Residence
64 Skene Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205140
Aberdeen, George and Skene St H.A.
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A particularly intact and unusually undecorated brick Edwardian house built in 1920, replacing a house built only ten years earlier. It is architecturally significant as an unusual variant of this domestic style and historically in embodying life in Newtown after the Great War
INTACTNESS: Excellent, but the high fence is not appropriate.
CONDITIONS AND THREATS: Very Good
REFERENCE: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks anf Mr Roger Hudson, owner with RP 28 March 1997
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A triple-fronted, relatively undecorated red brick Edwardian house with a slated hipped to of which extends at slight break-pitch over the verandah. The left and right side rear bays are set forward as gables with the verandah around the flush beading. Chimneys have a plain brick frieze and unglazed terracotta pots. The entrance has side and fanlights in leadlight, with oculus decorations in the side light.
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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