44 Kirk Road, Point Lonsdale
44 Kirk Road POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
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Statement of Significance
Statement of Significance as recorded under the Queenscliff Heritage Study 2009
Aberdeen at 44 Kirk Road is of historical and architectural significance to the Borough of Queenscliffe. It is of historical significance as a well-appointed holiday house which relates to the development of Point Lonsdale in the early years of the twentieth century. Architecturally, Aberdeen is a lively and elegant substantial Federation house, simply but effectively detailed, and largely externally intact to its period of construction. It also adopts a more urbane use of Federation architecture in the Point Lonsdale context, in contrast to the vernacular path pursued in other local contemporary houses. The building's asymmetrical plan and presentation to the street are additionally enhanced by the detailing to the return verandah, including the pierced, flat arched timber bressumers, turned posts and balustrade rail secured with scalloped timber brackets.
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44 Kirk Road, Point Lonsdale - Physical Description 1
Sims of Ballarat was the owner of two of the lots and a timber villa.(2) Fifteen years later it was owned by Charles R. Sims also of Ballarat.(3) 44 Kirk Road is of timber and has asymmetrical plan with a return, timber verandah.
The verandah has pierced, flat arched timber bressumers, turned posts and a balustrade rail which is secured with scalloped timber brackets. The windows are paired, with typical plain architraves and bracketted window hoods, and the entrance door has a typical Victorian configuration of side and top lights, with panelling below dado height. The hipped form of the main roof is repeated in the attic roof. The house is largely original with the exception of the colour scheme.
44 Kirk Road is typical of the Point Lonsdale vernacular, as seen also in Samarai and Beach House.
44 Kirk Road, Point Lonsdale - Physical Description 2
Extract from the 2009 study
Aberdeen, at 44 Kirk Road is an attic-level weatherboard building, on an asymmetrical plan and with a projecting bay and elevated return timber verandah. The verandah has pierced, flat arched timber bressumers, turned posts and a balustrade rail which is secured with scalloped timber brackets. The windows to the two most visible elevations, under the verandah and including the bay, are paired, with typical plain architraves and bracketed window hood to the bay window. The entrance door adjacent to the projecting bay, which is accessed via a flight of timber steps with timber handrails, has a more typically Victorian configuration of side and top lights, with panelling below dado height. The house has hipped roof forms, which are repeated in the attic roof. The house appears to be substantially intact externally; it is not known if the attic level is original.
44 Kirk Road, Point Lonsdale - Intactness
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Heritage Study and Grading
Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Urban Conservation Study
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates P/L, Architects
Year: 1982
Grading:Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Heritage Study
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2009
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BALLARAVictorian Heritage Register H1126
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ARILPAVictorian Heritage Register H1132
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POINT LONSDALE MARITIME AND DEFENCE PRECINCTVictorian Heritage Register H1517
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