1245 Toorak Road, Camberwell - City of Boroondara · 1.0 Introduction 1. This report was prepared...

1245 Toorak Road,

Camberwell

Expert Witness Statement to Panel

Amendment C274 Part 2 to the Boroondara Planning Scheme

Bryce Raworth

Conservation Consultant and Architectural Historian

Prepared under instruction from Mills Oakley

20 August 2018

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1245 Toorak Road, Canterbury

Expert Witness Statement to Panel

Amendment C274 Part 2 to the Boroondara Planning Scheme

20 August 2018

1.0 Introduction

1. This report was prepared under instructions from Mills Oakley for John and Rosemary Barry, the owner of the subject site. I have been asked to comment on the heritage considerations associated with Amendment C274 Part 2 to the Boroondara Planning Scheme in relation to the property at 1245 Toorak Road, Camberwell.

2. By way of background, Amendment C274 Part 2 proposes to implement the recommendations of the City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Volume 2 Camberwell and to apply permanent Heritage Overlays over 23 individual places, 10 heritage precincts and 2 precinct extensions.

3. As part of the City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study:

Volume 2 Camberwell (Context Pty Ltd Revised 13 February 2018), the property was identified as being of individual heritage significance to the City of Boroondara. An interim heritage control has been applied to the precinct, with an expiry date of 1 March 2019. Under this amendment, it is proposed that no external paint, internal alteration or tree controls will apply, however the front fence and the garage are listed as outbuildings that will not be exempt under Clause 43.01-3.

4. This statement has been prepared with assistance from Sally Beaton of my office. The views expressed are my own.

2.0 Sources of Information

5. The analysis below draws upon a detailed inspection of the site and a review of the Amendment C274 Part 2 documentation, including the City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Volume 2 Camberwell which contains a citation for the subject site.

6. Reference has also been made to Practice Note 1: Applying the Heritage Overlay (July 2015), to the Heritage Victoria guidelines for assessment against criteria.

7. Regard has been had for earlier heritage studies that referenced Toorak Road such as the Camberwell Conservation Study (Graeme Butler et al, 1991).

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Expert Witness Statement 1245 Toorak Road, Camberwell

3.0 Author Qualifications

8. A statement of my qualifications and experience with respect to urban conservation issues is appended to this report. Note that I have provided expert witness evidence on similar matters before the VCAT, Heritage Council, Planning Panels Victoria and the Building Appeals Board on numerous occasions in the past, and have been retained in such matters variously by municipal councils, developers and objectors to planning proposals.

4.0 Declaration

9. I declare that I have made all the inquiries that I believe are desirable and appropriate, and that no matters of significance which I regard as relevant have to my knowledge been withheld from the Panel.

BRYCE RAWORTH



5.0 History and Description

10. The subject site contains a single storey interwar red brick bungalow, with a detached self-contained garage and (small) flat. The front portion of the dwelling and part of the outbuilding were constructed by 1925, as indicated in an MMBW detail plan dated to this time. Both envelopes were subsequently extended by 1945 (a 1945 aerial photo shows the extended dwelling and outbuilding). Also to the rear are a fully refurbished tennis court and a recent swimming pool.

11. Both the dwelling and garage have hipped roofs clad in tiles. The main dwelling has an asymmetrical facade with a porch closer toward the eastern side. The porch has a projecting gable roof that is supported on brick and render piers, with timber detailing. There are two prominent red brick and render chimneys, one to the immediate east of the porch and another at the rear, toward the eastern elevation. Sash windows are used across each elevation, with windows divided into two sashes by a central mullion, sashes are further divided with central vertical bars, with the top portion horizontally divided and then vertically divided into four smaller panes.

12. It is understood that historically this dwelling was used as a combined residence and doctor’s surgery. Facing Toorak Road, west of the porch, the building is at a slight setback and it is evident there was a second entry in this location, a recessed entry rather than a simple doorway, which has been infilled. This recessed entry was the public access to the doctor’s surgery. Access to the site from the gateway at the west side of the frontage would have led directly to this surgery entry, as well as providing a second point of access to the domestic entry at the main porch.

Figure 1 Extract from 1925 MMBW Plan. The subject site is ‘Burnie Brae’. Note the lack

of any rear wing to the house and also the small footprint of the (weatherboard)



outbuilding to the rear. It is most likely that the weatherboard outbuilding, like those to the neighbouring sites, was a WC, albeit likely incorporating other features given its size, possibly including a laundry or washroom. The western side of the house was the location of the surgery, which accounts for the pronounced asymmetry of the facade.

