Residence
26 Roebuck Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204400
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A characteristics particularly intact timber Californian Bungalow built in 1925, with several surviving original contextual elements, including garden layout. It is architecturally significant as a representative of this domestic style, but particularly for its remarkable intactness and for the rare intact survival of its contextual elements including: garage, fence, pedestrian and vehicular gates, garden layout and appropriate plantings, including the cumquat. It is historically significant as particularly evocative embodiment of a middle class family life in Newtown in the interwar period.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted timber Californian Bungalow with a major gable across and a gable projecting at front over the verandah. Rafters are expressed and the chimney is red brick with an unglazed terra-cotta pot. The upper gables are supported on deeply coved brackets and jetty in pairs of small ogee brackets with rectangular hooded vents, also on bullnosed brackets. At front, the upper gable is shingled.
The garage, fence, vehicular and pedestrian gates including the serpentine path and borders all survive, as do the beautifully card for garden layout, apparently with appropriate plantings and a large cumquat tree (Fortunella japonica?). The fence and gates are crimped and woven wire and posts have sawn caps.
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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