Residence
49 Virginia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205400
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
CListed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
A very early, characteristic yet complex, brick Californian Bungalow with an attic, built in 1917. It is architecturally significant locally as a pioneering, yet representative, example of this domestic style, later to become so popular in Newtown. It is historically significant in embodying forward-looking family like in Newtown in the last years of the Great War and as evidence that the building trade continues during that period.
INTACTNESS: Very good, but the high fence is not appropriate
CONDITIONS & THREATS: Very Good
REFERENCES: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION:
A complex triple-fronted red brick gable-roofed Californian Bungalow with an attic. It has a hipped roof in the angle between two major gables: one at right and the other at lift side rear, nested with a minor gable. The attic gable faces at centre. Under the hip is the verandah around the angle. It is supported on post-pairs with a rendered brick balustrade and piers with plate-tops and triple-header decorations.
Chimneys are similar, with a brick frieze course and terra-cotta pots. Roofing is unglazed terracotta Marseilles tiles with cresting and finials. At the gables are rectangular bay windows. There is a timber garage contemporary with the house.
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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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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ST PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0187
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ANZ BANKVictorian Heritage Register H0191
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