Residence
4 Lonsdale Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 214864
City South Residential Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
CListed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 4 Lonsdale Street, South Geelong, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of the Late Victorian Picturesque style. Built between 1893 and 1896 for Thomas Green, a gentleman of Chilwell, this house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 4 Lonsdale Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include the double gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor gable and convex verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted red, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two rendered brick chimneys with incised panels and multi-corbelled tops, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets and decorative panels, timber framed double hung tripartite window, timber framed double hung windows, timber framed doorway with sidelights and highlights, crafted timber bargeboards on the front gable, turned timber finials, and the timber verandah columns with projecting capitals. The house at 4 Lonsdale Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in South Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this house associations with Thomas Green, original owner and a gentleman of Chilwell, from 1893-96, and with subsequent Green family members from 1910 until 1920.
Overall, the house at 4 Lonsdale Street is of LOCAL significance.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
The house at 4 Lonsdale Street, South Geelong, is set on a long narrow allotment. The house has a front setback that is largely consistent with the neighbouring houses. The front is bound by a post and woven wire fence, approximately 1500 mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian Picturesque styled house is characterised by a double gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and convex verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron overpainted dark red. Two early rendered brick chimneys with incised panels and multi-corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs with paired timber brackets and decorative panels are features of the eaves.
The projecting gable has an early timber framed double hung tripartite window with an introduced skillion hood above. The other early windows about the exterior are also timber framed and double hung. The front timber framed doorway is also early, and has sidelights and highlights.
Early decorative features of the design include the crafted timber bargeboards on the front gable, and the turned timber finials.
The verandah is supported by timber columns with projecting capitals. There is also an introduced solid timber verandah valance.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 GRAMMAR SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H0188
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CHRIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0186
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LEYTON AND ROCHFORDVictorian Heritage Register H0562
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