Residence
99 Francis Street, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 226923
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 99 Francis Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form, together with a minor gable roof and a flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimney with a soldier course capping, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged in banks of three having a wide central light with a bowed sash and side double hung windows, flat roofed window hood supported by plain timber brackets, front timber and glazed door, window leadighting and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, stucco work and battening). The house also makes a contribution to the single storey streetscape of mixed Edwardian, interwar Californian Bungalow and postwar homes.
The house at 99 Francis Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Pinnacle Estate of the 1920s.
Overall, the house at 99 Francis Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1926-27, 1927-28,.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 99 Francis Street has visual connections to the substantial Norfolk pine tree to the north-west. This house is set in a single storey streetscape of mixed Edwardian, interwar Californian Bungalow and postwar homes. The house has typical front and side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1927 GWST Plan of Drainage.
The asymmetrical, single storey weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a dominant gable roof form, together with a minor gable roof and a flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. An early brick chimney with a soldier course capping adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed windows are arranged in banks of three and have a wider central light with a bowed sash and side double hung windows, typical of interwar Bungalow design. The windows within the minor gable have a flat roofed window hood over, supported by plain timber brackets. The front timber and glazed door is also early.
The verandah is supported by recent? timber columns which have recent worked brackets.
Early decorative features of the design include the window leadighting and the gable infill (brackets, shingling, stucco work and battening).
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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