Mock Tudor Toorak Road

19 January 2019

Some more #MockTudor ‘residential shops’ on #ToorakRoad, right next to #SouthYarraStation, a bit dominated by the #highrise clustering behind.

Found an article about them – built 1935, designed by Oliver Dixon, ‘in the Old English style’ – not as ornate as others but the #oldeworlde #leadlight #shopfronts are completely intact ! And oddly transparent in this light, not really holding up the first floor – which was bedrooms, with the dining and kitchen rear ground floor (no lounge ?). In Toorak Road heritage precinct, graded A2.

Update May 2021:

So these great shops in Toorak Road that I snapped in Jan 2019 are up for sale, as an investment or ‘redevelopment subject to council approval’ – since they’re graded Contributory in a #heritageprecinct, you couldn’t demolish completely, but you could certainly take off the back wings and build apartments.

Update June: sold for $13 mill.

13 September 2025

I do like a bit of Mock Tudor, so I’ll be sad if this one goes, since it’s up for sale and not heritage listed. It’s in Toorak Road just down from Chapel, probably 1930s – update, they’re 1937, designed by the prolific Arthur Plaisted.

It has interesting asymmetrical gables and windows in the central section, which unusually is setback creating more footpath, but the main gables are rather plain. The render is a bit rough and so is the face of the timbers, as if hewn by an adze, for that medieval flavour. Original shopfronts. Seen better days though.