Wesleyan Minister's Residence
1 Lt Ryrie Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 215083
City East Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
A Listed - State Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCEHistorically, probably Geelong's oldest Wesleyan ministers residence and the only indication that this two-acre grant was once intended for church use. It is also among the city's oldest houses.
Architecturally, indicative of its two early construction periods, the house has valuable verandah detailing and represents well a house type now uncommon in Geelong city, (medium sized, brick detached villa, single-storey of the 1850s or earlier) one comparison being the Willis house at 242 Ryrie Street.
Removed from City Fringe Heritage Area (HO1639)
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Wesleyan Minister's Residence - Physical Description 1
Potentially pre - 1854 in part, much of the appearance of this stuccoed brick house was probably created in the renovations of 1857. Later descriptions are for a brick house of seven rooms, kitchen, wash house and paddock. The Water Board plan (c1914 - 17) shows a similar outline to recent plans (c1966), indicating little accommodation change since. Extensive stabling and outbuildings are also shown (since demolished).
Possibly verandahed on three sides pre 1857, the house has a projecting room bay on the southeast comer, with new windows in place of a chimney shaft shown there in 1879. The concave verandah is elegantly supported on slender duplex timber posts, each ornamented with cast-iron brackets with a saltire-cross infill above the capitals. The chimney top is corbelled, with a terracotta pot, and the window sashes multi-paned. Other details include the quarry-tiled verandah floor. The sympathetic square-top picket fence probably dates from c1915- 25.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: AGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: AGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study Volume 1
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: AGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volume 4(a)
Author: Helen Lardner
Year: 1995
Grading: AGeelong 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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