"Rannoch"
50 Skene Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205146
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
A Listed - State Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNFICANCENEWTOWN URBAN CONSERVATION STUDY - C CITATION
A particularly intact, almost symmetrical Edwardian timber house built in 1912. It is architecturally significant locally as an unusual variant of this domestic style and historically in embodying unpretentious professional family life in Newtown at the onset of the Great War.
INTACTNESS: Excellent, The fly screen door and fence are later.
CONDITIONS AND THREATS: Very Good
REFERENCE: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks
GRC - HISTORIC PLACES DOCUMENT - SHEET 329
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The design of "Ranncoch House" can be attributed to noted Geelong architects, Backhouse and Reynolds and was constructed in 1855-58 as a Renaissance Revival two storey stuccoed masonary residence with a ornate arcuated timber verandah and loggia. A. S. Robertson, wealthy pastoralist and formerly of "Burnside" at Murgeboluc, was the first owner. Jacob Pitman architect of Geelong, designed the single storey conservative classical style wings to the central pavilion of c 1858 in 1863. the finely detailed stables by Backhouse and Reynolds to the rear of the house were erected of squared coarsed basalt in 1858 At the time of completion in 1863, "Rannoch House" was one of the finest and most substantial town houses in Victoria.
RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register.
Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate.
Historic Buildings Council Register.
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register.
REFERENCES
Huddle Lorraine - "Architects in Geelong in the 1840's and 1850's. Humanities Research Report, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1979. Vol. 1, p.67, Vol 2. P.45, Vol 3 p 137.
Brownhill, W. R. - A History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke & Co., Melbourne, 1955, pp. 152, 153, 193, 215, 342, 363, 552.
Geelong Advertiser - 8 January, 1881, for sale notice 22 January 1880, let to Mrs Power of Melbourne.
Sutherland, Alexander - Victoria and It's Metropolis Past and Present, McCarron, Bird and Co, Melbourne, 1888, Vol 2 p 168, biographical sketch of Louis Robertson, son of A S Robertson.
Geelong Advertiser - 30 August 1858, January 1863, 8 May 1863, tender notices.
Billis RV and Kenyon AS - Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip, Stockland Press, Melbourne , 1974, p. 131 re: Other pastoral run in Little Corangamite.
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"Rannoch" - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
An unusual, almost symmetrical, double-fronted timber Edwardian house with a hipped roof. The verandah extends across and returns at right under the hip. Under at left is a canted bay window at the angle; at right a rectangular bay on the splay, with a gablet over (obscured). The valence is wavy palisade, with fretwork and deep Art Nouveau fretwork brackets and a central arch, at the entrance. This has a paneled glazed floor with a fan and sidelights, all coloured lead lights next to a small leadlight window with a bell-shaped head. Chimneys are symmetrical. The garden is appropriate.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: AGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading: AGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: A
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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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ST PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0187
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