Dwelling - Nerrina
12 Stephen Street NEWTOWN, GREATER GEELONG CITY
Newtown West
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Statement of Significance
Contributory Significance- Newtown West Heritage Area
History/Notes
In 1919-20, Robert Cotton Metherall, a farmer from Willaura, purchased the vacant land at 12 Stephen Street from John Weddell. This house was built in 1922-23 as the Metherall family home.
R.C. Metherall was born at Elmore in 1873, the son of John and Mary (nee Baker) Metherall. In 1910, he married Miss Jessie Martin. By 1920, Metherall was a wheat superintendent. In early November 1922, Metherall purchased the produce business of Messrs. H. Pillow and Co., of Ryrie Street, Geelong. Between 1935 and 1940, R.C. and J. Metherall sold the property. R.C. Metherall died at Macleod in 1960.
The interwar brick Bungalow at 12 Stephen Street was designed with a principal steeply-pitched, gabled roof form. An attic gable projected at the front. Apart from the glazing in of the attic balcony, the front portion of the dwelling appears to reflect the original design and construction, including the terra cotta tiled roof cladding, broad eaves, face brick and rendered brick wall construction, front skillion verandah supported by brick piers and paired timber posts, timber framed double hung windows, timber entrance doors, timber weatherboards simulating shingling in the gable ends and the brick chimney.
Additions were constructed at the rear in 2004 and they are only partly visible from the front. The dwelling appears to be in good condition and is predominantly intact.
References:
Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages, Dept of Justice. Ancestry.com.au (including Ancientfaces).
Newtown Rate Books 1913-14, 1919-20, 1922, 1924, 1935, 1940, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre.
Newtown Building Permit, 15 November 1922, City of Greater Geelong.
Building Permit 2271/2004, City of Greater Geelong.
The Argus, 13 May 1915, 22 May 1914, 6 January 1916.
Certificates of Title, vol. 3691 fol. 153, vol. 4379 fol. 705
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Newtown West Heritage Review 2016
Author: D. Rowe & W. Jacobs
Year: 2016
Grading:
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THE HEIGHTSVictorian Heritage Register H0429
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FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
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SACRED HEART CONVENT AND COLLEGEVictorian Heritage Register H0555
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