Residence
228 High Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 229358
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 228 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Apart from the recent window infill in the verandah, the house demonstrates original design qualities of the late interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include recessed dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor gable roof and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two brick and corbelled chimneys with soldier course bands, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged as horizontal bank of three under the verandah and as a flat roofed bay, small rectangular leadlight window , rendered and square verandah pillars with concrete cappings and rendered piers with concrete cappings, solid rendered balustrade with a concrete capping, window leadlighting, bay window shingling, brick patterning on the verandah balustrade, and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, stucco work and battening). The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly interwar and postwar Bungalow streetscape.
The house at 228 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Hill Estate subdivision of August 1911 and most likely with Eric Lyons, designer and builder.
Overall, the house at 222 High Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1956, 1971.
3. Belmont Hill Estate subdivision plan, August, 1911, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 228 High Street has visual connections with other houses in this predominantly postwar Bungalow streetscape. This house is similar in style, materials and type with others visually connected to it. The house has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side.
The asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard late interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a recessed dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor gable roof and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms appear to be clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Two early brick and corbelled chimneys with soldier course bands adorn the roofline. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged as a horizontal bank of three under the verandah and as a flat roofed bay. A small rectangular leadlight window is situated at the front on the south facade.
A feature of the design is the projecting verandah gable. It is supported by early rendered and square pillars with concrete cappings, which in turn are supported by rendered piers, also with concrete cappings. These are trademark design elements of Eric Lyons, architecturally-trained builder. A solid rendered balustrade with a concrete capping forms the verandah boundary. A bank of timber framed double hung windows above the balustrade are a recent infill addition.
Early decorative features of the design include the window leadlighting, bay window shingling, brick patterning on the verandah balustrade, 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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