Residence
17 Skene Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205009
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A particularly intact, complex, yet characteristic timber Edwardian house, with some interesting details, built in 1905. It is locally architecturally significant as representative of this domestic style and historically as the embodiment of white collar family life in Newtown before the Great War.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
A complex triple-fronted timber Edwardian house with a pyramidal hipped roof. Gables are set forward at left-side rear and right-side front. The verandah extends around the angle under the hip. At the angle, is an octagonal bay window expressed at the roof; right-front is a gable, set forward: both form pavilions. At centre is the entrance, with a dormer over.
Chimneys have terracotta posts with brick friezes and moulds over render. Upper gables have shaped barges set forward, the upper section has Medievalising timbers jettying on convex brackets, with mock shingles and further fretwork brackets. The right pavilion has a canted bay. Pavilions have a palisaded valance, at right with a rare horshoe arch. Brackets are fretwork, posts have incised bands. There is balustrade of palisade fretwork and with a catenary curve at left. At the right side is an oculus. The 1930 clinker brick fence is sympathetic.
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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