Residence
13 Sharp Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204925
Chilwell and Saffron St Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A symmetrical timber Italianate cottage with a spectacular decorative slate roof, built in 1870. It has local architectural significance as representative of this domestic style and historically significant in embodying respectable working class family life in 1870s Newtown.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted symmetrical timber Italianate cottage. It has a gabled roof across, with a skillion at rear and a convex roofed verandah. This has a fine scalloped fretwork frieze and fretwork ends, which could be Edwardian. There are pressed metal triangular panels and Regency stallboards.
The door is panelled with a fanlight. It has an eave frieze with turned spindle ogee bracket pairs with lozenges and panels between over a mould. The tour-de-force is the spectacular roof cladding of slates with two rows of scalloped green slates and a central diamond of diamond - shaped green slates around a central grey diamond.
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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