Residence
60 Virginia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205406
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
A large brick, particular intact and early , Californian Bungalow with some fine and unusual, perhaps Asian influence, details including the front fence(which may also be influenced by Charles Rennie Mackintosh) an attic, all built in 1918. It is architecturally significant locally as an eclectic, early and fine representative of this domestic style and historically in embodying life in Newtown at the close of the Great War.
INTACTNESS: Excellent
CONDITIONS & THREATS: Very Good
REFERENCES: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION:
A large triple-fronted brick gable-roofed Californian Bungalow, with some fine and unusual, perhaps Asian influence, details and an attic. A major gable extends across. Projecting at front are minor gable, left and at centre, a more major gable, with a rectangular bay window. This has a flat roof on deep ogee rafters and four sashes. There is another canted window hood at right, rear.
Recessed in the angle, is a large porch. Unusually, the entrance is in its angle splayed. Rafters are exposed here, supported on a bressumer, over a lintel on block pairs. Posts are in groups of four, abstracted Tuscan, on a brick piers with rendered stepped tops. At right is a plain timber balustrade. The entrance has side, fan and highlight, with a leadlight and panel door.
The roof is clad with Marseilles unglazed terracotta tiles and finials. There is a skillion roof light. Windows generally, are leadlight rectangular panes, with decorative upper sashes. There is a dado band. Barges have rounded ends, supported on purlin-pairs with broad concave brackets pairs. Upper gables have palisades timbers, below are splaying shingles on blocks. At right is a gently curved attic balconette with a balustrade.
The fence is important and unusual. It is woven over a bull-nosed plinth, with metal ribbon gates, curlicue and quatrefoil pattern. Piers are Mackintoch-influenced pylons, with slots and shallow-domed caps.
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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