Residence
18 Ewing Blyth Drive, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 226211
Flinders Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although it has been altered and extended, it still demonstrates some original design qualities of a Late Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include recessed hipped roof, together with a projecting gable to the street frontage and a return skillion verandah. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two rendered brick and corbelled chimneys with terra cotta pots, timber framed double hung windows, and the worked timber bargeboards on the projecting gable.
The house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated the original owner, Howard Hitchcock, Geelong Mayor and Director of the well established firm of Bright and Hitchcocks. The house is also historically significant for its associations with the Flinders Estate subdivision of 1887. The underground tank on the site may be historically and scientifically significant with further documentary and physical research.
Overall, the house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
Plan of the Flinders Estate, Barwon Heads, 1887, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Barwon Heads Estate subdivision plan, 30 March, 1891, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Brownhill & Wynd, The History of Geelong and Corio Bay With Postscript 1955-1990, revd. edn., The Geelong Advertiser, Geelong, 1990, p.320.
Smith ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria, vol. 2, The Cyclopedia Company, Melbourne, 1904, p.456. 5.
Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1898-99, 1899-1900, 1901-02, 1902-03, 1906-07, 1908-09, 1910-11, 1920-21, 1925-26, 1933-34, 1958-59.
Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1977.
Geelong Advertiser, 19 July, 1886.
N. Houghton, Geelong 150 Years of Community Leadership 18491999, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong, 1999, p.22.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive has visual connections to five Moreton Bay Fig trees and substantial cypress trees to the north, together with the Barwon Heads Park to the east and the corner store to the northeast. This house has a substantial front setback and typical side setbacks which are shown on the 1977 BHSA Plan of Drainage. This house is also visually connected with other pitched roof, weatherboard houses. The single storey, horizontal weatherboard Victorian Picturesque house is characterised by a recessed hipped roof, together with a projecting gable to the street frontage and a return skillion verandah. These roof forms appear to be clad in corrugated zincalume. Two early, rendered brick and corbelled chimneys with terra cotta pots adorn the roofline. A parapetted skillion extension has been added to the south-eastern section of the building. Narrow overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are singularly arranged on the street facade.
A feature of the design is the return verandah. It appears to be supported by recent timber posts.
An early decorative feature of the design is the worked timber bargeboards on the projecting gable.
An underground tank appears to be located immediately rear of the house, in the southwest corner.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Greater Geelong Outer Areas Heritage Study Volumes 1, 2 & 4
Author: Authentic Heritage Services Pty Ltd
Year: 2000
Grading: C
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BARWON HEADS BRIDGEVictorian Heritage Register H1848
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BARWON HEADS GOLF CLUB CLUBHOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H2258
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BARWON HEADS WATER STORAGE TANKSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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