Lobster Pot Dance Hall
7 Ewing Blyth Drive, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 311625
Flinders Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The former Lobster Pot Dance Hall in the Barwon Heads Pakl at 7-71 Ewing Blyth is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates design qualities of an interwar Hall Bungalow Style including the dominant galvanized corrugated iron gable roof form and horizontal and vertical wall cladding. Other intact qualities includes the small gable entrance portico with early double timber doors and the gable paneling and battening.
The former Lobster Pot Dance Hall in the Barwon Heads Park at 7-71 Ewing Blyth Drive is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the development of the Barwon Heads Park by the Barwon Heads Park trustee between 1933-1949.
The former Lobster Pot Dance Hall in the Barwon Heads Park at 7-71 Ewing Blyth Drive is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognized and valued by the community for its past recreational association.
Overall, the Lobster Pot Dance Hall in the Barwon Heads Park at 7-71 Ewing Blyth Drive is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
The Barwon Heads Park Trust Minute Books, 1923-1949.
'Barwon Heads Improvements' in the Geelong Advertiser - 30 June, 1934
'Barwon Heads and Ocean Grove Immense Canvas Town Swells Population, in the Geelong Advertiser, 24 December, 1939.
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Lobster Pot Dance Hall - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The single storey, horizontal and vertical weatherboard interwar Hall Bungalow styled Lobster Pt Dance Hall in the Barwon Heads Park is characterized by a dominant gable roof form with more recent flat roofed extensions at the sides constructed of horizontal weatherboards and galvanized corrugated iron. The roof of the Dance hall is also clad in galvansied corrugated iron. A small gable entrance portico with early double timber doors is a feature of the west gable. Other door and windows on the flat roofed sections are later additions.
Early decorative features of the design include the gable paneling and battening.
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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