A Gallery of post-Federation House Styles, – from ‘Trophy’ Homes recently for sale

Inter-war styles derived from Federation period Architecture
A Gallery of post-Federation House Styles, – from ‘Trophy’ Homes recently for sale
Interwar Styles
Architects mentioned:
1. The Elms, 1917
452 Elizabeth Street North Hobart
Period Details of ‘The Elms’:
2. Inverinate 1918
65 Cranbrook Road, Bellevue Hill NSW
Current features:
Inverinate Description
Inverinate History:
3. Merrybrae, 1920
51 South Road, Brighton VIC 3186
4. Keynsham, 1921
29 Shellcove Road, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089
History
5. Vaucluse, 1920s
18 Vaucluse Road, Vaucluse, NSW
6. Yoorami, 1920s
90 Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill, NSW 2023
7. Boscawen, 1928
25 Willsmere Road, Kew VIC
8. Arts and Crafts, 1928
266 Domain Road South Yarra, Vic 3141
9. Arts and Crafts, Vaucluse, 1920s
18 Vaucluse Road, Vaucluse, NSW
10. Fintry 1930s
101 Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill NSW
History
11. Storybook Tudor, South Yarra, 1930s
11 Alexandra Avenue South Yarra
12. 1930s Redlands,
174 Oxley Drive, Mittagong
13. 1930s Stockbroker Tudor
5 Pibrac Avenue, Warrawee NSW
14. Coppins, 1935
Telegraph Road, Pymble NSW

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Interwar Styles

• These houses illustrate many design trends of the Federation House, however are not the first to do so.
• See also page: Timeline Index of Homes

1917	1918			1921
The Elms, Hobart	Inverninate, Bellevue Hill			Keynsham, Neutral Bay

Post-World War 1 Designs:

• Federation Arts and Crafts: The Elms 1917, Keynsham, 1921,
• Inter-war Bungalow: Fintry 1930s
• Arts and Crafts: Inverinate 1918, Yoorami, 1920s, 266 Domain Road South Yarra, Vic: 1928,

 

Architects mentioned:

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• Architect Bernard Walker, Architects Manson & Pickering, Architect Frank Buckle, Architect Michael Suttor with interiors by Thomas Hamel,

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1. The Elms, 1917

452 Elizabeth Street North Hobart

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• Property Observer – 21 APRIL 2017: Century-old Federation home The Elms listed for sale in Hobart
• Sale listing and photographs
• Website: http://www.theelmsofhobart.com/

The Elms is a magnificent Federation Arts and Crafts mansion in a beautiful mature garden setting.

• Designed by renowned architect Bernard Walker and built in 1917 for Albert Flexmore as a family home, the property was then sold to the Palfreyman family in 1933.
• The distinctive building has beautiful bow or oriel windows to the front and northern side providing glorious views over the extensive gardens and with views to the Derwent River.

The interior is striking with dark timber panelling in the entry and hallway and a grand staircase with barley twist bannister.

• The main reception room is impressive with ceiling beams and sandstone fire surround.
• The distinctive building has beautiful bow or oriel windows to the front and northern side providing glorious views over the extensive gardens and with views to the Derwent River.

The interior is striking with dark timber panelling in the entry and hallway and a grand staircase with barley twist bannister.

• The main reception room is impressive with ceiling beams and sandstone fire surround.
• Successfully operating as a visitor accommodation since the mid 1990s, the property has had up to ten suites. The owners now enjoy a comfortable lifestyle running four guest suites on the ground level, Elms, Hawthorn, Maple and Willow.

The property is superbly presented and maintained with a new Colorbond roof, gutters and downpipes, the iron fencing and gates, heat pump energy saving hot water units and two contemporary kitchens with quality appliances. There are three full kitchens, nine bathrooms, nine bedrooms and multiple living and outdoor entertainment areas. There is a garage, carport and eight parking spaces.

 

Period Details of ‘The Elms’:

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2. Inverinate 1918

65 Cranbrook Road, Bellevue Hill NSW

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• Domain Jul 23, 2011 Margie Blok: Loch, stock and Bellevue – Note the confusion between the redbrick 67 Cranbrook Road and this property at 65 Cranbrook Road, Bellevue Hill. No 65 is the property described below.
• Sold for $12,500,000 in Feb 2008; Last Sold for $5,000,000 in Jun 2005
• NSW Heritage Listing

‘Inverinate’ is a large and intact example of the influence of the English Arts and Crafts style of architecture. Architects Manson & Pickering built the house in 1918 for M.R. McRae.