Figure 2 1945 aerial photo with subject site indicated by a red arrow. By this time the rear

wing has been added to the west side of the house and the brick garage with its small washing facilities and possible flat etc is in place. The rooms inside the garage flat are small in proportion and not readily accessible by visitors or patients from the street, other than from the door to its west side, off the backyard.

Figure 3 The subject site, 1245 Toorak Road, Camberwell, is a single storey

red brick interwar bungalow.



Figure 4 The projecting entrance porch with struts to eaves typical of the

bungalow idiom.

Figure 5 The garage outbuilding.



Figure 6 The original recessed entry to the surgery, located to the west of

the porch, has been infilled. Access to the site from the gateway or fence opening to the west side of the frontage led directly to this surgery entry.



Figure 7 View from the pedestrian entrance to the location of the former

surgery entry.

Figure 8 The subject site as pictured in July 1995. The site was featured in

The Age Property Guide and clearly shows the pedestrian path leading toward the surgery’s recessed entry, which has since been infilled.



Figure 9 An advertisement image from 1995.

Figure 10 Aerial Image of the subject site which formed a part of an

advertisement for the site in 1995.



6.0 Heritage Status

City of Boroondara 13. The site is subject to an interim heritage control, which at present expires 1

March 2019. Amendment C274 Part 2 to the Boroondara Planning Scheme proposes to introduce a permanent site specific Heritage Overlay to the subject dwelling. No external paint controls, internal alteration or tree controls will apply, however it is proposed that the fence and garage will not be exempt under Clause 43.01-3. Heritage Victoria

14. The subject site is not included on the Victorian Heritage Register. National Trust of Australia (Victoria)

15. The subject site is not included on the Register of the National Trust of Australia.

Figure 11 Extent of the Heritage Overlay as proposed by Amendment C274 Part 2.

16. The documents exhibited by the City of Boroondara in support of Amendment 274 Part 2 include the City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Volume 2 Camberwell, which contains a citation for the subject site:

What is significant?

‘Burnie Brae’, 1245 Toorak Road, Camberwell, including the main house and surgery /garage, built in 1921 for Dr Hildred Carlile, with additions, including a new surgery, and hard landscaping undertaken by subsequent owner Dr F. Elliot True from 1930.



How is it significant?

‘Burnie Brae’ is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

‘Burnie Brae’ is significant as it illustrates the pattern of development of combined doctor’s residences and surgeries and the provision of health services within the burgeoning suburbs during the early twentieth century. Constructed as a doctor’s residence and surgery in 1921 for Dr Hildred Carlile, the property demonstrates a pattern of service of this type of health care as it served as the home and place of work of multiple doctors during its history. This included Dr Elliot True, who based his general practice there from 1923 and extended it to incorporate a surgery. The property is uncommon in that while it is apparent that the main house accommodated the surgery as did many doctor’s residences from the nineteenth century onwards, there is evidence that the surgery was originally accommodated in a specific stand-alone building prior to it being extended to incorporate a garage in 1930. Dr True’s significant roles with hospitals, most notably the Royal Women’s Hospital as a member of the Honorary Staff and honorary inpatient surgeon, saw him play a key role in the establishment of, and ongoing fundraising for, the Burwood and Hartwell branch of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Auxiliary in 1925, being the second oldest RCH Auxiliary in the City of Boroondara after that of Hawthorn established in 1922 (Criterion A).

The 1921 main house is aesthetically significant as a fine and externally intact example of the Californian Bungalow style with Federation undertones in the use red brick and render dressings and Arts and Crafts influences in the prominence of the chimney detail to the principal façade and the render reveals to the window openings. Significant bungalow details include the timber work front porch that exhibits Japanese influences in its carpentry details. The outbuilding, incorporating the garage and former surgery of Dr Carlile, exhibits similar render details as the house. Additional details of note include the little-known application of the single sash window, the detail of which saw the sash retract into a wall cavity above the window opening. (Criteria D and E)

7.0 Analysis

17. The recognised criteria for the assessment of heritage values of a heritage place, as set out in Practice Note 1: Applying the Heritage Overlay (July 2015), are as follows:

Criterion A: Importance to the course or pattern of our cultural or natural history (historical significance).

