Residence
70 West Fyans Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 205695
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
This pair of early timber cottages, portion of which dates from the early 1860s, with additions in the 1879s and 1880s, has regional historical significance for a long association with the Pile family of builders, carpenters and stonemasons. The building trade was of great importance in the Geelong district from a very early time. James Pile, owner of the property in 1861, built the Noble Street Wesleyan Church, which has been described as quotone of the earliest and most substantial of the structures erected by the Wesleyan Methodists in the first two decades of settlement in victoriaquot. Building workers were associated with the pair of cottages at least until the 1930s. They have regional architectural significance as a remarkably intact pair of cottages, partly early, but illustrating the developing needs of one family over 50 years, with their various visible additions. Their unusual relationship to their site is of particular interest. They also evidence the settlement pattern of this part of Newtown 130 years ago.
References
Newtown rate book 1861-62, South Ward, Nos. 985, 986
Ibid 1870 Nos 902, 903
Ibid 1871 Nos 902, 903
Ibid 1873-74 Nos 902, 903
Ibid 1875-76 Nos 899, 900, 902, 903; 1877-78 Nos 899, 900, 902, 903
Ibid 1888-89 Nos 948, 949
Ibid 1890-91 Nos 998, 999; 1895-96 Nos 1138, 1139
Ibid 1911-12 Nos 1291, 1292
A Willingham, Geelong Regional Commission Study, Sheet 322
Gladys Seaton, Model Borough, City of Newtown, 1983, p34
Newtown Rate book 1916-1917 Nos 1433-34
Ibid 1919-20 Nos 1455-56
Ibid 1927 Nos 1766, 1767
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Residence - Physical Description 1
Description
Early timber hip-roof semi-detched cottages. They have generally slate roofs, with wide (200mm) Regency mould fine weatherboards and fine 12-pane double-hung windows. A side-window has a hood. It has an L-shaped plan, with a gable-facing attached to a hipped roof wing across which forms part of No. 72 and par No. 70. Behind this on the right-hand side is a hip-roofed perpendicular addition with a further skillion attached. These have corrugated iron roofs. Each of the three wings has a polychromatic internal chimney. There is a shared verandah in the angle. It is convex, with a bold scrolled fretwork end decoration. There is a further skillion partly-enclosed verandah in the right-hand corner angle.
The right-hand hip extension is brick and appears to be the earliest section built. The documentary evidence appears to contradict this and indicates this section as late 1880s.It has stone quoins, forming a double-fronted symmetrical cottage. The ogee spouting survives, but the brickwork is painted. This has a corrugated iron roof. It is all extraordinary close (300mm) to the right-hand boundary. Especially so, since the brick cottage section faces this direction.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading:
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KARDINIA HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0337
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EYTHORNEVictorian Heritage Register H1130
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GEELONG COLLEGEVictorian Heritage Register H0883
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