Residence
9 Dudley Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 225497
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 9 Dudley Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original and unusual design qualities of the Edwardian style. These qualities include the steeply pitched hipped roof that forms a verandah at the front. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, red brick strapped and corbelled chimney, exposed rafters under the eaves, timber framed double hung windows, worked timber verandah columns, timber verandah brackets and the curved fretwork valance.
The house at 9 Dudley Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Estate subdivision of October, 1910.
Overall, the house at 9 Dudley Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1910-11, 1911-12, 1914-15, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25,1925-26.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972. 3. Belmont Estate Subdivision plan, October, 1910, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1928, Barwon Water profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 9 Dudley Street is set in a single storey residential streetscape. It has narrow front and side setbacks, which are shown on the 1928 GWST Plan of Drainage.3 Sections of two different species of hedge form the front boundary and they are approximately 1800mm high.
The symmetrical, single storey weatherboard Edwardian house is characterised by a steeply pitched hipped roof that forms a verandah at the front. This roof form is clad in painted, lapped galvanised corrugated iron. An early red brick strapped and corbelled chimney adorns the roofline. Exposed rafers are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are symmetrically arranged in pairs on the street facade.
A feature of the design is the front verandah, supported by early? worked timber columns with early? worked timber brackets and a curved fretwork valance.
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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