Chanonry, 14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Chanonry, 14-16 Collins Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 102170
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Style: Neo-BaroquePeriod: EdwardianConstruction date: 1912Architect: Bates, Peebles & SmartOwner: Andrew StenhouseNotable features: 1. Stone facing to base. 2. Relates to adjoining heritage buildings.ASSOCIATED RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER:.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceDescriptionComparable to Unity Hall, Bourke Street and Manchester House, Flinders Lane (qv), this is among the early free revivals in the Baroque manner, incorporating formalist aspects which would be re-used in the post-war revivals. Commencing at a free-stone clad and soberly detailed ground level, the upper facade rises through utilitarian window strips to a richly detailed balcony and an unusual tripartite stepped parapet. The Baroque's exaggerated keystones re-occur at doors and windows, merging into a subtle bas-relief spandrel which arrives a s a contrast, at the bowed balcony and its dribbling lion's heads beneath. A crowning arch, set within rather than upon the parapets, is masked by the same wrought iron detail which forms the balustrade below. Chanonry is unlike the Baroque inspired Tomkins designs, or many other contemporary buildings (see the Leviathan) in not possessing a parapet cornice. Not until the 1930s Moderne and Neo-Gothic designs was the parapet line commonly broken in this manner. The balcony-attic combination however is common to both Chanonry and Tomkins' Centreway Arcade although the characteristic deep consoles of the latter have been substituted by the Haddon trademark of lions' heads. French influenced detailing such as the open iron work, hanging garlands or cartouches (Centreway) are other similarities. Bates, Peebles and Smart's Manchester House, 234 - 236 Flinders Lane (1911 - 1912) is a similar design as is the Freestyle treatment of their Conservatorium of Music, Melbourne University. Other contemporary commissions included the important Melbourne Public Library reading room.SignificanceA simple Classical Revival professional building built in 1914. It is an important element of the highly significant group of 19th and early 20th century professional and consulting-room buildings at the top of Collins Street which were deliberately designed to be harmonious with the Treasury building and the residential scale of Collins Street..CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONSBuilding Permit Application 2944 14/ 10/ 1911MCC registration no 2944 [Burchett Index]. Fee 6.0.0 brick office buildingOwner Stenhouse, Andrew; Bates, Peebles & SmartBuilder Henningsen, H - Victoria Rd Hawthorn..HERITAGE BRANCH, MINISTRY FOR PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT 1987 CITY OF MELBOURNE CENTRAL CITY NOTABLE BUILDINGS CITATIONSA simple Classical Revival professional building built in 1914. It is an important element of the highly significant group of 19th and early 20th century professional and consulting-room buildings at the top of Collins Street which were deliberately designed to be harmonious with the Treasury building and the residential scale of Collins Street.Ministry for Planning & Environment 1987 imageNational Trust of Australia (Vic)Built in 1912 for Andrew Stenhouse, Chanonry is a distinctively detailed Edwardian Baroque design by the notable architectural firm of Bates Peebles and Smart. Important upper-level details include the bowed balcony and wrought-iron balustrade, broken parapet form, the exaggerated keystones, lions heads, and deep consoles while the ground level is of freestone, harmonising with similarly clad buildings nearby. It contributes to one of Melbourne's most important commercial streetscapes.Classified: 15/07/1976Revised: 30/11/1989Group Classification : Portland House, 8 Collins Street , Victor Horsley Chambers, 10-12 Collins Street, Chanonry 14-16 Collins StreetGroup Statement of Significance: A group comprising four low-rise buildings of dates from 1872 to 1938 with a noteworthy sympathetic relationship in the colour and texture of the masonry, the proportion of the windows, detail of balconettes and rustication of ground and/or upper facades.The scale relates to that of the buildings opposite.Group Classified: 08/07/1976(see Hermes 120069, 64646).NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) Thu 5 Oct 1911 Page 3 Real Propertyhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242846202?searchTerm=Melbourne%20Collins%20Street%20%20architect%20PeeblesStill more alterations will soon be noted at Nos. 14 and 16 Collins street. Here Dr MacKeddie has purchased from the Perpetual Trustees Company a block of land 33%ft. frontage to Collins street, between the Melbourne Club and Spring 'street, by 76ft. deep, now occupied by old two-storey residences. The present , building is to be demolished, and In its place a handsome new four-storey structure) Is to be raised. Messrs Bates, Peebles and Smart are the architects, and Mr J. Hennlngsen the contractor.The building will he of brick and cements with the exception of the ground floor facade, which will be done. in Sydney freestone, with blue- stone base. The ground, first and second floors will be divided Into professional chambers, and the top floor, with the flat roof above, will he used by Dr. MacKeddie as a residence. A feature of this part of the building will be the sleeplng-out apartments on the roof.All the floors will be carried out in reinforced concrete, the surfaces finished In Permnsite composition. In addition the Permaslte Company will Install the partition walls with their special coke breeze permaslte.... The stair cases will also be of reinforced concrete with Permasite surfaces. The wall in the entrance halls will be treated with marble, and an electric lift will be fitted. The land which Dr MacKeddie purchased for this building passed Into his hands at £160 n foot. This value appears to bear a Just proportion to the £200 and £210 a foot recently paid for other properties on this side of Collins street, about the corner of Exhibition street..The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946) Sat 7 Jun 1913 Page 43 AT HOMES.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/142964644?searchTerm=Melbourne%20Collins%20Street%20%20Chanonry`AT HOMES.An at home, which had the merit of being unusually interesting as well as exceedingly well done, was given on Tues day afternoon, by Mrs. J. F. MacKeddie in the Charming flat which she and Dr. MacKeddie have arranged on the top floor of Chanonry, which is the name of the high Tudor building at the top of Collins street, recently finished for the doctor. An electric lift conveyed the guests to the flat, at the entrance of which the hostess stood to receive her visitors. She wore a beautifully-cut gown of black satin mousseline, with a snort one-sided tunic of jet beaded net. The skirt, which was slightly draped at foot was also inlet with small panels of the beaded jet. One side of. the bodice was draped with white duchesse lace and a Y-shaped vest of the same was arranged on white net. …'.Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) Thu 5 Jun 1913 Page 32 Ladies Letterhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146324915?searchTerm=Melbourne%20Collins%20Street%20%20Chanonry`To be able to lead the outdoor life, yet to re side in the very heart of the city, is surely a rather uncommon experience. Dr. and Mrs. Mackeddie have, however, contrived it at "Chanonry," the fine building the doctor has erected, in Collins-street. They have the nominally, top floor, but above, reached by a stair case, is a suite of rooms actually built on the flat roof, or, to be quite correct; there are two suites. The-front one has the greater part of the walls windows, so that when all are open they are real open-air rooms. In front of these is a good open space overlooking' Collins street, which will shortly be made quite a garden space, for already the creepers are making good headway.. The second .suite is at the back and forms pleasant quarters; for the domestic staff, and they, also have an open space in front where they can take the air if they feel so inclined. Mrs. Mackeddie might almost give a garden party up there, certainly an out-door afternoon tea. or bridge party. The view is magnificent from this roof, and, by the way, we discovered from, this elevation that the sybarites of the Melbourne Club rejoice- in a really beautiful and quite extensive garden, with luscious-looking grass lawns …'
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