Residence
5 Francis Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 226799
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 5 Francis Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Edwardian style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage, and a recessed hipped verandah under the main roof. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, corbelled brick chimney with two terra cotta pots, timber framed windows arranged as a pair under the projecting gable and as single windows under the verandah, window hood and supporting brackets, highlight above the main entrance, worked timber verandah columns with timber fretwork valance, gable brackets, and the decorative gable infill (stucco work, battening and brackets). The house also makes a significant contribution to the single storey streetscape of mixed Edwardian, interwar Californian Bungalow and postwar homes.
The house at 5 Francis Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Waverley Estate subdivision of 14 December, 1886.
Overall, the house at 5 Francis Street is of LOCAL significance.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 5 Francis Street has visual connections to Newtown Hill to the north and to the substantial Palm tree and the Norfolk Pine tree to the south. This house is set in a single storey streetscape of mixed Edwardian, interwar Californian Bungalow and postwar homes. The house has narrower front and side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1928 GWST Plan of Drainage. The site is bound at the front by a timber picket fence (of Victorian design), approximately 1200mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey weatherboard Edwardian house is characterised by a dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage, and a recessed hipped verandah under the main roof. These roof forms appear to be clad in corrugated zincalume. An early corbelled brick chimney with two terra cotta pots adorns the roofline. The early timber framed windows are arranged as a pair under the projecting gable and as single windows under the verandah. A window hood is over the paired windows. A highlight above the main entrance appears to be early.
The return broken back verandah is supported by worked timber columns with a timber fretwork valance between.
Apart from the verandah elements, early decorative features of the design include the gable brackets, window hood brackets and the gable infill (stucco work, battening and brackets).
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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