Criterion B: Possession of uncommon rare or endangered aspects of our cultural or natural history (rarity).

Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of our cultural or natural history (research potential).



Criterion D: Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places or environments (representativeness).

Criterion E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics (aesthetic significance).

Criterion F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period (technical significance).

Criterion G: Strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. This includes the significance of a place to Indigenous peoples as part of their continuing and developing cultural traditions (social significance).

Criterion H: Special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in our -history (associative significance).

18. To be identified as a place of local significance sufficient to warrant

application of the Heritage Overlay, a place should meet one or more of these criteria to a degree that meets a threshold of local significance. This is to say, the criteria in question should be met not just in a simple or generic manner, but to a degree that is better than many or most other examples at a local level, or to a degree that is comparable to other examples that are subject to the Heritage Overlay.

19. The Advisory Committee Report: Review of Heritage Provisions in Planning Schemes (August 2007) provided guidance from some of its leading experts on the question of establishing a threshold of significance. The committee recognised that establishing whether a place is of heritage value is not merely a question of applying a blanket rule based on a place’s age or period of construction. The committee defined a threshold with the clear intention of sifting places worthy of protection from a potentially large field of places that may be of a particular period or class but are nonetheless not sufficiently important to be controlled, as:

Essentially a ‘threshold’ is the level of cultural significance that a place must have before it can be recommended for inclusion in the planning scheme. The question to be answered is ‘Is the place of sufficient import that its cultural values should be recognised in the planning scheme and taken into account in decision-making?’ Thresholds are necessary to enable a smaller group of places with special architectural values, for example, to be selected out for listing from a group of perhaps hundreds of places with similar architectural values.1

1 Review of Heritage Provisions in Planning Schemes Advisory Committee Report August 2007, pp. 2: 41. Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd Conservation • Heritage 11


20. The case for recommending a site-specific Heritage Overlay for the subject site, is predicated on the view that the dwelling is of local historical, architectural, aesthetic and associative significance to the City of Boroondara (Criteria A, D, E and H).

21. In reality, the subject house has only very limited significance to the City of Boroondara in terms of its historical, architectural, aesthetic and associative values.

Criterion A – combined house and doctor’s surgery

22. While the dwelling can be seen to possess some modest degree of local historical interest (Criterion A) as a former combined doctor’s residence and surgery, it is questionable whether this meets a threshold level of significance at a local level that in itself warrants the dwelling being identified under a site-specific Heritage Overlay.

23. While ‘resident physicians’ is a theme (briefly) identified under ‘Providing public and private health care’ in the City of Boroondara Thematic Environmental History, in my opinion it is not necessarily an historical theme of enough local significance to warrant an overlay on this particular site. It is in effect a thematic footnote or minor observation rather than a key theme.

24. The citation further suggests that the property is particularly uncommon in

that while the main house accommodated the surgery, as did other doctors’ residences, there is evidence to suggest that the surgery was originally accommodated in a specific stand-alone building prior to the outbuilding being extended to incorporate a garage in 1930. In reality it seems clear that the present outbuilding is a garage with modest flat and bathroom facilities only, and that the surgery was within the main body of the house, entered through the doorway on the west side of the facade that was removed some years ago. The removal was sensitively handled insofar as it is now far from obvious that a doorway was ever located in that area, and this renders interpretation of the house difficult, as is evidenced by the citation, which proposed a different location for the surgery.

25. The citation asserts that the dwelling has local interest arising from its association with Dr Frank True (Criterion H), who reportedly lived and practiced at the property from 1922 to 1957. According to the citation, Dr True served as a doctor with the AIF and received a Military Cross in 1918, prior to purchasing the property from Dr Hildred Carlile (who originally constructed the building in 1921). While the citation states that the property has associative significance with Dr True, it also highlights that Dr True was one of several doctors who lived and worked at the property in the early to mid 20th century. The assessment against criteria states that, as a result, the association is of local interest (rather than local significance). I broadly agree with this statement. While Dr True may have been an admirable person in his day, as evidenced through his professional and military service Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd Conservation • Heritage 12


and his position within medical circles, it is unknown how much of a figure he was within his local community. Furthermore, the specific association with Dr True is not readily identifiable or demonstrated in the fabric of the house itself. The association with Dr True is not a matter of local significance in and of itself and this level of associative significance is not worthy of elevating the property to a threshold level of local significance.