• The house, which demonstrates the early development of this section of the Cooper Estate, retains a high degree of aesthetic and technical significance in its design and execution and is representative of Upper Middle Class housing in the Edwardian period.
• The building style is relatively rare within the Woollahra municipality and the Sydney region generally.^[1]

Double Street Frontage – Approx. 1676m2 land – 46.23m width

An enviably private and utterly inspiring residence set on an enormous block, with substantial frontage to 2 prestige streets.

• This blue ribbon home abounds with a graceful elegance and untapped opportunity to value add.
• It enjoys level frontage to Cranbrook Lane, and has picturesque views of Sydney Harbour.
• The home is impeccably maintained, and was being offered for the first time in 28 years.

Current features:

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• Sprawling gardens in dress circle surroundings, 4 oversized bedrooms; 2 small studies; Large sitting room; Separate formal dining room; two large family rooms;
• Modern kitchen; Several store rooms; A large pool with secluded terrace areas; high ceilings; impressive joinery; Kauri floorboards; Open fireplaces throughout the house; 2-car garage; Security system; Bathed in N/E sunlight.

Inverinate Description

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65 Cranbrook Road is an intact Arts and Crafts style residence.

• The building is two-storey with a steeply pitched, hipped roof clad in terracotta pan tiles and tall square chimneys with multiple terracotta chimney pots.
• The house is generally symmetrical across the façade with a dormer sitting in the main roof, which in turn spills around it to form the roof covering for the ground floor verandah. Two open plan verandahs on the first floor accentuate the symmetry.
• The building is finished in pebbledash stucco. Exposed rafters run along the eaves line, except where the roof comes down to the ground floor where it sits upon eaves of an oversized dentilated cornice design which is supported off six large square tapered columns, which in turn sit upon a short masonry wall.
• The upstairs balconies have a gentle curve across the front edge of the balustrade in the manner of the English Arts and Crafts style.
• The windows and highlights are generally clear glazed with no apparent glazing bars. Deep flat roofed awnings to the ground floor facade windows are supported by elaborate metal tiebacks. The form of the awning is relatively flat with a deep multi stepped edge in a ‘Voisyesque’ manner.

A large bay window sits below the central roof leading onto the verandah. Timber shingles have been used above the windows in the bay as well as either side of the first floor dormer.^[2]

Inverinate History:

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Named Inverinate – possibly after a small village on Loch Duich in the Scottish Highlands – it was built for Mark Reginald MacRae, who lived there until 1948 when he sold it to Sir Kenneth Noad, a medical practitioner, who owned the house for the next three decades.

• In 1910, Horatio Scott Carslaw, Professor of Mathematics at Sydney University, purchased from the Cooper Estate an area of 2 rood 10 ½ perches bounded by Cranbrook Road and Cranbrook Lane.
• The land was sold undeveloped to Mark Reginald Macrae, a company manager form Sydney in 1918 and the following year he is recorded in the Sands Sydney & Suburban Directory, as living on the site in a house called “Inverinate”.
• The house was constructed to a design by Manson & Pickering Architects.

In 1931 Macrae sold portion of the grounds of his property, on the corner of Cranbrook Lane and Cranbrook Road to Rupert Harden (now known as 67 Cranbrook Road – Sale listing and photographs; erroneous Property Observer Trophy Home story here).

• At the same time, a further subdivision was proposed consisting of the land in front of the house but this was never executed.
• Macrae remained at “Inverinate” until the property was sold in 1948.
• Sir Kenneth Noad, medical practitioner, purchased the house, and engaged the architects Loveridge & McCauley to carry out minor alterations. He remained occupier of the house until 1978 when the property was sold to its current owners William and Joyce Conolly.^[3]

 

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3. Merrybrae, 1920

51 South Road, Brighton VIC 3186

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• Property Observer 9 MAY 2014: Property Observer’s Mother’s Day property picks
• Domain Property Report 51 South Road, Brighton VIC

Merrybrae, a 1920s era Federation Arts and Crafts home in the beachside suburb of Brighton.

A four bedder set on 1,040 square metres, with low maintenance gardens and paved outdoor entertaining areas, it wouldn’t be too labour intensive to care for. There’s plenty of room for the prized poodle and the beach is just down the road for the daily run.

What really seals the deal is the two sizeable kitchens with an indoor kitchen and another outdoors – what Malaysians and Singaporeans refer to wet and dry kitchens.

• The indoor one can be used for serving guests, while the outdoor one is where you can cook your (top notch) fish curries.

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4. Keynsham, 1921

29 Shellcove Road, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089

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• Property Observer 5 MARCH 2013 Neutral Bay residence, Keynsham, relisted with $7m hopes
• Sold on 31 Mar 2014 for $4,200,000 Sale Listing and Photographs
• See also the posts Keynsham, Neutral Bay, and Shellcove Road, Neutral Bay.
• Designed by architect Frank Buckle, this bay-side residence is one of Sydney’s finest and most significant examples of Federation Arts and Crafts architecture.

