South Gellibrand Street Precinct
Gellibrand Street and St Andrews Street and Kings Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
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Statement of Significance
Statement of Significance as recorded under the Queenscliff Heritage Study 2009
What is significant?
The precinct is of significance for its historic connection with the development of the Pilots service. Although not within this precinct, the Fort also has a significant visual impact on the area.
Specific significant and contributory buildings within the precinct are identified in the attached schedule.
How is it significant?
The Pilot's Row Precinct is historically and architecturally significant to the Borough of Queenscliffe.
Why is it significant?
The area is of historical significance as the centre of the development of community facilities and service groups including the Pilots Service, the Military and the lighthouses. These facilities and groups were the reason for the town's existence initially and over a long period provided work and occupations for its residents. Whilst the Fort is not part of the precinct as stated above, its close proximity has a significant visual impact on the area providing a sense of approach along Gellibrand Street.
The architectural character of this area relates to the varied residential building forms surrounding the major Fort complex.
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South Gellibrand Street Precinct - Physical Description 1
Extract from the 2009 study
This precinct includes the area bounded by Stokes Street, Princess Park south to the Fort, St. Andrews Street, King Street from the corner of Gellibrand Street to St. Andrews Street, and the east side of St Andrews Street.
The properties fronting Gellibrand Street, including the remaining pilots cottages at Warraine, number 50, and numbers 60-62 and 66-68, face onto the south end of Princess Park and the Fort. Although not part of the precinct the Fort is also a major presence on the southern and eastern edges of the area. The most important aspect of the Fort visually is the impact of the wall and keep, and the various buildings rising above them including the black lighthouse, the old telegraph station and lighthouse keepers' quarters and the signal tower.
The east side of St Andrews Street forms the western extent of the precinct and contains a number of properties of a variety of ages, which have generally been constructed at the rear of the plots off of Gellibrand Street. These may historically have been sleep out structures or small cottages, but many are now in use as holiday cottages.
The buildings are generally modest timber framed residences with one or two exceptions where brick has been used. The precinct includes some heavily modified or even replacement buildings which incorporate modern trends in glazing and scale, but still respect the rather narrow palette of materials exhibited in this precinct. Of particular architectural merit are the Pilots Cottages at numbers 60-62 and 66-68, which are duplex arrangements and relatively intact.
Heritage Study and Grading
Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Heritage Study
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2009
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