"Cottage Craft"
21 Pleasant Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204133
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCEThis rendered brick cottage has regional historical significance for its early associations with Geelong's important building trade, and was constructed c1865 for, and most probably by, Elijah Seeley, well-known Geelong bricklayer and building contractor, and the father of the Geelong architect, Thomas Federick Seeley. It has regional historical significance as a surviving Conservative Classical cottage which has some architectural pretensions. These are expressed in quoins, architrave moulds and keystones. It is a design full of interesting elements including: architrave pendants, round headed recessed entry, fretwork barges, perimeter glazing bars and octagonal chimneys. Its development is illustrated by the sequence of additions.
References
Newtown rate book 1865-66, North Ward, No 256.
R Aitken, "Edwardian Geelong: An Architectural Introduction", unpublished thesis, Deakin University, 1979.
Newtown rate book 1865-66 No. 255.
Ibid 1885-86 No 253. The first constable operated from there in the early 1860s. In 1909 a police station was listed in Aphrasia Street, replacing the building in Pleasant Street.
Ibid 1865-66 Nos 255, 256
Ibid 1866-67 Nos 255, 256
Ibid 1870-71 Nos 255, 256
Ibid 1871-72 Nos 255, 256
J.H Bottrell, Newtown Hill and Round About, in Geelong Advertiser, 19 January, 1929
R Aitken, "Edwardian Geelong: An Architectural Introduction", unpublished thesis, Deakin University, 1979; and Cyclopedia of Victoria, vol. 2, pp 452-453
Newtown rate book 1885-86 nos 255, 256
Ibid 1888-89 Nos 297, 298
Ibid 1895-96 Nos 380, 381
Investigator, March 1979, pp 18-24
Newtown rate book 1919-20 No 474, 1935 No 558.
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"Cottage Craft" - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A symmetrical, doublefronted, Conservative Classical cottage, with parallel gables across the site. It has a rendered front, of acentral roundheaded opening with a keystone, in which the door is recessed. This and the particularly large windows have a moulded architrave which splays at the sill, as pendants. The windows have fine perimeter glazing bars. The front chimneys are octagonal the roof i s slate. There are wavy fretwork bargeboards. There are two similar gable extensions, the middle one being recessed to form a courtyard. The interior plan and some elements (cornices, fireplaces), appear intact.
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: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: B
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MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022Victorian Heritage Register H1645
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BAPTIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0427
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FORMER BAPTIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0426
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