Overview of case so far
6 year saga beginning May 1999 (time of roof removal)
4.5 applications ?
- 1 successful - statement / condition of building
- a current in existence
3 Heritage Council appeals
- 2 unsuccessful
- 1 abandoned due to bias (make-up of committee) - practice court - denial of natural justice
2 Court Cases - neither successful
- 1 Supreme Court
- 1 Appeal
Organisation structure
Heritage Council -
Heritage Victoria -
National Trust -
Conservation Management Plan (CMP)
In ? year CMP mooted by HV - owner to pay
In ? year CMP mooted by HV - owner to pay half
Owner refused and the CMP was paid by HV - such a document shoud have been prepared at the time of registration
Satement of the condition of the building
RB architect
Built 1st house for self1947
later extended 1952
1st house (size) with open plan containing living room, dining room kitchen. Bathroom and seperate laundry and 1 small bedroom
Adjacent to entrance was a car port
Brief description of 1952
Boyd obtained at low costa creek (deep 9m ) ran through (easement)
Long and narrow situated on the edge of cliff formed by creek
Conventional house couldn't be fit on site - hence low cost
It is thought about 1952 creek filled (unengineered) with spoil from the Alemain Line. The present owner has changed the site significantly since she bought it. During Boyd's ownership a ring road was proposed to pass through the site almost up against the 52 extension. This may have had a major effect on the design outcome of the 52 extension with its blank wall.
It is interesting to note that the champhered north-west wall may also have resulted from the proximity from the road reserve, meaning that Boyd's first design could not be fitted on to the site resulting in a major change from his first proposal. By any standards the plan and its functioning has been serverely comprimised.
A brief discription of the construction technique
1947 house in on conventional concrete strip footings. Walls are of timber framing and external brick. The roof is of timber framing covered by Solomit which had 2 purposes. One to provide insulation and 2 to form a sub-strat (support) for the malthoid which overlayed it all. The Malthoid had a fine pebble finish adhered to the bitumen.A feature of the roof is the aesthetic use ofthe solomit in both the eves and in certain parts of the interior as ceiling. This use of Solomit was almost a signature of Boyd's. Stegbar window.
Roof matching the 47 in construction and aesthetic expression. At the same time a 2nd bedroom was added at the south end of the 47 building. In terms of construction the 57 is notible for a radical change from the 47 format for the foundations. The 52 extesion has what has been described as a floating slab - which comprised a 150 deep slab surrounded by an intergrated ring beam (600 wide by 300 deep) upon which the cavity walls were built.
Aesthetically there was further radical change from the 47 in that the east wall and largely the west wall was solid brickwork with no outlook to the newly filled site. In opposition to the 47 building which was almost entirly glass in the form of a 'window wall' cantered out at an angle.
This house has been described by some experts as being of fragile construction. The condition is further excerbated by poor foundation conditions.