26. Further to the above, there is a substantial precedent of Panels hearing such

amendments being dismissive of associations that are not readily demonstrated in the fabric. The Stonnington L47 (D) Panel observed.

Usually, we found that a person’s ownership and/or occupancy of a dwelling was unrelated in any meaningful way with those activities for which their owners (occupants) were famous, and contributed nothing much to our understanding of the person or their fame. In cases in which an important person had only owned a building (as a property investment), or had only lived in it for a period, it could be argued that the person's motor car, or suit of clothes, might be worthier of preservation.

27. Also relevant are comments of the Bayside Amendment C37 and C38 Panel in relation to the use of AHC criterion H1. The Panel concluded that:

In our view, ‘special’ should elevate the association of a person with their dwelling to something well above that which is enjoyed by virtually every citizen. Almost everyone lives in a house, often in a sequence of houses. Generally, the type of house a person lives in merely confirms other known features or social standing of that person but not anything about why or how they became famous…

… we are of the view that places should not be cited under Criterion H1 unless the persons associated with them are of quite unquestionable prominence and there is a clear nexus between place and the basis of a person’s prominence.2

28. The citation includes photographs of a number of comparative examples that

are each identified as being combined residences and doctor’s surgeries. These include 6 Hepburn Street, Hawthorn, 733 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, 9 Rochester Road, Canterbury, and 174 Union Road, Surrey Hills. Some of these are not particularly helpful comparators in terms of establishing local significance for the subject site insofar as 10 Logan Street, 6 Hepburn Street and 733 Glenferrie Road are all graded significant within a Heritage Overlay precinct.

29. While 9 Rochester Road is subject to an individual Heritage Overlay, this is

surely more on the basis of being one of the finest exemplars of Spanish Mission revival, a building designed by a well known architect, rather than on the basis of its medical associations or combined use. The subject site is not an important exemplar of the bungalow idiom in any comparable

2 Bayside Amendment C37 and C38 Panel. Pp. 38-39. Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd Conservation • Heritage 13


manner, and its association with medical practitioners is no longer able to be interpreted due to the loss of its surgery door and the associated pathway.

30. Similarly, the ‘significant’ example at 733 Glenferrie Road stands out as an

unusual and prominent example within its otherwise commercial precinct. The building at 6 Hepburn Street is also a relatively large and striking example, and would have its ‘significant’ status regardless of whether it had a doctor’s surgery to one side. These buildings are superior examples of their periods and styles, and warrant the ‘signifiant’ status on that basis alone, regardless of any medical associations.

31. The building at 174 Union Road, Surrey Hills, is broadly comparable as a

modest and representative bungalow home and surgery. This said, it is relatively early, having been constructed 1911, and can still be understood as having a surgery function. It is within the Union Road residential Precinct, Surrey Hills (HO534), and warrants a Heritage overlay as a ‘significant’ element that contributes to the precinct as a whole, rather than as a building that is individually significant in its own right.

32. If the subject building were within a precinct, it might be identified as a

contributory or significant element within that precinct, like most of these comparators. It is not, however, worthy of individual listing in its own right.

33. In terms of having been a surgery, the key indicators of this, being the second entry to the west side of the façade and the associated pathway from the street, have been removed in the past, and today the building is relatively mute with regard to this aspect of its past.

34. Having regard for all the above, it is not my view that a threshold of local

significance can be identified with the site in terms of its associations and history as a combined residence and surgery.

Criteria D and E – Representativeness and aesthetic (architectural) significance

35. With regards to architectural values, and the issue of representativeness that is established under Criterion D, while the dwelling appears to be a reasonably intact example of an early interwar bungalow, examples of intact interwar bungalows are very common throughout Boroondara and the dwelling does not contribute anything unusual or unknown to an understanding of this type of architectural form within the area during the interwar period. Some examples of the many bungalows that are subject to individual Heritage Overlays within the municipality are illustrated below, each being readily recognised as a superior example of the idiom. Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd Conservation • Heritage 14


17 Mason Street, Hawthorn (1926-27) (HO461) Statement of Significance: No 17 Mason Street, Hawthorn, is of historical and architectural significance at a local level. It is a prominent, well executed and substantially externally intact, interwar, asymmetrical bungalow, of tuck-pointed red face brick construction with a Marseilles-tiled gabled roofscape. The projecting west bay has a distinct and highly visible almost circular bow window; the property is also enhanced by the retention of the clinker brick fence with capped piers. Architecturally, the house can be included in a group of houses built in the Boroondara area in the 1920s, which appear to have been influenced by Melbourne architect, Robert Haddon’s, corner bay Bungalow type, as published in the Real Property Annual, 1918. In this context, the property has a lively composition, a boldness of line, and utilises a rich assembly of materials.

