Residence "Khandeish"
19 Laurel Bank Parade, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 202603
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
An unusual and particularly intact Edwardian timber house with a tower. It is architecturally significant locally as an unusual Edwardian style house, with some interesting decorative elements including the tower. It is historically significant as a representative embodiment of the way of life and its values in the Edwardian period in Newtown.
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Residence "Khandeish" - Physical Description 1
An unusual triple fronted timber Edwardian hip-roofed house. The right bay projects as a gable, the upper section jettying on ogee brackets, as timbered roughcast. Under is a rectangular bay window, its upper section with mock shingles, ripple-iron to its skillion window-hood, on latticed brackets. The upper sash of the pair has coloured glass. There is a central tower, with a ripple-iron hip-roof rising to an unusual orb-shaped finial. It has a round-hooded window with coloured glazed small panes in the upper sash. There is a good verandah in the angle with mock shingles and both oval and round (at ends) valence and balustrade, with a diagonal palisade and turned posts with orb-finials and latticed balustrade. Posts have mould capitals. The chimneys have a blind arcade of render decoration.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: CGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading: CGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: C
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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ANZ BANKVictorian Heritage Register H0191
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TRUSTEES CHAMBERSVictorian Heritage Register H0190
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