| House | $2,327,900  |
| Unit | $920,500 |
| Land | $1,649,000  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Balwyn | $2,534,600 |
| Balwyn North | $2,303,900 |
| Canterbury | $2,420,100  |
| Deepdene | $2,812,600 |
| Hawthorn | $2,343,700 |
| Hawthorn East | $2,266,400 |
| Kew East | $2,107,300 |
| Richmond | $1,454,900 |
| House | $1,141 |
| Unit | $572 |
| Neighbour Photos |
| Map | Street view | Nearby property price |
| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| What is significant? Tanfield Lea, at 221-229 Cotham Road, Kew, comprise a substantial Arts and Crafts attic-style house built in 1912 which was converted and enlarged to create a block of six Old English-style flats in 1940. The building of brick construction is asymmetrical in plan. Its complex massing incorporates the multiple gables of the original attic-style house at the west end, and the two-storey hip-roof extension at the east end. The house was originally built for Edgar Leopold Guest, who named it Brenkeel. Edgar Guest was a Company Director in his father's biscuit-manufacturing company, TB Guest & Co. Guest sold to William James Unwin in 1920. Unwin was a butcher, slaughterman, grazier, importer/exporter and businessman. He was one of the original partners and directors of William Angliss & Co and in 1914, was the Chairman of the Hawthorn City Council. The Unwin family renamed the house 'Tanfield Lea,' after the birthplace of JW Urwin's grandmother in the County of Durham, England. William Unwin died in 1924, and after his widow died in 1939, his children Alfred and Eliza Unwin had a new east wing constructed and converted the enlarged house into six flats. How is it significant? Tanfield Lea is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of Boroondara. Why is it significant? Historically and architecturally it is of significance as an unusual and interesting example of an apartment block which was created incorporating an existing residence, built in 1911-12. (Criteria A and B) Architecturally, it is one of a small number of stylistically conservative - even regressive - apartment blocks appearing in Melbourne suburbs at the end of the interwar period. In this case, the flats read as a sympathetic acknowledgement of the earlier house, at a time when most architects and designers were struggling to find ways of adding well to earlier twentieth century styles. (Criterion E) |
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