Specifications

Name of Mansion

[Nareeb]SommarivaOma (MMBW)Nareeb

Owners and occupiers

Beale, Octavius Charles [1888-1890] | Grice, John [1890- 1892-] | Catto, John [-1892-] | Grice, James | Simmonds

EAD

Dem c 1964

Location details

Old Municipality

Malvern

Current Municipality

STONNINGTON

Current Suburb

ToorakCurrent AddressKooyong Rd, 170 (?formerly116) e side, through to Albany Rd. MMBW ref)

Record

Current Standing

Record no

Last amended

27/6/1997

Owners & Occupiers

Architect

Salway, William

Secondary Architects

YEAR

1888

Agent

Secondary Agent

Source, ilustrations and features

Sources

Argus, 2 June 1888, p 19. WS. Tenders wanted for large brick residence and stabling at Toorak for O C Beale. | Sutherland, Vic & Met, II, p 639 - contracts in hand by Robert Gamlin include house of O Beale, Toorak. | Argus, 26 April 1890, p 3. Extensive auction notice for 'Sommariva', the mansion of Octavius Beale on 5.5.acres with frontages to Boundary & Albany Rds, Toorak. Designed by William Salway, and is '..a masterpiece of Italian domestic architecture, in the style developed by Palladio.' Dimensions of major rooms given. Many house & garden features described, including ceilings to the ground floor rooms, & also the cortile & galleries which are of wrought zinc from Aix-la-Chapelle. | Australasian, 13 Aug [?1892], p 332 - 'Oma' in Boundary or Kooyong Rd, 500 yards from Malvern Rd, built for OC Beale to design of WS, bought by John Grice who is at present with his wife in England, temporarily occ by JC; fine well-planted grounds, handsome elaborate scrollwork gates in ornamental brick walls, serpentine drive, French style house with red granite pillars, ceilings, cornices &c of thin metalwork like repouss�Ixion, 'A Saunter ..', Australasian, 30 July 1892, p 232 - | 'A five minutes' walk along the Malvern-road westwards [from Stonnington & Moorakyne] brings us to the Boundary or Kooyong road. The corner house is Carmyle, Mr. Colin Simson's, and next but one to it in the Kooyong-road going north is Oma, occupied by Mr. Catto, the owner, Mr. James Grice, being at present in England. After Oma comes Wombelana [ie Wombelano]...' | Paxton plan p 6 shows Oma', James [sic] Grice, renamed as 'Nareeb" | | CONT/2. |

Illustrations

Australasian, 13 Aug [?1892], p 328 - general view, entrance, one of the terraces, main hall, drawing room with harpsichord, a 'peep' into the grounds. | Paxton, Toorak, 6 map; Lewis & Aitken, Malv Her Study, np sv Kooyong Rd, MMBW 1902 map. | Stonnington [Malvern] Archives has photo from 1964 sale catologue. | SLV library record number 1130568, John Collins photo of exterior [& others of house, garden & gates]. | | CONT/2. |

Features

zinc ceilings

MMBW & Melway

MELWAY

59 A5

MMBW_40

1764 (April 1902)

MMBW_160

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