Residence
50 Virginia Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 505410
Newtown Hill Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:
A characteristic timber Italianate house with some significant elements including: gates and cladding boards, built in 1890. It was built and owned by prolific local builders Purnell & Sons. It is architecturally local significant as representative of this domestic style and historically in embodying life and speculative developments in Newtown before the economic crash of 1892.
INTACTNESS: Fair. A window hood, the verandah including its floor with a concrete slab, were all replaced c1925. The fence is recent.
CONDITIONS & THREATS: Good
REFERENCES: City of Newtown and Chilwell Ratebooks and Mr Hands, present owner in conversation in RP on 30 March 1997.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION:
A double-fronted, timber Italianate house, with a hipped roof. The right bay is set forward as a canted bay window. Chimneys are rendered with Classical moulds. Eaves have coyed bracket pairs, with turned drops. Between short and long panels. Wall-cladding is unusually wide ship-lapped boards. The entrance has a four-panelled door, with side-lights and a round fanlight unusual in Newtown, all in leadlight. Fragments of early significant gates survive with palisade spearhead pickets of varied height.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: CGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading: CGreater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Richard Peterson
Year: 1997
Grading: C
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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ST PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0187
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ANZ BANKVictorian Heritage Register H0191
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