Figure 12 17 Mason Street, Hawthorn. 52 Studley Park Road, Kew (Graded B by Lovell Chen HO345) Statement of significance: 52 Studley Park Road is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a fine and highly intact example of a substantial interwar corner bungalow residence. Architecturally, it is an unusual building, incorporating a distinctive combination of materials and ornamentation, including the cartouches, white painted stucco gabling, and use of red brick relieving dressing and wall bases. The front porch has three wide arched openings, and decorative brick balustrading. Above the piers of the balustrade are squat columns with simple detailing. Bow windows to the street elevation



have five double hung sashes and distinctive lead lighting in geometric designs.

Figure 13 52 Studley Park Road, Kew. 27 Canterbury Road, Camberwell (HO588) Statement of Significance: What is Significant? The house at 27 Canterbury Road, Camberwell, built for Ernest A Goss, law clerk, and his wife Ethel in 1918 by builder Mr Stephenson. It is an Arts & Crafts attic bungalow with a Federation influence to the details. The house is significant to the extent of its original fabric, with later additions and alterations of no significance. The outbuilding at the rear, believed to be the former garage, with brick walls and half-timbering to the gable, is contributory. How is it significant? The house is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara. Why is it significant? The house at 27 Canterbury Road is a large and architecturally successful attic-style bungalow. Within the City of Boroondara it is one of the first examples of this type to be built; a house type that became very popular by the early 1920s. Its massing skilfully responds to its corner site with a progression of major and minor gables, one sheltering a return verandah and a bay window on a diagonal axis. The house has the simplified, high-gabled



roof form of the Arts & Crafts attic bungalow, and an Arts & Crafts palette of 'honest' materials with contrasting textures, including red brick, roughcast render, and timber shingles. The remaining influence of the Federation style is seen in the use of Tuscan verandah columns, floral leadlight windows, chimneys and roof finials. One of the most striking elements of the design is the impressive round brick arch at the entrance. Overall the materials and detailing are of very high quality, particularly the moulded brick stringcourse, and the multiplicity of cladding materials and window types. (Criteria D and E)

Figure 14 27 Canterbury Road, Camberwell. 2 Howard Street, Canterbury (HO314) Statement of Significance: 2 Howard Street, Kew is of local historical and architectural significance as a representative and relatively externally intact example of an interwar bungalow type deriving from the Craftsman form. The house is distinguished by its dominant roof form - transverse gable roof with exposed rafters, tall slender brick chimneys with original pots and an eyelid dormer.



Figure 15 2 Howard Street, Kew. 46 Clyde Street, Kew East (HO283) Statement of Significance 46 Clyde Street, East Kew, is of local historical and architectural significance as a representative and relatively intact example of the fully developed bungalow form. It fuses Californian aspects, the reflection of Japanese timber construction and its transformation of Arts and Crafts fabric into thin, screen-like surfaces and lines, and the Pasadena bungalow's 'dissolved facade' and emphatic horizontality - into a brick form utilising an array of other local materials including cement stucco and cement sheeting. The design is accomplished in its use of line and its employment of contrast between mass and lightness in structural expression. The manipulation of solid and void generates a strong visual expression of the idea of the domestic retreat.



Figure 16 46 Clyde Street, Kew East. Image Source: Victorian Heritage

Register. 44 Currajong Avenue, Camberwell (1919-1920 Graded B by Lovell Chen HO381) Statement of Significance: 44 Currajong Avenue is of local historical and architectural significance as an interesting and distinctive example of a bungalow constructed in the period immediately following WWI. While in its planning and general form 44 Currajong Avenue is characteristic of the bungalows constructed in subdivisions in south Camberwell in the period immediately following World War 1, it is one of the more elegant examples. The verandah appears to float in way not often seen in contemporary designs, and the house has a distinctive simplicity and balance in its materials and finishes. It is located in a streetscape and broader precinct (Sunnyside Estate) of relatively consistent interwar bungalow character.



Figure 17 44 Currajong Avenue, Camberwell.

