Residence
111 The Avenue, OCEAN GROVE VIC 3226 - Property No 244023
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
111 The Avenue Ocean Grove was built of brick in the 1890s.
It is of scientific and historic significance to the local community of Ocean Grove.
No 111 The Avenue Ocean Grove appears to be the first substantial brick house constructed in the town. The house was built for Mr Glew, a retired brickmaker from the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, who used locally made bricks for the building . It is of LOCAL cultural significance.
Additional Information
A paddle boat called Perserverance constructed by Barwon River boat builder Glew operated on the Barwon River in 1912. It was the only passenger boat of reasonable size to operate on the Barwon.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
The late Victorian Filligree style residence is believed to be the first brick house in Ocean Grove, with the brick being made locally. It is a single fronted, polychrome brick structure with a symmetrical facade. It has a hipped roof clad in new corrugated iron and two symmetrical white-painted brick chimneys behind the ridge line. There is a new brick and timber fence on the south and west boundaries.
The south elevation has a corrugated iron clad verandah, with slender timber posts, decorative cast iron freize, fringe and brackets, and a diamond pattern tiled floor. The central timber frame doorway has new double doors, and two symmetrical timber framed double-hung windows. A feature of this house are the unusual decorative brick brackets and polychrome pattern under the eaves. The house has cream brick quoinwork and three sets of courses of dark brown bricks against the red brick of the main structure. The west elevation has fourHeritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Bellarine Heritage Study
Author: Huddle, Howe, Lewis and Francis
Year: 1996
Grading:
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MITCHELL'S DAIRYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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WELL OCEAN GROVEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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