Craiglace
109 Noble Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 203315
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCEAn unusual large Edwardian timber house built 1912. It has local architectural significance as an unusual Edwardian style house, oriented towards the view, with interesting details such as the striking, Art Nouveau-influenced brackets and some remnant garden trees. It is historically significant as a representative embodiments of the way of life of the period and its values, comfortable and assured, in Edwardian Newtown.
INTACTNESS:
Very good, Most elements and planting in the extensive garden appear to be relatively recent, including fence, gazebo, garage. Recent additions have historicist elements but are sympathetic.
CONDITION:
Excellent
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Craiglace - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
An unusual, elevated, asymmetrical timber Edwardian house. It has three bays facing Miles and two facing Noble Street. Gables project at front right, with a porch recessed in the angle under a roof extension, at the side: front and rear, where a smaller splayed gable projects from a hipped wing. The verandah is beneath the main hip, between the side projections. Chimneys have roughcast and mouldings friezes, with pots. The two-gables have jettying upper sections, with ripple-iron on striking Art Nouveau three-dimensional brackets. Below again is a canted bay, clad with mock shingles under large palisade decorative brackets and shaped barges. Verandah posts are turned with a catenary curved palisade valence and balustrade. Some garden elements include peppercorn trees (pier nigrum) and flowering gums (Eucalyptus??) may be old.
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: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: C
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