Residence (including all units)
242 Ryrie Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 217725
Geelong Commercial Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
Not Significant - However is situated within Heritage Precinct
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Residence (including all units) - Physical Description 1
Described from the beginning as of stone with six-rooms, a verandah and stabling, the house has rubble stone sidewalls and dressed stone front walls. Recent plans show that the stone section contains four main rooms and two ancillary rooms a formerly detached kitchen is still evident at the rear by its simple hipped-roof form. ,
Shown on the 1854plan as a square with a central projecting room or bay to the north, the house varies little from the plan form, rate description or siting of the 1850s house.
Roofed as a pyramid-hip over the main section of the house, the northern projecting bay has a higher eaves-line ornamented. With unusual pronounced dentilation. The convex verandah form and iron detailing 1880s are later than the house but the concave-profile verandah remnants at the side (enclosed) show the original form, with a surviving timber panelled verandah support also resembling those used on early colonial verandahs. An early photo shows the ironwork complete
The full-length main cedar windows (appearing to be French doors) are both old and unusual and the opening which they hang has not been visibly altered since construction. Similarly the fanlight to the entrance door is old, although the door Itself has been replaced.
Inside, recent stripping of the polished cedar joinery (deep skirtings and typically simple architraves) has damaged the houses integrity but sufficient of the interior remains to allow restoration of the lost parts. The splayed window reveal linings and architraves survive, illustrating both the deep wall thickness and the elegant joinery.
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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CORIO VILLAVictorian Heritage Register H0193
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