Residence
352 Shannon Avenue, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204893
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A large double-storey complex timber Californian Bungalow built as early as 1910. It is architecturally significant locally for its particularly early date, a pioneer of this domestic style of which it is otherwise a representative example of a relatively unusual, near symmetrical form. It is historically significant as the embodiment of comfortable professional middle class family life in Newtown prior to the Great War.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
A large double-storey timber complex early Californian Bungalow. The major single-storey gable roof faces Shannon Street and is bisected by a double-storey gable terminating in a generous balcony facing Noble Street, its spandrel clad in shingles. A verandah extends right around the house, interrupted only by the central gable. It extends the main gable forward at break-pitch and is supported on column-pairs with incised bands, bases, fretwork brackets and curlicue fretwork panels.
Ridges have crenellated metal cresting and curlicue finials. Chimneys have Voyseyan plate-tops with moulds, supported on ogee brackets and terracotta pots with Art Nouveau decoration. Upper gables have shingles jettying on ogee brackets. Windows are double-hung with spandrel panels.
There is a pressed copper nameplate. Entry is from the side to a projecting porch, where the posts are on red brick piers with a scooped brick balustrade. The entrance has a glazed, panelled door and leadlight fanlights. Adjacent, is a rectangular bay with leadlight upper lights in the four casements, in a geranium pattern.
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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