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9 Fenwick Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 213202
City East Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 9 Fenwick Street has significance as a reasonably intact example of the Late Victorian Picturesque style. Built in 1905 for Thomas Peters, retired timber merchant, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 9 Fenwick Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include the recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor gable and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, asymmetrical composition, single storey height, two unpainted red brick chimneys with cream brick corbelling, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets and diamond panels, timber framed double hung tripartite window on the projecting gable, timber framed double hung windows under the verandah, timber framed doorway, verandah columns, verandah valances, decorative timber bargeboards and the timber finial on the projecting gable.
The house at 9 Fenwick Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this house is associated with original owner, Thomas Peters, retired timber merchant, from 1905. The house has associations with the Peters family until 1972.
Overall, the house at 9 Fenwick Street is of LOCAL significance.
Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1917, 1974.
Sands & McDougall Geelong Directory 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong City Council Rate Books (Kardinia Ward) 1861-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Removed from City Fringe Heritage Area (HO1639)
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Office - Physical Description 1
Description
The house at 9 Fenwick Street, Geelong, is set on a narrow allotment. It has modest front and side setbacks which are equivalent to the setbacks of the houses neighbouring it. The recent front garden consists of a central concrete path punctuated two shrubbery beds with timber borders.The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian Picturesque styled house is characterised by a recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated steel. Two early unpainted red brick chimneys with cream brick corbelling adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs, early paired timber brackets, with diamond panels between, are features of the eaves.
The projecting gable has an early timber framed double hung tripartite window with an introduced canvas hood above. The other timber framed double hung windows under the verandah appear to be early, as does the timber framed doorway.
The front verandah is supported by early cast iron columns and is decorated with introduced valances simulating cast iron work.
Early decorative features of the design include the timber bargeboards and timber finial on the projecting gable..
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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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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