Residence
45 Roebuck Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204383
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A relatively unusual and tightly designed Edwardian timber house with some Art Nouveau decorative elements, built in 1912. It is architecturally significant as representative of this domestic style and historically significant in embodying life in Newtown immediately prior to the Great War.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
A triple-fronted timber Edwardian house with an unusual hipped roof over a simple rectangular plan. The left and right side rear bays are expressed as gables within the rectangle, each with skillion window hoods having wavy palisade and Art Nouveau sinuous fretwork brackets. The verandah is around the angle under the hip, with a rectangular bay window on the splay. It has a valence of palisade, lattice and is arched at the angle. The entrance is glazed with leadlight including side and fanlights. Chimneys are brick, apparently plain.
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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IRON STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0742
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