Dwelling
299 Shannon Avenue NEWTOWN, GREATER GEELONG CITY
West Melbourne Road
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Statement of Significance
Contributory Significance- Newtown West Heritage Area
History/Notes
The house at 299 Shannon Avenue was built in 1924-25 by R. Gunn for Ivan More. Ivan More lived there with his wife, Mabel Beatrice (nee Nicholson) and his son, Donald (born 1919) until 1933. The property was leased to William McLachlan in 1934 before it was sold to Francis French, a foreman, in 1935.
Ivan More was born in 1897 at Ascot Vale, the son of Thomas Mary (nee Silva) More. A gifted sportsman, More played two games for the Essendon Football Club as part of the VFL competition in 1919. More enduring was More's professional career was as a sports administrator. In 1924, he was appointed secretary of the Geelong Cricket and Football Club. In the following year, 1925, he was captain of the Geelong Country Cricket Team as well as being a representative of the Kitchener Memorial Hospital, member of the Eastern Beach Improvements/Carnival Committee and acting secretary of the Automobile Club Gymkana. In 1933, he was appointed Secretary of the St. Kilda Cricket Club, having relinquished this role at Geelong. More died in 1988, aged 91.
The single storey timber dwelling largely reflects its original interwar Bungalow design when viewed from the front. This is apparent in the main hipped roof forms and projecting minor gabled wings at the front and south side, and the hipped post-supported front and side verandahs. Other original features include the corrugated profile sheet metal roof cladding, brick chimney, broad eaves, timber framed double hung windows (including the projecting faceted flat-roofed bay window under the front gable end, and the leadlighting in the upper sashes), and the gable infill (bellcast shingling and brackets). At the front is an introduced, high capped corrugated sheet metal fence and gates.
References:
Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages Indexes, Dept. of Justice.
Newtown Rate Books, 1924-50, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre. Newtown Building Permit, 1925, City of Greater Geelong.
Ivan More, Australian Football: Celebrating the History of the Great Australian Game at http://australianfootball.com/players/player/ivan%2Bmore/3645 .
Sporting Globe, 24 May 1924, p.4.
Geelong Advertiser, 27 November 1924, 17 March 1925, 18 March 1925, 17
June 1925, 18 February 1925.
The Argus, 22 July 1933.
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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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ARMYTAGE HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0405
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