Keynsham, 29 Shellcove Road, Neutral Bay, NSW 2089

History

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This house was named for a district near Bristol, England where the Pratten family came from.

• This was the home of Herbert. E. Pratten and family.

• Herbert E. Pratten was a member of the Australian senate 1908-1928 and his son H. G. Pratten was an all-round sportsman who played in the N.S.W. cricket team in interstate matches before World War I, but his career was interrupted by World War I.
• The son, H. G. Pratten also held the number 1 badge for the Sydney Cricket Ground for many years.
• Owned by Peter Perini, from Corinthian Industries, Australia’s largest door maker and manufacturer, and his wife, Rosslyn.
• In 2013 thePerini family relisted their Neutral Bay residence, Keynsham.

The house was originally a single storey building designed by architect, Frank Buckle, a friend of the Pratten family and the second storey was added in the late 1920s.

• The 1921 Arts and Crafts house sits on a reduced 1,300 square metres overlooking the harbour.
• The restored Shellcove Road house has three bedrooms including a whole-floor main suite. There’s also a billiard room.
• Its Ray White LNS agent Kingsley Yates wants buyers with $7 million plus. It had $8 million-plus hopes in March last year.
• Its been refurbished by Ridley Smith of NBRS Architects to maximise its bay views.

         

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5. Vaucluse, 1920s

18 Vaucluse Road, Vaucluse, NSW

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• Property Observer 7 AUGUST 2014: Staying back in London, so Darcey Bussell lists Vaucluse home
• Poperty Observer 20 AUGUST 2014: Ballerina Darcey Bussell sells as Vaucluse prestige market takes flight
• Sold for $4,900,000

 

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6. Yoorami, 1920s

90 Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill, NSW 2023

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• Property Observer 13 DECEMBER 2015: Yachtie Matt Allen sells Bellevue Hill trophy home Yoorami
• Sold on 10 Dec 2015 for $15.25 million – Sale listing and photographs
• Style: Interwar Arts and Crafts

 
Yoorami came to prominence when builders Bill Shipton and Zaro Elizov were reinventing Sydney’s top-end mansions in the mid-1980s.

• The 1920s Victoria Road Yoorami has been restored by architect Michael Suttor with interiors by Thomas Hamel, retaining its grand period detail.
• The Yachting Australia president bought the Victoria Road property in 1995 for $5.65 million from barrister couple Geraldine Vandeleur and Charles Sweeney, QC, making the 2800-square-metre-estate that year’s highest non-waterfront sale.

  
Now the retired investment banker Matt Allen has cleaned the decks of his prestige eastern suburbs property oversupply by selling Yoorami in Bellevue Hill for $15 million plus ahead of this week’s scheduled auction.

• It took its time to sell, however, having been on the market for just over two years before the Ray White sale of the six bedroom, six bathroom estate.
• Allen is now ensconsced on the waterfront in Darling Point after paying $32 million in 2013 for the home of the late Sir William Tyree.
• The private 2903 sqm gardens come with tennis court.

    
    

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7. Boscawen, 1928

25 Willsmere Road, Kew VIC

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• Property Observer 7 AUGUST 2014: Boscawen, the 1928 arts and craft Kew house sold

 

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8. Arts and Crafts, 1928

266 Domain Road South Yarra, Vic 3141

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• Property Observer 29 NOVEMBER 2016: Period South Yarra trophy listed
• Sale listing and photographs

 

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9. Arts and Crafts, Vaucluse, 1920s

18 Vaucluse Road, Vaucluse, NSW

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10. Fintry 1930s

101 Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill NSW

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• Property Observer 27 JUNE 2015: Mamamia’s Mia Freedman and Jason Lavigne buy Fintry, Bellevue Hill
• Domain Jul 10, 2015 Lucy Macken: Mamamia’s Mia Freedman to buy Bellevue Hill house for about $12 million
• Sydney Living Museums FINTRY Bellevue Hill NSW
• The Sunday Telegraph: Jonathan Chancellor, September 6, 2015: Mamamia website founder Mia Freedman sells Bellevue Hill house for millions
• Radical Terrace: Well-Renovated Inter-War Home in Bellevue Hill Seeking $15m+

The inspirational founder of the mamamia, Mia Freedman and her husband, Jason Lavigne may have bought the six bedroom, Fintry in Bellevue Hill.

• Fintry, the starkly white exterior home with Blainey North interiors sits on a 1,368 square metre block.
• No official sale price has yet emerged, but Title Tattle gleans buyers were being told around $12.5 million was required to secure the trophy home. It came up for sale in 2012 with $15 million hopes.
• The couple have apparently even moved in recently, under licence, after signing what Title Tattle gleans was a put and call purchasing option.

