Residence
173 Skene Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205075
Aberdeen, George and Skene St H.A.
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A particularly elaborately decorated rendered Late Victorian house with both Italianate and Boom characteristics, built in 1983-97.
It is architecturally significant as a remarkable decorative expression of both styles combined and for its diversity for architectural detail and historically in embodying the pretension of family life in late nineteenth centaury details.
INTACTNESS: Very good. Brickwork and chimney pots are painted, colours are not appropriate and the bush garden is not appropriate either, although charming.
CONDITIONS AND THREATS: Very Good.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A triple-fronted rendered brick (?) Late Victorian house with not Italianate And Boom characteristic and a hipped slate roof. The left side rear bay is set forward, as is the right bay as gable. The upper gable is roughcast, unusually with an elaborately scalloped bargeboard, with pendant barges, drilled and turned.
There is a turned finial with a cross-bar, with an unsual curved palisade over. This bay has a canted bay windows with a parapet, balustrade between piers, dentillated cornice and frieze moulds. Windows are rough-headed with unusual ogee moulded keystones, through archtitrave moulds, supported by Early English half column pairs on octagonal bases. The deep cill is supported by Early English half column pairs on octagonal bases. The deep cill is supported round brackets with female heads, rosettes and spandrel panels.
Eaves have decorative console bracket pairs between rosettes and scrollage panels. Angles have quoins and brickwork is tuckpointed, windows are tripartite, also with brackets and Composite mullions. The entrance door is paneled with blue glass in side and the round headed fanlight and with an elaborately carved head (or lintel), supported on consoles with flat plaster mullions. There is a second door at the left end of the verandah.
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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THE HEIGHTSVictorian Heritage Register H0429
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FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
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ARMYTAGE HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0405
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