Residence
343 Shannon Avenue, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204808
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A large double-storey complex Californian Bungalow built in about 1920, with a fine 1960s Modernist extension and various contextual elements including mature trees and hedge. It is architecturally significant locally as a characteristic early representative of this domestic style, with several interesting details including the ridge caps, brackets and pots. It is historically significant in embodying affluent family life in the early 1920s and the developing needs of one family over at least forty years.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
A large double-storey brick complex Californian Bungalow. There is a major gable across, nesting with a single-storey gable at left. A minor double-storey gable then projects with a canted bay window with four large convex wavy palisade brackets. Up to this, the skillion-roofed double-storey verandah extends, infilled at first floor level, supported on clinker brick piers returning to face Queens road, at the right side. At the angle is an octagonal bay. It terminates at a single-storey gable projecting to Queens Road, with the entrance in the angle. This has a segmental head and steps are dressed bluestone.
The roof is terracotta unglazed Marseilles patter tiles. Chimneys are rendered with a red brick frieze, brick moulds and Art Nouveau decorated terracotta pots. Ridges terminate in unusual fish-head caps, for instance over the entrance. Upper gables extend on deep coved brackets, with a palisaded vent over shingles, jettying on triple bullnosed brackets, then roughcast and shingles again, splaying.
The side gable has large convex brackets, with decorative fretwork and a most unusual fretwork central bracket. At rear is a fine 1960s Modernist extension with a flat roof. The Queens Road entrance is clinker brick piers with a soldier course, slots and caps, supporting a pergola with crossed rafters and geometric mild steel vehicular and pedestrian gates. There is a major hipped roof wing at rear. There are several mature trees and a boundary hedge.
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: 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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SACRED HEART CONVENT AND COLLEGEVictorian Heritage Register H0555
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