House at 77 The Strand
77 The Strand NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City
The Strand Heritage Precinct
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Statement of Significance
The house, constructed c.1910, at 77 The Strand, Newport.
How is it Significant?The house at 77 The Strand, Newport is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobson's Bay.
Why is it Significant?Historically, it is one of a small number of surviving nineteenth century villas that illustrate the earliest phase of development of The Strand. (AHC criteria A4 and D2)
Aesthetically, it is an intact and locally rare example of an asymmetrical Queen Anne villa constructed in rendered brick, which retains notable original detailing. (AHC criteria B2 and E1)
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House at 77 The Strand - Physical Description 1
The house at 77 The Strand, Newport is an asymmetrical, attic-style, roughcast rendered brick Queen Anne style villa with a hipped and gabled corrugated galvanised steel roof. The house is sited diagonal to the street boundary and is set back from it by a garden. Other significant or original features include:
- Roughcast rendered walls
- Bay window with casements
- Corner entrance porch with cast iron posts and timber brackets
- Decorative bargeboards to gable ends
- Rendered chimneys with terracotta pots
- The elevated siting
- Possibly original flywire screen door at entrance
- An unusual front fence (altered) with tapered pier and cast iron cresting (recent?)
The garage, which has been altered is also of an early date, though probably not contemporary with the house. The attic window is a more recent addition.
House at 77 The Strand - Integrity
External Integrity and condition
Integrity - Moderate. Condition - Good.
House at 77 The Strand - Physical Description 2
Context
One of a number of early maritime villas along The Strand.
House at 77 The Strand - Historical Australian Themes
Making Suburbs
House at 77 The Strand - Physical Description 3
Associations
Unknown
Heritage Study and Grading
Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study
Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
Year: 2006
Grading:
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PRINCE ALBERT HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H1793
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PARSONS BOATSHED, SLIPWAY AND JETTYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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GREENWICH PIERVictorian Heritage Inventory
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