Residence
1 Noble Street, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 234328
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 1 Noble Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although a modest house, it demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the major galvanised corrugated iron gable roof form, with a projecting flat roof rectangular bay window to the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged as a horizontal bank the window with the central fixed light having a bowed sash and flanked by double hung windows, timber window and gable brackets and the gable ventilator.
The house at 1 Noble Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Monomeeth Estate subdivision of 27 December, 1909.
Overall, the house at 1 Noble Street is of LOCAL significance. Statement of Cultural Significance
REFERENCE
See Heritage Victoria file no. 605113.
Plan of the Flinders Estate, 1887, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Monomeeth Estate subdivision plan, 27 December, 1909, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Complete Plan of Barwon Heads, Thomas Roadknight & Co., 22 October, 1912, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 191516, 191920, 192122, 192425, 192526, 192627, 192728, 192829, 194041.
Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1973, Barwon Water Profis system.
Interview by David Rowe with Nell Andrew, Barwon Heads, 19 October, 1999.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 1 Noble Street is set in a streetscape of single storey houses of mixed styles, periods and construction. This house has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1973 BHSA Plan of Drainage.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a major galvanised corrugated iron gable roof form, with a projecting flat roof rectangular bay window to the street frontage. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed windows are arranged as a horizontal bank of three as part of the projecting bay, and have a central fixed light with a bowed sash being flanked by double hung windows. The other paired windows on the street facade have been introduced.
Early decorative features of the design include the timber window and gable brackets and the gable ventilator.
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:
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BARWON HEADS BRIDGEVictorian Heritage Register H1848
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HITCHCOCK AVENUE SEWER TRENCHVictorian Heritage Inventory
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