36. Council citation includes reference to an example of an ‘amalgamated Federation to Bungalow style’ building at 10 Logan Street, Canterbury as a comparative example. This is a relatively early example of the idiom in Boroondara, and remains relatively intact. It is graded significant within HO145, the Maling Road Shopping Centre and Residential Environs precinct, but is not identified as warranting an individual heritage control. The subject site is at best comparable to this, and certainly is not a more significant exemplar of the mode. Accepting this, had the subject building been located within a precinct, it might be identified as a contributory or significant element within that precinct, like 10 Logan Street. It is not, however, worthy of individual listing in its own right.

37. In summary, each of these above comparators is clearly a more substantial and striking building, displaying a complexity of design and detail that is not present in the subject dwelling. The double fronted plan, red pressed brick, cement render around the windows, prominent porch and brick detailing are all typical and unremarkable features, which are not notable, and should not be deemed to have the degree of architectural or aesthetic merit in the order suggested in the citation.

38. In terms of background to the present proposal for a site-specific Heritage Overlay, it is noteworthy that several buildings along this portion of Toorak Road were assessed and graded as part of the Camberwell Conservation Study. The subject site however does not appear to have been graded or considered important at this time. It is not definitively established that the property was assessed and found to not be worthy of a grading, but one would assume that it was part of the broad survey along with all other properties in Camberwell.



39. With regards to aesthetic significance established under Criterion E, the citation bases the aesthetic significance inter alia upon the dwelling being a fine and externally intact example of a Californian Bungalow style with Federation undertones in the use of red brick and render dressings. Also mentioned as elements contributing to the dwellings aesthetic significance are the Arts and Crafts influences in the chimney detail and the render work to the window openings, and the timber work to the front porch which exhibits Japanese influences in its carpentry. The citation further references that the dwelling incorporates ‘the published, but limited physical example of, the single sash window, where the sash retracts into a wall cavity above the window opening’.

40. While it is acknowledged that the dwelling is generally externally intact and

exhibits a moderate degree of architectural interest, the architecture styles and features described in the citation are broadly typical. It is not my view that a threshold of local significance can be identified with the site in terms of its representative bungalow character or aesthetic and architectural interest.

UPSC meeting minutes 41. Tabled as part of the minutes of Urban Planning Special Committee Agenda

(3 April 2018) are the officer’s response to various submissions received to the Camberwell Heritage Gap Assessment. In response to the submitter arguing that the use of the building does not have any particular significance, the officer’s response concluded that the historic use of the building as a doctor’s surgery is evident in the built fabric and a part of its historic significance is its significance as a class of place.

42. As discussed above, while the previous use of a combined doctors’ surgery

and residence was visible up until a couple of decades ago (though the actual layout of the surgery/residence is different to the manner in which Context Pty Ltd have described it), it no longer reads in this manner. The building does not in any obvious manner reveal itself to be a former doctors surgery and residence to passersby, who are much more likely to assume that is a standard/modest red brick interwar dwelling, with a garage to the side.

8.0 Conclusion

43. Having regard for all the above, it is my view that the dwelling at 1245 Toorak Road, Camberwell is neither of sufficient integrity nor sufficient historic, architectural, aesthetic or associative significance to warrant an individual heritage control as part of Amendment C274 Part 2 to the Boroondara Planning Scheme.


B R Y C E R A W O R T H P T Y L T D C O N S E R V A T I O N • U R B A N D E S I G N C O N S E R V A T I O N C O N S U L T A N T S A R C H I T E C T U R A L H I S T O R I A N S ____________________________________________________________ B R Y C E R A W O R T H M . A R C H . , B . A . ( H O N S ) , I C C R O M ( A R C H ) Bryce Raworth has worked with issues relating to heritage and conservation since the mid-1980s, and has specialised in this area since establishing his own consultant practice in 1991. Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd, Conservation•Urban Design, provides a range of heritage services, including the assessment of the significance of particular sites, preparation of conservation analyses and management plans, design and/or restoration advice for interventions into significant buildings, and detailed advice regarding the resolution of technical problems relating to deteriorating or damaged building fabric. From 2004-2011 Raworth was a member of the Official Establishments Trust, which advises on the conservation and improvement of Admiralty House and Kirribilli House in Sydney and Government House and The Lodge in Canberra. As a member of the former Historic Buildings Council in Victoria, sitting on the Council's permit, planning and community relations committees, Raworth has been involved with the registration and permit processes for many registered historic buildings. In 1996 he was appointed an alternate member of the new Heritage Council, the successor the Historic Buildings Council, and in 1998 was made a full member. At present he provides regular advice to architects and private owners on technical, architectural and planning issues relative to the conservation and adaptation of historic buildings, and is occasionally called upon to provide expert advice before the VCAT. He is currently the conservation consultant for the cities of Kingston, Frankston and Stonnington.

Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd has prepared conservation plans for a number of registered historic buildings, including Walter Burley Griffin's Essendon Incinerator. The company's experience with institutional buildings has led to preparation of conservation plans for the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School, Castlemaine Gaol, J Ward, Ararat, the former Russell Street Police Headquarters, Ballarat State Offices, Camberwell Court House, Shepparton Court House and the Mont Park asylum precinct. With respect to historic precincts, the company has provided detailed advice towards the resolution of heritage issues along the Upfield railway line. The company is currently contributing to redevelopment plans for the former Coburg Prisons Complex (comprising Pentridge Prison and the Metropolitan Prison) and the former Albion Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong. In 1993 Bryce Raworth led a consultant team which reviewed the City of Melbourne's conservation data and controls for the CBD, and in 1997 Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd revised the former City of South Melbourne Conservation Study with respect to the area within the present City of Melbourne. In recent years Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd has also provided documentation and advice during construction on the restoration of a number of key registered and heritage overlay buildings, including the Ebenezer Mission church and outbuildings, Antwerp; the former MMTB Building, Bourke Street West, Melbourne; the former Martin & Pleasance Building, 178 Collins Street, Melbourne; the former Uniting Church, Howe Crescent, South Melbourne; Heide I & II, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen; Melbourne Grammar School, South Yarra; various guard towers and other buildings, Pentridge Prison, Coburg; and Coriyule Homestead, Curlewis.

BRYCE RAWORTH STATEMENT OF EXPERIENCE Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd Conservation•Urban Design 19 Victoria Street St Kilda, VIC. 3182 Telephone: 9525 4299 (bh) 9529 5794 (ah) Facsimile: 9525 3615

BRYCE RAWORTH

Professional Status: Conservation Consultant and Architectural Historian Current Positions: Conservation consultant to the cities of Kingston, Frankston and

Stonnington Organisation Membership: Australian Institute of Architects Professional Experience: independent practice as conservation consultant and architectural

historian from January 1991 (ongoing). Services include: identification and assessment of the significance of sites and complexes; preparation of guidelines regarding the safeguarding of significant sites; provision of technical, design and planning advice to architects, owners and government on issues relating to the conservation of sites of cultural significance; expert witness advice on conservation issues before the VCAT

member, Historic Buildings Council (architectural historian's chair)

1993-1996; member, Heritage Council (architect’s chair) 1998-2002 conservation consultant to the cities of Brighton, Northcote and

Sandringham (1989 only), Essendon, Hawthorn and Kew (1989-1994), Melbourne (1992-2009) and Prahran (1992-1994)

established the Metropolitan Heritage Advisory Service on behalf of the

Ministry for Planning & Environment - this service was offered to the cities of Brighton, Essendon, Hawthorn, Kew, Northcote and Sandringham in 1989-90

Studies: Certificate of Architectural Conservation, ICCROM (International

Centre for the Study of the Preservation and the Restoration of Cultural Property at Rome), 1994

Master of Architecture by thesis, University of Melbourne, 1993 (thesis:

A Question of Style: Domestic Architecture in Melbourne, 1919-1942) B. Architecture (First Class Honours), University of Melbourne, 1986 B. Arts (Second Class Honours, Division A), University of Melbourne,

1986 Committee Membership: Twentieth Century Buildings Committee, National Trust of Australia

(Victoria), 1990-1994 (Chairman 1992-1993) RAIA Jury, Conservation Category, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 2001 Awards (Chairman 1996 & 1998) Awarded: Henry and Rachel Ackman Travelling Scholarship in Architecture, 1987-

88 JG Knight Award, conservation of Heide 1, Royal Australian Institute

of Architects, Victorian Chapter, 2003 Lachlan Macquarie Award for heritage (commendation), conservation of

Heide 1, Royal Australian Institute of Architects National Award program, 2003

Award for Heritage Architecture, conservation of Coriyule Homestead, Australian Institute of Architects, Victorian Chapter, 2015

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