text: WARDLOW SOHE 2008
  Wardlow was built by CC Fewster in 1888 for John Boyes, owner of the Brunswick Iron Foundry. The architect is not known, but was possibly the partnership of Twentyman & Askew, who three years later designed a warehouse for Boyes in Russell Street, contracting to the same builder, Fewster.
  Wardlow was the main feature of a larger development that began with 110 and 112 Park Drive and later included the adjoining houses at 33, 35, and 37 Degraves Street, finished in 1889. All the houses had cast iron decoration from Boyes' Brunswick Foundry, and also share other details, including tessellated pavements and decorative patterns etched into the exterior render.
  Wardlow is in an excellent state of preservation mainly because of successive ownership and occupation by several generations of the Boyes family until 1975. The exterior of the house and layout of the garden are virtually as they were in 1888. The side and rear courtyards were created in the 1990s.
  The interior decorative scheme retains many original elements. The drawing room and dining room retain their respective characteristic masculine and feminine schemes. The entrance hall, drawing room, dining room and parlour retain decorative wallpapers: gilded pelmets survive in the dining room and study; joinery and doors are wood grained in imitation of walnut, with gold stencilling. Original leadlight and coloured glass sidelights to the front door light the entrance hallway. The name Wardlow is etched in the ruby glass in the transom light over the front door. In the hallway the floor is partly laid with encaustic tessellated tiles, and original wall and ceiling paper and cornices enriched with plaster mouldings also survive. The drawing room has original silk and velvet curtains and an overmantel.
  The service areas have been substantially modernised although a panel of seven servant bells, with associated cranks and wires, survives in the kitchen vestibule.
  Wardlow is of architectural, aesthetic and historical significance to the State of Victoria.
  Wardlow is architecturally significant as an archetypal example of boomperiod Italianate architecture. Characteristic elements include the asymmetrical plan, thetower over the entrance and decorative urns to the parapet. In particular, the internal layout has not been altered, and the arrangement of the main rooms and servant spaces is still clearly understood.
  Wardlow is aesthetically significant as a metropolitan house which, more than any other surviving example, exhibits a boom period middle class domestic interior with intact decorative finishes. The scheme is a vivid demonstration of the range of decorative techniques that Victorians applied to their interiors, and is representative of upper middle class aspirations of the late boom period.
  Wardlow is historically significant as the major element in a comprehensive and unusual development scheme for the site, which included the adjoining houses in Degraves Street. It demonstrates the partly speculative nature of the development.
  WARDLOW - History
  Wardlow was built for John Boyes, owner of the Brunswick Iron Foundry. Builder C C Fewster completed the house in 1888. The architect is not known, but was possibly Twentyman & Askew, who three years later designed a warehouse for Boyes in Russell Street, contracting to the same builder, Fewster. Wardlow was one part of a larger development that included the adjoining houses at 33, 35, and 37 Degraves Street, finished in 1889. Boyes was something of a property speculator because in 1873 he had also built the pair of terrace houses at 110 and 112 Park Drive.
  (Melbourne Mansions Database http://fmpro.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/melbmansions/)
  J & A Boyes (John and Arthur) appear in Sands & McDougall directories of the period as ironmongers and importers of tools, based in Elizabeth Sttreet. In 1889 John's residential address is given as 4 Park Terrace, Sydney Road.
  The house remained in the Boyes family until 1975. It passed from Boyes to his widowed daughter Mry Elizabeth Booth, then to her daughter Eileen Fripp. The long association with one family accounts for the high level of intactness of the house. (Notes for Wardlow Open Day, 3 September 1989). The University of Melbourne bought the house in the (?)early 1970s, and subsequently sold it to Mr and Mrs Thomas in 1989.
  The name 'Wardlow' may derive from an English village of the same name, reputedly the home of John Boyes' first wife.
  Associated People: John Boyes
  WARDLOW - Permit Exemptions
  * Installation, removal, refurbishment or replacement of kitchen fittings such as benches, cupboards, sinks, stoves, ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers etc and associated plumbing and wiring, provided that the existing masonry structure of the building core remains in place.
  On-going works including the following:
  . Verandah structural stabilisation works
  . External painting
  . Removal of 1990's planting from front garden
  . Replacement and up-grading of the side fence
  . Replacement of concrete columns with timber columns in fernery
  . Replacement of rear tuscan garden to better reflect the style of the house with retention of original toilet and installation of water tanks
  . Removal of redundant pipework and installation of simpler less intrusive piping
  . Installation of flashing and party wall parapet with 37 De Graves St, Roofing repairs to box gutters, replacement of corrugated steel roofing to match, installation of roof sheeting.
  . Installation of photovoltaic panels and for a solar hot water heater on the north facing roofing within central roof valley to be completely concealed from view
  Generally as described in two report prepared by Nigel Lewis Pty Ltd being Wardlow, Verandah Structural Stabilisation Works, External Painting dated 9 April 2009 and Wardlow Exempt Areas and Works dated 29 April 2009as endorsed by the Executive Director
  WARDLOW - Permit Exemption Policy
  The primary aesthetic and architectural significance of Wardlow lies it high level of intactness, both in terms of its layout and more importantly its interior decorative schemes. There are few comparable late nineteenth century middle class residences in metropolitan Melbourne. Conservation work to the interior in the early 1990s was carried out with expert supervision and reference to the Historic Buildings Council. Any future restoration to the surviving schemes will be subject to the permit process with Heritage Victoria. Changes to the damp proofing of walls may effect the condition of original wallpaper, and therefore damp proofing works should not be commenced without reference to Heritage Victoria, and a permit may be required.
  The kitchen and bathrooms have already been modernised and future alterations to these areas that do not affect the building structure are permit exempt.
  The exterior, including the cast iron to the verandah, fences etc, should not be painted without a permit.
  HO896
  1. All the land contained in Certificate of Title Vol. 9115 Fol.827 and marked L1 shown on Diagram 1922 held by the Executive Director, being Lot 4 on Plan of Subdivision No.116079, Parish of Jika Jika.
  2. All the buildings and structures marked as follows on Diagram 1922 held by the Executive Director: