Residence
27-29 George Street, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 227393
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 29 George Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include gable roof forms that project towards the street frontage, a front return skillion verandah and a rear traversing gable. Other intact qualities include the unpainted horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimney, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged in pairs, worked timber verandah columns and brackets, and the decorative gable infill (panelling and battening). The house at 29 George Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Ozone Estate subdivision of 26 December, 1906, and with George Wells, carpenter. Overall, the house at 29 George Street is of LOCAL significance.
Reference
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1935-36, 1941-42, 1943-44, 1958-59, 1959-60.2. Ozone Estate subdivision plan, 26 December, 1906, Geelong Historical Records Centre.3. Subdivision plans of Barwon Heads, Thomas Roadknight & Co., 22 October, 1912, 1920. 4. Barwon Heads Estate Company Limited Land Sale, 26 December, 1901, Geelong Historical Records Centre.5. 'Complete Plan of Barwon Heads', Thomas Roadknight & Co., 22 October, 1912, Geelong Historical Records Centre. 6. Drainage Plans & Inspector's Reports, 1973, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
The site at 29 George Street is set in a shrub lined streetscape, with views to significant focii including tall pine trees on the north side of the street and to a row of pine trees to the west on Golf Links Road. The site also has visual connections with other single storey, pitched roof, weatherboard, cement sheet and brick houses of varying styles and periods between 1925 and c.1980. The site has substantial front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1973 BHSA Plan of Drainage.6The asymmetrical, single storey, unpainted horizontal weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by gable roof forms that project towards the street frontage, a front return skillion verandah and a rear traversing gable. These roof forms are clad in unpainted, lapped galvanised corrugated iron. An early brick chimney adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged in pairs, while more recent timber framed casement? windows are arranged in horizontal banks on the street and side facades.A feature of the design is the return verandah. It is supported by early worked timber columns with worked brackets and has a minor gable roof projecting from it on the street facade. An early decorative feature of the design is the gable infill (panelling and battening).
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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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HITCHCOCK AVENUE SEWER TRENCHVictorian Heritage Inventory
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