Point Lonsdale Guest House, 29 Point Lonsdale Road POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
29 Point Lonsdale Road POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
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Statement of Significance
Statement of Significance as recorded under the Queenscliff Heritage Study 2009
Point Lonsdale Guest House is of historical and architectural significance to the Borough of Queenscliffe. It is of historical significance as an example of an evolved nineteenth century guesthouse, a building type that proliferated during the twentieth century, and while uncommon in Point Lonsdale, was not so in Queenscliff. Point Lonsdale Guest House is architecturally significant as a prominent, imposing and long-standing two-storey weatherboard building in Point Lonsdale. While it demonstrates an evolved form, and is not necessarily distinguished architecturally, it still provides evidence of the guest house typology including the generous first floor verandah, from which views are available. It is also one of several hotels/guest houses in the municipality which received new verandah envelopes after World War I, in a 'modern' style, reflecting a desire on the part of the owners to update and refresh the building to support its commercial accommodation use.
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Point Lonsdale Guest House, 29 Point Lonsdale Road POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH - Physical Description 1
Terminus House is a two-storey timber house with bracketted eaves and a two level timber and cast iron verandah. It appears that the original building was rectangular in plan and possessed cast iron friezes and bracketting to its return timber verandah.
A gabled bay was then added (possibly by Hewitson in 1919) to the north west corner with window hoods and half shingling to the gable. The verandah was reshaped at the corner, and redecorated with timber slatting and fretted brackets in place of the ironwork.
Vertical timber slatting may have replaced cast iron balustrade panels. At that stoge, the arrow head picket fence was replaced with a wire fabric double palisade fence. This fence remains but the gates have been replaced. On the ground level fascia to the verandah at the corner there is a scroll adorned with 'Terminus'.
Since that date, the upper northern verandah has been enclosed as has part of the lower, and the colour scheme altered.(7)
Point Lonsdale Guest House, 29 Point Lonsdale Road POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH - Physical Description 2
Extract from the 2009 study
Point Lonsdale Guest House is a prominent and imposing two-storey weatherboard guesthouse with hipped and gabled corrugated steel-clad roof forms, bracketed eaves and a two level timber and cast iron verandah. It appears that the original building was rectangular in plan and possessed cast iron friezes and bracketing to its return timber verandah. A gabled bay was then added (possibly by Hewitson in 1919) to the north-west corner with window hoods and half shingling to the gable. The verandah was reshaped at the north-east corner and redecorated with timber slatting and fretted brackets in place of the ironwork. The cast-iron frieze on the upper verandah may be long-standing, but the slatted timber frieze on the ground floor verandah appears to date from this alteration. Vertical timber slatting may also have replaced cast iron balustrade panels. The upper northern verandah has been enclosed as has part of the lower; a steel-framed stair has been added to the north side of the verandah; and the colour scheme has been altered.[i] The verandah's north side has been re-glazed and its former cement sheet balustrade infill has been replaced with plank newels. The fence and its gates have been removed since 1984, as have the bracketed window hoods on the north-facing gabled bay. There are two permanent signs saying 'Point Lonsdale Guest House', one on the upper level balustrade chamfer and the other on the ground floor level north frieze.
[i] SLV, Postcard, Rose Series p.3469.
Point Lonsdale Guest House, 29 Point Lonsdale Road POINT LONSDALE, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH - 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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