Residence
8 Church Street, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 223618
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 8 Church Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although it has experienced some alterations to the windows and verandah, the house still demonstrates original design qualities of the Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding?, painted brick and corbelled chimney, and narrow eaves. The house makes a significant contribution to the single storey, pitched roof residential streetscape. The house at 8 Church Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the early development of housing in Belmont in the late nineteenth century, prior to the many subdivisions of the early twentieth century. Overall, the house at 8 Church Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1889-90, 1890-91, 1893-94, 1896-97, 1900-1900, 1901-02, 1902-03, 1909-10, 1911-12, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1917-18, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1948-49, 1957-60.
2. Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985, p.45.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The house at 8 Church Street has a typical front but narrow side setbacks, as shown on the 1927 GWST Plan of Drainage. The front is bound by a recent but appropriate timber picket fence, approximately 1300mm high.
The single storey, symmetrical, horizontal weatherboard, Victorian house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with a skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms appear to be clad in painted galvanised corrugated iron. An early, painted brick and corbelled chimney adorns the roofline. Narrow overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The window openings appear to be recent.
A feature of the design is the skillion verandah. It is supported by recent square timber posts with a recent curved timber valance between.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Greater Geelong Belmont Heritage Reports
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2007
Grading: C
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