Residence
3 Pevensey Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 217285
City East Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
Significant
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 3 Pevensey Street, Geelong, has significance as a legacy of substantial 19th century residential developments in Geelong. Originally built in 1860-61, the house has experienced several alterations and additions, but the form and construction is intact and the building appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street. The house at 3 Pevensey Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the two storey height, rendered bluestone wall construction, and the hipped roof form clad in slate tiles behind a moulded and dentillated parapet. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrically arranged timber framed openings with moulded timber architraves on the first floor, timber framed double hung windows with Dr David Rowe Authentic Heritage Services Pty Ltd File No. 1106 Page GEELONG CITY C CITATIONS moulded timber architraves on the ground floor, rendered bluestone quoinwork at the building corners, and the timber framed ground floor doorway with transom window above. The skillion balcony and verandah have been reconstructed and are representative of a significant change in the early 20th century, with its projecting balcony gable, timber balcony and verandah posts and the tapered timber shingled balcony balustrade. The original house at 3 Pevensey Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with substantial residential developments in Geelong in the second half of the 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Morris Jacobs, successful draper and original owner who had it built in 1860-61. He also instigated additions and alterations in 1865 and 1868 and by 1872 he had built a balcony at the front. The Jacobs family were long time owners of the property until the 1920s. Overall, the house at 3 Pevensey Street is of LOCAL significance.
References
References Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1989. Voters Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Sands amp McDougalls Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Sands amp McDougalls quotInvictaquot Geelong Directory,1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Geelong City Council Rate Books Bellerine Ward, 18951960, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Geelong City Council Valuations Books Bellerine Ward, 18591895, Geelong Historical records Centre. Town Plan of Geelong 1858, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Morrow, W.J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 18501866,Geelong Historical records Centre. The Geelong Advertiser, 4 September 1952, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Dr David Rowe Authentic Heritage Services Pty Ltd File No. 1106 Page
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Residence - Physical Description 1
Description The house at 3 Pevensey Street, Geelong, is set on a contextually large allotment, with three introduced, two storey, rendered brick, pitched roofed units with galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding. The original house at the front has a modest front setback with one narrow side setback and a wide side setback having a concrete driveway. The front is bound by an introduced fence with rendered brick piers and plinth and cast iron palisades and gates, the whole being approximately 1600 mm high. The front garden consists of substantial garden beds behind the fence. The two storey, rendered bluestone, Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form clad in slate tiles behind a moulded and dentillated parapet. The front facade has an introduced skillion balcony and verandah with a central gable roof, the verandah roofs being clad in galvanised corrugated steel. The first floor balcony is supported by recent square timber posts and timber fascias punctuated by projecting timber brackets that support the narrow eaves. The capped and tapered timber shingled balcony balustrade appears to have been introduced in the early 20th century and recently reconstructed. The ground floor verandah is supported by introduced paired timber columns with simple introduced fretwork valances between and projecting elongated timber brackets. The symmetrically arranged timber framed openings with moulded timber architraves on the front facade of the first floor appear to be early, however, the central timber and glazed French doors and flanking windows have been introduced. On the ground floor, the side timber framed doorway with transom window and two single timber framed double hung windows with moulded timber architraves appear to be early, but the panelled timber door, leadlighted glazing in the transom window and the timber framed screen door have been introduced. Another early feature of the design includes the rendered bluestone quoinwork at the building corners. However, the rendered wall construction simulating ashlar masonry blockwork on the ground floor at the front, the side gabled wing north elevation and the timber brackets and timber shingling balcony gable infill have been introduced.
Residence - Physical Description 2
Mid-Victorian with Federation period (c1910s) alterations to facade - Arts and Crafts style verandah and leadlight to highlight. Two storey, rendered (ashlar to ground level facade) with quoining, hipped roof clad in slate, rendered chimneys with projecting moulding, straight parapet with cornice & dentillated band. Timber sash windows with rendered architrave, 4 panel door. 2 storey verandah with timber brackets, central gable, shingles to gable end & balustrade, paired timber posts with curved brackets to ground level.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong City 'C' Citations Study
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2002
Grading:
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FIRST CUSTOMS HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0185
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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CORIO VILLAVictorian Heritage Register H0193
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