Conserved Building
2 Cable Road
Applicable Guidelines
Bungalow Guidelines
Conservation Area
Chatsworth Park Conservation Area
Historic address: 2 Cable Road
About
No. 2 Cable Road is a good example of the tropical Edwardian style house, built for Municipal Commissioner Mohamed Namazie. It was designed in 1913 by David McLeod Craik, a former government architect in the Municipal Engineer's office who had recently joined Swan & Maclaren, and was one of his first commissions for the firm.
The Building
The ground plan is square, with rooms organised according to their use and patterns of circulation through the house rather than subscribing to any notion of Classical symmetry. A distinctive feature is the main entrance porch, placed at one corner and set at an angle of 45 degrees to the main body of the house — a popular configuration at the time. A light and airy sitting verandah, with timber shutters and glazing, extends from the drawing room over the porch, and each bedroom on the first floor has its own private balcony or verandah. The whole is surmounted by a pyramidal roof topped by a lantern-like jack roof, which helps to light and ventilate the centre of the house.
Guidelines and Procedures
All proposed works will need to comply with the Conservation Guidelines and the Specific Restoration Guidelines (SRG). Conservation Permission is required before all additions & alteration works and operations of new use can begin.
Residential Fronts are characterised by timber casement windows flanking a double-leafed timber door. All buildings with residential front which is existing and/or identified in the 'Specific Restoration Guidelines', regardless of land use zoning, shall be retained and restored.
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