Dwelling
27 Upper Skene Street NEWTOWN, GREATER GEELONG CITY
Upper Skene Street
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Statement of Significance
Contributory Significance- Newtown West Heritage Area
History/Notes
The land at 27 Upper Skene Street was offered for sale as lot 2 of the McQueen Estate in 1928. It was purchased by Frank Apted. In 1935, Apted sold the site to Laurie Brooke-Ward. He had his house built by L. McQueen in 1937 where he lived with his wife, Mabel Jean (nee De Longville) Brooke- Ward.
Laurie Percival Willoughby Brooke-Ward was born in 1902 to Norman Lewlie Brooke and Lucy Dorcas Willoughby Brooke. Norman and Lucy divorced in 1908, with Lucy having relocated to Geelong with her parents in 1904. It was from this time when Laurie Brooke-Ward lived in Geelong. Educated in Geelong, Laurie Brooke-Ward was a clerk at the time of residence at Upper Skene Street. Brooke-Ward served in the Second World War, and afterwards he was a wholesale agent.
The asymmetrical, single storey timber interwar Bungalow styled dwelling is predominantly intact when viewed from the front, including the main hipped roof form and projecting minor hipped wing (clad in tiles), and the flat-roofed verandah. Other original features include the brick verandah piers with paired squat columns, flat roofed bowed bay window with timber shingled base, broad eaves, cream brick chimneys, timber framed double hung windows and the front door opening. The elevated additions at the rear (including minor gable end on the main roof ridgeline) were built in 1992. There is an introduced front timber picket fence and gates.
References:
Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages Indexes, Dept. of Justice.
Newtown Rate Books, 1935-1950, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre.
Newtown Building Permit, 1937, City of Greater Geelong.
Building Permit 2722/1992, City of Greater Geelong.
Geelong Advertiser, 19 November 1908, p.3.
L.P.W. Brooke-Ward service No. 120675, Australian Military Forces, National Archives of Australia online, December 2015.
The Argus, 24 November 1949.
The Australasian, 6 August 1930.
McQueen Estate subdivision plan, 14 April 1928, special collection, Alfred Deakin Library, Deakin University, SAMSS 333.337099452 Gre/Pos.
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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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