Residence
117 Prospect Road, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204178
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
An early timber Californian Bungalow, built in 1919. Architecturally locally significant as early and characteristic of the type and historically significance as embodying life in Newtown immediately after the Great War.
Reference
City of Newtown and Chilwell Rate Books
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Residence - Physical Description 1
Description
A double-fronted timber Californian Bungalow with a major and two minor nestled gables facing. These have double lathe decoration. The roof has unglazed Marseilles terracotta tiles. Walls are roughcast, excepting a weatherboard dado at front. The left gable is set forward over the verandah. Its upper section is over splayed mock singles, then a shallow catenary-curved bressummer and abstracted square Tuscan piers on roughcast plinths. The right gable is supported on a group of five bullnosed brackets at centre and larger concave brackets at sides. It has a canted oriel, with a flat-roof. Both are supported by deep ogee brackets.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: C
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THE HEIGHTSVictorian Heritage Register H0429
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FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
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BAPTIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0427
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