Residence - "Longrig" house
15 Swanston Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 218155
City East Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
Significant
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNFICANCE
Historically, inhabited by the middle and professional classes, but it is more identifiable as the St. Margarets Private Hospital, a locally prominent institution. Architecturally, an unusual building type for Geelong, which has been detailed in a distinctive manner, particularly the verandah.
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Residence - "Longrig" house - Physical Description 1
Description
Clad with weatherboards and roofed in corrugated iron, the house design is deceptively asymmetrical, with a broad roof gable over a front porch on the south, acentral hipped roof tower and a more typical slatted verandah on the north. Together, these elements offer a picturesque combination of line and form, the latter promoted by the tower and gable and the former by the wavepattern slatted verandah friezes ,scalloped boarding and radiused gable, half timbering. Shallow window bays, facing the porch and verandah, complement the smaller version set in the tower. Stylistically, the house follows the Federation Bungalow mode, using Eastern forms and ornaments. The picket fence is sympathetic, ifnot a modification of the original. External Integrity Generally original. Streetscape One of a significant Edwardian house pair and similar to adjacent Bungalowera housing, a contributing part of the general Edwardian and late Victorian era precinct 3.06.
Residence - "Longrig" house - Physical Description 2
Largely intact bungalow with unusual central squat tower to front. Weatherboard, hipped & gable roof clad in corrugated metal sheeting, rendered chimneys, battened sheeting, timber brackets & shingle boards to gable end. Return verandah with timber frieze (including arched sections), timber brackets & timber deck. Original timber casement windows to front bays with leadlight highlight, leadlight picture window to tower, side entry.
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
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FIRST CUSTOMS HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0185
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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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