"Honddu Villas", semi-detached villas including interior
43 McKillop Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 303247
City South Residential Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
The two storey semi-detached brick villas at 41-43 McKillop Street, Geelong were erected in 1870 for Geelong Businessman GF Link, as an investment. Recently established Scottish architect Alexander Davidson and George Henderson designed these dichromatic brick villas in a picturesque Victorian eclectic mode. The villas, known as 'Honddu Villas' are an important early work of the architects and an unusual building type in Geelong. The use of dichromatic brickwork and Waurn Ponds limestone is a distinctive feature of the design.RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register.
Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate.
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register.
REFERENCES
Geelong Advertiser - 2nd July, 1870, tender for Double Villa for GF Link esq.
Geelong Historical Society.
Willingham, Alan - 'Two Scots in Victoria. The Architecture of Davidson and Henderson' Master of Architecture thesis, University of Melbourne 1983.
PRESENT OWNER/LESEE - (41) JL Low
ADDRESS - 384 Canterbury Road, Ringwood.
(43) BJ Breheny
ADDRESS - 43 McKillop Street, Geelong
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study Volume 1
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volume 4(a)
Author: Helen Lardner
Year: 1995
Grading: B
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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