Residence
21 Brownbill Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 212595
City South-East Residential Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 21 Brownbill Street, Geelong, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of an early interwar Bungalow style. Built in 1918-19 for the bricklayer, William Harrison, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 21 Brownbill Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an early interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the simple gable roof form, together with the minor porch gable at one side that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, timber framed double hung windows including the front tripartite windows that have decorative leadlighting, timber framed doorway under the porch gable, timber porch columns and arch with timber fretwork above, and the gable infill stuccoed panelling and battening.
The house at 21 Brownbill Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong soon after the First World War in 1918-19. In particular, this house has associations with William Harrison, bricklayer and original owner from 1918-19, who sold it in an unfinished state to a Mr Atkins in 1919. Overall, the house at 21 Brownbill Street is of LOCAL significance.
References
References Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1924, 1990. Voters Roll, Barwon Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Electoral Roll, District Corio, Sub-district Geelong, 1984, GHRC.
Sands & McDougall Geelong Directory, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory, 1968. Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong City Council Rate Books 1918-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Geelong Town Plan, 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
The house at 21 Brownbill Street, Geelong, is set on a typically narrow allotment and has a sizeable front setback. The house is situated on one side boundary with the other side having a narrow setback. The front consists of a perimeter garden and grassed area, and an introduced skillion carport at one side. The front is bound by a timber picket fence, approximately 1600 mm high. The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, early interwar Bungalow styled house is characterised by a simple gable roof form, together with a minor porch gable at one side that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated steel. Wide overhangs with exposed timber rafters are features of the eaves. The timber framed double hung windows are early, with the front tripartite windows have decorative leadlighting. There is also an early timber framed doorway under the porch gable. Early or appropriate decorative features of the design include the timber porch columns and arch with timber fretwork above, and the gable infill stuccoed panelling and battening.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: CGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study Volume 1
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: CGreater Geelong - Geelong City 'C' Citations Study
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2002
Grading:
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FORMER GEELONG GAOLVictorian Heritage Register H0991
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ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH (FORMERLY ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH)Victorian Heritage Register H0656
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AUSTIN HALL AND TERRACE COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H0841
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