Heritage items
Heritage items
33 Bonnefin Road Hunters Hill - Builders - Skinner and Johnston
This house was designed by well-known Melbourne architect Sir Roy Grounds in 1954 for his friend, the journalist Tilly Shelton-Smith. Sir Roy is best known for the Victorian Art Gallery and was one of Australia’s leading 20th century Modernist architects. Originally the house was known as Tilly’s hat box house and was minute, with an area of only 55 square metres. Tilly added the first floor curved addition to the right in the 1970s, which had an open spiral stair down to the the outside lower level. I designed the enclosed spiral stair and the enclosure of the 70s addition to make another bedroom downstairs. The house was heritage listed by Hunters Hill Council in the 1990s.
The spiral stair The dining room
The new bedroom under the dining room, which maintains the existing structure by incorporating the existing posts and beams into the room
To my mind, this is a good example of how to make an addition to a house that is sympathetic to its existing design. So many additions recently have been done in a style (usually neo-modernist), which is completely out of character with the original house. In this instance, it would have been entirely inappropriate to make the extension in some other style - Federation for example.
13 Mars Street Gladesville - Design and Construct Tony Coote and Bill Eggerking (stage 2)
This is one of the oldest houses in Gladesville, dating from the 1840s. This project was to construct a new pergola, deck and seat to the rear of the house. The stone part of the house seen below is the original house. The weatherboard extension dates from the 1980s (not my work).
The pergola, deck and built-in seat designed and constructed by me in 1993
Another view of the 1993 pergola and deck
In 2011 additional work was carried out to increase the size of the rear bedroom in the timber framed section of the house, add a rear verandah and a laundry. The work involved demolition of the timber deck shown in the photo above and the construction of a 1.5m wide addition to the side. As well the porch on the other side had a roof built over it.
The 2011 addition to the side of the timber part of the house - builder Bill Eggerking
The new doors to the dining room The new rear verandah off the bedroom
The new roof to the side porch
Alterations and additions to a house in Coogee
This heritage listed house in Thomas Street Coogee had an unsympathetic double garage attached to the side of the house. This was replaced with a garage that was partially sunk into the ground with a landscaped roof, which you can see in the photo above.
Before - the side garage Before - front verandah - note no eaves overhang
The original garage, which was removed and the original detail on the verandah eaves, which had had its overhang, exposed rafters, detailed columns and fretwork removed. As well the verandah floor had collapsed together with the front stone verandah wall.
The restored verandah The steps up to the landscaped garage roof
The revised rear verandah (existing pool) The new kitchen
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Two Hunters Hill heritage listed houses and a house in Coogee