Residence
150 Corio Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 212842
Austin Park and Environs Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
Significant
Previously C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 150 Corio Street, Geelong, has significance as a partially intact example of a rudimentary Victorian style and for its associations with Roger Kelsall in the mid 19th century. Kelsall was a former Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers who had been responsible for several convict buildings at Port Arthur, George Town and Maria Island in the early 19th century. This house shows evidence of some alterations, although the original form and construction is extant, and it appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 150 Corio Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although partially altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style. These qualities include the steeply pitched hipped roof form, projecting hipped convex verandah, rendered brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves, rendered brick wall construction, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding and the central timber framed doorway with transom above. Other appropriate qualities include the location of the timber framed double hung windows and the square timber verandah columns.
The house at 150 Corio Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the mid 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Roger Kelsall from at least 1851. Kelsall was a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers and had been responsible for the construction of the Church at Port Arthur (1836), guard house at George Town (1838), barracks at Port Arthur (1840) and the barracks and convict hospital on Maria Island (1840).
Overall, the house at 150 Corio Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1919, 1924, 1986.
Sands & McDougall Geelong Directory 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong City Council Rate Books (Bellerine Ward) 1851-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong Town Plan 1858, Public Records Office of Victoria.
Pike, D. (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.2, 1788-1850 I-Z, 1967, pp. 37-38.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The house at 150 Corio Street, Geelong, is set on a contextually wide allotment for the local area. It has a modest front setback which is equivalent to the front setback of the neighbouring houses. The front garden consists of recent perimeter flower beds and grassed areas, which are bound at the front by a low sandstone block fence, approximately 400 mm high.
The symmetrical, single storey, rendered brick, rudimentary Victorian styled house is characterised by a steeply pitched hipped roof form with a hipped convex verandah that projects towards the street frontage. There is an introduced rear extension that projects to one side. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated steel. Two early rendered brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs are features of the eaves.
The symmetry of the design is accentuated on the front facade. There is an early central timber framed doorway with an early transom above, and flanking, altered (c.1920s) pairs of timber framed double hung windows. The building appears to rest on a unpainted sandstone base.
The front verandah appears to have been reconstructed and is supported by recent square timber columns.
Residence - Physical Description 2
Mostly intact, symmetrical facade, rendered with stone plinth, hipped roof clad in corrugated metal sheeting, rendered chimneys with tooled lines & projecting capping. Convex verandah now with plain timber posts & concrete deck. Altered windows (paired timber sash) with rendered architraves, 4 panelled door with original highlight with margin panes. Sandstone blocks incl. capitals from another building are located at the front boundary.
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:Geelong City Fringe Heritage Area Review
Author: RBA Architects + Conservation Consultants
Year: 2018
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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CORIO VILLAVictorian Heritage Register H0193
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