Residence
25 Roebuck Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204374
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
An unusual Symmetrical timber late Californian Bungalow with some eclectic elements. It is architecturally significant in representing the transition from Bungalow to 1930s villa domestic styles, unusual in Newtown. It is historically significant in embodying family life in Newtown prior to the Great Depression.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
An unusual double-fronted, symmetrical timber late Californian Bungalow, with a gambrel roof across. The centre front, a minor gambrel, projects as the porch. Gambrels have palisade claddings of narrower and wider boards. Rafters are exposed and chimneys have rendered frieze and Voyseyan plate caps, with a terracotta unglazed pot. The upper porch is clad with shingles, splaying over a greatly arched transom, supported on Tuscan columns over red brick plinths with rendered plate caps.
Windows are a bow at left and a canted bay at right, with flat roofs and a series of leadlighted sashes in geometric pattern over shingled spandrels. The recessed entrance has splayed sides with a most unusual (original?) Palladian entrance door and sidelights, all leadlighted. There is an embossed copper nameplate and fence is of red and clinker bricks with crimp-wire between piers which have raked tops.
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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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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ST PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0187
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