Residence
36 Roebuck Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204392
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A characteristic Edwardian timber house with some Art Nouveau decorative motifs, built in 1913. 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 high-hip roofed, triple fronted Edwardian timber house. The centre bay is set forward as a gable.
The verandah is recessed under the hip in the left angle, with a palisade valence, arched with fretwork panel with an Art Nouveau tulip motif. The upper gable is timbered ripple-iron jettying, supported an ogee brackets, continuous across with an arched palisade frieze and fretwork panel with an Art Nouveau lyre motif. The window at left is (now) French doors and with a pair at right.
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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