Residence
3 McKillop Street, GEELONG EAST VIC 3219 - Property No 215786
City South Residential Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
Significant
Previously C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 3 McKillop Street, Geelong, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of the Late Victorian Italianate style. Built between 1893 and 1896, the house appears to be in fair condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 3 McKillop Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Italianate style. These qualities include the hipped roof forms, together with the return concave verandah that projects at the front and sides. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the slate roof cladding, galvanised corrugated steel verandah cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, single storey height, asymmetrical composition, projecting window bays with pyramidal roofs, timber framed double hung windows, timber verandah columns with projecting timber capitals, decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets, modest eaves, and the timber framed doorway with four panelled timber door and side and high lights.
The house at 3 McKillop Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Donald M. Jackson of Melbourne, who had it built between 1893 and 1896.
Overall, the house at 3 McKillop Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
Drainage Plans and Reports, 1918, 1941, 1981, 1982, Barwon Water profis system, City of Greater Geelong.
Sands & McDougall Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory, 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong City Rate Books, Barwon Ward, 1893-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The house at 3 McKillop Street, is set on a wide corner allotment (corner of Fenwick Street), with the side McKillop Street portion having been subdivided in later years. The house has a front setback of approximately 3 metres on the McKillop and Fenwick Street frontages. The garden consists of grassed areas, with some perimeter plantings and large shrubs. The street frontages are bound by an introduced capped timber paling fence, approximately 1 metre high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian Italianate styled house is characterised by hipped roof forms, together with a return concave verandah that projects at the front and sides. The main roof forms are clad in early slate with the verandah clad in galvanised corrugated steel. Modest overhangs are features of the eaves.
An early feature of the design is the projecting bay windows at the front and side with pyramidal roofs clad in galvanised corrugated steel. These and the other windows of the house have timber frames and are double hung. There is also an early timber framed doorway with a four paneled timber door and side and high lights.
Other features of the design include the introduced timber verandah columns with projecting timber capitals, decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets, and the bracketed window hood over a window at the front. The verandah also has an introduced timber balustrade.Residence - Physical Description 2
Largely intact albeit neglected, asymmetrical, weatherboard with basalt plinth, hipped roof clad in slate, rendered chimneys. Return verandah with timber framed, cast iron frieze & unusual iron balustrades, chamfered timber posts, timber deck & basalt stair with tiled risers. Timber sash windows, 4 panelled timber door with leadlight sidelights & highlight.
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
Grading:
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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IRON STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0742
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