Toorak Lodge — Oulart

Detached three-bay single-storey double-pile medical officer's house with half-dormer attic, extant 1840, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch; three-bay full-height rear (west) elevation. "Improved", pre-1903, producing present composition. "Restored", 1997, to accommodate continued private residential use. Replacement pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof including gablets to window openings to half-dormer attic; replacement pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles, paired cement rendered central chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting crested terracotta tapered with paired cement rendered "wallhead" chimney stacks to rear (west) elevation having concrete capping supporting crested terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with timber finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on trefoil-detailed timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered walls. Triangular-headed central window opening (ground floor) with concrete sill, and moulded rendered surround framing fixed-pane timber fitting having lattice glazing bars. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and moulded rendered surrounds (ground floor) or concealed dressings (half-dormer attic) framing six-over-six timber sash windows centred on timber casement window (half-dormer attic). Paired square-headed central window openings to rear (west) elevation with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight (ground floor) or six-over-six (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows. Set back from line of road in landscaped grounds with boundary wall to perimeter having hammered granite rounded coping.