It last traded at $10.2 million in late 2007 – pre-global financial crisis through estate agent Brad Pillinger – in a sale which was described as fully-priced.

• There was apparently subsequently a $1 million renovation that saw the addition of a salt water infinity-edge pool that overlooks Lachlan Murdoch’s compound, along with extensive interior and exterior refurbishments while maintaining the original house footprint.
• It was briefly available at $6750 a week last year by vendor, Somna Kumar who had bought the Victoria Road property (pictured below before renovation) from the McWilliam family.
• Somna Kumar and her partner, Macquarie banker Joseph Jayaraj are now London-based.

 

History

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The McWilliam family had bought it from the Heinze family in 1995 for $2.06 million through Raine & Horne Double Bay agent Bill Hall.

• It had been longtime home of the late conductor Sir Bernard Heinze, complete with miniature 12-seat theatre fitted out by his son Adrian with Capitol Theatre furnishings.
• It had been bought in 1957 for 22,000 pounds by Sir Bernard and his wife, Lady (Valerie) Heinze following his move from Melbourne to succeed Sir Eugene Goossens at the NSW Conservatorium.
  • Sir Bernard Heinze, the eminent musician and director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, having moved to Sydney with his wife, Valerie, Lady Heinze, from Melbourne, where he was a conductor of the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society.
  • Sir Bernard Heinze was one of the great figures of Australian music, and his wife, Valerie, was the daughter of Sir David Hennessey, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, and Lady Hennessey.
• An offer of $12 million was rejected last year by the vendor, London-based Macquarie banker Joseph Jayaraj, and his wife, Somna Kumar.
• The Victoria Road property has been renovated with interiors by designer Blainey North since it last traded for a peak price of $10.2 million in 2007 when sold by Seven Network commercial director Bruce McWilliam and his wife, Nicky.
• The Victoria Road property has been renovated with interiors by designer Blainey North.
  who died in 1982,
  • Heinze lived at the grand inter-war bungalow until he died in 1982, having added a lavish eight-seat theatre to the property furnished from the Capitol Theatre.
• It was sold by the Heinze family estate in 1995 to the McWilliams for a little more than $2 million

Set among Sydney´s most prestigious hillside dress-circle residences, the 1930s Fintry comes with panoramic north-easterly harbour, district and ocean views.

• It was marketed through Sotheby’s International as having glamorous decor fusing the splendour of times gone by with the modern convenience.
• It comes with grand entrance foyer, high ornate ceilings, parquetry floors, original fireplaces and wood-panelled walls.
• Mia Freedman seemingly fell in love with the house at least six months ago given she posted pictures on pinterest well before word of the legalities started emerging.
• The entrepreneurial independent digital media couple have lived elsewhere in Bellevue Hill since paying $3,175,000 in 2004. It was briefly listed in 2008 with $4.4 million hopes before being withdrawn from sale.
  • More than 650,000 people a month visit Mamamia, the Good Weekend’s Jane Cadzow advised.

 

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11. Storybook Tudor, South Yarra, 1930s

11 Alexandra Avenue South Yarra

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• Property Observer 7 APRIL 2017: South Yarra 1930s Tudor house listed for sale
• Sale Listing and Photographs

 

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12. 1930s Redlands,

174 Oxley Drive, Mittagong

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• Sorenson Garden – Burke’s Back Yard: Redlands
• Tudor-style property built for BHP industrialist Sir Cecil Hoskins
• Domain – The Escape: A spacious, luxury Mittagong home…
• Southern Highland News: ‘Redlands’ on market for a cool $3.75m

Redlands, the landmark Tudor-style home at Mittagong, has been sold for $2.35 million by Maxine Klumper through Cameron McKillop at McKillop Property, in conjunction with McGrath Estate Agents. Redlands was John Hewson’s first home in the Highlands, costing $106,000 in 1977.

• Hewson has an ongoing love of all things Tudor. His first home in the Highlands was Redlands, also Tudor-style and in Sorenson gardens, which he bought for $106,000 in 1977 and sold for $380,000 in 1985, just before he became the Liberal Party leader.

 

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13. 1930s Stockbroker Tudor

5 Pibrac Avenue, Warrawee NSW

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• Property Observer 29 SEPTEMBER 2015: Stockbroker Tudor Warrawee trophy sale

 

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14. Coppins, 1935

Telegraph Road, Pymble NSW

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• Property Observer 25 FEBRUARY 2013: Walter Burley Griffin’s Pymble design, Coppins subdivided and sold

 

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