and once considered to be "the most beautiful work of its kind in Australia" (Argus 23.6.1933). An important early work (1897) of the... more |
National Trust | ||
 | Beleura Garden 42-44 Kalimna Drive,MORNINGTON, Mornington Peninsula Shire | Beleura, built c.1863, enjoyed as a summer retreat by a succession of owners, with the nucleus of the estate purchased in 1916 (after subdivision) by the Tallis family, then... more 1117 |
National Trust | ||
 | BELEURA 42-44 KALIMNA DRIVE MORNINGTON, Mornington Peninsula Shire | Erected by James Butchart between c.1860 and c.1865, Beleura is one of several stately homes constructed as summer retreats along the Mornington Peninsula between 1860 and... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0319 | ||
 | TINTERN 10 TINTERN AVENUE TOORAK, Stonnington | Tintern is a single storey mansion erected in 1855 for William Westgarth. The oldest part of the house is a ten room portable iron dwelling, manufactured by W. and...more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0208 | ||
 | BOROONDARA GENERAL CEMETERY 430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA | Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and... more | Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) H0049 | ||
 | Mclnnes house 54 Lucerne Crescent ALPHINGTON, YARRA | The following wording is from the Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998 for the property. Please note that this is a "Building Citation", not a "Statement of Significance". For... more |
Yarra City HO74 | ||
 | May house 93 Lucerne Crescent ALPHINGTON, YARRA | The following wording is from the Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998 for the property. Please note that this is a "Building Citation", not a "Statement of Significance". For... more |
Yarra City HO77 | ||
| 284 Orrong Road 284 Orrong Road, CAULFIELD, GLEN EIRA | A house designed by Harold Desbrowe Annear in 1917 and believed to have been the first "all electric" house in Melbourne. It has been extensively altered. Classified: 04/09/1975... more |
National Trust |
| STANHOPE RESIDENCE AND GARDEN, 10 PETER STREET, (BOUNDED BY PETER, FAY AND STANHOPE STREETS) ELTHAM 10 PETER STREET ELTHAM, NILLUMBIK SHIRE | REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010The c1910 residence, as well as the c1920s east side verandah and the c1946 extensions on the north and south... more |
Nillumbik Shire HO149 | ||||
| Westerfield 86 - 96 Robinson's Road, FRANKSTON, FRANKSTON | Designed in 1924 for Russell and Mabel Grimwade by Harold Desbrowe Annear, Westerfield is the most intact example of the series of houses Annear remodelled, or designed on the Mornington... more |
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 | The Gair House 7 Muriel Street GLEN IRIS, Boroondara | The former Gair residence, 7 Muriel Street, Glen Iris, is of local historical and architectural significance. The house is representative generally of the larger Tudor-flavored... more |
Boroondara City HO398 | ||||
 | 'Allanvale', Allanvale Road, GREAT WESTERN Allanvale Road GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE | Allanvale Homestead off the Allanvale Tuckershill Road at Great Western, has significance as a moderately intact example of a 19th century sheep station with the evolution of the... more |
Northern Grampians Shire | ||||
 | Peroomba House 80-82 Castle Street HEIDELBERG, Banyule | Peroomba is a typical though not as distinguished example of the Arts and Crafts style of prominent architect Harold Desbrowe Annear. The house features many of his characteristic... more |
Banyule City HO98 | ||||
| THE CHADWICK HOUSE 32-34 The Eyrie HEIDELBERG, Banyule | 32-34 The Eyrie is of considerable architectural and historical significance. Substantially intact, 32-34 The Eyrie is one of three houses constructed on the Eaglemont Estate... more 26936 |
Banyule City HO56 | ||||
 | THE ANNEAR HOUSE 36-38 The Eyrie HEIDELBERG, Banyule | 36-38 The Eyrie is of considerable architectural and historic significance. Substantially intact, 36-38 The Eyrie is one of three houses constructed on the Eaglemont Estate.... more 26938 |
Banyule City HO67 | ||||
| MACGEORGE HOUSE 25 Riversdale Road IVANHOE, Banyule | 25 Riverside Road is of considerable architectural and historic significance. The building was the home of prominent artist and critic Norman MacGeorge, reflecting the... more |
Banyule City HO51 | ||||
 | Springdale 190 Gwyther Siding Road LEONGATHA SOUTH, South Gippsland Shire | 'Springdale', the former Martin residence, designed by H Desbrowe Annear and constructed in 1905 at 190 Gwyther Siding Road, Leongatha South. 'Springdale', the former... more |
South Gippsland Shire HO64 | ||||
 | Ince House (Katanga) 372 Glenferrie Road,MALVERN, Stonnington | One of Harold Desbrowe Annear's last works, 372 Glenferrie Road was designed for Mr Wesley Ince and his wife and completed early in 1933 a few months prior to the architect's death in... more |
National Trust |
 | Glynt 10 Greenslade Court, MOUNT MARTHA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE | House by Harold Desbrowe Annear, c.1914... more |
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| Delgany Nepean Highway,PORTSEA, Mornington Peninsula Shire | Delgany is of state significance as being externally one of the most impressive twentieth century mansions in Victoria. Set in nearly five hectares of landscaped gardens, Delgany is a... more |
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 | BRAY HOUSE 234 Rosanna Road ROSANNA, Banyule | 234 Rosanna Road is of considerable architectural significance. Externally largely intact, 234 Rosanna Road is one of a number of houses in the municipality designed by... more |
Banyule City HO55 | ||||
| Cranlana Garden 62 Clendon Road,TOORAK, Stonnington | Cranlana, developed by businessman and philanthropist Sidney and his wife Merlyn Myer in 1921-34 and maintained by the Myer family since that period, is of State significance: -... more |
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 | Former M.H. Baillieu Residence And Garden 729 Orrong Road TOORAK, STONNINGTON | The former M.H. Baillieu residence and garden, 729 Orrong Road, Toorak, designed by noted architect H. Desbrowe Annear in 1925 and retained in family ownership for over four decades, is... more |
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| Tintern Garden 10 Tintern Avenue,TOORAK, Stonnington | Tintern's garden was subdivided in 1902 to its present size,during the ownership of architect Walter Butler. The reduced site was possibly re-landscaped by Desbrowe Annear in the... more |
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