Retirement Village
206 High Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 229315
Wimmera Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The Nursing Home (formerly house) at 206 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. While the several alterations to the house over the years have negatively impacted on the integrity of the place, it still demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities include the interlocking hipped and gabled roof forms clad in galvanised corrugated iron, whereby a dominant, recessed hip has gables and hips projecting from it to the rear and to the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, timber framed casement windows with high lights (including the bay window), wide eaves and exposed rafters, return verandah, window lead lighting and the vertical gable ventilators. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly interwar and post war Bungalow streetscape.
The house at 206 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the land holdings of Mr Wurfel, as well as the architects Laird and Buchan, and builders J.C. Taylor and Sons.
Overall, the house at 206 High Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1911-12, 1912-13, 1918-19, 1924-25, 1926-27, 1927-28.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. See Sutton Estate subdivision plan, 4 February, 1922, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1928, 1991, Barwon Water Profis system.
5. L. Huddle, Master of Architecture research database on Laird and Barlow and Laird and Buchan.
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Retirement Village - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 206 High Street has visual connections with other interwar Bungalow houses in this predominantly post war Bungalow streetscape. This house is similar in style, type and materials with others visually connected to it. The house has larger front and side setbacks, due to the more substantial size of the block. A car park and driveway is situated to one side, with a large front lawned garden taking up the remainder of the site to the east.
The asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard Federation style Nursing Home (formerly house) is characterised by interlocking hipped and gabled roof forms clad in galvanised corrugated iron. A dominant, recessed hip has gables and hips projecting from it to the rear and to the street frontage.
The house has undergone some alterations over the years. The original rendered tall chimneys with terra cotta pots have been removed and the single double hung window to the south-east has been replaced with a larger type. However, there are early timber framed casement windows with high lights still extant, including the bay window under the gable. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves.
A feature of the design is the return verandah, supported by recent? but appropriate timber columns.
Early decorative features of the design include the window lead lighting and the vertical gable ventilators.Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Greater Geelong Belmont Heritage Reports
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2007
Grading: C
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