Dr. Kilgour House
16 Myers Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 216614
Myers Street Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
Significant
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCEArchitecturally, altered but still recognizable as an early medium-sized stone house (despite its cement layer), it is one of the few of this vintage, size and wall material combination in Geelong, (see more numerous timber cottages)
REFERENCES
VB 1857-8, 201; VB 1859-60, 266.
RB 1890, 280; RB 1880-, 244.
RB 1890, 280; VB 1895-6, 337; RB 1900, 392; RB 1920, 389.
Ibid
See GW&ST, DRP 666, agents Laird & Buchan for sewer connection.
INV. Vol 11, p90; Vol 12, p97.
INV, Vol 18, p47; Vol 15, p107; WR Lang, pp 14/17/19
No INV index entry. No index entry in Lang.
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Dr. Kilgour House - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
Parapeted cement-facade and roofed in a simple slate-clad hip form, the house is built close to the frontage and possesses early details such as the entry top-light glazing and six pane window sashes. The cement facade and parapet appear to be from the 1865-75 era, but the iron and cemented masonry fence id Edwardian in character. The portico appears to be of the 1920s and was not shown on the 1916 sewer plan (verandah instead): both fence and portico may have been created for Mary Hall.
External Integrity
A sympathetic fence has been replaced a presumed timber picket fence and added portico, replaced an assumed concave-profile timber post veranda.
Streetscape
Related in part to 18 Myers Street, also related visually by a brief ownership period, to the Free Presbyterian Church (1859) at the Myers Street, Latrobe terrace corner.
Dr. Kilgour House - Physical Description 2
Altered during mid-20th century so that it now has a Regency style facade. Rendered villa (though understood to be stone substrate) with quoining & plain parapet (an addition) partly concealing hipped roof clad in slate, rendered chimneys with decorative capping. Non-original central portico to front and porte cochere to side both with paired fluted columns with Corinthian like capitals. 4 panelled timber door with highlight (with margin panes) & basalt threshold, multi-paned timber sash windows.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: CGreater 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 Urban Conservation Study, Volume 4(a)
Author: Helen Lardner
Year: 1995
Grading: CGeelong 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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ST PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0187
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