Residence "Warranamurra"
32 Laurel Bank Parade, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 202622
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This 1892-93 residence has regional historical significance as a fine example of the innovative styles displayed in many of Geelong's Edwardian timber houses and for its associations with William Purnell and Sons, a notable Geelong firm of timber merchants, builders and architects. It is one of a number of substantial Newtown houses built as investments by this firm, "Strathcona", 112 Noble Street (1900) is another. "Warranamurra" has regional architectural significance as a most innovative complex, yet tightly planned, Edwardian design. Particularly interesting are some of its elements: its unusual windows, also its Chinoiserie and English Arts and Crafts influences, and its extraordinary variety.
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Residence "Warranamurra" - Physical Description 1
Very complex, yet tightly planed, innovative and picturesque Edwardian timber house. It has a hip roof with 45 degree projections at each corner. The left-hand wing has an octagonal bay with a shingle-clad conical roof terminating in a turned timber finial. Its windows are unusual: 21-pane upper coloured glass sashes and a braced lower panel. The right-hand wing has two gables projecting at 45 degrees, the further one emerging from a hip. These upper gables are timbered in front of shingles which jetty forward. The timber verandah extends around all of this to the far right-hand gable, with a Chinoiserie influenced balustrade, English Arts and Crafts capitals and brackets. Every set of windows is different: one long tripartite, the next triple with a small pane band and finally a pair. The fence is inappropriate.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: BGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading: BGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: B
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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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