A significant Beaumaris mid-century home recommended for heritage protection under a controversial council study has fallen into graffiti-covered disrepair
A broken window and graffiti inside the home as well. Picture: Beaumaris Modern Facebook
“The house, deemed significant by a comprehensive heritage study commissioned by Bayside City Council is being left to fall into disrepair.” The property, which has been celebrated on modernist architecture websites, last sold for $2.75m in May 2021 in its last sale in decades, according to CoreLogic records.
Beaumaris Modern note in their post there was previously a planning application against the property, which City of Bayside’s website shows was rejected by council in 2014.‘Pike House’, named for its architect builder and original resident Allan Pike, was recommended for inclusion in the Heritage Overlay of the Bayside Planning Scheme as a locally significant heritage place in Bayside’s Post-War Modern Residential Heritage Study.
“Pike House at 165-167 Tramway Parade, Beaumaris is of local historical, representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Bayside,” it states.
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