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11 Fenwick Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 213204
City East Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 11 Fenwick Street, Geelong, has significance as an intact example of the Late Victorian style. Built in 1905 for Thomas F. Peters, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 11 Fenwick Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with bullnosed verandah (with gabled portico) that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the galvanised symmetrical composition, single storey height, corrugated steel roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves with timber brackets, projecting timber framed double hung bay windows, timber framed doorway with sidelights and highlights, turned timber verandah columns, ornamental timberwork under the verandah portico, and the cast iron verandah valances.
The house at 11 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 has associations with Thomas F. Peters, retired timber merchant and original owner from 1905. The Peters family were long-time owners of the property, for it remained under their ownership until 1972.
Overall, the house at 11 Fenwick Street is of LOCAL significance.
References
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) 1897-1960, 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 11 Fenwick Street, Geelong, is set on an averaged sized allotment for the local area. It has a modest front setback that is equivalent to the front setbacks of the neighbouring houses at 7 and 9 Fenwick Street. The modest front garden consists of mature shrubbery beds bound by a timber border. The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with a bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets are features of the eaves. An early feature of the design is the front verandah. It is adorned with a central gable portico, the whole being supported by early turned timber verandah columns. The portico is decorated with ornamental timberwork, while the verandah itself has decorative cast iron valances. The symmetrical composition of the design is accentuated by the early central timber framed doorway with sidelights and highlights, which are flanked by early projecting timber framed double hung bay windows.
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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