Residence
60 Skene Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205142
Aberdeen, George and Skene St H.A.
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
A characteristic timber Edwardian house in excellent condition, built in perhaps 1905, replacing an earlier house built before 1860 It is architecturally significant as representative ofthe Edwardian domestic style and historically for its sequence of development and in embodying life in Newtown early this century.
INTACTNESS - Good. A large window has been installed under the verandah and there may be other alterations to the gable and balustrade, all sympathetic. The fence is recent and there is a skillion addition and a carport at the rear.
CONDITIONS AND THREATS - Excellent
REFERENCE - City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks - Visual evidence. The ratebooks offered no assistance in this
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
A timber double-fronted Edwardian house with a hipped roof. The left bay is set forward as a gable. The verandah is in the angle with an entrance hall at left. It has a palisade valence, with apron panels.
Brackets are large coved fretwork and posts are turned with a palisade balustrade. At left is hipped window hood roofed in ripple-iron on deep ogee fretwork brackets. At the right side rear is a ripple-iron skillion windowhood on wavy palisade brackets with fleur-de-lis fretwork brackets.
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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