Residence "Ellimatta"
278 Pakington Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 203956
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
A good and particularly intact timber Californian Bungalow with an attic, built in c1915. It has architectural significance as a characteristic and well developed example of this style, with a particularly interesting fence with a hedge. It has historical significance as an evocative embodiment of comfortable family life in 1920s Newtown.
INTACTNESS: Excellent. The fly screen door appears recent and anachronistic..
CONDITIONS AND THREATS: Excellent. Traffic vibration and pollution.
REFERENCE:
City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks.
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Residence "Ellimatta" - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A good, timber, triple-fronted gambrel-roofed facing Californian Bungalow, with an attic. The right and left side rear bays project as gables. Chimneys are pylons, decorated with stringcourse and small squares. Upper gables are supported on purlin pairs, beside which, unusually at front, a further purlin pair project. The verandah extends under the front gable and returns around the angle to the side gable and the entrance. It continues further a flat window hood. The entry projects at the angle as a glazed screens with side and fan-lights. The verandah has plain posts with plain pergola-like brackets. Its valence is a plain panel.
The front gable is on triple posts on a rendered, capped plinth. There is a charming wood nameplate in sanserif lettering of the period. Windoes, including a corner window in the angle are leadlight casement triples. Walls are sheeted (with asbestos cement?), over the dado and weatherbpoards below. The fence is important and interesting: unusually, posts are pylons and the base is also battered, with most interesting panels of Art Nouveau wrought iron over, in a scroll pattern, incorporating a disc inscribing an 'S', pierced by a rod palisade. Behind is a Glossy privet (Ligustrum Lucidum) hedge.
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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MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022Victorian Heritage Register H1645
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FORMER TELEGRAPH STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1527
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BAPTIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0427
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