"Wurrok"
7 Flinders Parade, BARWON HEADS Vic 3227 - Property No 226680
Flinders Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 7 Flinders Parade is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, corrugated profile roof cladding, tall, rendered brick chimney with a projecting cornice and two terra cotta pots, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows wide fixed central lights between, verandah portico supported by paired timber posts, exposed timber and rendered piers with timber cappings, capped timber balustrade, verandah and gable shingling, gable brackets and the timber stringcourse on the street facade. The surviving original (1905) cottage that now forms part of the rear of the existing dwelling also contributes to the significance of the place.
The house at 7 Flinders Parade is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with Amuri Russell, long-time owner, whose family were large landholders from "Wurrook" station, Rokewood. Mrs Russell took an interest in the local community, providing her private book collection for loan as part of the library.
The underground tank at 7 Flinders Parade may be scientifically significant at a LOCAL level with further investigation and research.
Overall, the house and site at 7 Flinders Parade is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
1. Heritage Victoria File No. 605113, which provides a title history of the property
2. City of South Barwon Rate Books, 1904-05, 1908-09, 1912-15, 1936-37, 1939-40, 1940-41.
3. A. Sutherland, Victoria and Its Metropolis: Past and Present, vol.2, McCarron Bird, Melbourne, 1888, pp.206-207.
4. G. Brown, 'The History of Barwon Heads and District'.
5. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1974, in the Barwon Water Profis system.
6. Correspondence from D.C. & M.C. Fisher, property owners, July 2001.
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"Wurrok" - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 7 Flinders Parade has visual connections with the tea-tree reserve on the east side of the street, Norfolk pine trees to the north, and with the significant focii: the Barwon River (to the east), jetties and former Fishermens' Co-operative Sheds (to the south), Barwon Heads Park (to the south), and the Barwon Heads bridge (to the south-east). This house has a sizeable front setback but typical narrower side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1974 BHSA Plan of Drainage.
The asymmetrical, two storey (second storey within the roof space), horizontal weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a dominant gable roof form, and a flat roof extension to the south and east sides. The gable roof is clad in introduced corrugated Zincalume, while the flat roofed sections of clad in sheet metal decking (the early terra cotta roof tiles and decorative features survived on the site in 2001). An early, tall, rendered brick chimney with a projecting cornice and two terra cotta pots adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed windows are double hung and have wide fixed central lights. Other timber framed single and grouped windows to the sides appear to be recent additions. The double timber and glazed doors on the street facade may also be recent additions.
A feature of the design is the verandah portico, with its tapered capping terminating in the flat roof and balcony above. It is supported by early paired timber posts which in turn are supported by exposed timber and rendered piers with timber cappings. A capped timber balustrade forms the verandah boundary, with a similar balustrade forming the balcony boundary above. Early decorative features of the design include the verandah and gable shingling, gable brackets and the timber stringcourse on the street facade.
The early house built in c.1905 survives as part of the rear of the existing dwelling. A c.1905 underground tank is situated immediately south-west of the house.
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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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