Shop/Office
138-140 High Street and 138-140 High Street BELMONT, Greater Geelong City
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
The C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice building at 138-140 High Street is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a subtle interwar Spanish Mission style. These qualities include the crowning parapet capped with Spanish terra cotta tiles and interrupted by a raised chamfered corner that has a decorative arcuated band immediately under the tiled parapet capping. Other intact qualities include the sculptural plaster cartouche and surround that also interrupt the parapet, rendered brick construction, cornices and dentil work on the upper levels of the building, regularly-spaced brick corbels, pronounced corner with elongated pilasters having abstract capitals, single regularly-spaced timber framed double hung windows with six paned upper lights, blind arcade on the High Street facade, elegantly curved metal brackets supporting steel tension cabling to the cantilevered shop verandahs, and the timber framed and glazed corner door.
The C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice building at 138-140 is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the commercial shopping area in Belmont in the 1920s.
Overall, the C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice building at 138-140 is of a REGIONAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1936-37, 1942-43, 1955-57, 1957-60.
2. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1929, Barwon Water Profis system.
3. M. Mecuri, historical information supplied to Kevin Krastins, City of Greater Geelong, 10 January 2005.
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Shop/Office - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice Building at 138-140 High Street is set on the High Street and Regent Street boundaries, as shown on the 1929 GWST Plan of Drainage.
The two storey, rendered brick, subtle interwar Spanish Mission styled building is characterised by a crowning parapet capped with Spanish terra cotta tiles and interrupted by a raised chamfered corner that has a decorative arcuated band immediately under the tiled parapet capping. The parapet is also interrupted on the High Street facade by a sculptural plaster cartouche and surround. The upper level of the building is also accentuated by cornices or dentils, with regularly-spaced brick corbels evident on the High Street and part of the Regent Street facades. The corner of the building is also pronounced by the elongated pilasters with abstract capitals - typical of interwar Spanish Mission design.
Along both elevations are singular, regularly spaced timber framed double hung windows with six paned lights in the upper windows. The windows beneath the large cartouche and sculptural surround are situated within blind arches, and the northern window of this pair has been blocked in.
Elegantly curved metal brackets support the steel tension cabling which in turn supports the flat roof cantilevering shopfront verandahs.
The ground level shop fronts are characterised by large expanses of glazing that appear to be recent, although the timber framed and glazed corner door may be early.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Greater Geelong Belmont Heritage Reports
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2007
Grading: B
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