Residence
95 Prospect Road, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204168
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
An interesting complex Edwardian timber house built in 1902 for a doctor. It has decorative elements such as the fretwork, rising sun and chrysanthemum motifs dervied from Chinoiserie. It is architecturally significant locally as a characteristic Edwardian house of unusual interest and historically as a representative embodiment of professiional middle-class life of the Edwardian period in Newtown.
References
City of Newtown and Chilwell Rate Books
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Residence - Physical Description 1
Description
A complex hiproofed timber Edwardian house, generally quadruplefronted. The roofextends over the verandah which returns one bay, both sides. At left, to a projecting bay on the splay, with a high rectangular hip in the French Renaissance chateau manner, with two ball finials. At centre is a large projecting hip over r a central rectangular bay window and at right is a half-octagonal pavilion. The valance is a bold lattice over catenary curves, on deeply turned posts with square tops. At centre are chrysanthemum pattern fretwork brackets and at left, rising sun concave brackets. There are Venetian chimneys with unusual deep corbels at the angles, only.
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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MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022Victorian Heritage Register H1645
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FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
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BAPTIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0427
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