General Restoration Guidelines

All buildings
Restoration policies should draw from:

1. evidence gathered from the building or documentation of the building, and/or
2. evidence from similar age, use and form-type buildings from within a precinct where applicable, and/or
3. restoration guidelines given in this report for building types as determined from use and age [refer guidelines for Houses and Commercial Buildings].
4. restoration suggestions deriving from notes in the study Site Schedule (Vol. 3, Appendix I) for example, originally unpainted brick or stone may be noted in the schedule as painted. If so the paint should be removed in a manner concurring with Alan Spry's Heritage Australia Vol. 3 No. 2, the typical case being by medium pressure (1500 kpa max.) hot water with organic solvent added or otherwise approved.

Published Restoration Guides
The following general references should be acquired by the Frankston municipal library to provide readily accessible restoration data.

However, these must be treated with care, particularly those produced in Sydney and which purport to present national themes but show a strong New South Wales character.

Building Restoration:

• Ian Evans, Restoring Old Houses, (Artarmon, 1979).
• Period Building Restoration Trades and Suppliers Director, (Melbourne, updated each year).
• Evans, Lucas and Stapleton, Colour Schemes for Old Australian Houses, (Sydney, 1984).
• Stapleton, the Old Aussie House, (Sydney, 1983).
• Evans, the Australian Old House Catalogue, (Sydney, 1984).
• Australian Council of National Trusts publications, ie. Technical Bulletins: (purchased at 4 Parliament Place, East Melbourne, phone 654 4711).
  • Exterior Paint Colours on Buildings c1850-1900 (1.2).
  • Lettering and signs on Buildings c1850-1900 (2.1).
  • Conservation and Restoration of Buildings – Preservation of Roofs.
  • Conservation and Restoration of Buildings – Preservation of Masonry Walls.
  • Principles of Cleaning Masonry Buildings (3.1).
  • Decoration with Wallpaper, Technical Bulletin 6.1.
  • Wood Deterioration in Buildings, Technical Bulletin 7.1.
  • Fences and Gates, Technical Bulletin 8.1, Raworth, Our Inter-war Houses (National Trust of Australia (Vic))
• Evans, Lucas and Stapleton, Colour Schemes for Old Australian Houses, (Sydney, 1984).
• Evans, The Federation House. A Restoration Guide, (Sydney, 1986).
• Cuffley, Australian Houses of the '20s and '30s, (Fitzroy, 1989).

Interior Restoration:

• Phyllis Murphy, The Decorated Wall, Eighty Years of Wallpaper in Australia, c1850- 1930 (NSW, 1981).
• S. Forge, Victorian Splendour, Australian Interior Decoration, 1837-1901 (NSW, 1981).
• Evans, Furnishing Old Houses, (Sydney, 1983).
• Decoration with Wallpaper c1840-1914.

Garden Restoration:

• Australian Council of National Trusts, Planting c1850-1900, Technical Bulletin (4.1).
• Cuffley, Cottage Gardens in Australia, (Melbourne, 1983).
• Watts, Historic Gardens of Victoria, (Melbourne, 1983).