Residence
50 Clarke Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 201592
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
50 Clarke Street This artisans cottage of the 1850s or earlier has regional historical significance as an early example of workers housing and originally was the home of Ellis Roberts, tailor. This was a trade of particular importance in colonial Newtown. Later, in the 1880s, the cottage was associated with another Newtown artisan, Thomas Thorne, saddler. This trade was important in the early history of transport in Geelong when carriages, buggies and other horse drawn vehicles were common. It has architectural significance to Newtown as a particularly intact early cottage illustrating its development with various additions and alterations clearly visible. It also retains, apparently intact, its cottage vegetable and flower garden context, rare surviving evidence of the early settlement pattern of Newtown.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Exisitng Listing's - None
Recommendations - RNE LPS Place
REFERENCES
Newtown Rate Book 1859-60, North Ward, No's 1678 & 1679.
Glady, Seaton - Model Borough, City of Newtown, 1983, pp. 92-93.& p 98
Newtown Rate Book 1962 No's 1590 & 1591.
Ibid - 1868-69 - No's 146 & 47
Ibid - 1891-73 - No's 146 & 147
Ibid - 1878-79 - No's 146 & 47 - 1885-86 No's 146 & 147
Newtown Rate Book 1887-88 No 202 (Susan may have been Thomas's wife, widow or daughter).
Ibid - 1888-89 - No 202.
Ibid - 1917-18 - No 356
Ibid 1919-20 - No 366
Ibid - 1925 - No 324
Ibid - 1935 - No 335
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
An early timber, hip-roofed cottage facing north (I.e. the rear faces Clarke Street. The doors and windows facing Clarke Street are later) There is a double-fronted symmetrical cottage with a similar extension to the south. This has 12 pane early intact double-hung windows, a four panel door and a gable roof & porch enclosed on the west side. Perpendicularly at the sides are hip roof wings. The left-hand (east) bay is slightly set back. This has bull-nosed weatherboards although the rest are flat. The early ogee spouting and rain-waterheads are generally intact. The cottage garden is entirely appropriate, including fruit trees, vegetables and board-edged geometrical plots.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading:
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FORMER GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H0188
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CHRIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0186
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LEYTON AND ROCHFORDVictorian Heritage Register H0562
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